Who is Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), Styles of Radical Will (1968), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978), as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and leftist ideology. Her essays and speeches d...Read Full Biography of Susan Sontag
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- Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
- For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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Sociotrip: “i haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – susan sontagW_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’”.
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