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Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag

3.9 AVERAGE


I'm still nog completely sure what Camp exactly is, but I feel like that's the point. It is not something you can grasp or that has very strict rules to go by. Talking about Camp is betraying it after all. 

Sontag's idea that Camp is not political put me off at first, becasue everything is political and disagreeing with that is very ignorant, but I think the point she was trying to make that Camp as a sensibility is not necessarily political, but the objects that she describes as Camp are political in their own way. 

Definitely an interesting text that I will revisit at some point. 

did not get like any of the pop culture references oops
but other than that this was interesting
hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced
informative slow-paced

I don’t really know how to rate something like this so I’m not going to. I enjoyed reading the first essay, but I felt like I didn’t fully understand everything because I didn’t know the works she was referencing.

I love Harry styles(unrelated… maybe?).

This was a photography/non-fiction related read that I again had to highlight it while reading it to understand and make sense of the words.

read for ap lang. mid.
informative medium-paced

This was really well articulated, informative and interesting. I think I understand the concept of camp, pop culture and the difference between high and low culture a lot better now. Really, its all just bollocks and people should be allowed to like what they like. 

I wasn't familiar with quite a few of Sontag's examples when she was describing different manifestations of 'camp' in popular culture. However, I did have a lot of fun coming up with modern day equivalents. I'm not sure I agree with the take that any type of art [camp] or otherwise can be considered entirely apolitical tho so there's that
funny informative fast-paced