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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by
Susan Sontag
Aug. 27, 2017 - Sept. 5, 2017
(read/literary-criticism/essay-collections)
Sontag, S. (2009). Against Interpretation and Other Essays. Penguin Classics.
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ebullience »
(noun) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expr…
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epicene »
(adjective) having but one form to indicate eithe…
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ineffable »
(adjective) incapable of being expressed in words…
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inveigh »
(verb) to protest or complain bitterly or vehemen…
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But the disenchantment of American intellectuals …
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There is a vast amount of wishful thinking in sci…
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[...] In the world envisaged by Judaism and Chris…
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The anthopologist is thus not only the mourner of…
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[...] his work, solely as a literary accomplishme…
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Against interpretation
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On style
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Simone Weil
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Camus' Notebooks
basically says his notebooks aren't worth reading (unlike Kafka, Gide)
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Michel Leiris' Manhood
English translation of a weird French book
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The anthropologist as hero
on Lévi-Strauss
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The literary criticism of Georg Lukács
no real takeaways but it was dece and relevant to my interests
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The literary criticism of Georg Lukács
no real takeaways but it was dece and relevant to my interests
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Sartre's Saint Genet
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Ionesco
on his plays/essays and anti-intellectualism? dont know anything about him tbh
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Reflections on The Deputy
a play about the Eichmann trial
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The death of tragedy
analysed with a religious lens. mentions Brecht. I liked this one
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Going to theater, etc.
Arthur Miller's After the Fall and The Deputy again (analysed in terms of their political messages). also movies: Great Dictator, Doctor Strangelove. James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie. some others, idk
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Going to theater, etc.
Arthur Miller's After the Fall and The Deputy again (analysed in terms of their political messages). also movies: Great Dictator, Doctor Strangelove. James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie. some others, idk
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Marat / Sade / Artaud
Peter Weiss' play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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Marat / Sade / Artaud
Peter Weiss' play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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Godard's Vivre Sa Vie
more films ugh
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The imagination of disaster
on sci-fi films. some interesting points
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Jack Smth's Flaming Creatures
a weird film depicting an orgy that Sontag seems to really like?
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Jack Smth's Flaming Creatures
a weird film depicting an orgy that Sontag seems to really like?
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Resnais' Muriel
a French, post-WWII film
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A note on novels and films
films are more interesting than novels to her cus the field is advancing so quickly?
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A note on novels and films
films are more interesting than novels to her cus the field is advancing so quickly?
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Piety without content
the idea of being "religious" without adhering to a specific religion (which is as silly, from her POV, as speaking "language" without speaking a particular one). mostly a scathing review of Walter Kaufmann's Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, which she thinks did not choose pieces very well
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Piety without content
the idea of being "religious" without adhering to a specific religion (which is as silly, from her POV, as speaking "language" without speaking a particular one). mostly a scathing review of Walter Kaufmann's Religion from Tolstoy to Camus, which she thinks did not choose pieces very well
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Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death
she pairs it with Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization (1955) in ushering in a new generation of Freudian thought in America. she talks about eschatology and immanence which I would normally find cool but I don't really see the relevance of what she's saying
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256
Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death
she pairs it with Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization (1955) in ushering in a new generation of Freudian thought in America. she talks about eschatology and immanence which I would normally find cool but I don't really see the relevance of what she's saying
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Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition
about this weird (dated?) type of interactive performance art happening in NYC
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Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition
about this weird (dated?) type of interactive performance art happening in NYC
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Notes on "Camp"
a numbered list, oddly enough ... I don't really disagree with anything, I guess I just don't know why this was necessary
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Notes on "Camp"
a numbered list, oddly enough ... I don't really disagree with anything, I guess I just don't know why this was necessary
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One culture and the new sensibility
on a recent schism between a literary culture and a scientific one? idk
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One culture and the new sensibility
on a recent schism between a literary culture and a scientific one? idk
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Afterword: Thirty Years Later
apparently this was a defining book for the 60s though tbh I don't really see why
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Afterword: Thirty Years Later
apparently this was a defining book for the 60s though tbh I don't really see why
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