Self-Invasions and the Invaded Self
What do we lose when we lose our privacy?
Rochelle Gurstein
Rochelle Gurstein is the author of The Repeal of Reticence: America’s Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art.
W(h)ither the New Sensibility
Who would have thought that Susan Sontag’s “One Culture and the New Sensibility”—widely regarded as an opening salvo in the long culture war against “elitist” standards”—is now fifty years old?
I revisited Sontag’s celebrated essay because I was reading a new ...