Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anti-intellectualism (especially combined with misogyny) is not uniquely American, though we have a long history of it. Sontag very obviously was not stupid whether we agree with all her ideas about photography or not. I've learned a lot from reading her and Walter Benjamin though Barthes is beyond my ability to comprehend. It saddens me to see such anger directed at her and I mourn the loss of a genuine and passionate thinker who was not afraid to change her mind. Howard Wells > [Original Message] > From: Matt Powell <wooderson@gmail.com> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: 12/28/2004 7:11:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Susan Sontag > > I wouldn't take a few out-of-context quotes (and the one on > pop-photography as a substitute for work is somewhat apt as-is) as > evidence of Sontag's stupidity. > > I'm amazed at the hostility that greets contemporary critical theory > in some quarters. If this list weren't international, I'd blame it on > good old American anti-intellectualism. > > -- > MP > wooderson@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- Howard Wells --- sandwell@earthlink.net --- hwells@artacademy.edu --- home.earthlink.net/~sandwell