Susan Sontag Books

This collection presents the later writings of a provocative critic, showcasing essays and speeches from the last quarter-century of her life. It covers a wide array of subjects, including the AIDS epidemic, 9/11, the Iraq war, and the allure of Fascism, alongside reflections on painting, dance, music, and film. The works feature literary portraits of notable figures such as Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Jorge Luis Borges, reflecting her passionate curiosity and expansive intellect. With unwavering focus and intensity, she challenges our understanding of human life, as highlighted in her acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize in 2000. Her experience in war-torn Sarajevo while staging Waiting for Godot becomes a profound meditation on culture and human dignity, emphasizing what people in conflict zones feel they have lost. Additionally, "AIDS and Its Metaphors" builds on the themes of her earlier work, "Illness as Metaphor," while "Regarding the Pain of Others" addresses the moral complexities of depicting violence and atrocity through photography. This collection serves as a testament to her enduring impact and insight into the human experience.

With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. "What is important now," she wrote, "is to recover our senses ... In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." She would remain a catalyzing presence, whether writing about camp sensibility, the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, her experiences as a traveler to Hanoi at the height of the Vietnam War, the aesthetics of science-fiction and pornography, or a range of modern thinkers from Simone Weil to E.M. Cioran. She opened dazzling new perspectives on any subject she addressed, whether the nature of photography or cultural attitudes toward illness. This volume, edited by Sontag's son David Rieff, presents the full texts of four essential books: Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will (1969), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978). Also here as a special feature are six previously uncollected essays including studies of William S. Burroughs and the painter Francis Bacon and a series of reflections on beauty, aging, and the emerging feminist movement.

"These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation."--Back cover

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections. Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist." Sontag proclaims a personal credo, declaring: "Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking."

Fashion photography's pervasive presence has brought the intimate aesthetics of post-80s realism into everybody's lives. This year's Fashion Images de Mode, the fourth volume of an annual series, showcases emerging as well as established photographers. Editor Lisa Lovatt-Smith presents photographs which capture the new directions in current fashion media, such as an increasingly subjective photographer's eye and a heightened reliance on digital image manipulation. This edition includes an introduction by renowned writer Susan Sontag, an essay by Patrick Remy, and sections devoted to prominent photographers Steve Hiett, Phil Poynter, Sean Ellis, Anette Aurell, Ellen Von Unwerth, Mario Sorrenti, Melodie McDaniel, Nathaniel Goldberg, Terry Richardson, Jack Pierson, Peter Lindbergh, David La Chapelle, and Mario Testino.

In her most recent collection of essays, "one of America's foremost critics" (Washington Post ) discusses the relationship between moral and esthetic ideas.

Susan Sontag holds a unique position in Modern American letters as a significant critic and a writer whose novels and short fiction are finally receiving due recognition. Her work exhibits an essential unity across various forms, a quality particularly evident in this curated selection of her writings. This compilation offers a chronological sampling that reflects her career and highlights the themes she cherishes. It includes excerpts from her two novels, *The Benefactor* and *Death Kit*, as well as her short story collection, *I, etcetera*. Notable essays from the 1960s, such as "Against Interpretation," "Notes on Camp," and "On Style," which helped shape cultural perspectives of that era, are featured alongside selections from her later essay collections, *Styles of Radical Will* and *Under the Sign of Saturn*. Additionally, a segment from her acclaimed *On Photography* is included. Reading these works in chronological order reveals surprising connections between different literary forms and thematic developments. The collection also features a candid interview where Sontag discusses her broader concerns and creative journey. Concluding with "Writing Itself," a previously uncollected essay on Roland Barthes, this volume serves both as a self-portrait and a key to understanding one of the most important writers of our time.

ESSAYS, JOURNALS, LETTERS & OTHER PROSE WORKS. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them 'On Style', 'Notes on 'Camp'', and the titular essay 'Against Interpretation', where Sontag argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a new critical approach to aesthetics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance.' Vogue.

