Susan Sontag – Seeing and Being Seen

“The US-American author and critic Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was a “public intellectual”: a figure who sparked controversial debates through her writings and her nonconformist demeanor, and who engaged with them head-on. Her life as a dissident unfolded as if in fast motion. In the early 1950s, she became one of the youngest university lecturers in the U.S. After an early marriage and motherhood, she did not—as was customary at the time—withdraw from social life, but instead became politically active, had bisexual relationships, got divorced, and worked as a freelance writer while raising her child as a single mother. …”