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A review by ellie00000
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Sontag, Susan Sontag
4.0
Terrific essays coming from a terrific writer. My personal favorite is “Fascinating Fascism”, just wow.
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The SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism. Much of the imagery of far-out sex has been placed under the sign of Nazism. Boots, leather, chains, Iron crosses gleaming torsos, swastikas along with meat hooks and heavy motorcycles, have become the secret and most lucrative paraphernalia of eroticism.”
“Like Nietzsche and Wagner, Hitler regarded leadership as sexual mastery of the “feminine masses”.
“The expression of the crowds in Triumph of the Will is one of ecstasy; the leader makes the crowd come.”
“Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Tight-wing movements however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in , have an erotic surface, certainly Nazism is sexier than communism”.
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The SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism. Much of the imagery of far-out sex has been placed under the sign of Nazism. Boots, leather, chains, Iron crosses gleaming torsos, swastikas along with meat hooks and heavy motorcycles, have become the secret and most lucrative paraphernalia of eroticism.”
“Like Nietzsche and Wagner, Hitler regarded leadership as sexual mastery of the “feminine masses”.
“The expression of the crowds in Triumph of the Will is one of ecstasy; the leader makes the crowd come.”
“Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Tight-wing movements however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in , have an erotic surface, certainly Nazism is sexier than communism”.