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SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
ucdpalestine: Important letter from historian Esmat Elhalaby explaining the politics of the prize:"The Dan David Prize, like the Jerusalem Prize before it, serves to legitimize Israel’s presence on the global stage. In 2001, Edward Said wrote to Susan Sontag: '/1
ancawrites: "Susan Sontag once said that every writer must really be four people: the nut or the obsédé (“the obsessed”), the moron, the stylist, and the critic."
MichaelJAltman: And then across mega churches, drag, and wrestling I just thought the other day that “camp” might be an aesthetic thread that ties them all together. Still not sure what to do with that though. Thinking with Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’”.
thom6858: Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.,Susan Sontag, On Photography,art, news, novelty, photography, shock,
NewYorker: Read our collection of personal stories by great writers, including pieces by Vladimir Nabokov, Susan Sontag, and others.
samuli47: Someone needs to write a fiction book or a movie about the love triangle between Susan Sontag, Harriet Sohmers and María Irene Fornés
glassbirdjulie: susan sontag was lowkey dumb for writing all those books when she could’ve just said that camp is yassified irony and moved on
adamkotsko: Someone should pull a "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote," but with Susan Sontag's On Photography.
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
wisdom2inspire_: The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. -Susan Sontag
adam_m_taufiq: "Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow...Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again."
-'On Photography' (Susan Sontag, 1971).
JournalCds: Rereading the works of Susan Sontag in light of Craig David's seminal When The Bassline Drops
PoetNotRockStar: “—to fill myself up. I always feel like I’m eating when I’m reading. And the need to read (etc. etc.) is like an awful raging hunger. So that I often try to read two or three books at a time.”
— Susan Sontag
the_niche_bot: you're gonna read Madeline Kahn and Susan Sontag and come away shipping stuffed peppers??: A Critical Deconstruction
Gregg_E_Miller: "Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later..."
Susan Sontag
luquinhasxxba: susan sontag - against interpretation
hats_not_me: i am begging people to read On Photography Susan Sontag was right about the treachery of images all along
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
RaspiArduino: Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best,
reformed or potential lunatics.
-- Susan Sontag
marcuslmorris: Susan Sontag after she finally had an orgasm with a man: “Oh, shit, now I’m just like everybody else.” Gag.
MeurerCommunity: 1991 George HW Bush declared war on Iraq w/Operation Desert Storm
2001 his son George W declared global War on Terror & launched Operation Enduring Freedom with consecutive wars in Afghanistan & Iraq
Cost to date $8 trillion & at least 1 million lives
rileyhotsauce: RIP Susan Sontag, you would have loved MALIGNANT (2021)
NateHood257: THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA (1954): The best stupid movie I've seen in a while. A deliriously gaudy curio of 50s Hollywood camp the likes of which would make Susan Sontag's head explode. More BARBARELLA than BEN-HUR, it's less movie than lingerie catalogue.
innermostbot: But Susan Sontag's dead. So I guess her cancer wasn't metaphorical after all.
Sorry.
the_niche_bot: Susan Sontag get IN the feisty little riesling
andreliohn: Stop and think before you watch this violent video. I believe Susan Sontag's ideas about violent images still hold true today. She argued, they desensitize us to violence and shape our attitudes towards it. As a war photographer for 20 years, I've seen the truth in her words.
deepa_bhandaru: Spring break reading: Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
elishaaaaaaaaax: How can I describe my life to you?
I think a lot, listen to music.
I'm fond of flowers.
Susan Sontag, Death Kit
biblioklept: *Best Books of 1973 Tournament*
Elite Eight, Match 2
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
vs
On Photography, Susan Sontag
VICEStaff: “One is drawn to Camp when one realizes that ‘sincerity’ is not enough. Sincerity can be simple philistinism, intellectual narrowness.” Susan Sontag
karachiiite: I am sick of people, of stupidity and mediocrity, of crusades and politics.
—Susan Sontag
SamAdlerBell: Hannah is tormenting me by insisting Ryan Gosling should play Philip Rieff opposite Kristen Stewart in the Susan Sontag movie.
MikeRTrice: Listen, I’d love everyone to read some Susan Sontag, but at least think back to how many pics you took of yourself when first posting to social media eons ago. Then ask why you did it?
