Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There Such a Thing as Transparency?
S.A. number nine: Transparent is the highest most liberating value in art and criticism today. She'll talk a lot about forms of consciousness here, right? So one of the formal things that the work of art is going to make us attend to is particular forms of consciousness. I think of transparency as sort of the ways in which content doesn't overwhelm the formal function of art. It's almost reflexive or self referential.
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