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Susan Sontag
Michael Dean • 2 cards
Susan Sontag writes, “Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to ethical principle, in which it is thought foolish not to subject one’s actions to the calculus of self-interest and profitability.”
Eula Biss • On Immunity: An Inoculation
En 1961, elle écrivit une sorte de manifeste, « Contre la sécheresse », où elle pressait les auteurs d’abandonner les « petits mythes, jouets et cristaux944 » de la belle écriture, autrefois à la mode, pour renouer avec la tâche du véritable écrivain qui est d’explorer comment on peut être libre et bien se conduire dans un monde compliqué, dans la
... See moreAude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
I understood it was impossible for any writer to see outside the contours of the history they inhabited. I often thought about Edward Said’s explanation that we still read Joseph Conrad in the twenty-first century not because he had been capable of condemning racism and imperialism but because, as someone trapped within a totalizing ideological sys
... See moreEmily Witt • Health and Safety: A Breakdown
“system-adaptive” behaviors.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
By 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.