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Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Transparent Criticism

Sontag: Transference means experiencing the luminous of the thing in itself. Criticism is an art form, not a way to put intellectual distance between you and object. Sontag's role with trans parents is just to draw our attention to things that we haven't noticed before; make us fully aware of work.

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