Re:Notes on “Camp” (1964)
by coldtea on Friday August 30, 2019 @04:20AM
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The author's character doesn't really matter if what they say is interesting [1]
If a serial killer had discovered Relativity, written the Goldberg Variations, or created a fundamental algorithm like FFT, would they have been any less good and usable?
People with all kinds of faults, way worse than the hypocrisy/rudeness described above by Sontag have created all kinds of great things...
[1] Motives, on the other hand do matter, as they can influence what they say, or what they want to achieve with saying it
If a serial killer had discovered Relativity, written the Goldberg Variations, or created a fundamental algorithm like FFT, would they have been any less good and usable?
People with all kinds of faults, way worse than the hypocrisy/rudeness described above by Sontag have created all kinds of great things...
[1] Motives, on the other hand do matter, as they can influence what they say, or what they want to achieve with saying it