For to talk about 'camp' is in Susan Sontag's words '...is to betray it.'
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) is 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 is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, therefore
to discuss, analyse it, is to betray it. Well, that is Sontag's view.
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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) is 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 is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, therefore
to discuss, analyse it, is to betray it. Well, that is Sontag's view.
If you want to access Bosco Redmond on your Kindle go to:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-blogs&field-keywords=bosco+redmond
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