May 2012
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bearmountains asked: And you're cute!
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my grandma won $20,000 on a crossword scratch off
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The cultural constraints under which we operate include not only visible political structures but also the phantasmatic processes by which we eroticize the real. Even if we are born straight or gay, we still have to learn to desire particular men and women, and not desire others; the economy of our sexual drives is a cultural achievement. Perhaps nowhere are we manipulated more effectively and...
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So far as photographs with the most solemn or heartrending subject matter are...
– Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
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A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish...
– Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)
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