/147/ The Past Doesn't Go Away ft. Benjamin Moser
- Author
- Aufhebunga Bunga
- Published
- Tue 15 Sep 2020
- Episode Link
- https://bungacast.podbean.com/e/147-the-past-doesnt-go-away-ft-benjamin-moser/
On modernism and its end.
We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation.
We talk about his biography of Susan Sontag, plus a range of other questions: Brazil, USA, literature, architecture, sex, imperialism, Freud, the image and representation, and contemporary wokeness.
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