Russian torture of #Ukrainians
#Torturing prisoners is not merely a #WarCrime that #Russians perpetrate, it’s part of #Russian #culture. Susan #Sontag’s 20-year-old essays may help us understand it.
In the Kyiv Independent’s latest investigative #documentary "Torture Culture," we examine the sufferings that Russians systematically inflict on their Ukrainian prisoners ...
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A monochrome photographic portrait from between 1865 and the 1920s taken by K. Festge, inh. Hugo Sontag, Anger 51, Erfurt and Rauten-Straße 5, Nordhausen…
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#Festge #Sontag #Erfurt #photography #antique #collecting #MonochromePhotography #BWPhotography #CDV #CabinetPhotography
A monochrome photographic portrait from between 1865 and the 1920s taken by K. Festge, inh. Hugo Sontag, Anger 51, Erfurt and Rauten-Straße 5, Nordhausen…
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2026-4335
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#Festge #Sontag #Erfurt #photography #antique #collecting #MonochromePhotography #BWPhotography #CDV #CabinetPhotography
Very true. I think #Sontag would be pretty catholic about this. 🤓
Interesting essay about #Sontag. “The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory.” -- Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag (1966).
I'm trying to remember my earliest experience of art that was incantatory. Maybe (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, 1965. I was 5.
What's yours?
I'm wearing the reason why we had to go back, an NZD20 Egyptian gellabaya. . . so for the shopping. . . but also the embrace of what at first was easy to reject, the kitsch, which is easy to dismiss as failed camp, camp not yet recognised to be, what is it now?
#silentsunday #nature #naturelovers #Sontag #dimanchecalme #newfoundland
a quiet morning
I finished my wrap-around shawl!
So, there's a lot of backstory to this one. It started with a pattern for a "sontag", a shawl from the 1800s that instead of being fastened at the front (with knot or pin), it wrapped around and tied in the back. That pattern was quite simple--just a lot of US double-crochets.
Then I found another shawl pattern I loved: it combined the arrow stitch and celtic stitch with double-crochet, and comparing the two patterns I realised how I could adjust the celtic stitch shawl so it would have the proportions of the sontag (something like twice as large from tip-to-tip compared to top to bottom) ... but I screwed up and accidentally turned the celtic stitch into cables. Which I realised after finishing mine, my spouse's, and half-way through one for my MIL 
But that made me think ... I liked the cables a lot, so what if I instead of using the 2nd pattern I went all the way into a new design? And that's this one. It has alternating 4 rows of celtic stitch and cables, where each block is separated by 6 rows (2 dc, 2 rows for the arrow which meets in the middle, 2 dc).
The material for this is ~375g "wheel of alpaca" from #hobbii, with a hook I bought in iceland this year (bone, somewhere in the 4-4.5mm). It's about 250cm from tip to tip and 75-80cm from top to bottom.
The top edge is reinforced with a scallop, but I decided that since I ended with the arrows, those were a good edge for the bottom of the shawl.
Not just my hot take of the day. Plenty of other thinkers, artists, & critics have been jabbing their fingers into high culture's hollowed-out chest cavity, pulling out its contradictions & laughable pretensions for decades.
In Against Interpretation, #Sontag blew the whistle on high culture's obsession with intellectualizing art to death. She argued that analyzing art drained it of its visceral power. High culture lectures instead of feels.
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