If, as Sontag says 'the idea of content is today mainly a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism," then Wilson's work is a streamlined piece of anti-philistinic perfection. Even the idea of assigning meaning to anything in Wilson's work is absurd, as Philip Glass shows when, in The Civil WARs documentary he laughs of the question of what anything in Wilson's work might mean. Nothing in the work is about meaning, everything in the work is about viewing.

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