Cultural Critic and Author
Susan Sontag was a prominent cultural critic known for her writings on photography, suffering, and the representation of tragedy.
Every day, suffering from somewhere in the world arrives on our phones — wars, disasters, injustices, all in real time. Zeynep Tufekci, Susan Sontag, and Amanda Ripley debate whether that constant exposure is making us more compassionate and more likely to act, or just more comfortable watching.
