Camille Paglia

What do we think of her?

I like her name, that's all I know of her because I haven't read shit and I don't usually read anyway, I'm just passing by, but "Camile Paglia" sounds good.

I've heard from girls that she was pretty good; they said they grew out that phase in 5th grade

I don't know much about her other than she named the jew within the first two minutes of an interview with Jordan Peterson. For that I respect her.

Based.

What'd she say?

I second this. Smart lady. Great respect for literature, too.

She wrote 1 great book then fell for the "public intellectual" meme. Still Sexual Personae is good enough for me to forgive her attention whoring.

Veeky Forums loves Pags in general because she’s a well-read contrarian. She’s also as quotable as they come

>implying

She's not the most brilliant cultural critic and has been riding the contrarian wave pretty steadily since the early 90s. That said, despite her contrarian streak, she's also been somehow immune to fashion and has been pretty consistent for her entire career.
Bonus points for being a weird man-loving pervert conservative feminist, a shtick which shouldn't work but totally does: "Feminists say that testosterone is gasoline and pornography is the match. Testosterone is gasoline, but that's a good thing---gasoline makes things GO."

She strikes me as someone who just wants to create flowery language and occasionally muse about gender. I wouldn't consider her a philosopher or even someone respectable. She almost had something interesting to say about femininity.

I gave her about 10 pages in Sexual Personae. The last 9 were mostly loser just hoping for a miracle.

The first line at least amusing

"In the beginning was Nature" I laughed at loud at that one.

Haven't read her as-such so feel free to ignore my blithering.

That said she seems to be an interesting contrarian and not an idiot like certain of her peers. Shits on Foucault from what I understand, correctly observes that female sexuality absolutely controls men (again from what I understand), and doesn't go for quite the same de rigeur leftism as the rest. Her latent desire for hard dick together with her education would seem to redound to her intellectual weight.

She said they hate everybody so it's only natural to hate them.

I watched the first video listed under Paglia on YT, her extended interview with JP. Yeah, I knew of her and she's supposed to be a live-wire or whatever, but she sounds like a fucking Sadducee tearing her vestments over the Judaic priesthood. Literally I'm just seeing two first-century rabbis rambling about how the other teachers of the Law aren't abiding by what it really is. "I'm not a Marxist now, but when I was a Marxist, I was a real Marxist, unlike these Marxists now!"

I don't know much about her but that is a really great picture lmao

Apparently we don't, and we're all here to state it proudly.

First chapter of Sexual Personae and am struct by her writing. Didn't think it'd be as good as this, plus the historical subject matter just hooks me.

I'd come across her in discussions with Neil Postman and found her to be a fascinating character. Then I watched a lecture she'd given recently and decided to read more of her work. Will probably do some meme fuckery eventually if I think I can get off on how her ideas relate to current issues.

She looks fucking awkward in that pic, and it's kind of silly rather than symbolic. That it's her in it though somehow gives it weight anyhow though.

Do people here read Sontag in secret and not tell anyone, or should I take your silence for an answer that I should meme her shit too?

Her interview about trans people being a symptom of societal destruction was enjoyable.

Like most people, should probably stick to books as the principal manner of public output. Online videos and tweets, a tendency to harden the prejudices and casual intellectual fuzziness of casual conversation. Casual conversation has the advantage of being a temporary-existing testing ground. Online content, on the other hand, is permanent, and solidifying.

Trained by the Bloomster himself, her primer on poetry - Blow Break Burn - is quite good.

Bloom on Paglia
>Ah, Camille. I love it when she calls me her "mentor." Let's face it: I love it when she calls me at all. Though she deeply admires my work on the Western canon, she's pretty sure that my arguments for the works of Western Civilization just aren't enough to sway the masses. As she put it, "My feeling is that the people who are against the canon are not going to be convinced by this. That is my disappointment". It's nice to have a shoulder to cry on.

She writes exactly the same way she talks, so this shouldn't be an issue for Camille.