she's not into rock

Paglia is a rapper.

"I'm the Sontag of the 90's" jezus....

"You'd be surprised at all of the things I don't know, because I know about a lot of other things, and I read all the time, and I don't think I'm wasting my time on what I do read, so...one can't read everything."

love when Paglia tosses her head back after she says her book had been a best seller for years, what a legend so arrogant

Paglia and Tarantino should have an "okay?"-off.

This is Camile's version of "the more you ignore me, the closer I get..."

Paglia’s hate towards Sontag is so funny. She clearly venerated Sontag until Sontag offhandedly dismissed her, then Paglia almost instantly started waging a war against her - insisting Sontag was just jealous of her. Sontag bruised Paglia’s ego by dismissing the supposed social influence Paglia had ascribed to herself. Her hate for Sontag is a classic case of scorn emanating from rejection, from one of her idols no less. I think all Paglia’s public opprobrium of Sontag was actually a desperate attempt to capture her attention.

"Sontag came out of hiding, Germaine Grier came out of hiding and suddenly people realized how interesting I am." Love her

Camile was fucking hilarious here. So biting and concentrated, like a laser.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Interesting, because now Paglia has become what she claimed Sontag was in the early 90s. She constantly berates new music as lacking depth, criticizes modern art as solipsistic and full of nihilism, while haranguing about the digitization of art, and constantly credits her generation as everything this one isn't. She doesn't follow pop culture like she use to then. Stop me if you if you heard this one before: "I'm a product of the 60's", "I'm a Baby Boomer", "My generation was the first" and so forth. I agree with her on many points, but she's in danger of sounding as out of it and as faded as she charged Sontag with here.

I love this video. Sontag: I'm full of myself! Paglia: No, I'm full of myself! Sontag: I'm the fullest of myself! Paglia: I, me, I, I, I! Sontag: MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

This woman does not suffer from low self esteem, that's for sure!

damn paglia is fast

She's such an obvious outsider and people enjoy the fight she has in her. She's so invigorating. She's so alive with life, warmth, and honesty. I just adore her!

This is the funniest thing I've seen this morning

Read about Paglia's first encounter with her at Bennington College in the 1970's in "Vamps and Tramps."

Paglia remains an insanely funny, sharp and attractive woman. This clip is simply wonderful.

susan sontag: capricorn, taurus, cancer, virgo, scorpio, aquarius camille paglia: aries, pisces, gemini, libra, sagittarius, leo

Are we not speaking English?

Just answer the damn question.

'It's too bad, because she was once a prophet of popular culture.' 🗝️🖋️🗡️

I think Paglia might have done a little mound of coke before that interview, her speed of thought and speech and her confidence are superhuman.

Sontag is lying you can see it in her microexpressions

The smugness is choking me...

This is my favorite period of Camille Paglia. I even feel a retrospective affection for her here because this was the person that rocked my world. Bold, fearless, brash like a medieval warrior in chain mail. Jousting her opponents to certain doom. Heartwarming. ❤

Did I actually just watch and hear all this? Did any of this actually happen? Words fail.

This is too good to be true! By the way Paglia wrote a brilliant text on Sontag! I love both! They both created an iridescent mind-blowing ingenious body of work (Paglia‘s an edge above Sontag in my opinion)

this is fucking hilarious

I don't understand why people like Camille, to me her claims of Sontag being jealous of her are embarrassing. Younger doesn't mean better. And at the end of the day, It's not a competition, intellectuals hang out and admire each other all the time. There is a reason that Sontag avoids talking about Paglia. It's better to pretend that she doesn't know her, than saying yes i do and she is horrible.

Thanks for posting this! More of this interview, please, if you have it. Any Paglia is great Paglia!

I swear Camille Paglia makes hummingbirds look like sloths!

Would love to see the whole interview.

