Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Susan Sontag still rocks our world ...

From the New York Times ...


'At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches'
By SUSAN SONTAG
Reviewed by PANKAJ MISHRA
Essays and speeches written after 9/11, in the final years
of Susan Sontag's life.




“I live,” she wrote after a trip to Vietnam in 1968, “in an unethical society that coarsens the sensibilities and thwarts the capacities for goodness of most people.” In her last speeches Sontag offered a similarly bleak view of the American-style consumer society that spreads itself across the globe, destroying the past, and enclosing all horizons within a selfish materialism. “We live in a culture committed to unifying greeds,” with “everyone on the planet feeding at the same trough of standardized entertainment and fantasies of eros and violence.”

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