Blogs about: Sontag
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Desperately Seeking Susan III
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 w… more →
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The Twilight Zone
miamariedimeo wrote 1 week ago: Popular movies kind of suck. Here’s an excerpt from something I wrote about why. There are car … more →
Almanacco del Giorno - 4 Nov. 2009
Nicola di Bowery wrote 1 month ago: Piovono Rane - La signora Lautsi contro il governo italiano Vulture - Disaster-Porn Fetishist Roland … more →
Sontag on Translation
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papertrail23 wrote 2 months ago: Sarah, David, and I are translating Julio Cortazar’s short story “Los Posatigres” … more →
Sontag, Susan
Earthpages.ca wrote 2 months ago: taking a picture of a picture/of sontag: Susan NYC Sontag, Susan (1933-2004) American scholar, write … more →
metaphoric illness
tobogganeer wrote 2 months ago: the irony (or appropriateness?) of being so sick while trying to get through all these works on illn … more →
Desperately Seeking Susan III
lalaleah wrote 2 months ago: Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle … more →
Bookpacking blogging makes Berlin anthology
bookpacking wrote 4 months ago: Out 5-Nov Some of my blogging on here – and on my sister site Running the Berlin Wall – about Berlin … more →
Desperately Seeking Susan II
lalaleah wrote 4 months ago: I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. … more →
Plato's Republic
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Big Planet wrote 6 months ago: I do not know what is in Plato that makes me want to train my body physically, listen to classical m … more →
suffering looks like something
pensum wrote 6 months ago: [The Believer] What’s with the before and after photos of Artaud? Always before illness and then aft … more →
**Update** Quote Poster #1
akumakarun wrote 6 months ago: Expect the Susan Sontag quote to be updated in this coming week. This is an update of the Niels Bohr … more →
Sontag, reconsidered
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stevenkatz wrote 6 months ago: Two ways metaphor can be of use during times of ill-health. Own the metaphor/metaphor as social forc … more →
(Loudis on) Lopate on Sontag
Jessica wrote 7 months ago: (All up in) The Brooklyn Rail It is a testament to Susan Sontag’s impact as an intellectual figure t … more →
Sofia Sonntag aus Litzmannstadt / Lodz ..?
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yehuda wrote 8 months ago: Eine weiteres Dokument zu Sofia Sonntag war so eigentümlich und absurd, dass es einer eigenen Betrac … more →
regarding suffering
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Kathleen wrote 8 months ago: Susan Sontag’s (Regarding the Pain of Others, Picador 2004) exploration of the depiction of su … more →
Fiction vs. Truth
mvdogearedpages wrote 8 months ago: “Actually, secretness–which might be called reticence, or discretion, or withholding … more →
The Sleight of Hand, The Trick, The Calculated Deception
dylanoc wrote 8 months ago: A fantastic series of articles / essays by Errol Morris, comprising of a thorough investigation of t … more →
regarding Sontag, cancer, death.
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noneuclideanbabies wrote 8 months ago: Originally posted February 3, 2009 The Rieff article kind of bothered me all day. At one point, Sont … more →
Interpretation as Performance
Zio Bastone wrote 9 months ago: ‘You’ve often heard me say – perhaps too often – that poetry is what is lost … more →
