Reads tagged with “Susan Sontag”
![15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/susansontag10.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
“All that animates me and is the original and responsive desire that constitutes my ‘self’ — all this takes on a definite shape and size — far too large to be contained by the structure I call my body.”
![Being Against Becoming: Susan Sontag on Our Ambivalent Historical Conscience](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SusanSontag_by_WendyMacNaughton.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
Being Against Becoming: Susan Sontag on Our Ambivalent Historical Conscience
“We understand something by locating it in a multi-determined temporal continuum. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
![Great Writers on the Letters of the Alphabet, Illustrated by David Hockney](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hockneysalphabet0.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
Great Writers on the Letters of the Alphabet, Illustrated by David Hockney
A choral serenade to the building blocks of language starring Susan Sontag, Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis, Doris Lessing, John Updike, and more titans of literature.
![Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/photography.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone
…and how a greedy attitude to intellectual property made the camera’s primary competitor perish.
![Susan Sontag on Selfies, Selfhood, and How the Camera Helps Us Navigate Complexity](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/susansontag.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
Susan Sontag on Selfies, Selfhood, and How the Camera Helps Us Navigate Complexity
“There is a dialectical exchange between simplicity and complexity, like the one between self-revelation and self-concealment.”
![Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/emilcioran.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
Romanian Philosopher Emil Cioran on the Courage to Disillusion Yourself
“The man who unmasks his fictions renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depths.”
![Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/openhouseforbutterflies00.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity
“It takes a special energy, over and above one’s creative potential, a special audacity or subversiveness, to strike out in a new direction once one is settled.”
![The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/susansontag.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task
“A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine… The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.”
![Susan Sontag on How Photography Mediates Our Relationship with Life and Death](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/susansontag.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
Susan Sontag on How Photography Mediates Our Relationship with Life and Death
“We no longer study the art of dying, a regular discipline and hygiene in older cultures; but all eyes, at rest, contain that knowledge. The body knows. And the camera shows, inexorably.”
![Great Writers on the Power of Music](https://i0.wp.com/www.themarginalian.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/writers_music.jpg?fit=320%2C168&ssl=1)
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