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.
make fictional media that's harder for capitalism to recuperate. make Who Wants To Murder a Billionaire
all this anti-trans legislation across the us is the work of like eight specific organized people.
it's not a representation of a world that exists. it's an attempt by a few hucksters to force the world into a shape that it freaks them out that it isn't naturally falling into.