An introduction to the thinking of the French intellectual, Roland Barthes, as applied to such diverse topics as Gide, Garbo, striptease, photography and the Eiffel Tower. The pieces in this collection were written over a period of three decades.

Gathers essays written during the sixties by such people as Norman Mailer, Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, Eldridge Cleaver, and others about the changes in art, politics, and the media during that decade

This second of three volumes begins in the middle of the 1960s and traces Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world to renowned critic.

Styles of Radical Will , Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers.

Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world

Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and shorter pieces that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas.

Sarita: Tells the story of the fiery-tempered Sarita Fernandez, who is gradually torn apart by her sexual desires and moral values to the point of insanity.

Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers.

During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that "everyone should read . . . [because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult."

In 1978, while recovering from cancer, Susan Sontag wrote Illness as metaphor, the celebrated essay on the invented and often punitive uses of illness in our culture. It was not surprising that a decade later, after the advent of AIDS, Sontag felt compelled to write a sequel that would counter the almost universal labeling of AIDS as a "plague". Published together in one volume these works are brimming with humane and original ideas about disease and the modern condition

Photographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. And whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power. In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.

En 1978 vieron la luz en forma de libro por primera vez los relatos que Susan Sontag fue publicando en las revistas más importantes de la época. Muestran a una escritora que se aleja de la cotidianidad y se maneja con soltura entre atmósferas opresivas, que baraja temas como el amor, el conocimiento, la relación con el presente o la dificultad de establecer límites entre el bien y el mal. Una nueva muestra de la apertura de caminos literarios que Sontag, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras 2003, se propuso como ineludible norma intelectual.

In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis. Stalinists. and the Polish Communist regime in turn. the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as "one of the great novelists of our century." Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The internationally acclaimed biographer Bockris was there as a witness, friend, collaborator, and co-conspirator. Some of the stars were founding members of Beat or Punk, others were just passing through. But all of them—rockers, rebels, artists, and intellectuals—revealed more to Bockris than they did to any other writer: Allen Ginsberg, Richard Hell, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Richards, Terry Southern, Martin Amis, and Susan Sontag. Bockris's conclusion—that Punk owed the Beats a big debt and that the Beats were in turn re-animated by the Punks—is argued from the perspective of someone who was in the thick of it, and who loved every minute of it.

A love story set in Naples in 1772 and based on the romantic entanglements of Lord and Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson.

Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacrilegious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille's obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century. This edition also includes Susan Sontag's superb study of pornography as art, 'The Pornographic Imagination', as well as Roland Barthes' essay 'The Metaphor of the Eye'.Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French essayist and novelist, was born in Billom, France. He converted to Catholicism, then later to Marxism, and was interested in psychoanalysis and mysticism, forming a secret society dedicated to glorifying human sacrifice. Leading a simple life as the curator of a municipal library, Bataille was involved on the fringes of Surrealism, founding the Surrealist magazine Documents in 1929, and editing the literary review Critique from 1946 until his death. Among his other works are the novels Blue of Noon (1957) and My Mother (1966), and the essays Eroticism (1957) and Literature and Evil (1957).

Sontag's first novel, it is a fascinating, knowing, acerbic portrait of Hippolyte, a latterday Candide whose violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his surprising experiences in the "real world."

'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday Times On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour', the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's power and powerlessness. As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, On Women offers us 'the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.' 'Boldly provocative' iNews 'On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality' The Herald

'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements. 'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books

'In Death Kit Susan Sontag has written a terrifying black novel with the fierce unsettling thrust of a Kafkaesque fable. It is a truly awesome book, forged from a stark form in which staccato sentences and near-documentary observations are fused into a brilliantly sustained style' Boston Globe

The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag's last novel, retold the love story of Emma, Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson with consummate power. In her enthralling new novel - once again based on a real story - Sontag shows us America on the cusp of modernity. In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a 'utopian' commune. Maryna, who was renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California - as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification - constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the emigres go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage.

Presents excerpts from the early writings of the author, with reflections on her meetings with influential writers and intellectuals, her literary ambitions, and her criticisms of other writers.