" ... and suddenly people realised just how interesting I am!" Word perfect. However, for all her interestingness, she is still ignored and not taken seriously by the media, or academia, or mainstream feminism, or politicians, or the general public. So what is going on? Answer: She states too many truth bombs for them all. Talk after talk, Camille laments her being ignored, her small profile. She says there's a conspiracy against her. But I think it is because she is so self-transcendent (ie, doesn't give a shit about what anyone thinks of her) that her abrasive and (seemingly) arogant nature makes people attack or dismiss the messenger rather than attending to her incredibly incisive messages. Like so many commenters here below -- "Agh, she's so nasty" -- meaning, I can't be bothered to think through what she just said. Such a shame.

Whenever I listen to CP I set the playback speed to .75.

she’s giving me trisha paytas trying to ruin someone’s life energy

I got "Sexual Personae" around '92 at a Brooklyn bookstore because my favorite professors were bringing it to class and reading excerpts and laughing at how brilliant and hilarious it was, particularly the chapters on American Late Romanticism and Emily DIckinson. For those who believe all this liquid gender nonsense is something new, I went to a dinner party for a poet on the Upper West Side mid-Nineties and got into a tête-à-tête with the guest of honor where I told her there are biological differences in the sexes and she gasped, wine glass in hand, and said, "You can't say that!" Camille Paglia was what Norman Mailer never had the balls to be in his debates with these harpies, he sheepishly shrugged when the feminists bashed him and tried to charm them with gentlemanly behavior. If they called him a born rapist he would just deflect with something like "But what about all the men raped in prison." Paglia just whipped it out and said "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would all be living in grass huts" and their only response was to try and pretend her away out of fear, they wanted no part of her, she would've knocked them out in mass media.

Oooh they both sound pissed.

'I am the Sontag of the 90's' ? Its almost 2020, where is Camille Paglia?

[“I think you should be ashamed to die if you haven't sort of done something for other people.” - Susan Sontag (born Susan Rosenblatt), 1933-2004]

Man, if you looked at the face and hear the voice of Sontag first, and then look at Camille Paglia, it is no wonder she 'does not know her'.

i would go lesbian for camille, and there are serious logistical problems in my way, like i'm a guy...she is just so awesome

How many of us are as confident as her to give that self satisfied look at the end? Good for her.

Camille Paglia claims to have had a hard time finding lovers in her youth but watching her here I cannot understand why. She's amazing

top 10 favorite interview clips, easily

In another interview she is asked about her lack of humbleness and graciousness and she said that it was a part of her personae and to try and distinct herself from the establishment from which she was fighting against. I for one love it finding it extremely effective and as she's gotten older she has cooled a little bit.

omg, camille was so hot!

Paglia's still relevant.

"I am the Sontag of the 90's"....I alway thought Sontag was the Sontag of the 90's...

I love Camille so much. 😂

I like Paglia's contrarian rants - even as I often disagree with her. I think it's good to stir the pot. But, 20 years later, I still think Sontag still has the higher profile.

To be honest, Paglia although massive in the 90s, has for one reason or another lost much of her influence and media presence today.

If Paglia thinks herself really like much more brilliant than Sontag, she doesn't need to be this upset. She sounds almost losing her temper, on the contrary, Sontag still has her manner. That's Sontag's old European manner.

This is like the Bette Davis / Joan Crawford feud. LOL Turn it into a Netflix series!

This woman is amazing. I'll believe Feminism can deliver it's promises when I start seeing more women as strong, brash, artistic, and humourous as Paglia.

So that's where Mariah Carey got the idea to diss J-Lo -- jk lmao

Sontag does NOT come off well here.

I worship this woman!!! You go girl!

I just discovered Susan Sontag. I doubt Sontag will be ever gone.....

Camille is absolutely right about her impact, her place in the panorama of literary figures, her reflection of the era in which she lived, etc, all that. It's all true. My main concern is who will be the ones who will replace her? I can't see anyone with the breadth of knowledge and awareness and sheer brute force to surpass her. Who is going to be strong enough to point out weaknesses and flaws in her ideas? I'm scared to death that it will be nobody.

