Notes on Camp

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Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

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Interesting. Historical. Needs to center Black Trans people more.

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Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

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Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

Woohoo! And my goal was 55. So glad to have had such a productive reading year - bring it on, 2020 ✨
HAPPY NEW YEAR, LITTENS! I hope 2019 has been good to you and that 2020 brings nothing but joy. Lots and lots of hugs to make up for all my not-posting xx

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Weaponxgirl

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

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I saw that both the tagged littens recommend this book recently and I love their taste in books so knew I had to get to this.
I read the first essay in London before a show staring drag queens and it felt like the stars aligning. I‘ve never read any Sontag before and I wish I‘d gotten to her sooner now.
Just one of those minds that comes at things from a angle you aren‘t expecting and leads you down a path you didn‘t know existed. Liked a lot.

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Emilymdxn So glad you loved it too!! 5y

squirrelbrain Ooh I shall get to this one soon... I‘m working my way through the full set of 50 Penguin Moderns, one a week. This is number 29 and I‘m on 21... 5y

Weaponxgirl @Emilymdxn thanks for giving me the push to get to it! 5y

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Weaponxgirl @squirrelbrain I‘m reading so out of order atm! Will be great to hear what you think. 5y

batsy The last paragraph 👌🏽 Well said. I'm kind of in love with the way Sontag thinks. 5y

Weaponxgirl @batsy its such a skill to be able to convey to someone else a new way of thinking. I always think writers like this make me a better reader and thinker as I‘m really having to pay attention in a good way. 5y

batsy Absolutely. I have a volume of her journals that I need to get to. Even just casually paging through it, her random observations blow my mind. 5y

UwannaPublishme It‘s been ages since I‘ve opened one of her books. Thanks for reminding me of her brilliance. 👏🏻 5y

Weaponxgirl @UwannaPublishme I love when that happens on here. Someone reminds you of something you adore and off you go. 5y

ephemeralwaltz Woohoo!! Glad you liked it. This read felt like a revelation to me. 5y

ephemeralwaltz Btw, I'm about to get my hands on a copy of this. Do you feel like reading it next month?

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Weaponxgirl @ephemeralwaltz I‘ll be honest , yours is one of the feeds I pay close attention too for the book recs. hopefully that doesn‘t sound too stalkerish! I swear it‘s just for the books! 5y

Weaponxgirl @ephemeralwaltz yes! I‘m up for that, they have it on scribd so I can have a look at it later this weekend if you want to see how many chapters or parts there are? And just let me know about any of the others and when you get them 😁 5y

ephemeralwaltz @Weaponxgirl I don't mind the stalking 💁💁💁 I stalk yours too! You've been on fire lately! I wish I could get around to more books. 5y

ephemeralwaltz Yes! That sounds great. I might take a while to get any others, I think I'll order some used copies online. I'll be reading Drive Your Plow... in Spanish, I'll have it Tuesday! 5y

Weaponxgirl @ephemeralwaltz it‘s never the amount that matters but instead what they bring you 😁 5y

Weaponxgirl @ephemeralwaltz ohh in Spanish! That sounds awesome, I wish I could read in another language. And take your time with getting books, just lemme know when you have something and are ready to go. 5y

Weaponxgirl @ephemeralwaltz I had a quick look at the book, how do you feel about four chapters roughly a week? I do t know how long each chapter is mind but thought it might be a easy way to break it down? Then read the last five in the last week? 5y

ephemeralwaltz @Weaponxgirl that sounds good to me! I'll take a look later this afternoon. 👍👍 5y

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Emilymdxn

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I had to read this after watching every photo of the Met Gala on the Internet. It was my first Sontag and I adored it, it was even shorter than I expected. Camp was one of those words that I used and I could identify things as camp but if you‘d asked me to define the word, I don‘t think I could have done it. Now I feel I‘ve understood something I didn‘t realise I was missing, and I‘m really fascinated by the concept.

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Heideschrampf What were your faves btw? Mine were Waithe, Ezra Miller and that full-body fringey dress of that actress i keep forgetting the name of. Gaga and Monae don't coun't, they're in camp regularly 😝 5y

Emilymdxn @Heideschrampf Ezra and Lupita probably! She‘s such a goddess! 5y

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ephemeralwaltz

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

In honor of #MetGala2019 I wanted to take the chance to post about this short essay again and encourage you to pick it up! Everyday is #Recommendsday, right?!

DivineDiana Must read! 💗 5y

CouronneDhiver I dont know anything about the gala, but the outfits were grand! 5y

teainthelibrary Yaaasss, i need to find this copy ASAP! 5y

batsy Oh, nice on trend recommendation! 😆 They should have mailed this to everyone attending. 5y

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Connster

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

Today‘s plan: read this, do some stitching, listen to Bowie, sit down a lot and drink many cups of tea. Yassss!

Heideschrampf Yay! I stitched bowie patches recently for a friends cover band concert 5y

Connster @Heideschrampf Awesome!! Love Bowie so much!! 👩‍🎤 What‘s the name of your friend‘s band? 5y

Heideschrampf @Connster the zer0es. They‘re really not that good. But it‘s a lot of fun anyways. They rarely play but when they do we try to dress up 👩🏻‍🎤👨🏻‍🎤 5y

Connster @Heideschrampf That sounds cool!!! ⚡️ 5y

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Connster

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

I‘ve already read ‘The Saviour‘ by Primo Levi, one of my favourite Holocaust Survivor writers/poets. Just started ‘Notes on Camp‘...not sure if I really get it yet, but have only read a couple of pages so far.

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Connster @rather_be_reading Aah, thank you! I painted them myself! 😁 5y

Nebklvr @Connster What?? That is amazing! They are gorgeous. 5y

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Connster @Nebklvr ☺️ Thank you so much! 😆 5y

Jee_HookedOnBookz I love those skulls! You've got some serious skills! ❤️😍😍 5y

Connster @Jee_HookedOnBookz Thank you!! I like doing creative stuff like that! Did these when I was going through a bit of a painting phase, haha! 😁😁😁 5y

Jee_HookedOnBookz @Connster I'm so envious of your talent!!! ❤️❤️ 5y

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ephemeralwaltz

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• Notes on 'Camp' (1966) by Susan Sontag

This Penguin Modern (29) includes two of Sontag's iconic essays: Notes on Camp and One Culture and the New Sensibility, which breaks down the barriers between what is commonly considered "high" and "low" culture. Something that I, as a person who has been academically trained in the humanities, have really been interested in recently. As @batsy said, Sontag's mind IS an amazing thing.

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ephemeralwaltz

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

Sontag before bed is intense! I only touched upon "camp" in a lit class last year at my University but this is explored way more in depth than what I understood at the time. I'm feeling it ⚡

batsy I love this essay. Sontag's mind is an amazing thing. 5y

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Sophoclessweetheart

Notes on Camp | Susan Sontag

{#currentlyreading 🖤🌻}

I‘m waiting for my copy of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir to arrive today for #FiercelyFemaleReads as well as my new copy of Phaedo by Plato, but whilst I wait I‘m reading my first taste of Susan Sontag. More essays! I‘m loving them!

New favourite genre in the mix, maybe? #susansontag #booklover #bookaddict

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Sophoclessweetheart @ephemeralwaltz Thank you Clara 🙏 6y

ephemeralwaltz Yours is the only post about this book on Litsy! I just started reading it 🤗🤗🤗 5y

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