Begegnung mit einer intellektuellen Ikone. »Die meisten meiner Gedanken entwickle ich im Gespräch. « 1978 treffen sich Susan Sontag und Jonathan Cott zum Interview. Erst in Sontags Pariser Wohnung, dann in ihrem Loft in New York. Entstanden ist ein vielseitiges Gespräch, das Susan Sontag als Denkerin zeigt, vor der kaum ein Thema sicher war, Feminismus, Fotografie, Ästhetik, Ideologie, Chuck Berry und Friedrich Nietzsche, und die sich keinen Deut um die Trennung von Hoch- und Popkultur scherte: »Rock ‚n‘ Roll hat mein Leben verändert.« Auch in ihr Privatleben gewährt sie Einblick und erzählt von ihrer Krebserkrankung, die sie zu einer ihrer wichtigsten Publikationen, Krankheit als Metapher, veranlasste.

Die in den letzten Lebensjahren Susan Sontags geschriebenen Aufsätze und Reden legen noch einmal Zeugnis ab von ihrer kühnen Intelligenz, ihrer Lust an Kontroverse und Einmischung, ihren literarischen Vorlieben. Von Pasternak, Zwetajewa und Rilke bis zu Abu Ghraib - »die glühende Unbedingtheit, die Susan Sontags Persönlichkeit ausmachte, wirft auch in diesem letzten Essayband ein unbeirrbares Echo.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The celebrated photographer turns her lens to a favorite topic, women, sharing her portraits of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Eudora Welty, Martina Navratilova, Jerry Hall, Jodie Foster, Rosie O'Donnell, a Navajo weaver, an architect, an astronaut, a rancher, a body builder, a soldier, and many others. 150,000 first printing. Tour.

Susan Sontag und Jonathan Cott treffen sich 1978 zum Interview. Erst in Sontags Pariser Wohnung, dann in ihrem Loft in New York. Entstanden ist ein vielseitiges Porträt, das Susan Sontag als große und sehr agile Denkerin zeigt, vor der kaum ein Thema sicher war – Feminismus, Faschismus, Ästhetik, Ideo- logie, Chuck Berry oder Friedrich Nietzsche – und die sich keinen Deut um die Trennung von Hoch- und Popkultur scherte: »Rock ’n’ Roll hat mein Leben verändert.« Auch in ihr Privatleben gewährt Sontag Einblick und erzählt von ihrer Rolle als Mutter, ihrer Ehe und ihrer Krebserkrankung, die sie zu einer ihrer wichtigsten Publikationen, Krankheit als Metapher, veranlasste. Zur Sprache kommen außerdem ihre bedeutenden Essays Kunst und Antikunst und Über Fotografie. Und selbst der Humor, eigentlich nicht Susan Sontags Markenzeichen, kommt in diesem Buch nicht zu kurz.

Può il silenzio parlare con nuovi accenti all'immaginazione dell'uomo contemporaneo? La pornografia ha diritto di cittadinanza nel mondo dell'arte? In che misura è corretto supporre un rapporto di mutua dipendenza fra cinema e teatro? Sono alcune delle questioni che Sontag, scrittrice e saggista tra le più provocatorie e appassionate dell'ultimo cinquantennio (Il benefattore, L'amante del vulcano, Contro l'interpretazione), affronta in questa raccolta di saggi, vera e propria sintesi del pensiero radical americano. Dal cinema rivoluzionario di Bergman e Godard agli scritti di Cioran, al dilemma morale e politico rappresentato dalla guerra del Vietnam, Sontag con Stili di volontà radicale offre così al lettore testimonianza partecipe di una brillante, forse irripetibile generazione di intellettuali "troppo arrabbiati con l'America per riuscire ad amarla ancora".

