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
death memorial dying
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
writing would-be truth-is
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
people mad this-society
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
art mean criticism
Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.
guilt logic innocence
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
lying mean self
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
forever details life-is
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
vision style world
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
lying simple self
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
death religious dying
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.
healthy alive becoming
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
insecure past space
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
powerful years able
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
change nature swag
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.