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Camille Paglia

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first: 2016-04-25
most recent: 2016-04-25
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“As well. But I find again, it's absolutely staggering. It is staggering. The actual signs and remnants that are everywhere in the Northeast. I mean, I could go out right now into the, find me some dirt, okay, and I'll find you a tool, a broken tool. It's absolutely incredible. So I feel that's what I'm, I should be doing something like this, which no one is interested in. But I feel that is substantive and can hope can help to show what was here before.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, well, all I'm doing is exploring the Native American cultures of the Northeast because when the settlers came from Europe, the Indians were pushed out, the hunting grounds were limited and then there was general destruction of Native American culture for many reasons during that period. But we know more actually about plains Indians and obviously northwestern Indians and the Navajo than we do about the northeastern Indians. And I believe that there are remnants. I something, I mean, I stumbled on this and I just could, I'm very sorry I didn't notice this when I was living all those years in upstate New York where the Onadagas still have their reservation and so on and probably the remnants of these glacial era cultures was still there.”
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“Yes, totally. Physics is a center? It's almost like an early animism. That's why I'm interested in Salvador de Baya also, because the Yoruba cults of West Africa that were absorbed into Salvador de Baillean in Brazil is the same where all of the forces of nature are perceived as spirit entities that bring you energy or vision.”
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“Well, right now I'm working on something no one has any interest in, whatever. I've been working for eight years on this, my Native American explorations. I'm very interested in Native American culture at the end of the Ice Age as the glacier withdrew. And I go around and I find little tiny artifacts and I read and so on. And absolutely no one, especially anyone in Manhattan, has the slightest interest in what I'm doing. But I think that everything has been prepared for in my life. I've been always interested in archaeology. And I feel like I make a contribution, even though no one is interested at all. What I'm trying to do is show how the politicization of ethnic studies and racial studies and so on has actually been very limiting. I find very objectionable this projection eternal projection of genocide and disaster and so on onto Native American studies.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My early period was total failure flop in the middle of the get published. There was that. And then all of a sudden I sort of burst out like a jack in the box. And it's been like blabber blah blah blabber like ever since. I mean, I don't, so I really don't see phases. I just see like, you know, nothingness and then everything sort of like a carnival, you know, so...”
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“Have all the same problems? Well, Canada, you know, they have this ideal of the consensus. And that's why when I go up there, people have said to me actually, like quietly, oh, I'd love having you here because everyone's always forcing us to have consensus in Canada. I've been told that also when I go to Norway. People say, oh, we can't stand it. We're not allowed to have an opinion in Norway. We all have to have a consensus. Everyone is very civilized in Canada, but it's impossible to rise above the herd also. You can't make any big gestures. You're thought to be antisocial. So I wouldn't glorify Canada.”
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“No, I mean, I don't think it's been a tremendous flattening. I mean, I think there's very little culturally that right now, there's very little of substance or interest being produced in art and culture. We're in a kind of retro period where we're kind of like chopping up everything, putting everything from the past through the grinder again.”
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“No ideas, they all get along very well with each other because they're nothing. And they're eating their fruits, which are given to them by the Morlocks or the industrial class. So that's how I see the future is that unfortunately, I mean, I began my career talking about androgyny and talking about the imaginative complexity of androgyny and how the artists and the shaman and the prophet have this androgynous component. But this today's androgyny is just boring. David Bowie at his height was absolutely brilliant, electrifying kabuki. You got to go on and on and so on. And now all these pallid androgens of today, okay, they have, there's nothing creative about them, whatever.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Working class culture retains an idea of the masculine. There's absolutely no doubt about that. There's a comes static. So you have to have strong women in order to deal with masculine men. And so that is why masculinity is constantly being eroded and diminished and dissolved on university campuses because it allows women to be weak. If you have weak men, then you can have weak women. And that's what we have. Our university system that is remotely masculine is identified as toxic, as intrinsically to rape culture. A utopian future is imagined when there are no men. We're all genderless mannequins. The movie of the time machine is like one of, you know, we're moving toward that the Eloy. That's how I see the upper middle class graduates of the Ivy League. They're the Eloy. They're completely bland.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, many of those images on the screen, which would seem to be masculine, often the actual actors were gay. Like Rock Hudson and Carrie Grant's sexuality remains one of the great mysteries, a lot of things. I mean, I adore Carrie Grant. Oh my God. But he's like a hallucination. All of the great images on the screen are hallucinations. Kim Novak and Vertigo is literally an hallucination. But what should be the idea? The problem right now is that the masculine has no honor whatever in our culture. We're in a period now where young people are being processed for universities and the gender norms are said to be that gender is a construct. It is simply the product of environmental pressures on people. There's nothing in the back culture.”
