
Selected Essays | Merve Emre & Tobi Haslett on Susan Sontag (Bonus Episode!)
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I think that both Hardwick and especially Sontag were really trying to fall on the more appealing side of that. I do think that she is co-conspirative with Leon Wiesel tier and the effort to de-communize Walter Benjamin. She was a great writer whose original attempts at being a writer were taking place against a backdrop of profound cultural rupture. That part of the things that I try to kind of assert is that even when she completely does a kind of about face on the question of US diplomacy, it's actually deeply in line with an entire cultural movement.
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