122 ordspråk av Susan Sontag

US  Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag föddes den January 16th 1933 och dog den 28 December 2004 - US writer
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 Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

 Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens --and real diseases are useful material.

 Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

 Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.On Photography

 Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style-but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

 Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

 Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

 Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters of culture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.

 Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

 Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

 Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans / the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

 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.

 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.

 He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

 He's an exceptionally cultivated man.


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