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“And now what can you say? Is there anything distinctly gay right now except there are certainly gay activists are extremely successful in terms of pushing their agenda and so on. Probably these little cadres of gay activists are the only thing that's left. I don't know. I think assimilation is always a loss. I mean, certainly my culture experienced it, Italian-American culture has kind of vanished too.”
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“Well, it's changed. There's no doubt about it. I mean, I think that the AIDS was like a Holocaust. The number of interesting, fascinating, talented men of artists and people who were just in fashion and just every level. I mean, I think that in many ways gig culture is sort of still recovering from that. We're at a kind of like, I don't know, kind of holding pattern, I think after the, there was an enormous kind of flamboyance and assertiveness to gay male culture once, and it had a distinct style and voice of its own. And so what you're saying, oh, things are turning out better, well, yes, there's an assimilation going on, but also to me a kind of disappearance of aesthetic that was, so I mean, Oscar Wall is one of the, you know, the major influences on my thinking remains that. I teach a whole course in Oscar.”
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“I think because they assume that woman rules, it's like a woman is the cuck of the walk down there. I'm still trying to figure it out. But anyway, I love it. I adore it. I mean, I love Brazilian women. They're so bossy.”
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“Well, I would say that Brazil has the healthiest view of sexuality, but I wouldn't say that the sexes are particularly getting along in the upper middle class in Brazil. As I meet professional women, journalists and so on there, I mean, I think that the women are magnificent, incredible, the way they look and dress, and they have such style and assertiveness and so on. But I'm not sure the communications with men are particularly successful right now. There's a lot of static there. And the men look kind of like gnomes. It's strange. They don't have this thing in the United States, usually at the upper middle class, you know, successful careers and so on. You'll have the women doing their Pilates, and the men will be going to the gym also. And not in Brazil, okay? The men just seem to sag and get plumper and plumper and duller and duller and lose their hair. And nobody minds.”
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“The most underrated play. Yes. I don't know. I really can't answer. I'm teaching, I'm teaching my Shakespeare course this semester. I simply focus on the really major plays. Perhaps Antonin Cleopatra is like, it's starting to recede. I don't know why. I think Antony and Cleopatra was a great favorite of my generation, of the 60s generation. But for some reason, it's becoming, I think, marginal. I'm not sure. Maybe it's because it's about imperialism”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By parenthood, well, obviously we're in a time now where parenting is in crisis, I would think. I mean, I think that the reason we have all these whiny, super sensitive girls on campus, they'll run shrieking, the slightest thing that offends their ears or drag mattresses onto the stage, it commence matters. The reason we have...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Harry Potter, no, I don't recommend it. I mean, yeah. In fact, I refuse to write on Harry Potter for the Wall Street Journal once, and they said, oh, who should we ask next? And they asked Harold Bloom. And so Harold Bloom became known for he got that because just like Norman Mayler got to interview Madonna for the cover of Esquire because Madonna said no to me. That's another people kind of trying to bring us together. HBO wanted to do my dinner at Andre type thing with Madonna me. Just like a fray. I don't know why I think she thought I was going to be like some big intellectual, but it's not true.”
