Fascinating Fascism

[Mark Kohut]

These two afore-mentioned essays are in Against Interpretation.



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From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, November 5, 2010 10:26:24 AM
Subject: Re: Fascinating Fascism

Mark Kohut  wrote:
> That essay in particular, along with Notes on Camp were 'all the rage'
> back in the day................
>

also we mentioned "Against Interpretation" on the list here a few
months ago and I got so far as reading the Wikipedia article on it.
Seemed to me like it made some of the points I keep driving at myself
from time to time

> But, I'm nobody.

yeah, me too...if I was somebody I'd read the whole essay, at least...

>>1970 I was in New York and had met more than one person
>> who wanted to be Susan Sontag, but couldn't be because you can only do
>> that once.

somebody (Henry?  Monte?) recently mentioned a scientist's heaven of
coming up with a good experiment and repeating it endlessly.
For culturati like Susan Sontag maybe the equivalent is coming up with
a term that becomes a household word: "camp" for instance.