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Garth Greenwell: On a Sex Scene in Miranda July's All Fours—and…
In Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “Against Interpretation,” she argues for prioritizing the sensuous experience of art over the attempt to determine what it represents. Rather than trying to plumb it for a message or a meaning, Sontag wants us to try and reckon with art’s ability to evoke overwhelming, frightening, unintelligible feeling — to develop... See more
rayne fisher-quann • against narrative
Faced with the binary choice of aligning with or against so-called exclusionary works of art or culture, disidentification proposes a third way, one that allows people to transform “these works for their own cultural purposes.”
Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Films that scramble the codes and signals of sexuality, wherever that sexuality may fall on the spectrum, are of immense interest to me because it’s a reminder of how each human being is a welter of infinite contradictions. I’m so much more interested in that kind of cinema as opposed to a very programmatic cinema that is interested only in... See more