As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

by Susan Sontag

This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power.

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN: 1466802170

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This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas with the publication of the groundbreaking Against Interpretation in 1966. As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh follows Sontag through the turbulent years of the 1960s—from her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden—up to 1981 and the beginning of the Reagan era. This is an invaluable record of the inner workings of one of the most inquisitive and analytical thinkers of the twentieth century at the height of her power. It is also a remarkable document of one individual's political and moral awakening.

Imperial Boredom

by Jeffrey A. Auerbach

29. 30. Phillips, 77. Ibid. 69. Susan Sontag has written about the creative purpose
of boredom. See As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and
Notebooks, 1964–1980, ed. David Rieff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012).

Imperial Boredom

Author: Jeffrey A. Auerbach

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0198827377

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Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women settling new lands and spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated analysis instead argues that boredom was central to the experience of Empire. This volume looks at what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India, and agrues that for numerous men and women, from governors to convicts, explorers to tourists, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, it demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work unfulfilling. Ocean voyages were tedious; colonial rule was bureaucratic; warfare was infrequent; economic opportunity was limited; and indigenous people were largely invisible. The seventeenth-century Empire may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project.

Sontag on Film

by Susan Sontag

Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, the collection includes lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature; in-depth studies of films and directors; and other such delightful and illuminating fragments as a list of ...

Sontag on Film

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

ISBN: 9780241145197

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Widely regarded as one of America's most important contemporary thinkers, Susan Sontag had a particular gift for reflecting on the meaning and influence of the visual, and On Photography became a seminal work for all those concerned with the interplay of images with the world.Now, more than thirty years after On Photography was first published, comes Sontag on Film: a collection of her writings and musings on films and cinema, gathered together here for the very first time by critic David Thomson and producer Tom Luddy. Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, the collection includes lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature; in-depth studies of films and directors; and other such delightful and illuminating fragments as a list of Sontag's top-ten films taken from a 1982 issue of Sight and Sound.Sontag on Film is set to become a key work on the importance and significance of cinema in the modern world.Praise for Susan Sontag:'What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as "a way of being fully human"' Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book Review'Intellectually and imaginatively gifted to an extraordinary degree, she used her fearless intelligence to illuminate some of the deepest contradictions of contemporary life' John Gray, New Statesman'Complex and contradictory . . . one of America's greatest public intellectuals' ObserverSusan Sontag's books include four novels and numerous works of non fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time and Against Interpretation and Other Essays. Two volumes of her diaries, Reborn and As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh, are also available from Hamish Hamilton/ Penguin.

Lost Children Archive

by Valeria Luiselli

... 1947–1963, Susan Sontag As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh:
Notebooks and Journals, 1964–1980, Susan Sontag The Collected Works of Billy
the Kid, Michael Ondaatje Relocated: Twenty Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi from
Japan, ...

Lost Children Archive

Author: Valeria Luiselli

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

ISBN: 0008290032

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 The moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest young stars in world literature

Irish poetry the thirties generation

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Instead there is a richly dramatic tension between intellectual consciousness and
the demands of feeling , and an attempt at a ... Approach ) The resolution of this
problematic dualism , Donnelly discovered , lay in action ; for in action
consciousness is harnessed to an effort of will ... and direction ; Comes innocent
from tools children might Love , retaining under pillows , Innocently impales on
any flesh .

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Reflexions in the Flesh

by Nick Crossley

We are aware that we are on display and this makes us more conscious of
ourselves and mindful of how we appear . ... And written texts , where not
harnessed for the same effects ( e . g . discussing appearances ) often reach
beneath the skin ...

Reflexions in the Flesh

Author: Nick Crossley

Publisher: Open University Press

ISBN: 9780335216987

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In this book, Nick Crossley explores the concept of reflexive embodiment - how we, as embodied beings, reflect upon our own embodiment. He considers the ways in which we modify and maintain our bodies, from brushing our teeth and washing our faces through to tattooing and bodybuilding. Some forms of 'body work' are demanded by social conventions; others represent legitimate choices, and others still deviate from or resist the norm. He argues that a proper understanding of reflexive embodiment must be alert to these differences, and that we must appreciate that our bodies are not passive or inert substances that we can mould as we like. They change in ways that we do not intend and of which we are not aware, and they may prove difficult to change in the ways we do intend. Many theorists in sociology offer perspectives on the link between society and body modification, mostly focused in one way or another upon 'modernity'.

The New England Farmer

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She has not been harnessed in a carriage he found him , he was far ... She was
in the best flesh , and had paper ; it is one of great practical importance to a the
sleekest and most shiny hair that I ever saw a ... I am sorry to see such good men
as they are she appeared to be conscious as any beast , for at mistaken . times
she ...

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The Esoteric

by Hiram Erastus Butler

That connection between the mind and the stored energies gives a
consciousness of heat . Now this simply expresses the fact that so far all is in
readiness for practical use : like as if the horse were harnessed and put before
the wagon , the lines placed in the driver ' s bands ... relief and I longed to have
the nails driven into my quivering flesh , that so the anguish of the unspeakable
might find expression .

