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Susan Sontag

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Name: Susan Sontag

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Jim Bassett: “Everyone a Tourist”: On the Photography of Monuments

Gallery: Jim BassettJim Bassett, El Castillo #20 (top), #8 (bottom), 2012.The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.— Susan Sontag, New York Review of Books, April 18, 1974A year ago I traveled to Chichén ... [Published Design Observer - May 17 2013]

Entities: Architecture, Martin Parr, Susan Sontag

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Enhanced News: When Does Photo Editing Go Too Far?

A week ago, the of the year award went to a digitally enhanced photo taken by Paul Hansen. It’s a really compelling photo, one that SpeigelOnline writers Matthias Krug and Stefan Niggemeier write “conveys a beauty that seems almost innappropriate.”The ... [Published Media Bistro - May 14 2013]

Entities: FAR, Susan Sontag, Paul Hansen

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis walk into a brasserie . . .

One of the strangest side effects of studying a foreign language is the desire not just to immerse yourself in a new culture but to become a part of it, indistinguishable from a native speaker. Few writers have chronicled this phenomenon better than Alice ... [Published Chicago Reader - May 11 2013]

Entities: Angela Davis, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Susan Sontag, Alice Kaplan

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Through Sjón’s skewed lens, a mythical yet modern world emerges

The Prose Edda, one of the foundational texts of Norse mythology, is rich in allegorical fables that express a reverence for storytelling. In its second book, the Skaldskaparmal, Bragi, the god of poetry, tells Aegir, the god of the sea, of a king who ... [Published Globe and Mail - May 10 2013]

Entities: Halldór Laxness, Iceland, Susan Sontag

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

The Center is “Roughin’ It” All Summer Long at Summer Camp!

In her famous breakthrough essay written in 1964, “Notes on Camp,” American writer and cultural critic Susan Sontag contends that the artistic sensibility known as camp is characterized by “its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” Now, ... [Published Queer Planet - May 10 2013]

Entities: LGBT, Paul Menard, Petula Clark

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Andrew Stark: Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley, Jr. and Care at the End of Life

Last year, health economists started noticing a welcome - but surprising - slowdown in the growth of health-care spending in America, and particularly in Medicare. The recession alone probably didn't explain it. "If there's something else going on," former ... [Published Huffington Post - May 06 2013]

Entities: Susan Sontag, William F Buckley, Andrew Stark

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

The Weekend Wrap

This weekend on the Dish, Andrew addressed Niall Ferguson’s offensive comments about John Maynard Keynes’ homosexuality, following-up by musing on quotes from both Burke and Keynes on capitalism. We also provided our usual eclectic mix religious, ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 06 2013]

Entities: Olive Senior, Russell D. Moore, John Berryman

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Charles J. Reid, Jr.: Marriage Equality: How I Changed My Mind

From 2003 to 2009, I wrote a series of historically grounded papers that reached the common conclusion that marriage equality was a radical departure from the western tradition and so, for that reason, should be rejected as a matter of public policy.I ... [Published Huffington Post - May 03 2013]

Entities: Marriage Equality USA, Griswold v. Connecticut, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Wollstonecraft

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Weight and disease paradox

Don’t expect a simple solution to a complex problem like obesity.A paradox is defined as a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true. There are many paradoxes in health, particularly where causality is unclear and treatment is often ... [Published Medical Observer - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Obesity, Calorie, Weight Gain, Weight Loss, Causality

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

12 Things Famous Authors Absolutely Hated

Cats, Coca-Cola, and Tom Cruise top the list. J.K. Rowling hated being a teenager. So it's interesting that her Harry Potter series fixated exactly on that time period. Perhaps writing the characters was a bit cathartic for Ms. Rowling? Via: ... [Published BuzzFeed - Latest - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Susan Sontag, JK Rowling, Coca-Cola, Lefteris Pitarakis

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

'The Nance' - brilliant, brave and thought-provoking

‘Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned...” God knows who wrote that, maybe someone like the early W.C. Fields.“Slowly I turned...” is the beginning of one of the many nonsense sketches performed constantly in burlesque in the early ’30s in theaters where low ... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Burlesque, Gay, Nathan Lane, Allen Murphy, Susan Sontag

First reported Apr 13 2013 - Updated Apr 13 2013 - 2 reports

Rehtaeh Parsons shows how Facebook's connectedness has driven us apart

There’s an 18-year-old on trial in London accused of raping an 11-year-old girl. The girl was repeatedly assaulted after she got off a bus; she needed surgery after the attack. According to her testimony, as her assailant pushed her to the ground, “he ... [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 13 2013]

