Status Updates From Against Interpretation, And...

The essay Against Interpretation feels like an inspiring lecture from Susan Sontag that somehow feels incredibly personal - like a cup of coffee.
I will focus on the transparence: the luminous thing itself in art, cutting back on content to see the work itself when experiencing art.
I will also read some of the essays Sontag recommended, reflecting as an arrogant math and art history stident

“Thus, the Stoics, to accord with their view that the gods had to be moral, allegorized away the rude features of Zeus and his boisterous clan in Homer’s epics. What Homer really designated by the adultery of Zeus with Leto, they explained, was the union between power and wisdom.”

LOL i didn’t cheat on you, babe! it’s a metaphor!