Jan 16, 1933 - Dec 28, 2004
Okay, so this WON'T be a COMPLETELY locked out journal. Work gets awfully tedious at times, and everyone needs their outlet, as it were...
Plus the death of Sontag yesterday put me in a reflexive mood, which is mightily feeble of me considering the tsunami death toll count is currently up to 76,700 and growing. She herself would probably sit me down and expound upon how my present state just exemplifies her theory on how images of war and disaster desensitize the viewer, and that it's important to think and know that 76,700 people are not dead; one person died 76,700 times.
Everything is horribly, horribly sad.
New York Times Obituary
Bill Moyers interviews Susan Sontag
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
Audio Interview with Susan Sontag
Fascinating Fascism: Susan Sontag on The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl and Jack Pia's SS Regalia
Against photography: Susan Sontag and the violent image by Sue Sorensen
A Rigorous Intellectual Dressed in Glamour by CHARLES McGRATH
Plus the death of Sontag yesterday put me in a reflexive mood, which is mightily feeble of me considering the tsunami death toll count is currently up to 76,700 and growing. She herself would probably sit me down and expound upon how my present state just exemplifies her theory on how images of war and disaster desensitize the viewer, and that it's important to think and know that 76,700 people are not dead; one person died 76,700 times.
Everything is horribly, horribly sad.
New York Times Obituary
Bill Moyers interviews Susan Sontag
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
Audio Interview with Susan Sontag
Fascinating Fascism: Susan Sontag on The Last of the Nuba by Leni Riefenstahl and Jack Pia's SS Regalia
Against photography: Susan Sontag and the violent image by Sue Sorensen
A Rigorous Intellectual Dressed in Glamour by CHARLES McGRATH