Susan Sontag, 1966: Critics have spent so much time allegorizing narratives into something they're not, they've rendered themselves incapable of appreciating the various dynamics that make art compelling in the first place. In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art
Susan Sontag, 2023: Uh, forget what I just said. We could stand to have a little bit of hermeneutics.
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in reply to @Video-Game-King's post:
sontag is that rare and commendable scholar who is willing to look back at her earlier work and say 'oh, I REALLY fucked up, huh', so I would 100% believe this XD