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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist

Lived from: 1933 - 2004

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 16 january 1933 Died: 28 december 2004

  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

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  • Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
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  • Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    ― Susan Sontag
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  • The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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