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January 05, 2005
Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
One of the finer, more well informed, appreciations of Susan Sontag was written by Gary Indiana and appeared in The Village Voice.
Read the article here.
She was the indispensible voice of moral responsibility, perceptual clarity, passionate (and passionately reasonable) advocacy: for aesthetic pleasure, for social justice, for unembarrassed hedonism, for life against death. Sontag took it as a given that our duty as sentient beings is to rescue the world. She knew that empathy can change history.She set the bar of skepticism as high as it would go. Allergic to received ideas and their hypnotic blandishments, she was often startled to discover how devalued the ethical sense, and the courage to exercise it, had become in American consumer culture.
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Posted by apc at January 5, 2005 02:47 AM