Camille Paglia has got to be one of the most annoying people on the planet. She's more famous for arguing against other theorists than for her own work. And come on, she hates the French because she can't understand them. Oh, and that was one too many homophobic hints against Foucault coming from a feminist. She was not the Sontag of the 90s, or the Sontag of ever. Her arguments against other theorists are merely oversimplifications of their work. She's good at verbal ranting, like she does in the video, and in written ranting, but afraid of thought. So, let's dismiss Sontag, and let's dismiss Butler, who she has also not-so-gracefully dissed, and all hail Camille Paglia, the go-to authority for juvenile arguing. p.s.- I love you Susan p.s. 2- Camille, you're just mad because you 'can't sit with her'!

KZfaq needs a heart react icon.

did i just watch somebody stutter out a wrestling promo?

Camille Paglia is really annoying. I would be so ashamed of myself to utter even one of the many ridiculously boasting things that she said in this interview and elsewhere. I often get the feeling that she can only sustain her big flashy self when she's on the attack against everything and everyone. I prefer Sontag.

What Paglia doesn't realize is that she is no Susan Sontag. Paglia has a lot of nerve to call Sontag snooty.

I wouldn't be surprised that Sontag hasn't heard of Pagli nor cares who she is. Paglia can't even say anything intelligent her she just reverts to some personal attack. Well anyone can do that. She calls herself the Sontag of the 90's, but she's just a wannabe pseudo-intellectual. See, easy.

Paglia is terribly bright, a good writer, and knows which way the winds blow. And she probably came as close as anyone to supplanting Sontag -- but she still missed by a mile.

'Sexual Personae' 1990...Camille Paglia....one of best books i have read...

Well said, sir.

Man, Paglia is so pressed.

"Damning with faint praise..."

Does anyone remember the name of the guy interviewing Puglia? He was really good.

She doesn't watch TV and she's not into rock? How is that a valid criticism? Is it valid to denounce someone in this generation for not surfing KZfaq and not listening to Taylor swift? That was just a ridiculous and catty thing to say.

“Fame is the destroyer of virtue”… Zhuangzi (Alan Watts said that virtue in this context is like referring to the healing virtue of a plant)

Sontag has far better taste in art and film than Camille imo. She was a champion of great directors like Sokurov and Tarr before it was even 'fashionable' to like them.

i LOVE CAMILLE WHEN TALKING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS SHE SAID MEN YOU NEED TO GET IT UP AND WOMEN YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH IT. I STOOD UP AND CHEERED. THAT WAS YEARS AGO

What a snot Sontag really was comes through here.

there are photographs of them together

@Buirgenstock In my opinion, Paglia's reputation rests on "Sexual Personae" (quite a book!) & "Break, Blow, Burn", & then there are those fantastic essays on Arion. True, she may be riding in the coattails of her magnus opus of 20 years ago, & which may have contributed to the cultural advancement from then to now. To understand Paglia is not merely to read her books, but to give a proper reading of her own public & television appearances...

I find it really funny that the majority of the people that criticize Paglia using emotional arguments (like "she's so conceited" or "she's such a bitch") as opposed to rational disagreement (like factual opposition to something she says) are predominately women. Such a cliche response--and it feeds into this idea that women are irrational, over-emotional, and threatened by strong personalities in other women. sigh...

paglia is a goddess

I do not dislike Paglia, though one wonders what could have made her the "Susan Sontag of the 90s" given that Paglia's most influential book of that decade was roundly attacked and condemned by feminist critics.

