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
nature gun people
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
vitality attention eagerness
Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
cancer race government
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.
two people female
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
cancer race civilization
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
two minorities moral
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
mind body crowds
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.
military health medicine
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.
photograph shock novel
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.
easier endure changed
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
principles subliminal provinces
I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.
hero ants culture
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .
photography way firsts
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
photographer imposing
Photographers are always imposing