Moreover, excrement is a type of expenditure , a basic conception in Emil Durkheim's theory of social exchange. The idea has become influential as a strategy for disruption . The term is fairly common in current artwriting . The defining characteristic of any system of persons of things given different ranks or statuses, as in a governmental hierarchy. The term is routinely used to designate a formal, conventional , and conceptual style like that in the art of ancient Egypt or the Byzantine Empire.
Potential antonyms are demotic and perceptual .
The term now means the granting of special status to some thing by virtue of the way it is named. Where the former supposedly consisted of the meticulous expression in fine materials of refined or noble sentiment, the latter was the shoddy manufacturing in inferior materials of superficial kitsch . Moreover, the assumption always was that appreciation of the former depended on such things as intelligence, social standing, educated taste, and a willingness to be challenged. Pop Art further weakened the distinction, and artists as various as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons and the Guerilla Girls, influenced strongly by the different branches of postmodern thought, seem have dealt it the final blow. In spite of this, one still wonders if the distinction still exists, albeit in a slightly different form.