Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
Susan SontagEven more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
Susan SontagThe "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.
Susan Sontag[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.
Susan Sontag