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Edward Champion<p>This is Susan Sontag describing the fascist aesthetics in art. It's a pretty solid guide on what to look out for. But can art adopt these elements (in a nonsatirical way) and still not come across as fascist? Is it problematic to acknowledge FANTASIA and Busby Berkeley as genuine works of art (these are) even as they use fascist aesthetics?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aesthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aesthetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/susansontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>susansontag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifascist</span></a></p>
RiffReporter<p>Schon in den 70ern warnte <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> vor der Macht der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bilder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bilder</span></a> – in Zeiten von Social Media aktueller denn je. Die Bundeskunsthalle Bonn zeigt ihre Gedankenwelt in „Susan Sontag. Sehen und gesehen werden“. Björn Göttlicher hat mit der Kuratorin gesprochen: <a href="https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/susan-sontag-fotografie-kulturkritik-bundeskunsthalle-bonn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">riffreporter.de/de/wissen/susa</span><span class="invisible">n-sontag-fotografie-kulturkritik-bundeskunsthalle-bonn</span></a></p>
metaphernpark<p><a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Bonn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bonn</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/Ausstellungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ausstellungen</span></a> <a href="https://literatur.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a><br>Bundeskunsthalle: "Susan Sontag - Sehen und gesehen werden",<br>14. März bis 28. September 2025.<br><a href="https://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/susan-sontag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bundeskunsthalle.de/susan-sont</span><span class="invisible">ag</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>"Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick." -- Susan Sontag</p><p>Many of us will (and some already have) joined the kingdom of the sick earlier than we had anticipated.</p><p><a href="https://time.com/7262388/fda-flu-vaccine-meeting-canceled/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7262388/fda-flu-vacci</span><span class="invisible">ne-meeting-canceled/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFK</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Illness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illness</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USAID</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>&quot;Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.&quot; -- Susan Sontag</p><p>Many of us will (and some already have) joined the kingdom of the sick earlier than we had anticipated.</p><p><a href="https://time.com/7262388/fda-flu-vaccine-meeting-canceled/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/7262388/fda-flu-vacci</span><span class="invisible">ne-meeting-canceled/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RFK</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Illness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Illness</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USAID</span></a></p>
Matthew Fells<p>"Photographs do not explain, they acknowledge." - Susan Sontag</p><p><a href="https://photog.social/tags/photoquotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photoquotes</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a></p>
cob<p>Suite 1981 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@cobrate/113538482701453698" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@cobrate/11353</span><span class="invisible">8482701453698</span></a></p><p>(2/2)<br>- Maroc : sécheresse -&gt; révoltes du pain Casablanca + baisse cheptel moutons = inflation -&gt; Roi annule fête du sacrifice <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> Aïd El-Kébir (cf 1996 2025).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/livre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livre</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> : Le <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sida</span></a> et ses métaphores</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/year1981" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>year1981</span></a></p>
Rev. Dr. Mazigazi<p>In the middle of reading this phenomenally great book AND Susan Sontag was BOTD in 1933! <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/susansontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>susansontag</span></a> <a href="https://dobbs.town/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a></p>
Harald Klinke<p>Vor 75 Jahren besuchte die 16-jährige Susan Sontag den Nobelpreisträger Thomas Mann in seinem Exil in Kalifornien. Dieses Treffen prägte Sontags intellektuelles Leben und zeigt die Verbindung zwischen Literatur, Kulturkritik und öffentlichem Intellekt. <a href="https://det.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/ThomasMann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasMann</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Kulturgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kulturgeschichte</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Literaturgeschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literaturgeschichte</span></a><br><a href="https://www.telepolis.de/features/Treffen-der-Galionsfiguren-Von-der-Tugend-dagegen-zu-sein-10221027.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">telepolis.de/features/Treffen-</span><span class="invisible">der-Galionsfiguren-Von-der-Tugend-dagegen-zu-sein-10221027.html</span></a></p>
slowforward<p><strong>hal foster: “fail better. reckoning with artists and&nbsp;critics”</strong></p><p><strong>Sandro Ricaldone</strong></p><p>HAL FOSTER<br>Fail Better<br>Reckoning with Artists and Critics<br>The MIT Press, 2025<br><em>(forthcoming)</em></p><p>“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In <strong>Fail Better</strong>, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years.</p> <a href="https://slowforward.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/halfosterbook574350603035654660.jpg?w=213" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p>In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.</p><p>Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/adam-pendleton/" target="_blank">#AdamPendleton</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/art/" target="_blank">#art</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/arte/" target="_blank">#arte</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/artforum-magazine/" target="_blank">#ArtforumMagazine</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/artists/" target="_blank">#artists</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/cindy-sherman/" target="_blank">#CindySherman</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/criticism/" target="_blank">#criticism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/critics/" target="_blank">#critics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/ed-ruscha/" target="_blank">#EdRuscha</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/gerhard-richter/" target="_blank">#GerhardRichter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/hal-foster/" target="_blank">#HalFoster</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/jasper-johns/" target="_blank">#JasperJohns</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/jeremy-deller/" target="_blank">#JeremyDeller</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/louise-lawler/" target="_blank">#LouiseLawler</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/mit-press/" target="_blank">#MITPress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/richard-hamilton/" target="_blank">#RichardHamilton</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/rosalind-krauss/" target="_blank">#RosalindKrauss</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/susan-sontag/" target="_blank">#SusanSontag</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/whitney-museum/" target="_blank">#WhitneyMuseum</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://slowforward.net/tag/whitney-museum-independent-study-program/" target="_blank">#WhitneyMuseumIndependentStudyProgram</a></p>
Tyler Smith<p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/OnPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnPhotography</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Vural Özdemir<p>Susan Sontag</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Diaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diaries</span></a> 1964-1980</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a></p>
Watson<p>What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see<br>more, to hear more, to feel more. (...) Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.<br>The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of<br>art-and, by analogy, our own experience-more, rather than less, real to us.<br>The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it<br>is what it is, rather than to show what it means.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/susansontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>susansontag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.alittlesense.org/sontag-against-interpretation-summary" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alittlesense.org/sontag-agains</span><span class="invisible">t-interpretation-summary</span></a></p>
Italian News by RSS<p>Internazionale by Internazionale <br>Capricorno</p><p>La scrittrice del Capricorno Susan Sontag era un’intellettuale,... Leggi<br> <br>Translated:<br>Capricorn </p><p>The Capricorn writer Susan Sontag was an intellectual... </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Capricorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capricorn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a><br><a href="https://www.internazionale.it/oroscopo/2024/10/10/capricorno-10-16-ottobre-2024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">internazionale.it/oroscopo/202</span><span class="invisible">4/10/10/capricorno-10-16-ottobre-2024</span></a></p>
Indigo<p>Selected Stories: Robert Walser. Foreword by Susan Sontag</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RobertWalser" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RobertWalser</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NYRB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NYRB</span></a></p>
🥄Regan King🥄<p>“There is aggression implicit in every use of the camera.” Susan Sontag, On Photography.</p><p>In a social exploration of this idea, I teamed up with Indira Kripilani to photograph each other making claim to a captured subject. She, a first generation German of Indian descent, avowed animal rights activist, and outspoken misanthrope, and I, the personified oxymoron of an American artist and anti-war activist.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AbuGhraib" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AbuGhraib</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ArtSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ArtSci</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SocialPractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialPractice</span></a></p>
Edward Bindloss<p>Five favourite <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writers</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SusanSontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SusanSontag</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Dostoevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dostoevsky</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WGSebald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WGSebald</span></a> <br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MikhailBulgakov" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MikhailBulgakov</span></a><br /><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Swift</span></a></p>