One noted speech by this person was republished in The Nation, only with a passage accusing TheNation of whitewashing Communist atrocities removed.
One noted speech by this person was republished in The Nation, only with a passage accusing TheNation of whitewashing Communist atrocities removed. In another editing incident, her originaldescription of William Reich's language as "inimitable looniness" was sadly changed forrepublication. This thinker wrote of "Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures" and "spiritual style in thefilms of Robert Bresson" in a work that called for "an erotics of art" to replace hermeneutics.Another of her works decries the (*) "chronic voyeuristic relation," and a third concludes that theultimate sentiment of a certain aesthetic viewpoint is "it's good because it's awful." Her own diagnosiswith breast cancer inspired her work about the psychologization of disease, Illness as Metaphor. For 10points, identify this author of On Photography and "Notes on Camp."
One noted speech by this person was republished in The Nation, only with a passage accusing TheNation of whitewashing Communist atrocities removed.
Susan Sontag