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Examining and discussing the quotation from Sontag’s latest book Regarding the Pain of others to see if her statement is just in its implications.
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"An Image is drained of its force by the way that it is used, where and how often it is seen. Images shown on television are by definition images which, sooner or later, one tires. What looks like callousness has its origin in the instability of attention that television is organised to arouse and to satiate by surfeit of images." (Sontag,2003:105-6) Susan Sontag has been acclaimed to be "One of America's best known fictional writers, essayists and cultural critics" this and the last century. Born in New York City in 1933 she went on to study at philosophy at the University of Chicago only turning sixteen whilst she was there. Since that time, Sontag has gone on to accomplish many great achievements in writing both fictional and non-fictional texts as well as becoming an accomplished film-maker. As a critic she has been described as being influential, provocative and controversial. Her novels have been...
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