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
DWIR_123: Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action or it withers.
Susan Sontag
PoetNotRockStar: “I seduce myself
with my hope”
— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
snapjudge: Godfrey Cheshire of The New York Press prescient essay titled “The Death of Film, the Decay of Cinema.”
NYT Magazine, Susan Sontag had proclaimed the end of cinephilia and the “decay” of the art form that sustained it.
Jean-Luc Godard, “Histoire(s) du Cinéma” in 1998
PGWelsh: We only need three things in life:
☑️ The Geneva Convention
☑️ Chamber music
☑️ Susan Sontag
G2Institute: Does the Brain Gremlin truly admire the Geneva Convention, Chamber Music, Susan Sontag? Indeed it is precisely his over-identification with human culture that reveals the cracks in its edifice, reproducing & exacerbating the internal paradoxes of the system.
micahhearts: “My (music) library is an archive of longings” - that one Susan Sontag quote (the bit in () these things is my addition)
loverus8: "A good book is an education of the heart."
- Susan Sontag
KamisatoIkeyato: Is it their medium length hair? Trent Crimm's ala Susan Sontag salt and pepper locks? Their soft smiles? I do not know they're cute!!
Emil58W: Susan Sontag as Metaphor: A Docuplay by the Author of The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic Cover-up WRAFAVS
ZachWeiner: Reading Hannah Arendt again, and honestly the main impression I get is that Hannah Arendt is much much smarter than me, but I really have no clue what she's talking about. I feel this is a genre actually. Others: George Steiner, Susan Sontag, all French philosophers...
HeatherCandela: A list of things I love (Susan Sontag style)
nick5eva: Just opened Susan Sontag’s essay on camp and I ain’t reading all that. I’m happy for u tho, or sorry that happened
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
Gregg_E_Miller: "The wisdom that becomes available over a deep, lifelong engagement with the aesthetic cannot be duplicated by any other kind of seriousness."
Susan Sontag
Visual_Coach: »Photographs are traces, but not windows« says Susan Sontag.
TotalPhilo: Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation"
gorkemksr: “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
― Susan Sontag
MariannaHeusle1: “Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.” Susan Sontag
erikanohut: "I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
– Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964
falkhazi: "I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
x80174746: I think mu qing would love susan sontag
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
joliefrazerm: Tbh nothing will ever be more iconic than Maria Irene Fornés deciding to be a writer because she wanted to prove to her gf Susan Sontag that it wasn’t that hard
Jolie93373264: Playing doodle jump + listening to Susan Sontag lecture at the same time to maximize brain power and intelligence
philosophytweet: "The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us." - Susan Sontag
langmannga: "Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers." — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Steph_HarmanMD: Love these final slides from Dr. Block
-Palliative care as a Trojan horse
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers”
-Susan Sontag
mgpixlab: Tourists in our own reality: Susan Sontag's Photography at 50
PublishersWkly: A new compendium brings together previously published pieces by Susan Sontag about women and feminism. PW's review of On Women:
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
autumnnsonata: Notes On Camp by Susan Sontag, 1964. PDF.
AugustCohen4: "The white race is the cancer of human history"- Susan Sontag (1978).
mizinformatsiya: Back in my Susan Sontag era, I fear
waka_x: Susan Sontag - Do you speak the language of pictures and videos?
lobotomygf: i fear susan sontag has been rolling in her grave ever since
W_TripSolution: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
Jcvest200Niall: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
manqobamhp: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
socialmsft199: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
tAlAbErsss15: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
SocioTrip: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
udidndidnwali: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
renniejacobs69: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
ksixjdjsis: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
rossouwkyla541: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
RealComedyTruth: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
AngieBumz09: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
bianzchuin: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
dpacheco6709: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
breeweese1: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
NimatDawood1D: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
alwiyahsuzika: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
adyjonelo: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
digiDirect_AU: “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” – Susan Sontag
KyJi_Delulu: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
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_theasophia_: “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag
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mukta_pathak: I must change my life so that I can live it and not wait for it : Susan Sontag.
objktcom: "Camp Creme" was an open invitation to the entire community to mint a piece of art that is based on the Camp aesthetic as defined in Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp"(
