Podcasts about Sontag

"Hue Mirror" In Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag once wrote: “Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.” Well, my guest today on the program has recently been grappling with the use of the other passport Sontag is referring to and that grappling has yielded a song cycle that no matter what kingdom you find yourself dwelling in, will be moving, inspiring and transcendent." The Chicago born singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jess Robbins was diagnosed with AS, which is more specifically known as anklosing spondylitis, an aggressive autoimmune disease that can cause debilitating chronic pain as well as spinal inflammation and the fusing of the vertebrae. It's scary stuff, but part of Robbins' emotional healing was finally getting a name to go with the symptoms she'd been having for years. The other part of that healing? Making art. Robbins fronts the band Course and their new album Hue Mirror is an effecting song-cycle about navigating the complex and uncertain terrain of chronic pain, physical vulnerability and the uncertainty of the changes AS could bring. Hue Mirror is an unflinching and meditative look at how human frailty translates into art and that translation is where the beauty of this album really lives. Dark, probing, and unflinching, Hue Mirror is a stirring song-cycle that's punctuated by shadowy rhythms, vaporous percussion and and heavenly vocals. It's moving and powerful work but you don't have to be diagnosed with an illness to relate to it--you just have to be a human being with a big beating heart. After all, we're all facing an uncertain future and Hue Mirror is a way of facing it together. IG: @coursesounds www.bombshellradio.com (http://www.bombshellradio.com) www.stereoembersmagazine.com (http://www.stereoembersmagazine.com) www.alexgreenbooks.com Stereo Embers The Podcast IG + BLUESKY: @emberspodcast Email: editor@stereoembersmagazine.com

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Lina Sontag ist 21 Jahre alt, hat aber schon mehr erlebt als andere in einer ganzen Karriere. Deutsche Meisterin, NCAA-Student-Athlete, Olympionikin? Check. Schwere Verletzungssorgen, tiefe Desillusion und basketballerische Zukunftssorgen? Leider auch. Ein Gespräch mit einer, die sich nicht unterkriegen lässt. Hier geht's zu … Lina Sontag Hier findet ihr die TISSOT SEASTAR WILSON WNBA … […] The post WE RISE #5: Lina Sontag … presented by #TISSOT first appeared on Got Nexxt – Der NBA und Basketball Podcast.

durée : 01:35:02 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Mathilde Wagman - Susan Sontag occupe une place à part aux États-Unis : à l'écart des institutions, indépendante et le plus souvent rebelle, elle a été une observatrice et une critique à la plume acérée. En 1978, invitée d'une après-midi de France Culture, elle s'y raconte dans un autoportrait radiophonique. - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Susan Sontag essayiste, romancière et militante; Dominique Desanti; Marc Riboud

Ganz Spanien ist im Lottofieber. Wir sprechen über die Weihnachtslotterie, die am Sontag ausgespielt wird. Die typischen Scherenschnitte Neules sind zum Kulturgut auf Mallorca erklärt worden. Die Insolvenz der Lindner Hotelgruppe hat keine Auswirkungen auf das Hotel in Portals Nous. www.5minutenmallorca.com

durée : 00:58:27 - Toute une vie - par : Virginie Bloch-Lainé - Autant européenne qu'américaine, Susan Sontag était une intellectuelle engagée, déterminée, dont les essais ont fait sa notoriété. Pionnière des théories queer, elle écrira toute sa vie entre tension et émancipation, en s'affranchissant des frontières entre les genres, le corps et l'intellect. - réalisation : Clotilde Pivin - invités : Dominique Bourgois Editrice, directrice des éditions Christian Bourgois; François Cusset Historien des idées, professeur de civilisation américaine à l'Université de Paris Nanterre; Pierre Assouline Ecrivain, journaliste; Isabelle Huppert Actrice française

„A kamera fegyver a dolgok tragédiája, eltűnése ellen” – fogalmazott Wim Wenders nyugatnémet filmrendező 1987-ben. Amikor fél évszázaddal korábban a holland dokumentumfilmes Joris Ivens a szemüvegét folyton viselni kényszerülő Ernest Hemingwayjel a polgárháborús Madridban forgatott, szintén fegyverként használta a kamerát.Számukra azonban nem a dolgok eltűnése, hanem a fasizmus elleni fellépés volt a tét. Ahogy az emigrációba kényszerült Fritz Lang német filmrendezőnek is, aki első amerikai filmjében a nácizmus német tapasztalatát összefüggésbe hozta az Egyesült Államok rasszizmusával. Hogyan küzdöttek a film erejével a fasizmus ellen, egy olyan korban, amikor nem volt még zsánere sem a partizán-, sem a holokauszt-filmnek?Adásunk a harmincas évek közepének Spanyolországába, Németországába és Amerikájába kalauzolja a hallgatókat. Arról beszélgetünk, hogyan kapcsolódott az antifasiszta küzdelemben filmesztétika és politika. Ezt a kérdést a tömeg politikai szereplőként való fellépése és a mozgóképi technológia kölcsönhatása felől válaszoljuk meg a filmek, az alkotóik és a szereplőik történetein keresztül. Hogyan lehet filmre vinni a fasizmust anélkül, hogy felkínálnánk a néző számára az azonosulást vele?Az antifasiszta filmet Leni Riefenstahl munkásságával vetjük össze, aki ugyanebben az időben a náci párt nürnbergi nagygyűléséről, illetve a berlini olimpiáról forgatott. Témánk apropóját az adja, hogy idén mutattak be egy dokumentumfilmet, amely a német rendezőnő eddig nem hozzáférhető hagyatékának elemző áttekintésén alapul. Adásunkban arra is kitérünk, hogy milyen maradandó nyomokat hagyott mind a mai napig vizuális kultúránkra a német rendezőnő szinte az egész huszadik századra kiterjedő munkássága.A No pasarán! podcastban az antifasizmus első száz évének történeteiből válogatunk.Említett könyvek, tanulmányok:Benjamin, Walter 1969: A műalkotás a technikai sokszorosíthatóság korszakában. In:Benjamin, Walter: Kommentár és prófécia. Gondolat, Budapest, 301-334.Kracauer, Siegfried 1991: Caligaritól Hitlerig. A német film pszichológiai története. MagyarFilmmúzeum, Budapest.Le Bon, Gustave 1913: A ​tömegek lélektana. Franklin-Társulat, Budapest.Ortega y Gasset, José 2022: A ​tömegek lázadása. Helikon, Budapest.Riefenstahl, Leni 1973: Die Nuba (Az utolsó nubák). List Verlag, München.A műnek nincs magyar fordítása.Sontag, Susan 2024: Elbűvölő fasizmus. In: Sontag, Susan: A nőkről. Helikon, Budapest, 113-151.Szalai Sándor 1946: A kegyetlenség renaissancea. Egy fejezet a társadalom kórtanából.Szocializmus (30.) 1-2. 45-50.Említett filmek:Eisenstein, Szergej Mihajlovics –- Alekszandrov, Grigorij Vasziljevics 1927: Október(Октябрь).Griffith, David Wark 1915: Egy nemzet születése (The Birth of a Nation).Lang, Fritz 1927: Metropolis.Lang, Fritz 1931: M - Egy város keresi a gyilkost (M / M - Eine stadt sucht einen Mörder).Lang, Fritz 1933: Dr. Mabuse végrendelete (Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse).Lang, Fritz 1936: Téboly (Furry).Riefenstahl, Leni 1932: Kék fény (Das Blaue Licht).Riefenstahl, Leni 1934: Az akarat diadala (Triumph des Willens).Riefenstahl, Leni 1938: A berlini olimpia (Olympia).Szőts István 1942: Emberek a havason.Veiel, Andres 2024: Riefenstahl.Támogasd te is a Partizán munkáját!https://cause.lundadonate.org/partizan/support

