By Susan Sontag
This, the second one of 3 volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, starts off the place the 1st quantity left off, in the midst of the Sixties. It lines and files Sontag's evolution from fledgling player within the inventive and highbrow global of latest York urban to world-renowned critic and dominant strength on the earth of rules with the e-book of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966.
As cognizance is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag during the turbulent years of the 1960s―from her journey to Hanoi on the top of the Vietnam battle to her time making movies in Sweden―up to 1981 and the start of the Reagan period. this is often a useful checklist of the interior workings of 1 of the main inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the 20th century on the peak of her strength. it's also a notable rfile of 1 individual's political and ethical awakening.
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The place does his authority come from? simply because he lives what he extols? It’s no longer that straightforward. Why has nobody to benefit that DH L[awrence] was once a scrawny guy with a squeaky voice who had a difficult time getting it up + reviled + tormented Frieda for what he thought of her blatant sexuality, and never afflicted to discover [the American radical social theorist] Norman Brown a thin-mouthed collage professor? One offers Brown the good thing about the doubt: he's Moses, who doesn’t input the promised land. Lawrence is faking. simply because there’s anything suspect in Lawrence’s writings to start with—forced, sentimental, strident, inconsistent. I’m drawn to demons, to the demonic in humans. basically that? finally, convinced. insanity, yet high-temperature anti-mainstream insanity: individuals with their very own turbines. Philip [SS’s ex-husband] used to be mad, and Irene and Jasper—and that lady from the dwelling Theatre, Diane Gregory, at Joe [Chaikin’s] workshop final evening. Her significant scorching black eyes + parted mouth, + floor-length quilted costume. Sallie’s [the American literary critic Sallie Sears, a pal of SS’s] insanity was once repellent—because her sensibility is so proscribing + tame, + since it took the shape of dependence. Mad humans = those who stand on my own + burn. I’m drawn to them simply because they offer me permission to do an identical. David isn’t as precocious or artistic as i used to be as a toddler, + this bothers him. He compares me at age 9 with him at 9; me age 13 with him now. I inform him he doesn’t must be as shiny. He has different satisfactions. I’m now not bold simply because I’m complacent. At 5, I introduced to Mabel (? ) [the housekeeper while SS used to be a small baby in ny and New Jersey; she didn't accompany the kin after they moved to Arizona] i used to be going to win the Nobel Prize. I knew I w[oul]d be famous. existence used to be an escalator, now not a ladder. and that i additionally knew—as the years went on—that I wasn’t clever adequate to be Schopenhauer or Nietzsche or Wittgenstein or Sartre or Simone Weil. I aimed to be of their corporation, as a disciple; to paintings on their point. I had, I knew—I have—a reliable brain, even a strong one. I’m reliable at realizing things—+ ordering them—+ utilizing them. (My cartographic brain. ) yet I’m now not a genius. I’ve continuously recognized that. My brain isn’t more than enough, isn’t rather decent. And my personality, my sensibility is finally too traditional. (I used to be an excessive amount of contaminated via the Rosie-Mother-Judith-Nat [SS’s stepfather ] drivel; simply to listen all that for fifteen years ruined me). I’m now not mad adequate, now not obsessed sufficient. Do I resent now not being a genius? Am I unhappy approximately it? could I be prepared to pay the fee for that? i feel the associated fee is solitude, inhuman existence equivalent to I now lead, hoping it to be transitority. Even now—I comprehend my brain has long past a breakthrough through advantage of being by myself the final 21/2 years w[ith]o[ut] I[rene], don’t need to package deal + dilute my responses simply because I percentage them with someone else. (Inevitably, with Philip + with I[rene], they have been diminished to the typical denominator, the consensus. ) The influence Jasper has made on me—the new highbrow factor in my lifestyles this previous year—w[oul]d now not were attainable if I have been nonetheless with I[rene].