Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
nostalgic
When we're afraid we shoot. But when we're nostalgic we take pictures.
oddities judgment accumulation
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
unjust illness metaphor
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.
idols moral sin
I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.
selfishness messages want
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.