Bohaterką wykładu profesor Anny Adamus Matuszyńskiej będzie Susan Sontag - amerykańska pisarka i eseistka, krytyczka społeczna i aktywistka walcząca o prawa człowieka. Jej książki przetłumaczono na ponad 30 języków. Zajmowała się też fotografia twierdząc, że jesteśmy bardzo wrażliwi na okropności podawane w formie obrazów fotograficznych, wrażliwsi niż w realnym życiu.  Susan Sontag była osobą biseksualną. W wieku 17 lat poślubiła Philippa Rieffa. Owocem związku był syn David. Po 8 latach ich związek zakończył się rozwodem. Później była związana z wieloma mężczyznami i kobietami. Z Annie Leibovitz była aż do śmierci. Zmarła na białaczkę. Pochowana została na paryskim cmentarzu Montparnasse.Z profesor Anną Adamus Matuszyńską rozmawia Marek Mierzwiak.

En Pere Cervantes descubrimos hace unos años un narrador puro, capaz de contarnos historias que nos atrapaban desde la primera página. Lo hizo con El chico de la bovina. Y ahora nos coloca en 1923. El inspector Basilio Bosc vuelve a Barcelona después de cinco años en Madrid con el encargo de hallar a una niña desaparecida en el cine Coliseum: Cristina Nomdedeu, hija de un importante empresario textil.La novela se titula Me olvidé del cielo. Miguel Ángel Hernández lleva años aproximándose a las imágenes para establecer con ellas un diálogo profundo de arte y vida. El resultado son los textos aquí en Yo estoy en la imagen. Siguiendo la estela de Benjamin, Sontag y Barthes, el autor murciano nos entrega, de la mano de Acantilado, su sabiduría ensayística.Y regresamos a un clásico universal, con múltiples lecturas que nos llevan hasta la actualidad: 1984, de George Orwell.Y Truman Capote, en Palamós.

Der Berlin-Marathon war einmal mehr ein Event für die Geschichtsbücher denn beim 50. Jubiläum machten 54.280 Finisher das Rennen zum größten Marathon der Welt. Ein Athlet den man aus der deutschen Laufspitze kennt gab dort sein „Marathon-Debüt“ und ist unser Gast in dieser Woche: Marc Tortell. Der Drittplatzierte der DM über 1.500m in diesem Jahr hat beeindruckende Bestzeiten auf den Mittelstrecken. Seine Zeiten über 800m von 1:46,74min und 1.500m von 3:36,88min stammen beide aus diesem Sommer und lassen zurecht die Schlussfolgerung zu, dass der Marathon am vergangenen Sonntag eher eine spontane Idee war. Marc war für adidas für Events rund um den Berlin-Marathon ohnehin in der Stadt und dachte sich warum eigentlich nicht mal selbst die Erfahrung um den Hype in der Hauptstadt mitmachen. Er hat das Erlebnis auf seinem Instagram-Kanal in sehr unterhaltsamen Clips dokumentiert und vor allem sein Race-Day-Video vom Sontag sollten sich alle mal anschauen! Bei allem Fun und Entertainment ist Marc auch ehrlich und macht deutlich, dass Marathon gleichermaßen extrem begeisternd und brutal hart sein kann. Ohne Vorbereitung lief er 2:27:24h und macht keinen Hehl daraus wie tough die letzten 7km waren. Wir sprechen mit ihm natürlich auch über seine Karriere als Mittelstreckler, wie er den Leistungssport finanziert, was er noch so vor hat und über seinen anstehenden Umzug nach Spanien um sich einer Profi-Trainingsgruppe in Valencia anzuschließen.

Carla Sonntag is the President and CEO of the New Mexico Business Coalition.  https://nmbizcoalition.org/.  The New Mexico Business Coalition (NMBC) is a nonpartisan voice for business owners, employees, and individuals in New Mexico that believe our State can do much better than current national ratings reflect.... The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

Elazar Sontag is a James Beard and National Magazine Award-nominated writer and editor. He's also a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient. Most importantly, he is currently trying for a 400-pound deadlift. He joined Julia Turshen to talk about powerlifting, eating, queerness, bodies and more.Follow-up links:To pre-order Julia's new book, WHAT GOES WITH WHAT, head here!To sign up for Julia's weekly newsletter, head here.BUILT FOR THIS: THE QUIET STRENGTH OF POWERLIFTING, Julia's long-form essay, can be read here or listened to here.Watch the video about the Queer Barbell Club Julia started at her gym.Follow Elazar on IG right here!

Carla is the Founder and President of the New Mexico Business Coalition. Established in 2009, the New Mexico Business Coalition (NMBC) is a nonpartisan voice for business owners, employees, and individuals in New Mexico. Carla said, “As soon as the Governor ordered businesses closed down (March 2020), the New... The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

Carla Sonntag is the President and CEO of the New Mexico Business Coalition (https://nmbizcoalition.org/), and Better Together New Mexico  (https://bettertogethernewmexico.org). Since 2009, NMBC has been a nonpartisan, non-profit voice for businesses and all New Mexicans. BTNM promotes public policies based on the principles of less government, individual freedom,... The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

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Robert Boyers founded the quarterly Salmagundi in 1965 and has been its editor in chief ever since. He's the author of 12 books, including most recently Maestros Monsters: Days & Nights with Sontag and Steiner and before that The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Besides teaching at Skidmore College, he directs the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Salmagundi rightly prides itself on hosting wide-ranging, inquisitive discussions of major topics involving race, gender, literature, psychology and so much more. This discussion goes in depth on four entries from the magazine. First up: “Talking Race Matters: A Conversation with John McWhorter & Thomas Chatterton Williams” explores the limits of racial essentialism as well as total assimilation that risks denying what is unique about the Black perspective and experience. A second piece is Elizabeth Benedict's essay, “What's the Matter with Sex?” It tackles how far the influence of pornography has gone (astray) as a training ground that leads young men into often degrading behavior to the women they are intimate with, including the use of choking as a form of eroticism. “The Failure of Censorship” by Adam Phillips looks at how our desires endanger us and yet at the same time to deny them denies aspects of ourselves. When is and isn't self-censorship fruitful? Finally, Salmagundi hosted a symposium called “Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?” Five writers are responding to an editorial by Ross Douthat in the New York Times. All found Doughat's views too narrow or incoherent to be persuasive. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. To check out his related “Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight” blog, visit this site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Robert Boyers founded the quarterly Salmagundi in 1965 and has been its editor in chief ever since. He's the author of 12 books, including most recently Maestros Monsters: Days & Nights with Sontag and Steiner and before that The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, The Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies. Besides teaching at Skidmore College, he directs the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Salmagundi rightly prides itself on hosting wide-ranging, inquisitive discussions of major topics involving race, gender, literature, psychology and so much more. This discussion goes in depth on four entries from the magazine. First up: “Talking Race Matters: A Conversation with John McWhorter & Thomas Chatterton Williams” explores the limits of racial essentialism as well as total assimilation that risks denying what is unique about the Black perspective and experience. A second piece is Elizabeth Benedict's essay, “What's the Matter with Sex?” It tackles how far the influence of pornography has gone (astray) as a training ground that leads young men into often degrading behavior to the women they are intimate with, including the use of choking as a form of eroticism. “The Failure of Censorship” by Adam Phillips looks at how our desires endanger us and yet at the same time to deny them denies aspects of ourselves. When is and isn't self-censorship fruitful? Finally, Salmagundi hosted a symposium called “Can the American Meritocracy Get Religion?” Five writers are responding to an editorial by Ross Douthat in the New York Times. All found Doughat's views too narrow or incoherent to be persuasive. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of ten books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. To check out his related “Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight” blog, visit this site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

We continue our Camp Cinema season in our second episode covering The Love Witch (2016) and Black Swan (2010)Special Guest: Filmmakers Emily Gallagher and Austin Elston of Fishtown FIlmsAs the dust begins to settle on the 2010s, the topsy turvy decade begins to come into focus. At the start of the decade, Darren Aronofsky released Black Swan (2010) to critical acclaim. I saw it in a packed NYC theater opening weekend. The buzz was palpable. Looking back now, especially post mother! and the rise of peak tv, the trashy and overwrought elements of Black Swan overshadow the great performances and wonderful cinematography, which is why we have selected as our Naive Camp film for this episode.The Love Witch had a much quieter release in 2016, but it clicked with a small group of film lovers. While filmmaking is mostly a communal art, Anna Biller was so involved with every aspect of The Love Witch that it could only exist because of her. Biller's retro and kitsch style can not obscure the riotous passion for filmmaking and gender theory at the heart of the film. It is so campy that one could argue it is post-camp in that it is both obsessed with artifice and serious at the same time. At the very least, The Love Witch exists mostly in deviance of the ideas presented in Sontag's Notes on Camp.

Welcome to the first episode of Season 13 of Film Trace. In this season, we will explore the notion of Camp in Film. Building off of Susan Sontag's foundational 1964 essay, Notes on Camp, we will explore two films each episode we think demonstrate Sontag's concepts of naive camp and intentional camp.First off is the financial and critical disaster of Madame Web (2024). We argue this film is a good example of what Sontag would call naive camp: over the top, extravagant, but without much artistic merit. A spectacular failure. The open question with Madame is whether anyone involved thought it should be anything more than a lark inspired by the trashy comic book films of the 1990s.Countering the cinematic cacophony of Madame Web is the arthouse excess of Pearl. Ti West was given a million dollars by A24 to create a prequel to his 2022 slasher X. The star of that film, Mia Goth, helped write the script and plays the titular Pearl. Boy this one is a doozy. Goth is out there in a place all her own. We think it is a great example of intentional camp: total excess that somehow succeeds in being a good film.

Emmy-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson discusses the impact of AI on filmmaking and society. And she talks about her two new documentaries and a scripted films she's directing about Susan Sontag that will feature actress Kristen Stewart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Au moment où j'écris, je tourne et je monte la vidéo que vous êtes en train de voir, j'ai 44 ans. 44 ans. L'âge parfait pour entrer, ou être, en plein dans ce qu'on appelle la crise de la quarantaine. Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir la chaîne, au choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 00:00 Et moi et moi et moi... 03:26 Les origines d'une idée 06:33 Les âges de la vie 09:17 Les délices du sentiment 18:20 Standardisation de la vie 29:37 La vie commence à 40 ans... 38:12 Et après... la crise ? 39:52 Jeune pour toujours   Musique issue du site : epidemicsound.com Images provenant de https://www.storyblocks.com Abonnez-vous à la chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Sources et pour aller plus loin: M. Jackson, Broken Dreams, An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis, London, Reaktion Books, 2021. M. Jackson, « Life Begins at 40: the demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis », Notes and Record, 74, 2020, p. 345–364 M. Jackson, « Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis » The Royal Society, 15 mai 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWwIQzKsbY E. Jaques, « Death and the middle crisis (1965) » dans Work, creativity, and social justice, London, Heinemann, 1970, p. 38-63. E. Jaques, « Death and Midlife Crisis », dans International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1963, 46, 502-514 ; traduction française par Didier Anzieu, in Crise, rupture et dépassement, Paris, Dunod, 1979, pp. 277-305. Granville Stanley Hall, Senescence: The Last Half of Life, D. Appleton and Company, 1922. P. Druckerman, « How the Midlife Crisis Came to Be », The Atlantic, May 29, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/05/the-invention-of-the-midlife-crisis/561203/ P. Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story, Penguin Press, 2018. S. Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. A. M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause dans Medicalisation of Women's Ageing, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023. P. H. Rohmann, « The Gauguin Syndrome » Antioch Review, 13, 1953, p. 341-350. «Elliott Jaques, 86, Scientist Who Coined 'Midlife Crisis' », New York Times, 17 march 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/us/elliott-jaques-86-scientist-who-coined-midlife-crisis.html M. Anderson, « The emergence of the modern life cycle in Britain », Social History, 10, 1985, p. 69-87. H. P. Chudacoff, How old are you? Age consciousness in American culture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989. S. Sontag, « The Double Standard og Aging », Saturday Review, September 23, 1972. G. Minois, L'Âge d'or. Histoire de la poursuite du bonheur, Paris, Fayard, 2009. E. Bibeau, « Le droit à l'ordinaire », La Presse, 16 octobre 2022. https://www.lapresse.ca/contexte/2022-10-16/carte-blanche-a-emilie-bibeau/le-droit-a-l-ordinaire.php W. Bradford Wilcox, « The Evolution of Divorce », National Affairs, Fall, 2009. https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce J. Truslow Adams, The Epic of America, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1931. E. Bergler, The revolt of the middle-aged man, Bernard Hanison, London, 1958. D. J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life, New York, Penguin, 1986. Barbara Fried, The Middle-age Crisis, New York, Harper Row, 1967. S. Brandes, Forty: The Age and the Symbol, Knoxville, University of Tennesse Press, 1985. G. Sheehy, Passages: Predictable crisis of adult life, Ballantine Books, New York, 2004 (1974). « Âge de la vie » Wikipédia, https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Âges_de_la_vie « Life expectancy in the USA, 1900-98 men and women ». https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html M. Zimmerman, « Trouble de la personnalité schizoïde », Le Manuel Merck, Septembre 2022. https://www.merckmanuals.com/fr-ca/professional/troubles-psychiatriques/%EF%BB%BFtroubles-de-la-personnalité/trouble-de-la-personnalité-schizoïde#:~:text=Le%20trouble%20de%20la%20personnalité,émotions%20dans%20les%20relations%20interpersonnelles. B. et K. McKay, « The Seasons of a Man's Life: An Introduction », Get Action, Septembre 7, 2021. https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/the-seasons-of-a-mans-life-an-introduction/ Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/05/life-begins-at-40/ Archives video familiales. Autres références disponibles sur demande. #histoire #documentaire #crisedelaquarantaine #midlifecrisis

Marie Sontag writes youth fiction blending fictional characters with historical people to create a great story. From ancient times to westward expansion to WWII Poland, her books make history come alive. Listen in to what you'll find in her latest series! note: links may be affiliate links that provide me with a small commission at no extra expense to you. In Difficult Times, People of All Ages Discover Their True Characters The first time I chatted with Marie Sontag (listen HERE), I learned about her Ancient Elements series and her Whitcomb Discoveries series, but in this episode, we heard all about the exciting WWII series (and a companion graphic novel) she has featuring Polish Boy Scouts.  How cool is that? Oh, and we learned about what she's doing with the Cold War, too. EEEP! Underground Scouts by Marie Sontag Warsaw, Poland September 8, 1939 Their scoutmaster's chair squeaked as he shifted his weight. "What I am about to ask from all of you is a personal sacrifice on behalf of Poland. Your final decision is, of course, up to you. You must each make your own decision." A hush filled the room. The Scouts' pale faces betrayed the struggle that plagued them all. Tadzio broke the spell. "I mean no disrespect, Professor. I don't know why my father had to leave, but since he's gone, my family is my priority." Squaring her shoulders, Magdalena inched forward on her chair. "And earlier this week my father's brother and his wife were killed when a bomb hit their apartment building in Warsaw." Her voice quivered. "Now, we're also caring for our orphaned 11-year-old cousin, Józefina." Tadzio nodded. "Since I am the eldest son, my first responsibility is to my family." "Well spoken, son." Professor Handelsman studied Tadzio over the top of his glasses. "What about the rest of you?" Tadzio's patrol leader, Andrzej, spoke first. "This is what we've prepared for all summer. The Scout training we received in the Kampinos Forest these past few months-first aid, food storage, water purification, map reading skills, Morse Code, riflery-it all prepared us for this moment. I will give my all for Poland." Lech smoothed back his thick, black hair. "Andrzej's right. It's time to take a stand." First Lech, then Andrzej, and finally Lech's younger brother, Stefan, rose to their feet with raised chins, they punched their fists into the air and shouted in unison. "Czuwaj! Be vigilant! Stay awake! Be prepared!" Tadzio and Magdalena weren't prepared for their Polish Scoutmaster's challenge. Not until their parents disappeared. A Young Adult historical novel, Underground Scouts brings to light the brave efforts of Polish Boy Scouts and Girl Guides who fought alongside the Polish Underground during World War II. Learn more about Marie on her WEBSITE (and learn about her group of Christian youth authors) and follow her on GoodReads and BookBub. My apologies to Marie for the lateness of her episode. It was supposed to release about the time of my husband's accident, and I just realized it never did!  AAAK! Like to listen on the go? You can find Because Fiction Podcast at: Apple  Castbox  Google Play Libsyn  RSS Spotify Amazon and more!

Better Together New Mexico aims to enrich the lives of all New Mexicans. They do this through promoting public policies based on the principles of less government, individual freedom, free enterprise, and traditional American values. They do not work on behalf of any special interest... The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

Jennifer Sontag: Her journey into entrepreneurship ignited during her late teens when the lack of university opportunities led her to view entrepreneurship as a path to support her son. Growing up around her grandmother's small home bakery, she imbibed the values of independence, self-made success, and the joy of connecting with customers. Witnessing her father's health decline due to work-related stress, especially as a single parent, she decided on entrepreneurship to balance creativity with a fulfilling family life, raising her son and daughter alongside her ventures.   The inception of Italian Citizenship Concierge was driven by her grandmother's passion for Italy, despite never setting foot there. In 2015, she faced a life-altering moment, realizing the importance of living in the present. Starting the process of gaining Italian citizenship before the COVID pandemic, she turned challenges into opportunities and discovered a newfound passion for assisting others on their citizenship journeys.   Reflecting on her achievements, overcoming the odds stands out as her greatest triumph. A 19-year-old parent who owned a maternity store, she defied expectations, breaking generational patterns of abuse. The success of her business became a cornerstone for providing a stable foundation for her children, enabling them to pursue education, travel, and lead fulfilling lives. Her business wasn't merely a source of financial support; it served as a backdrop for crucial family moments, even allowing her to run it from a hospital bed during health complications. This unique blend of work and family life instilled in her children the values of hard work, sacrifice, and the importance of cherishing moments with loved ones. Her entrepreneurial journey has not only shaped her life but has been a catalyst for breaking barriers and creating a legacy of resilience and success.   Find Jennifer at www.lovehappensmag.com/blog/2022/10/27/inspired-by-jennifer-sontag-italian-citizenship-concierge

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fantastic recent episode from our colleagues at Novel Dialogue, Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and John to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Colour (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be” )–as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why “auto-fiction” strikes her as a “bad category” and “a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally” since “the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience.” if you enjoyed this Novel Dialogue crossover conversation, you might also check out earlier ones with Joshua Cohen, Charles Yu, Caryl Phillips, Jennifer Egan, Helen Garner and Orhan Pamuk. Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House (overlap of reality and recollection): “When I look into the Æneid now, I can always see two pictures: the one on the page, and another behind that: blue and purple rocks and yellow-green piñons with flat tops, little clustered houses clinging together for protection, a rude tower rising in their midst, rising strong, with calmness and courage–behind it a dark grotto, in its depths a crystal spring.”) William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Listen and Read: Transcript: 6.6 Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Carla Sontag of the New Mexico Business Coalition joins us to discuss recent political developments in New Mexico involving crime, 2nd Amendment rights, and clean fuels, among other issues. Home – New Mexico Business Coalition (nmbizcoalition.org) The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

Recorded January 24, 2024. An interactive seminar by Jakob Summerer (TCD) Therapeutic Metaphor Use: Lessons from Eating Disorder Autopathography as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Seminar Series. Ever since Susan Sontag's pioneering studies Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Aids and its Metaphors (1989), research into the potential effects of metaphor use in health-related talk and thought has been a staple of the Medical/Health Humanities. Following in Sontag's footsteps, scholars have focussed both on the ethical implications and stigmatising effects of metaphor use, as well as the scripto- and biblio-therapeutic potential of metaphorising illness experience. What is, unfortunately, all too often missing in discussions of metaphor in the Medical/Health Humanities (and, in fact, in Sontag's own work) is any theoretical, methodological or empirical grounding in those fields that have come to specialise in metaphor analysis and metaphor-based treatment interventions respectively: Linguistic Metaphor Theory and Metaphor Therapy. Informed by these approaches and building on a stylistic analysis of contemporary memoirs written by people with eating disorders, I will explore in this paper what a post-Sontagian approach to illness metaphor might look like. I will further outline some of the insights such an approach may yield into the uses and abuses of metaphor in recovery from mental illness. Jakob Summerer is currently doing his PhD research on metaphor and metonymy use in German-language eating disorder memoirs at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He teaches classes on German film, language, and literature at Maynooth University and TCD. At TCD, he acts as representative for the PGRs in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. He further acts as the PG representative within the German Studies Association of Ireland.

This week I'm welcoming Jennifer Sontag, owner of Italian Citizenship Concierge, to talk all about what it's like to pick up and move across the world, to Italy. Jennifer was an image consultant who worked with clients including Michelle Obama, then moved to teach at an international high school in Shanghai, and when she came back to the US finally, she decided she had one more move in her--to Italy. In this episode we cover: + The cultural differences between Italy and America + What it's like to live in Sicily + All her recommendations if you're visiting Sicily + How to start the application process for citizenship and what documents you'll need + The websites you should start with when researching family documents + The cost of applying for citizenship + The work-life balance in Italy versus the United States --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wegottatalkwithsonni/support

Episode 8 in our history of the great essays is about Susan Sontag's ‘Against Interpretation' (1963). What was interpretation and why was Sontag so against it? David explores how an argument about art, criticism and the avant-garde can be applied to contemporary politics and can even explain the monstrous appeal of Donald Trump.Sontag in the LRB:Terry Castle on Sontag and friendship ‘At its best, our relationship was rather like the one between Dame Edna and her feeble sidekick Madge – or possibly Stalin and Malenkov.'James Wolcott on Sontag and polemics‘The upside of Sontag's downside was that her ire was generated by the same power supply that electrified her battle for principles that others only espoused.'Mark Grief on Sontag and identity‘One of the most appealing things about Susan Sontag was that she didn't ask to be liked. Sontag's persona was not personal. It was superior.'Joanna Biggs on Sontag and Paris‘Paris let her say no to an academic life, but not to a life of ideas. The best thinking was done in cafes, or in bed, or at the movies, not in libraries.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earbuds, Ghost Temper, Sontag Sex and Leonard's Exit by Alexander Sorondo

Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Color (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be" )--as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why "auto-fiction" strikes her as a "bad category" and "a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally" since "the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience." Sheila's response to the signature question was both textual and hilarious. A true writer's weirdness! Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Sheila Heti sits down with Sunny Yudkoff and ND host John Plotz to discuss her incredibly varied oeuvre. She does it all: stories, novels, alphabetized diary entries as well as a series of dialogues in the New Yorker with an AI named Alice. Drawing on her background in Jewish Studies, Sunny prompts Sheila to unpack the implicit and explicit theology of her recent Pure Color (Sheila admits she “spent a lot of time thinking about …what God's pronouns are going to be" )--as well as the protagonist's temporary transformation into a leaf. The three also explore how life and lifelikeness shape How Should a Person Be. Sheila explains why "auto-fiction" strikes her as a "bad category" and "a lazy way of thinking about what the author is doing formally" since "the history of literature is authors melding their imagination with their lived experience." Sheila's response to the signature question was both textual and hilarious. A true writer's weirdness! Mentioned in this Episode: By Sheila Heti: Pure Colour How Should a Person Be? Alphabetical Diaries Ticknor We Need a Horse (children's book) The Chairs are Where the People Go (with Misha Glouberman) Also mentioned: Oulipo Group Autofiction: e.g. Ben Lerner, Rachel Cusk, Karl Ove Knausgard Craig Seligman, Sontag and Kael George Eliot, Middlemarch Clarice Lispector (e.g. The Hour of the Star) Kenneth Goldsmith Soliloquy Willa Cather , The Professor's House William Steig, Sylvester and The Magic Pebble. Find out more about Novel Dialogue and its hosts and organizers here. Contact us, get that exact quote from a transcript, and explore many more conversations between novelists and critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Carla Sontag of the New Mexico Business Coalition joins us to discuss recent political events. The post Carla Sontag appeared first on ABQ Connect.

Author of hundreds of essays and a dozen books, Robert Boyers, joins Writer's Voices to discuss his newest book, Maestros and Monsters: Days and Nights with Susan Sontag and George Steiner. Categorized as a memoir, this book is about Boyers' close friendships with both Sontag and Steiner, both brilliant and intellectual minds, who despised each Read More

In this episode, Robert Boyers joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book “Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner.”

In this episode, Robert Boyers joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss his new book “Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner.”

David Sontag joins Vasant Dhar on episode 70 of Brave New World to highlight where and how AI is creating a major transformation in healthcare. We could create a brave new world of individualized and holistic healthcare, where the machine really cares about us and tells us what to do based on knowledge and data. Useful resources 1. David Sontag on Twitter, LinkedIn, MIT and Google Scholar. 2. Heuristic Methods for Imposing Structure on Ill-Structured Problems -- Harry E Pople Jr. 3. Harry E Pople on ResearchGate. 4. Human and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare — Episode 4 of Brave New World (w Eric Topol). 5. Waiting for Doctor AI -- Episode 9 of Brave New World (w Regina Barzilay). 6. UpToDate. Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. Subscription is free!

Once again, Cinema60 communes with the dead in order to highlight some notable opinions on film. Tonight's ghost guest is Susan Sontag and her seminal Sight and Sound review on Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Known primarily as an author, filmmaker and intellect, in the 1960s Sontag was just beginning her illustrious career as a writer – her essay “Notes on ‘Camp'” helped to define the camp aesthetic to the public at large. Simiarly, her 1967 review of Persona has endured throughout the ages, rising above other contemporary voices to help audiences (old and new alike) better derive meaning from Bergman's rather abstract film. In this episode, Bart and Jenna use Sontag's article as a sounding board to dissect Bergman's filmmaking and explore the depths of Persona. Easy enough for Bart, who likely would have chosen this film himself if the episode had been about his favorite ‘60s pick. Meanwhile, Jenna muses on the idea that all cinema must have a “point” – even if sometimes the point is that there is no point. The following film is discussed:• Persona (1966) Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha KrookAlso mentioned:• Journey to Italy (1954) Viaggio in Italia Directed by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban• L'avventura (1960) Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Starring Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari• Last Year at Marienbad (1961) L'année dernière à Marienbad Directed by Alain Resnais Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff• Through a Glass Darkly (1961) Såsom i en spegel Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Directed by John Ford Starring James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles• Winter Light (1963) Nattvardsgästerna Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom• The Silence (1963) Tystnaden Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten• Hour of the Wolf (1968) Vargtimmen Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh• Shame (1968) Skammen Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst• Duet for Cannibals (1969) Duett för kannibaler Directed by Susan Sontag Starring Adriana Asti, Lars Ekborg, Gösta Ekman• The Passion of Anna (1969) En passion Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow• Brother Carl (1971) Bröder Carl Directed by Susan Sontag Starring Geneviève Page, Gunnel Lindblom, Keve Hjelm• The Point (1971) Directed by Fred Wolf Starring Ringo Starr, Mike Lookinland, Lennie Weinrib• Promised Lands (1974) Directed by Susan Sontag• Inland Empire (2006) Directed by David Lynch Starring Laura Dern, Justin Theroux, Jeremy Irons

Jennifer Sontag, a serial entrepreneur, is the owner of Italian Citizenship Concierge, a bespoke citizenship agency that helps Italian Americans gain citizenship in Italy through Jure Sanguinis. Currently living in Terrasini, Sicily, Jennifer sets out to help her clients gain a new outlook on life in Italy. Jennifer grew up in a big Italian American family where her nonna and 9 sisters would spend their days preparing delicious meals to share with family. Mamma to 2 beautiful adults, and nonna to adorable Oliver. Jennifer has a passion for all things Sicilian and loves to enjoy good food and wine with friends.  I can't remember a time in my life when I did not dream of living in Italy. Life however, had other plans for me. In my mid-40s, I found myself at a crossroads. I was suddenly divorced (literally 3 weeks from leaving, the divorce was finalized), my son had just married, and my daughter had just finished university. This was the first time the idea of moving to Italy seemed like a real possibility.  I took an Love, Work, Eat approach to my move to Italy over 5 years. I had a lot of work to do personally and professionally before I could settle into Italy. I moved home to St. Louis (March 2017) to learn to Love myself again. I focused all my energy on rebuilding my self-esteem and health. I learned to nourish my body and soul inside and out with fresh, healthy food and daily yoga. Once I was feeling in tune with myself, it was time to Work (my personal religion). I moved to Shanghai China (August 2018) to teach business management. After 5 years away from the business world, I wanted to get back to my professional roots in business with a twist. I became a teacher. This was the perfect way for me to connect with a profession I love and excel at, while giving back to the next generation of business leaders. After 2.5 years in Shanghai, I was ready to EAT. It was time to move to Italy for the final step in my journey. I arrived in Sicily (March 2021) to apply for recognition of my Italian citizenship.  I own my own business in Sicily. I have been an entrepreneur since I was 10 years old when I made my first flyers to pass out in my neighborhood announcing my babysitting services. My first tax paying business came a couple years later at 19 when I opened a maternity and baby clothing boutique. At the age of 19, Jennifer opened her first boutique, specializing in maternity and baby clothing. At 28, she sold The Stork's Nest to Macy's. From there, she owned high end boutiques that catered to clients like Michelle Obama and Madeleine Albright. I was young when I had my first child, and I was a shopper who loved style. My first business to fill a market void was launched to combat the hideous early 90s big-bow, baby doll maternity clothes that made adult women look like overgrown toddlers at a price that made my eyes water.  I had spent my time in China preparing for my citizenship recognition, I met with traditional service providers and attorneys, I scoured FB groups and subreddits for information and support. I found a hodgepodge of information, costs, discouragement, challenges and very little that was positive, supportive, and affordable. Discouraged after sending a lot of money to an attorney who could not fulfill the contract, upset by the angry responses in a well-known FB group, and unable to afford the eye-water prices of overly formal and complicated service providers, I arrived in Sicily for recognition, DIY (I don't recommend trying this).  In Spring of 2021, 30 years after launching my maternity store, I returned to my roots to fill the citizenship assistance market gap. I opened Italian Citizenship Concierge, a female-owned, female-focused, supportive, and affordable agency to assist Italian descendants move to Italy for their citizenship recognition through the Jure Sanguinis process. This makes the move for la dolce vita smooth and easy.  Jennifer's website Jennifer's email

This episode in our history of the great essays and great essayists is about Susan Sontag's ‘Against Interpretation' (1963). What was interpretation and why was Sontag so against it? David explores how an argument about art, criticism and the avant-garde can be applied to contemporary politics and can even explain the monstrous appeal of Donald Trump.Sontag in the LRB:Terry Castle on Sontag and friendship ‘At its best, our relationship was rather like the one between Dame Edna and her feeble sidekick Madge – or possibly Stalin and Malenkov.'James Wolcott on Sontag and polemics‘The upside of Sontag's downside was that her ire was generated by the same power supply that electrified her battle for principles that others only espoused.'Mark Grief on Sontag and identity‘One of the most appealing things about Susan Sontag was that she didn't ask to be liked. Sontag's persona was not personal. It was superior.'Joanna Biggs on Sontag and Paris‘Paris let her say no to an academic life, but not to a life of ideas. The best thinking was done in cafes, or in bed, or at the movies, not in libraries.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first of our summer readings, Terry Castle reads her 2005 piece about her “on-again, off-again, semi-friendship” with Susan Sontag. She remembers Sontag as a “great comic character”: a high-minded hobnobber, a moralist and a gossip, seductive and snobbish and a catalytic force for modern feminism.Read more Terry Castle in the LRB: lrb.me/castlepodLet us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurveyProduced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah SahimSubscribe to Close Readings:In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susan Sontag (1933- 2004) was a writer, critic and activist, one who isn't thought of (and didn't think of herself) as conservative. In this episode, your hosts talk with Prof. Merve Emre to think through Sontag's writing on gender and on the women's movement. How do Sontag's leeriness about identity and identification, her ambivalent attitudes to bodies, sex and beauty, and her elitism land in today's political climate and landscape?

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Jennifer Sontag, the founder of Italian Citizenship Concierge, was raised in the US but is 100% Sicilian at heart. Raised in a typical Sicilian family in the Midwest, she is passionate about the island she now calls home. An entrepreneur for over 30 years with a Ph.D. in social and behavioral sciences, she has spent her career supporting clients through life-changing experiences. Since moving to Sicily, Jennifer has focused solely on helping her clients transform their lives through Italian citizenship recognition. Jennifer Sontag Vroom Vroom Veer Stories Grew up in St. Louis which is a nice mix American cultures; made for a diverse set of worldviews and mindsets Instead of spending her college money on college, Jenn convinced her parents that she could use that money to start a maternity boutique; 8 years later she sold that business to a big company Went to college at age 35 and did a bachelors in social work; she had been working as a volunteer; discovered that she didn't want to do social work as a job Got a Master Degree in Public Health and later a PhD; never used those for work, but did discover many transferable skills Was living and working in Shanghai China and had to fly home to the states for a little brain surgery; got back to China just in time for Lockdown of 2020; thankfully that only went from Feb - May Went to China with a teaching job that she never signed the contract for; had to shop for a new teaching job; 1st hired as a "Science Teacher" because she had a "Masters of Science" Discovered while living in China that should could get an Italian Passport and keep her America Passport because she had a blood connection; her Dad went and found all the paperwork in St. Louis Connections Website

Synopsis During the last 20 years of his life, the avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen concentrated on completing an ambitious cycle of seven operas, collectively titled Licht or, in English Light. Each opera was named for a day of the week and inspired by familiar and obscure world mythologies associated with each day.  The opera titled Montag (or Monday), for example, is devoted to the Moon and the feminine architype of Eve as the mother of all creation.  Each opera begins with a “Greeting,” or overture, often an electronic piece heard in the theater lobby while the audience gathers, and ends with a “Farewell,” sometimes intended for performance outside the theater, to be heard as the audience disperses. Story lines in Stockhausen's operas have more in common with symbolic Renaissance courtly masques and pageants than works by Verdi or Puccini, but might be considered a 21th century response to Wagner's 19th-century cycle of four mythological “Ring” operas. Portions of Stockhausen's operas were premiered piecemeal starting in 1977, and only on rare occasions staged in their entirety.  The last to be completed, Sontag (or Sunday) was performed complete for the first time in Cologne, Germany, on today's date in 2011, more than three years after Stockhausen's death. Music Played in Today's Program Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) "Lichter-Wasser" (Sonntags-Gruss), from "Sonntag aus Licht" Barbara van den Boom, sop; Hubert Mayer, t, Antonio Pérez Abellán, synthesizer; SW Radio Symphony Baden-Baden/Freiburg; Karlheinz Stockhausen, conductor. Stockhausen Verlag CD 58

Modern conservatives have long asked the following questions: how can we live together without God? Is there any substitute for religion in cohering a moral community? And if not, what can we do to revive the old sacred authority that reason, science, and liberalism have interred?These were also  the questions that preoccupied Philip Rieff (1922-2006), an idiosyncratic sociologist and product of the University of Chicago, whose thought cast a long shadow over right-wing intellectuals, theologians, and other Jeremiahs of the modern condition (like Christopher Lasch and Alasdair MacIntyre). In the two books that made his name — 1959's Freud: Mind of the Moralist and 1966's Triumph of the Therapeutic: The Uses of Faith After Freud — Rieff engages deeply with psychoanalysis, deriving from Sigmund Freud a theory of how culture creates morality and, in turn, why modern culture, with its emphasis on psychological well-being over moral instruction, no longer functions to shape individuals into a community of shared purpose. Rieff, a secular Jew, remained concerned to the very end of his life with the problem of living in a society without faith, one in which the rudderless self is mediated, most of all, by therapeutic ideas and psychological institutions rather than by religious or political ones. Less sophisticated versions of this conundrum haunt conservative thought to this day — from complaints about "wokeness" as a religion to the right's treatment of sexual and gender transgression as mental pathology. To help us navigate Rieff, Freud, and the conservative underbelly of psychoanalysis, we're joined by two brilliant thinkers and writers: Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston. Hannah is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University in the Luddy School of Informatics; Alex is a PhD student at Duquesne in clinical psychology. Most importantly, for our purposes, Hannah and Alex are also the editors of Parapraxis, a new magazine of psychoanalysis on the left. We hope you enjoy this (admittedly, heady) episode. If you do, consider signing up for a new podcast — on psychoanalysis and politics, of all things — hosted by beloved KYE guest Patrick Blanchfield and his partner Abby Kluchin entitled "Ordinary Unhappiness." Further Reading: Philip Rieff, Freud: Mind of the Moralist (Viking, 1959)— The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud (Harper & Row, 1966)— Fellow Teachers (Harper & Row, 1973)Gerald Howard, "Reasons to Believe," Bookforum, Feb 2007. Blake Smith, "The Secret Life of Philip Rieff." Tablet, Dec 15, 2022George Scialabba, "The Curse of Modernity: Rieff's Problem with Freedom," Boston Review, Jul 1, 2007.Christopher Lasch, "The Saving Remnant," The New Republic, Nov 19, 1990. Hannah Zeavin, "Composite Case: The fate of the children of psychoanalysis," Parapraxis, Nov 14, 2022. Alex Colston, "Father," Parapraxis, Nov 21, 2022. Rod Dreher, "We Live In Rieff World," Mar 1, 2019. Park MacDougald, "The Importance of Repression," Sept 29, 2021...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!

In Part Two of their series on spectacular death, Ellie and Carrie speak with sisters Jessica and Leila Murphy, who lost their father Brian in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.  He was 41 years old, Jessica 5 and Leila almost 4. Since that terrible day, Jessica and Leila have had to grow up not only without a father but also with the complexities that come with losing him in the attacks.   From their inability to grieve privately to the invocation of their father's name to justify two wars and countless acts of violence, Jessica and Leila have struggled with the meaning and responsibilities of victimhood. Now 26 and 25, they are part of 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which advocates nonviolent options in pursuit of justice, including closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.We discuss Leila's 2021 piece in The Nation “I Lost My Father on 9/11, but I Never Wanted to Be a ‘Victim,'” Jessica's 2019 essay in The Indy, “Among the Iguanas: On life and the pursuit of death in Guantánamo Bay,” and a 2003 Brown Alumni Magazine profile on their mother Judy Bram Murphy's widowhood.  The sisters also offer thoughtful insight into successes and shortcomings of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum as a force of public instruction.Other works cited are “The Aesthetics of Absence” by Marita Sturken, Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss, The Land of Open Graves by Jason De León, Julia Rodriguez's 2017 op-ed for the New York Times “Guantanamo Is Delaying Justice for 9/11 Families,” Rachel Kushner's 2019 feature on Ruth Wilson Gilmore and prison abolition for the New York Times, The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer, and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. Films mentioned are World Trade Center (2006), United 93 (2006), The Mauritanian (2021), and The Report (2019).