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Camille Anna Paglia – amerykańska krytyk sztuki i życia społecznego, określająca siebie jako feministkę w opozycji i liberała światopoglądowego. Od 1984 r. jest profesorem The University of the Arts w Filadelfii, w stanie Pensylwania. Jest autorką wielu książek. Bestsellerem okazała się wydana w 1990 roku książka z dziedziny krytyki literackiej: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Wśród jej książek jest także analiza filmu Alfreda Hitchcocka Ptaki, oraz szkice o poezji Break, Blow, Burn . Pisze artykuły na temat sztuki, pop-kultury, feminizmu i polityki. Paglia z uznaniem wypowiada się o Madonnie, przyjęła też radykalnie liberalną postawę wobec wzbudzających kontrowersje kwestii socjalnych jak aborcja, homoseksualizm i zażywanie narkotyków. Wyraża się krytycznie o amerykańskim feminizmie, jest także bardzo krytyczna w stosunku do następujących francuskich pisarzy jak Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida i Michel Foucault.

O krytyce sztuki współczesnej wypowiedziała się, że jest niezdolna do powiedzenia czegokolwiek ważnego, gdyż oddaliła się od świata rzeczy fizycznych. Według Paglii, sztuka to idee wyrażone w formie materialnej. Ponieważ sztuka nie jest filozofią, nie operuje słowem, lecz dokonuje się w świecie pięciu zmysłów. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Kwiecień 1947
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Camille Paglia: Cytaty po angielsku

“He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.”

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On Kurt Cobain
Playboy interview (May 1995)

“Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 203

“I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America…. It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 61

“Freud says, “Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 27

“In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 12

“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1

“Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects governments to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. Feminism has inherited these contradictions.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3

“The Seventies theory explosion [i. e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. ] was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 218

“Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 53

“The Sixties attempted a return to nature that ended in disaster.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 216

“At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 89

“I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.”

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On Robert Mapplethorpe’s portrait of Patti Smith on the cover of Smith’s debut album Horses (1975), p. 45
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

“In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 295

“The Devil is a woman.”

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Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 11

“Ten thousand years ago, when man the nomad took root in one place, he brought animals with him into human service. But domestication was to be his fate too, as he fell under architecturally reinforced female control.”

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pg. 8
The Birds

“Hitchcock finds women captivating but dangerous. She allures by nature but she is chief artificer in civilisation, a magic fabricator of persona whose very smile is an arc of deception.”

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Źródło: The Birds, p. 7

“In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”

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The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age (2004)

“Because boys lack a biological marker like menstruation, to be man is to be not female.”

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Contemporary feminism called this "misogyny," but it was wrong. Masculine identity is embattled and fragile. In the absence of opportunity for heroic physical action, as in the modern office world, women's goodwill is crucial for preserving the male ego, which requires, alas, daily maintenance. It is in the best interests of the human race, and of women themselves, for men to be strong.
Źródło: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 85

“Films of the mating behavior of most other species — a staple of public television of America — demonstrate that the female chooses.”

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Males pursue, show off, brawl, scuffle, and make general fools of themselves for love. A major failing of most feminist ideology is its dumb, ungenerous stereotyping of men as tyrants and abusers, when in fact — as I know full well from my own mortifying lesbian experience — men are tormented by women’s flirtatiousness and hemming and hawing, their manipulations and changeableness, their humiliating rejections. Cock teasing is a universal reality. It is part of women’s merciless testing and cold-eyed comparison shopping for potential mates. Men will do anything to win the favor of women.
Źródło: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 35

“Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 224

“It’s these guys in the Ivy League schools who get used to obeying women. They’re sedentary guys. It’s ironic that you’re getting the biggest bitching about men from the schools where the men are just eunuchs and bookworms.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), The Rape Debate, Continued, p. 61

“If you want to see what’s wrong with Ivy League education, look at The Beauty Myth, that book by Naomi Wolf. This is a woman who graduated from Yale magna cum laude, is a Rhodes scholar, and she cannot write a coherent paragraph. This is a woman who cannot do historical analysis, and she is a Rhodes scholar? If you want to see the damage done to intelligent women today in the Ivy League, look at that book. It’s a scandal. Naomi Wolf is an intelligent woman. She has been ill-served by her education. But if you read Lacan, this is the result. Your brain turns to pudding. She has a case to make. She cannot make it. She’s full of paranoid fantasies about the world. Her education was completely removed from reality.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 262

“When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.”

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Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. xi

“Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could “have it all.””

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It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman. No husband or day care can adequately substitute for a mother’s attention. My feminist heroes are the boldly independent and childless Amelia Earhart and Katherine Hepburn, who has been outspoken in her opposition to the delusion of “having it all.”
Źródło: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 89

“Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.”

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Camille Paglia książka Sexual Personae

Źródło: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 28

“I don't want special protection for gays or transgender. I'm saying there should be protections for all dissident behavior and speech. Dissidents of every kind.”

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In an interview about the book. " Camille Paglia on her controversial feminism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69rgLvitaYM" (at 10m35s), CBC News: The National on YouTube, 7 May 2017.
Free Women, Free Men (2017)