- The separation of aesthetics from ideology is itself an ideological strategy. Eagleton calls this strategy the "aestheticization of daily social life", by which he means something like the cultivation (灌輸) of manners as if manners were not politics extended into the realm of the quotidian (司空見慣的).
- One of the goals of bourgeois aesthetics is to make the historically produced seem natural, universal, and timeless. I would add that a principal instrument for the aestheticization of daily social life, for the micropolitical inculcation of the ideology of the aesthetic in the eighteenth century, was the theatre.
P.159
- The use of classical statuary as models for poses and postures on the eighteenth-century stage is familiar to historians.
P.164
- Indeed, the Encyclopedia's illustrations might be best understood as a multi-volume set of instructions on how to direct bodies and appendages to carry out various tasks pertaining (附屬) to the arts, the arts of manufacture, and the arts of war. They record the important but neglected fact that dance was a pioneer (as early as the Choreography of Feuillet of 1700) in experimenting with a system of graphic notation that could inscribe the changing distributions of bodies in space.
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