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Finally, no long essay on obliteration would be complete without art. The fourth new dimension is creation — not incremental improvement, but the kind of artistic breakthrough that only happens after the artist burns down their own style. Picasso’s move from Blue Period to Cubism involved an obliteration of perspective. John Cage’s 4'33" obliterated the distinction between music and silence. Every truly avant-garde movement begins with a manifesto calling for the destruction of the old museum, the old canon, the old rules. obliterate everything 4 new