"Notes on "Camp"" is a well-known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty-eight numbered theses. It was published in 1964 and was the author's first contribution to the Partisan Review. The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety. It was published in 1966 in book form in Sontag's debut collection of essays, Against Interpretation (ISBN 0312280866).
The essay codified and mainstreamed the cultural connotations of the word camp, and identified camp's evolution as a distinct aesthetic phenomenon.
Sontag says there is a "peculiar relation of Camp taste with homosexuality". Homosexuals, through aesthetics, and Jews, through ethics, have shaped the modern sensibility, according to Sontag. "The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony."
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