Susan Sontag

American writer, essayist, and cultural critic (1933–2004), author of Against Interpretation, On Photography, and Illness as Metaphor.

Sontag was among the defining critics of postwar American culture, writing across photography, film, illness, aesthetics, and politics with an insistence on taking popular and difficult forms equally seriously.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary. Sontag belongs to the mid-century American intellectual and art-world scene adjacent to R. Buckminster Fuller, the milieu of critics, artists, and thinkers among whom Fuller circulated as a design-science celebrity. She appears in the corpus's survey of that world (we-are-all-astronauts) as a contemporary — a shaper of how the era read images, technology, and culture — rather than as a collaborator or a direct influence on Fuller's work.

See Also

• We Are All Astronauts — catalog surveying Fuller's place in twentieth-century art and culture
• Margaret Mead (Margaret Mead) — related figure

Sources

• We Are All Astronauts (source reference) — situates Sontag in the postwar art-and-ideas milieu around Fuller