Camille Paglia: what is wrong with her?
She is infinitely better educated in a traditional sense than a prof of either literature or art history, since either would be hopeless in the other’s discipline. She does write wonderfully and it is always a pleasure and a revelation to read her talking about a text one is already aware of.
However, in video interviews, etc., she seems like a very serious manic bipolar person who is not on medication and may not even have been diagnosed.
Everyone says she is “nuts”, but what does that really mean?
I think that college of hers in Philadelphia has closed down recently.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 30, 2024 7:40 PM
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No one cares about her. She was big 30 years ago.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 30, 2024 4:20 PM
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[quote]She is infinitely better educated in a traditional sense than a prof of either literature or art history, since either would be hopeless in the other’s discipline.
What, precisely, does this mean, OP?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 30, 2024 4:22 PM
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Yeah she was a flash in the pan who benefited enormously from being one of the few feminists in the 1980s/1990s who was queer (genuinely, not for show) and pro-porn.
Most of her ideas were always nuts and cobbled together in a rambling manic manner.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 30, 2024 4:34 PM
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I liked she got into a fight via fax with another noted cunt, Julie Burchill, which ended when Burchill told Paglia to fuck off and called her a crazy old dyke.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 30, 2024 4:37 PM
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Anything I've read by her has been littered with factual inaccuracies and there were probably more than I could spot.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 30, 2024 4:44 PM
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At which point in the 80s and 90s was Paglia described as "queer", r6?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 30, 2024 4:47 PM
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R9 I’m simply using the word as a descriptor? Would you prefer lesbian? My point was there were a lot of feminists in that wave who proclaimed queerness (of whatever variety) but invariably ended up with men whereas Paglia was actually a true blue dyke.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 30, 2024 4:50 PM
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A former colleague went to high school with her in Syracuse and said she was just as annoying then.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 30, 2024 6:23 PM
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I prefer her to that stuck-up Sontag
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 30, 2024 7:15 PM
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I like her. Did she go into hiding?
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 30, 2024 7:25 PM
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Her feud with Sontag was hilarious. Iconic pop culture stuff.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 30, 2024 7:40 PM
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