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Full text of "Sontag Susan 1964 Notes On Camp"

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See other formats Notes On “Camp” Susan Sontag Published in 1964. 'Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility — unmistakably modern, a variant of sophistication but hardly identical with it — that goes by the cult name of “Camp.” A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp…

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