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“Oh, I don't read fiction. I don't read contemporary fiction. I have absolutely zero interest in contemporary fiction. The last contemporary fiction I have any interest in is anti-maim, and I'm not kidding, okay? I like plays like Tennessee Williams. No, the fiction writers are off in another world. They don't see the world as it exists now. They don't use the language of the contemporary world. Their English is utterly stale, okay, encloistered. I cannot read a page of contemporary fiction. I'm sorry. Anything that is pre-contemporary fiction, I'm a great admirer of. I haven't read, and believe me, these are the kind of books I'll open like this. I like that.”
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“Oh no, don't start me on your phone. One of my least favorite people in the universe. and so on and all that screechy yodling that went on oh my god she's a horror but but but i gave her her due in glittering images okay just because she was a very important figure in in the development of conceptual art okay her in her she really was very innovative in the 1960s but oh what a dreary humorless person”
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“Well, I think he should be on the reading list. I mean, I don't know. Perhaps he was overrated in our time, but he certainly is like, it was a major author and major influence on American literature, for heaven's sake. But that's young people aren't reading him, and they aren't reading many of the great authors.”
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“Oh, he's totally gone, poor man. Okay. I mean, actually, I've been commenting on this recently to my friends. Do you remember that period when Faulkner was everywhere and everyone read him? And he was just a baseline figure. And then thanks to Kate Millet and all these Philistine feminist types in the early 70s, there was like a great sweeping away of many, many major male figures in the history of literature, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, who had a huge influence on me. So, I mean, if you are a resident of Mississippi, Faulkner still lives and is vivid. But I think outside of that, it's been a year since I've heard Faulkner mentioned.”
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“Probably underrated I don't know. I just think that economists sort of are kind of figures of fun sometimes in cartoons. I don't know. I'm just judging by what I sense.”
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“Well, I mean, of course, he was always said, I gave him great, okay? All right, which is sort of like to have a father to a daughter, et cetera. But he and I agree about Freud. We have a kind of Freudian psychohistory and so on.”
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“Soldier through adversity and rejection and just continue to develop the craft and eventually hopefully one will see one's work in print.”
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“Gender everywhere. But at the time, no one was doing a dissertation on sex at the Yale Graduate School. I mean, it's hard to believe. And so he summoned me to his office, and that's really how we met. And he said, my dear, I am the only one who can direct that dissertation. And I said, okay. And that was it. So then he understood everything. He understood everything I wanted to do with the book, and he understood my ideas. And so he was a fantastic resource for me insofar as he also supported me or gave me confidence throughout all those decades when I couldn't get published. My sexual persona was rejected by seven publishers and five agents. By the time it was published, I was 43 years old. So I'm like a great role model, it seems to me, for people to just...”
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“Well, I'm my favorite, but if you want to know the story. Oh, all right. Here's the story. Okay. All right. So I never took a course with Harold Bloom. I was in graduate school at Yale. And I just never took a course with him. So I didn't know him at all. And then he heard, the only time I encountered him, oh, this is going, oh, I shouldn't say this. Okay, maybe. At any rate, let's say he would come according with a famous poet who was a friend of his, who also name him. And so I would see him turning up at a door away. So, hello, hello, hello, okay, that's all. So I just knew him, you know, to say hello to him. And so then he heard what I was going to be working on, that I was having trouble finding a dissertation director for a study of androgyny in literature and art. And it's a time when nobody was doing, it's hard to believe now because everything is sexy.”
