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«This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.»
«It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
aphoristic, concluding, inherent, phrase
«The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects /making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
accelerate, accelerated, accelerates, accelerating, continues, historical, surreal, vanishing
«A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.»
«The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own experience / more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.»
«Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.»
«Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
awash, causality, ineffectual, murky, treatment
«The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.»
«The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.»
«The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us. . .»
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