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Susan Sontag Lists Her Likes and Dislikes - 1977 - Flashbak

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Visit the shop Sontag plays around with the joy of lists and making them In As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 Susan Sontag shares her thoughts. In her diary entry for August 9, 1967, Sontag explains why she enjoys making lists: I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create – or guarantee – existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists’. The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly subliminal anxiety. Hence, I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province. A list of ‘What makes Nancy so Great’ by Sid Vicious Ten years later, David Wallechinsky, his father Irving Wallace and sister Amy Wallace produced their bestselling The Book of Lists. That same year when lis

In As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks , 1964-1980 Susan Sontag shares her thoughts. In her diary entry for August 9, 1967, Sontag explains why she enjoys making lists : I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create – or guarantee – existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists’. The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest). This is an ultimate, mostly

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