Die acht frühen Erzählungen in ›Ich, etc.‹ sind, darin Susan Sontags berühmten Essays vergleichbar, Erkundungen unseres modernen Bewußtseins, seiner Sehnsüchte und Alpträume, seiner Prägung durch den Zeitgeist. Da ist Mann, der sein gesellschaftliches Ich an einen Roboter delegiert, um sein wahres Ich endlich zur Entfaltung zu bringen (›Das Double‹). In ›Baby‹ sprechen Eltern mit einem Analytiker über ihren gefährdeten Sohn und offenbaren unerwartet ihre eigene Orientierungslosigkeit. In ›Debriefing‹ - im Kern eine Selbstmordgeschichte – entwickelt sich in einem heterogenen Nebeneinander von Sinneseindrücken ein Abbild dessen, was sich in einem urbanen Bewußtsein ereignet. In ›Projekt einer Reise nach China‹ experimentiert ein erzählendes Ich spielerisch mit dem Plan einer Reise nach China, wobei in der Spekulation diese Reise vorweggenommen und damit fast überflüssig gemacht wird. Susan Sontag erzählt ironisch, doch zugleich in einem mitfühlenden, fast elegischen Ton. Ihre Protagonisten versuchen mit Witz, Leidenschaft und zuweilen dem Mut der Verzweiflung, sich in ihrer jeweiligen Situation zu behaupten. Bei aller Tragik und Komplexität sind diese Geschichten zugleich ein Plädoyer gegen Resignation und für die Kräfte des Willens und der Intelligenz.

Die intellektuelle Ikone Susan Sontag über Gleichheit, weibliches Altern, Schönheit und Sexualität – „Eine brillante, schillernde Intelligenz“ (The Times) Was bedeutet es, eine Frau zu sein? Der neue Essayband von Susan Sontag stellt genau diese Frage. Erstmals versammelt ein Buch ihre wichtigsten Texte zu ästhetischen, politischen und ökonomischen Aspekten des Frauseins. Und „beim heutigen Lesen kann man nur staunen über deren ihrer Zeit vorauseilendes Genie“ (The New Yorker). Sontag schreibt über Gleichheit, weibliches Altern, Schönheit, Sexualität und Macht und zeigt sich als Vordenkerin und Visionärin im Kampf um echte Gleichberechtigung. „Solange sich nicht ändert, wer Macht hat und was Macht ist, gibt es keine Befreiung, sondern nur Beschwichtigung“, konstatiert sie. „Über Frauen“ wehrt sich gegen jede Form von Beschwichtigung und ist in seinen Beobachtungen und Forderungen aktueller denn je für jeden feministischen Diskurs.

Schildering van de passies van een Britse Ambassadeur in Napels tegen de achtergrond van het Europese politieke leven aan het eind van de 18e eeuw.

Susan Sontag gilt neben Joan Didion und Mary McCarthy als »femme de lettres« unter den amerikanischen Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart. Ihre brillanten Essays zur Kunst und Literatur, zur Fotografie und zum Film, zu hermeneutischen und ästhe-tischen Fragen haben auch in Europa starke Beachtung gefunden. Stets stehen ihre literarischen Erfindungen in enger Relation zu ihren theoretischen Erkundungen, die als Beiträge zur Bildung des modernen Bewußtseins gelten können. Hippolyte, der Protagonist in Susan Sontags erstem Roman, führt ein beschauliches Leben in der nicht genannten, aber sehr französischen »Metropole«. Von seinem vermögenden Vater ausgehalten, kann er sich ganz seinen intellektuellen Neigungen, seinen Phantasien und der Erkundung seiner Traumwelt hingeben. Fernab von allen äußeren Ereignissen erzählt der mittlerweile 61jährige rückblickend sein Leben vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Gefangen in einer eigenwilligen Wirklichkeit, die von Träumen gelenkt wird, nach denen er sein Leben auszurichten sucht, kreisen seine Empfindungen und Gedanken um seine Be-ziehung zu Frau Anders, die in ihrer Liebe zu Hippolyte zu einer aufdringlichen Allgegenwart heranwächst. Dieser destruktiven Dominanz versucht der Protagonist durch einen Mordversuch zu entrinnen. Gegen Ende des Romans überschneiden sich Traumwelt und Wirklichkeit immer stärker, bis sie die Demontage einer zerrütteten Identität offenbaren.

