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WRITERS > author, critic > Susan Sontag
American energy. ....
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American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism.
Source: What's Happening in America (1966), in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, N.J., Winter 1967; repr. in Styles of Radical Will, 1969).
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.