In 1968, Susan Sontag called Roland Barthes "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful critic — stretching that term — to have emerged anywhere in the last fifteen years".
By Kristina Budelis September 8, 2010 In 1968, Susan Sontag called Roland Barthes "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful critic — stretching that term — to have emerged anywhere in the last fifteen years".
Viewed individually, a… In 1968, Susan Sontag called Roland Barthes "the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful critic — stretching that term — to have emerged anywhere in the last fifteen years".… If I could choose one superpower, it would be flying.
The broccoli meme has been very useful to critics of health care reform, and the individual responsibility provision (which critics have also successfully branded as the more ominous sounding "individual mandate"), in particular.
Though fans have praised the book for its useful information, critics have complained that, in the guise of upholding dignity, it reinforces a traditional view of women.
A series of coincidences recently brought to my mind a critic whose work I hadn't read in decades but whom I consider one of the greatest and most enduringly useful film critics I've ever read: Harry Alan Potamkin, who was born in 1900, died in 1933, and left a dispersed legacy.
The second assumption, namely, that moral blameworthiness of all kinds is grounded in the bad intentions of moral agents who cause harm, is also very useful to critics of collective responsibility, since it enables them to stipulate that collective responsibility requires, not just group intentions, but the ability of groups to have bad intentions or at least to be morally faulty.
This is especially useful if several critics mention the same flaw.
It would be the official sponsor of touring exhibitions; its magazines would provide useful platforms for critics favourable to the new American painting; and no one, the artists included, would be any the wiser.
As a concept "decommissioning" remains useful to these critics because it masks their true intentions; not to share power, to bring down the assembly, to beat the Orange drum, and hopefully provoke a bit of war to shore up the union.