Entities: Rehtaeh Parsons, Leah Parsons, Assault

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Jim Bassett: “Everyone a Tourist”: On the Photo... [Published Design Observer - May 17 2013]
Enhanced News: When Does Photo Editing Go Too Far? [Published Media Bistro - May 14 2013]
‘Distant Intimacy,’ Gaddis letters open up very... [Published Buffalo News - May 12 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013]
Jackie Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis ... [Published Chicago Reader - May 11 2013]
Distant Intimacy: An object lesson in knowing w... [Published Chicago Reader - May 10 2013]
Through Sjón’s skewed lens, a mythical yet mode... [Published Globe and Mail - May 10 2013]
Exotic atoms hold clues to unsolved physics puz... [Published Brightsurf Science News - May 10 2013]
The Center is “Roughin’ It” All Summer Long at ... [Published Queer Planet - May 10 2013]
100 years on, Rockefeller Foundation still busy [Published Stow Sentry - May 08 2013]
Paul Thek Is Having Such A Moment [Published Gay.com - May 07 2013]
Andrew Stark: Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley,... [Published Huffington Post - May 06 2013]
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 06 2013]
SFAI to Present Kathryn Bigelow and Paul Schimm... [Published Equities.com - May 06 2013]
Charles J. Reid, Jr.: Marriage Equality: How I ... [Published Huffington Post - May 03 2013]
Our Soviet Media [Published LewRockwell.com - May 03 2013]
Saul Bellow's Son Analyzes His Father's Character [Published Forward - May 02 2013]
Kathryn Bigelow and Paul Schimmel to Receive Ho... [Published Benzinga.com - May 01 2013]
Weight and disease paradox [Published Medical Observer - Apr 29 2013]
Voices & Visions [Published Chicago Jewish Community Online - Apr 29 2013]
BEA 2013: Factory Town: New York City's MFA Ind... [Published PublishersWeekly.com - Apr 28 2013]
12 Things Famous Authors Absolutely Hated [Published BuzzFeed - Latest - Apr 27 2013]
A review of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life [Published Chicago Reader - Apr 26 2013]
Gabfest Radio: The Coffee vs. Booze Edition [Published WNYC - Apr 26 2013]
Distinguished Fellow Szegedy-Maszak Teaches Pho... [Published Wesleyan Connection - Apr 22 2013]
Salman Rushdie Turns Screenwriter [Published New York Magazine - Apr 22 2013]
My Thoughts On Boston [Published Frontpagemag.com - Apr 20 2013]
'The Nance' - brilliant, brave and thought-prov... [Published Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Apr 17 2013]
LIZ SMITH: Broadway At Its Provocative Best ... [Published New York Social Diary - Apr 17 2013]
48 Shots: A Teenager's Death Documented In Crim... [Published Huffington Post - Apr 15 2013]

Blogs

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The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013] Friday on the Dish, Andrew further pondered the brutality surrounding the Gitmo hunger strike, challenged Leon Wieseltier’s moralizing on Syria, and separated out the scandal from the politicking in the Benghazi fiasco. He, weighed in on the ...
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 06 2013] This weekend on the Dish, Andrew addressed Niall Ferguson’s offensive comments about John Maynard Keynes’ homosexuality, following-up by musing on quotes from both Burke and Keynes on capitalism. We also provided our usual eclectic mix religious, ...
12 Things Famous Authors Absolutely Hated [Published BuzzFeed - Latest - Apr 27 2013] Cats, Coca-Cola, and Tom Cruise top the list. J.K. Rowling hated being a teenager. So it's interesting that her Harry Potter series fixated exactly on that time period. Perhaps writing the characters was a bit cathartic for Ms. Rowling? Via: ...
Victoria L. Henderson: Free speech battles belo... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Apr 15 2013] The decision earlier this month by Queen’s University to forcibly remove a free-speech wall erected by Queen’s Students for Liberty, on the grounds that the wall contained hate speech, has rallied troops to their respective battle lines. A much-needed ...
Koolhaas in china [Published 3quarksdaily - Mar 08 2013] Subtending Koolhaas’s decision to build in Beijing was a feeling of disgust with mass culture and free-market capitalism that came to a head in the early aughts. In 2002, the same year he won the commission for the CCTV complex, he published an essay ...

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The Final Days of Susan Sontag [Published Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - Dec 05 2012]

Press Releases

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Yale Publishes Inaugural Volume in the Landmark... [Published CisionWire - English - Nov 28 2012]