ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 29 min
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Episode description
After investigating the politics of cool on the last Trip episode, the crew turn their attention to another distinctly modern sensibility: camp.
Digging into Susan Sontag’s formative 1964 essay on the camp aesthetic, Nadia, Keir and Jem think about how elements of the artificial, the theatrical and the sentimental come together in camp objects, from porn movies to Tiffany lamps to risqué radio comedy.
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