“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.” DoeArtDifferentTurnsTasteOffersJudgmentStandardsOrdinaryArguingCampsAestheticReverseAxesArt And Life Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.” MeanWarTurnsPeaceVictoryRemainsCirclesTidesReverseNevertheless Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record
“During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.” IfsWorldMightRunningFilmMovingTurnsCultureLeftSunPiecesTelevisionNeededMirrorsRoseCreditLocalsOpeningSunsetOperaReverseSunriseClosingSoapSaving MoneySoap OperasRunning Back Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson