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Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 00:56:36 No.3447946 View View Reply Original Report

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why is this required reading in film/photo schools when the message is pretty clearly that the hyperproliferation of images is evil consciousness eroding witchcraft? do they want to drive their students insane or at least away?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 01:01:45 No.3447949 Report

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same reason Andy Warhol is required reading/viewing/whatever.

Her ideology is inescapable at this point, you are affected by it whether you read it or not. Reading it just lets you in on the secret rules that are binding you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 01:29:48 No.3447956 Report

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It’s good to be challenged on your art

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 04:14:26 No.3448022 Report

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I never got past the first chapter. Did she ever write anything else?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 04:27:13 No.3448027 Report

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>>3447946
>artists
>not being retarded
pick one

t. based pleb-anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 06:01:12 No.3448040 Report

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>>3447946
Photo/Art School is corrupted and 100% focused on degenerate Marxist indoctrination.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 06:28:30 No.3448048 Report

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>>3448040
I hate Australians so god damn much.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 08:10:02 No.3448065 Report

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>>3448040
>Photo/Art School is corrupted and 100% focused on degenerate Marxist indoctrination.

What a load of bollocks!

It's corrupt because it is taught by pompous academics who are totally divorced from the reality of actually doing it. They only teach Sontag to pad out their shitty overpriced courses

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 09:22:58 No.3448070 Report

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>>3448022

She did

>If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far.... The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al, don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

>Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (née Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent.

Media Studies is a shitty field that is overrun with postmodernism. Photo, Film, TV they try to inject their marxist identity politics into everything.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 09:42:42 No.3448074 Report

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>>3448040
>Photo/Art School is corrupted and 100% focused on degenerate Marxist indoctrination.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 10:29:14 No.3448087 Report

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>>3448070
>If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares
>everyone

See that's where she fucked up. Only Americans declare that, the rest of us see it as junk culture with an obsession for violence. There are a few diamonds in the rough but she wasn't one of them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 11:30:53 No.3448100 Report

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>>3448070
You can find all of her 'evidence' in other civilisations too.

giannis

giannis Wed 13 Mar 2019 14:43:18 No.3448165 Report

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>>3448070
>If America is the culmination of Western white civilization
Ironically, US was founded by religious fundamentalists that thought western society was becoming too degenerate, as well as social outcasts and opportunists that wanted a fresh start in a new place.

So US represented the culmination of the rejection of western civilisation.

And what do they mean by western civilisation anyway? The original grecoroman one, or the reheated version interpreted through frankish eyes during the enlightenment period?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 19:06:39 No.3448280 Report

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>>3447946
To be fair, if I'd be a professor, this book would be 30% of grade and would take 70% of all my hours, just to fuck with dumb fuckers that took the class.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 19:13:54 No.3448283 Report

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>>3447946
Hey, at least it’s not Roland Barthes

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2019 22:26:45 No.3448354 Report

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>>3448040
Hell yes sign me up!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Mar 2019 07:54:07 No.3448463 Report

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>>3448354
>wastes 3 years at uni to get an arts degree
>neck deep in debt bc uni fees from getting an arts degree
>no one will hire you because an arts degree doesn't give you any real world qualifications
>blames capitalist state for your own stupid decision

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