Twenty years after her death, the great critic’s ideas about images, suffering, and the moral life feel less like history than like prophecy. By Bergotte There is a photograph that Susan Sontag never saw — or rather, she could not have seen it in the form we now encounter it, scrolling past it on aContinue reading “The Wound and the Camera: Susan Sontag and the Unfinished Project of Seeing”
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To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting
The Greeks had a precise diagnosis for the condition that defines our age. They called it pleonexia — the desire for more, the wanting that has no natural limit, the reaching that cannot stop because it does not know what it is reaching for. They considered it not merely a practical error but a moralContinue reading “To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting”
The Wit of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is remembered as the archetype of genius — the wild hair, the chalkboard equations, the Nobel Prize. But beyond the mythology of relativity lies a less formal legacy: his wit. Einstein’s humor was not incidental; it was constitutive of his worldview. It shaped his public persona, softened his icon, and revealed a mindContinue reading “The Wit of Albert Einstein”
