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“... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.”

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Susan Sontag was an American writer, critic, and photographer. Known for her unique literary style and profound thinking, her work spans various fields including literature, art, and politics. Born on January 16, 1933, she passed away on December 28, 2004. more

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“The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.”

People Men Difficult Streets Tvs Hair Access Violent Visible Zone Bizarre Disgrace Glitter Subway

Author:Susan Sontag

“... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”

Art Purpose Projects Photography Victim Expected Enterprise Compassionate Unfortunate Vigorous Concentrating Victimization Art Photography

Book:On photography

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“Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.”

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“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”

Lasts Fantasy Century Disease Understood Medicine Response Inspired Cancer Eras Premises Capricious Tuberculosis

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

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Book:A Susan Sontag reader

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“Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.”

Reality Left Movement Wings Surface Communism Erotic Imagery Right Wing Nazism Left Wing Unisex

Author:Susan Sontag

“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.”

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“There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'”

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“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

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“I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.”

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