“Twenty-first-century culture has cannibalized camp, but to say that it’s no longer camp because its aesthetics have gone mainstream is an overly simplistic reading. Camp has always been mourning its own death.” 謝謝。
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. To perceive Camp in objects and persons is to understand being-as-playing-a-role." It's almost like what Camp means is continually dying. You know, Camp is dead, but there's also a Camp to death. It becomes renewed in a new observation of a new level of ridiculousness.
And if we're talking about a Camp theme, then the encouraging of every single person to have an expression, and to shine that expression into the light of the sun. And to crawl around and shriek in the darkness as well, you know, to have a moment.
As it's said, " Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies, the fantastic nature of which we don't perceive. We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as a fantasy when it is not our own." -Susan Sontag
- Miller saw the masked look partly as "this death...like this ultimate transformation that we all have to do at least once. The celebration of camp is almost funereal...It's almost like it dies as it walks in the room. But I think it consumes the other as well. You know? I think it's like fire and oxygen."