The Esoteric

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The Granta

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... well as a tin heart and last longer , when FAMILY LETTERS . he noticed signs
of reviving consciousness in the chieftain . ... CAMBRIDGE , left the man with no
heart at all , neither of flesh , nor of Tuesday . tin , nor of cheap substitute . ... it at
first ; but it ' s more than when he saw two goats being harnessed to a milk - cart .

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Appletons Journal

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the flesh grind and the bones crack . ... Thus speaks M . Pel - | Yes ! the same
sweet voice and loving words saddled and harnessed its splendors for my | letier
, spitting in disgust at the ... Another secperhaps , were bidden by the hidden ma
altitude of three miles , near which we are ond would be the last of conscious life .

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The Works of Orville Dewey

by Orville Dewey

Then a spirit passed before my face , and the hair of my flesh of meditation or of
sorrow , or of some stood up . ... spiritual import ; which resolves all into the
solemn consciousness , amidst all a series of toils and trifles and vanities , | life ' s
cares and toils , of an ... and what is there but itself . machinery - - animate or
inanimate ; the The pertinency of my text to my pur - | mind as truly girded and
harnessed to ...

The Works of Orville Dewey

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Works

by Orville Dewey

... which made all my bones to shake . spint passed before my face , and the hair
of my flesh of meditation or of sorrow , or of some It stood ... wants and aspirations
of the human soul , spiritual import ; which resolves all into the solemn
consciousness , amidst all a series of ... as truly girded and harnessed to pose ,
as I have already intimated , lies in the work as the turning - lathe or the are
banded wheel ?

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Our Dumb Animals

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Nothing is more common on the levee in New Orleans than to see stalwart mules
harnessed in drays , that understand both French and English . ... manner , he
had a way of expressing his consciousness of it to his owner , who
acknowledged the bint by giving him two lumps . ... in doing so , when a stone
hurled with great violence struck him on the fore leg , bruising the flesh and
fracturing the bone .

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Select Works of Thomas Chalmers

by Thomas Chalmers

... of his heart cions of the flesh be more felt as a grief | be such a plenteous efflux
of doings upon and an encumbrance to him . ... it forth to being sanctitied – The
consciousness of open day , and expose it to shame and to these , wbich give no
disturbance either to everlasting contempt . ... Let me suppose two houghts , and
see if there be any wicked yoked and harnessed vehicles , both upon way in me
 ...

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Current Literature

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Evidently he wishes to the smell of burnt flesh and singed hair fill the arena . sate
the public ; now , this very instant , he'll strike ... In Barcelona and Madrid I saw
the four most emi his consciousness , backs to the paling , totters for a monent
espadas in Spain , and in truth ... a while rush in with great speed men with in
some moments . mules , splendidly harnessed in yellow and red ; the This mental
state of ...

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Current Opinion

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Evidently he wishes to the smell of burnt flesh and singed hair fill the arena . sate
the public ; now , this very instant , he'll strike ... In Barcelona and Madrid I saw
the four most emi his consciousness , backs to the paling , totters for a monent
espadas in Spain , and in truth ... a while rush in with great speed men with in
some moments . mules , splendidly harnessed in yellow and red ; the This mental
state of ...

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Current Opinion

by Edward Jewitt Wheeler

Evidently he wishes to the smell of burnt flesh and singed hair fill the arena . sate
the public ; now , this very instant , he'll strike , now ... At last he collects the
remnant of In Barcelona and Madrid I saw the four most emi his consciousness ,
backs to the paling , totters for ... rush in with great speed men with in some
moments . mules , splendidly harnessed in yellow and red ; the This mental state
of the beast ...

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The Spoken Word

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who have been born of the GOD . announcing , we will also have on NOT
NECESSARY FOR Consciousness , they live as though ... s energy to be
BRINGING FORTH harnessed and directed in the PO - CHILDREN OF THE
SPIRIT come to participate , if you care lo . ... It is written , and I verify the flesh , for
these inspirations are the same : the Children of GOD , by nature , have access ,
and will protect ...

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Spirit of the Times and the New York Sportsman

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This great and noble pike—superior in whiteness, firmness, and dchcacy of flesh
to the yet larger mascalonge—has recentlv, we ... Some of the other principal
varieties are the Esoa: Bittatus, Filleted Pike; E'soz Phalemtm, Harnessed Pike;
and E'soz: Niger, Black Pike, ... the very difliculty enhancing the delight as
thousand-fold, and the consciousness that it takes a man, and nothing but a man,
to do and ...

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Portland Transcript

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Often flesh is consumed by dogs . and often when drawing deep from the They
have an ingenious plan of " shveing " : [ WRITTEN FOR THE TRANSCRIPT . ] ...
with life and consciousness ; Festive dance , or household duties , And a new
sense had been developed in er , they make a hut on purpose ... Up to the time of
its ma- last , a team of dogs is harnessed to his body , ringing joyously on the ear
from ...

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