If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.
Susan SontagA lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.
Susan SontagTo suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.
Susan SontagThe young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
Susan Sontag