I especially remember a 15,000-word “Letter from Sweden,” which began with a sentence I never forgot: “The experience of any new country unfolds as a battle of clichés.” I was then a senior at the University of California and was moonlighting as Scheer’s researcher on a book he was writing on multinational corporations and a growing phenomenon that years later would be called “globalism,” but which at the time was more familiarly known to those on the left as “imperialism.” I was to graduate in June, and Scheer and I planned to go to New York to finish our work on the book.
I FIRST MET Susan Sontag in the spring of 1974 at a dinner in Berkeley given by Robert Scheer, author of one of the first pamphlets against the Vietnam War and former editor of Ramparts, the radical magazine for which Susan had written in the late 1960s. Lecture delivered at SUSAN SONTAG REVISITED symposium at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 29 January 2015. To pick up your copy of the Journal, become a member of the Los Angeles Review of Books at the $15 monthly level or order a copy at, , or b&n.com. It is not uncommon for respectable people to make silly remarks.įor copyright issues, contact xah xahlee.The following is a feature article from the most recent edition of the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2015. I note that she isn't by herself associated with “feminist” the label.īy the way, i think she's respectable.
Now threatens the very existence of life itself. Spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which Inventions-which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it Of human history it is the white race and it alone-its ideologies and Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particularĬivilization has wrought upon the world. Government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary Painful truth few of us want to go that far. Something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, asĮveryone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be Sontag drew criticism for writing in 1967 in the Partisan Review that, The New York Review of Books called her “one of the most influential critics of her generation.” However, her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America.
She published her first major work, the essay “Notes on ‘Camp'”, in 1964. Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/ Janu– December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, teacher and political activist. The white race is the cancer of human history it is the white race and it alone - its ideologies and inventions - which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself The white race is the cancer of human history
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