What Would Susan Sontag Think about Instagram?

In extending our thinking about Susan Sontag, you might want to consider how we can connect the ideas in “In Plato’s Cave” to our own photo obsessed, social-media saturated world.  In “Instagram’s Instant Nostalgia”   Ian Crouch connects contemporary Instagram culture to Susan Sontag’s ideas about the meaning and uses of photography.  Anna Khoury created a whole blog called “Susan Sontag vs. Instagram” to explore what Sontag might have made of instagram culture.  What do you think Sontag would have had to say about Instagram?

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