@morganblackwood People who talk that quickly are super smart, which has no bearing on whether one finds them annoying. I just try to keep up! There's a difference between self-obsessed and unapologetic about one's accomplishments and abilities. Paglia's self confidence isn't what's lacking in feminism (though try to get a feminist to debate you for an audience), but what makes her a...for lack of a better word..."righteous" or "right on" feminist, is her ability to be evidence-based in her thinking and conclusions, her non-ideological approach, her honesty, and the courage to put herself out there like she does. It's easy to be the kind of feminist who plays victim and hates men; it takes no courage at all. Those folks get all sorts of support, affirmation, media attention, and even laughter at men's expense. But when you're speaking up against that type of feminist, or merely speaking out in support of men's issues, you're more likely to get silenced, at best (even as the Right to Free Speech is forgotten). It will change if we continue to take the Camille Paglias of the world more seriously. It's already happening, and the feminists in charge of academe know it, which is why they keep moving the field goal to "but men are all rapists!" and why they're making it a hostile environment for men, a tactic which isn't only being used in colleges and universities, but in society proper. Have you watched a sitcom or commercial lately? The way women are portrayed vs. the way men are portrayed.... They're vehicles for ideological teaching, and misandry is the major field of study. We enjoy our world at the expense of men. Last time (and every single time) I looked, everything I see has been built by men with families, for the benefit of their families, and for the benefit of every single woman I see. As well as for me, and I am so grateful to them. I even tell them sometimes, like utilities workers and garbage men; they're always shocked and very happy to hear it. Why doesn't Hallmark make cards for them? Instead, they make cards absolutely denigrating men, the way the Nazis spoke about Jews. And make a killing doing it, too. Which speaks volumes. The very men who make our world worth living are the men who get the most hate. Talk about ungrateful. Men try so hard to please, especially women, and they do such a mind-boggling amount for everyone's benefit. Usually with a sense of humor, too. I could never marginalize men, as a group, nor hate them. What type of person would even do that? A lot of 'em, that's who! Women and men who were of age during the advent of third wave feminism (like Paglia or Warren Farrell), aren't going to be around forever. They're late 60s/early 70s in age. Going back as far as they do, and the vast amount of knowledge and experience they possess, gives them a level of credibility, knowledge, and advice we're not likely to see again, if not for a while, than for our entire life times. We need to get to know them now, instead of later. Seems most people are easily seduced by some sort of ideology (including, of course cultural feminism), while others of us have a knack for naturally avoiding them. Ideology is a very terrible thing. I dig how it really doesn't seem to tempt Paglia. (I've seen several videos of her speaking.) I just bought "Sexual Personae" and will read it when I'm done with my fifth Warren Farrell book. Looking forward to it.

Paglia is adorably narcissistic.

Great that Camille understands the importance of popular culture

I love Camille. She was great then and remains so. She had Sontag to a T. "From Avant-garde in the 1970's to toast of the bourgosie of the 90's" is perfect. Confirmation of Sontag's decline was her propping-up of other failed feminist writers like Naomi Wolf.

I am not surprised about what Sontag does not know.

Sontag at 0:34 gives me anxiety lol

I don't know who any of these women are and I don't watch reality tv but this is better than that!

I would agree that Greer lost the plot, her recent comments about former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's - ( first female Australian Prime Minister ) - bum being "big", really shattered her importance for me, in fact i thought she was a complete fool when i saw the interview in which she made the comment. Susan Sontag is deliberately serious, if you read her work, her diary entries, you can see she has a sense of humor. Just not an overly indulgent or attention seeking one.

Non intellectual cis man here. The first time I came across Sontag was in Nassim Talebs book “Skin in the Game”. Go look up what he said about her, it’s very telling about who Sontag was.

Camille is definitely a sage.

Sontag, so bitter, why ? I thought Paglia was tagged the unhappy one.

"she doesn't listen to rock... she has been passed..." LOL.. Sontag does come off as snobbish and in denial of Paglia's presence...

Sontag ... at a pathetic point and obviously lying. She was very good, at the start, but that point in time she had become a self-parody.

Camille is always interesting and enlightening even though she pisses me off and I disagree with her often (her more recent Salon articles have been particularly disappointing). Kids of today must read her work and form their own opinions. This posturing "who the hell is Paglia" crap only reveals your own insular awareness. She knocked the feminist and cultural establishment on its ass!!!

The greatest feminist of the past thirty years is Camille Paglia.

The claws came out.

Sontag is bitter. And it shows.