Episode #177 ... Susan Sontag - Do you speak the language of pictures and videos?

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Velocifize this patreon shout out this week.
0:05.3	Carlo Fasioli Matthew Morrison, MJ Mazoon, Michael McCollough and Derek
0:11.0	Purdy. Thank you for all that you do.
0:13.6	Philosophizes.org is the website for more information.
0:16.4	Instagram philosophizes podcast Twitter is I am Stephen West.
0:20.3	Also been posted three minute clips of the podcast on YouTube at philosophize this
0:24.8	clips. The thinking is maybe somebody doesn't have 30 minutes to invest in a
0:28.6	podcast episode, but maybe they have three to see whether they like it or not.
0:32.3	Anyway, it's something I'm going to be working on for the foreseeable future.
0:35.1	So if you want to help your friend Stephen out and support that process, again,
0:39.2	philosophize this clips on YouTube.
0:41.5	Today's episode is part two on Susan Sontag.
0:43.8	I hope you love the show today.
0:46.1	So when one of her earlier essays, Susan Sontag talks about a life changing moment
0:49.8	she experienced when she was just 12 years old.
0:52.3	Now she described this moment when she wrote about it as a kind of revelation.
0:56.3	In fact, she called it a type of epiphany that would go on to affect the direction of her
1:00.5	thinking and her work for decades moving into the future.
1:04.1	It was July of 1945.
1:06.4	She was browsing through a random bookstore in Santa Monica, California.
1:09.8	And what she came across was something that she would later call, quote,
1:13.0	a photographic inventory of ultimate horror, end quote.
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