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“Now, this other thing of the online thing, I don't believe this online thing at all, okay? I think that you need the live person, and you need a live person who can talk extemporaneously and respond to the moment, and not just people who are reading the same old damn lecture over and over again, you know, the kind of form, also the kind of formulaic teaching that goes on in the Ivy League, and also the kind of teaching that goes on in the Ivy League where there's flattering. There's like these small seminar things, okay? The A minus seminar. And so there's all this practice and learning how to talk in this slightly pretentious way about things and impressing each other, blah, blah, blah. And so what? So they're all packaging them for the...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think the idea of sending young people abroad is great. I mean, I think that is a proper use of the money that's going down the tubes at the major universities right now. For parents to think for profit that young people a lot to be exposed to the world because RBSR right now, our primary school education is absolutely appalling in its lack of world history and world geography. I know because I get everyone in my classroom. I'm lucky I teach at a kind of school where I'm getting students from a wide range of preparations. There might be a couple of private school people, but people from the inner city of good schools, from bad schools. So I really have a very clear sense after 40 years of teaching what's going on at the primary school level. And it is unbelievable how little they know. It's absolutely shocking how little they know. This is a recipe for disaster. So I say, yes, send them abroad. Fantastic idea.”
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“Well, I'm just saying there are certain moments, certain magic moments of fertility or creativity in many of the arts. You can find certain key moments where there's a confluence of influences and a certain richness. In that very moment, it's a great time to be alive, to be young. For example, Shakespeare would not be Shakespeare if you were alive today. As it happens, he left Stratford for whatever reason. Went to London at a magic moment when theatre was flourishing, which was only for a few decades, and then it was out again. There's a certain kind of luck. If the right person at the right time in any one of the artistic showers.”
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“Stands up to working today. I was enjoying, I was really very hopeful about Rihanna for a while there, but unfortunately I think that she's not really working with a top producers any longer. And the new album is an atrocity. It's really terrible. It's sad because there are so many people with talents who are not being developed. It's because our music industry is now very formulaic. People can't, you know, young people can't really move along, studying their instruments and getting their chops over a period of time. There's nothing to draw on in the way that the musicians of my generation could draw on the folk tradition, the folk music.”
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“Well, Jimi Hendrix is one of the great geniuses of any instrument in the last hundred years. Obviously his music has lasted still fresh and so on. For me, there's a whole period there. I teach in my art of song lyrics course. I just was doing Crosby Stills and Nash doing wooden ships. And it still has this incredible power. I love that the entire period of the 1960s, the music, I think. It was like a kind of magic moment. And then still in the 70s, Led Zeppelin, you know, when the levee breaks, this has enormous power. A lot of that music that Jimmy Page was doing, a lot of it working in the studio, actually. It wasn't just live music.”
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“Oh my goodness, the light shows and the this and the that. And this is not a, you know, they're not musical experiences. They're social experiences now.”
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“Well, not like the stones, but here's the difference is that the Rolling Stones are inspired by, animated by to this day, by the blues tradition and the Beatles really were more almost Broadway and musical comedy. Yes, Bridge Musical and Tin Pan Alley and so on. There were tremendous songsmiths, but there's nothing dark about them. In other words, you're not getting that Paul McCartney is a wonderful bass player, but you're not getting the big roaring sound of Bill Wyman's bass at the beginning of the Stone's career. And I really have not been following the Stones ever since Bill Wyman left the Stones, I have not felt that that's what the stones I knew. So I'm delighted that they go on and they perform and so on, but I have absolutely no interest in exposing myself to those horrible arena conditions for music. It's people.”
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“Well, I haven't been following them for many, many years. To me, the Rolling Stones were a revolution when they happened in that period when the Beatles were all upbeat. And then here come these surly guys sneering, spitting, and so on. The Beatles were.”
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“Yes, that was. So Oh, I can't tell you. Oh, I know exactly what they're talking about. No, it was Revenge of the Sith that I realized after the Great Volcano Planet climax of Revenge of the Sith. I think it's one of the greatest sequences in all of modern art. The thing is, once I had written about it, I realized as I went out into the world how few people had actually seen the movie because people had given up on the prequels long before. Therefore, I think anyone who dismisses what I say about the sublime quality of the vision, the execution, and the emotion, the passions of that scene really, they just, you know, they don't know what I'm talking about because they haven't exposed themselves to it.”
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“The greatest artist, and it has nothing to do with George Lucas, and I haven't seen it. I wouldn't dream of it. When it's on TV, I'll look at it. Please.”