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) war die vielleicht wichtigste Stimme des intellektuellen Amerika. Besonders beeindruckend ist ihr Mut, sich gegen eingefahrene Sichtweisen zu stemmen, immer einen eigenen Standpunkt zu beziehen. Der Band versammelt wichtige kulturtheoretische Essays: »Gegen Interpretation«, »Über Schönheit« sowie »Fotografie. Eine kleine Summa«. Hinzu kommen zwei explizit politische Texte: »Das Foltern anderer betrachten« und vor allem »Der 11.9.01«, ein hellsichtiger Angriff gegen die irrationale Politikerrhetorik unmittelbar nach 9/11, für den sie in heftigster Weise attackiert wurde.

"Summer in Baden-Baden" is a celebrated Russian novel blending a contemporary narrative with the 1867 journey of Dostoyevsky and his wife. Acclaimed for its poetic quality, it explores themes of love, obsession, and literary passion. Susan Sontag's introduction highlights the novel's survival and Tsypkin's remarkable life.

»Ihre Prosa gibt ein schmerzhaftes Gefühl von Ungewissheit preis.« The New Yorker Susan Sontags wichtigste Erzählungen erstmals auf Deutsch – darunter die Beschreibung ihres Besuchs bei Thomas Mann Es sind Lebensthemen, die Susan Sontag in ihren Erzählungen bewegen: Mit 14 besucht sie Thomas Mann in seinem kalifornischen Exil – mit hinreißender Ironie beschreibt sie die Verletzlichkeit ihres jugendlichen Ichs. Jahre später erfährt Sontag von der AIDS-Diagnose eines engen Freundes – ihre Ängste und Hoffnungen werden zum Stimmenchor des intellektuellen New York. Und lange nach ihren berühmten Essays über Fotografie beschäftigt sie sich wieder mit dem Verhältnis von Bildern und Realität – in der Geschichte von einem Vogel und einem Nachkommen Noahs. Dieser Band versammelt wichtige Erzählungen der großen amerikanischen Autorin endlich auf Deutsch. Sie zeigen sie von ihrer persönlichsten Seite. Mit einem Nachwort von Verena Lueken.

Napels, eind achttiende eeuw. Een Britse ambassadeur en kunstminnaar trouwt met de jonge Emma, die zich ontpopt als een vrouw van de wereld. Dan verschijnt de Britse admiraal lord Nelson ten tonele en bloeit er een gepassioneerde liefdesrelatie tussen hem en Emma op.

スーザン・ソンタグを囲むシンポジウム「この時代に想う―共感と相克」(パネリスト=浅田彰、磯崎新、姜尚中、木幡和枝、田中康夫)ほか、最新のテクスト、インタヴュー、講演の記録。

Verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur over levensbeschouwelijke thema's.

Im Irak-Krieg 1992 fiel die Kriegsführung mit der Berichterstattung zusammen: Das zivile Fernsehen zeigte Bilder, die kurz zuvor noch auf militärischen Kontroll-Monitoren zu sehen waren. Mittlerweile liefern Dienststellen der US-Armee komplette Datensätze für Computerspiele. Virtuelle Wüstenlandschaften mit Betonpisten und Strommasten prägen heute die Fantasie von Kindern und Jugendlichen wie früher einmal die Tunnel und Bergdörfer von Spielzeugeisenbahnen. Das lexikalisch aufgebaute Kompendium untersucht die permanente Umwandlung von Kriegsbildern zu Unterhaltungsbildern und damit die Militarisierung der Imagination. Es geht darum, welche Bilder Kriege erzeugen und wie diese in der Kunst der Gegenwart aufgegriffen und gespiegelt werden. Beleuchtet wird diese Frage anhand von Fotografien, Videos, Computerspielen, Gemälden und Rauminstallationen, unter anderem von Peggy Ahwesh, Oliver van den Berg, Kota Ezawa, Harun Farocki, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Hamilton, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula und Hito Steyerl. Ausstellung: Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 27.3.–24.7.2011