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“Well, Brazil, it's in its own world. I mean, it's not been part of the world wars. It doesn't have this huge militaristic superstructure. It doesn't have a messianic view of itself politically. The politics are always chaos and drama. It's like grand opera. It's like another planet, really, Brazil.”
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“It's such a polyglut of cultures and ethnicities. But beyond that, Brazilians understood my work from the first moment I began to publish, because what they understood was artifice, art, because of carnival for them and costuming and masquerade and that kind of baroque exuberance and the syncretism of Christianity with the Yoruba cult of West Africa in Salvador de Baille. So they understood my vision of art and beauty and beauty as an incredibly important human principle rather than the way it was being trashed by my fellow feminists at that time. And they also understand nature, the grandeur of nature, the power of nature. It's much larger. Yes, instead of these silly little arguments that, oh, climate change is causing the end of the world. Oh my God. Okay, anyone who talks like that does not understand the grandeur and the power of nature.”
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“No, we're in a period of decadence of falling off, you see. No, conservative would mean that I would be cleaving to something past, which was great and no longer is. And I would be saying we need to return to that. And usually I'm not saying we need to return to anything. I do believe we're moving inexorably into the future. There's a momentum to that. I'm a libertarian. So I don't, you know, that's why I'm always freely offending both sides, liberal conservative. And I'm a Democrat, even though I'm constantly criticizing. I mean, I think a true intellectual should be always beyond partisanship. Yes, in always critiquing the premises of your own friends and allies.”
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“Give me what you're saying. And the music composed for those things, it directly inspired my writing of sexual persona. Absolutely. I'm directly inspired by music. I think for women, it's good to have something that's going to make you assert and trample and conquer. That animates me. These are my maxims.”
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“I would say that a culture always moves in cycles. So you have periods that esteem the colossal, like the Bernini Renaissance and Baroque periods. And then you get the small, the art of the small, like the Roco Co is a kind of evanescence and evaporation of the big Baroque swirls. And all of a sudden it's like little tiny things like a Valentine's card, etc. So I think we go back and forth. I just feel lucky, I think, that I have a kind of epic imagination because I was raised watching the Ten Commandments and Ben Hurr. Oh my God, Ben Hurr, I could watch that 300 times.”
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“Time 1950s, when Hollywood was competing with television by doing something which television couldn't do, those are gigantic screams, you know, like the Ten Commandments, there's like a giant thing of Pharaoh, giant sculpture, starts at one end of the screen and you watch it, like go to the other end of the screen. It's phenomenal. Lawrence of Arabia, oh my God, the dunes of Lawrence of Arabia with that music and so on. And so there's no sense of the large. Young people have no sense whatever of the expansive, of the big gesture.”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the reason I wrote glittering images is because I felt that there's an avalanche of fragmented visual impressions, disconnected, glaring, tacky, badly designed, that young people are growing up in. I think it really is true that children's brains are being reshaped and in the standard forms for logic and for sequential information and for reasoning everything's kind of disappearing. So I tried to write a book where people would just like sort of stare at an image for a certain length of time. I think it's getting worse and worse. Web design, which my school, the University of the Arts, teaches and so on. I think web design is in the pits. I thought web design was moving into becoming a major genre of the arts. I think we're in a kind of swirling vortex. And yes, what you mentioned about the miniaturization of image, it's terrible. I was raised in...”
2016-04-25 · Conversations with Tyler · Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, my last big tech guru was probably Marshall McLuhan. He had a prophetic insight into what was about to happen. He's kind of the patron saint of my working on the web from the very first issue of Ceylon in 1995. When it's hard to believe that Webb still wasn't taken seriously by already established journalists, there was a major political reporter at the Boston Globe, for example, who tried to pressure me not to write for the web. He said, oh, no one takes the web seriously. And an enormous thing has happened, which of course has also sucked in a whole generation of young people, alas, since all they know. So I think we're kind of on the downside of that right now.”
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