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Sontag noted that camp functions as “a private code, a badge of identity even.”

In her epochal essay “Against Interpretation,” Susan Sontag concluded with a memorable flourish: “In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”

Sontag wrote that to talk about camp is to betray it, and she’s right.

It's camp in the best sense — what Sontag must have had in mind when she described the state of being "bad to the point of enjoyable."

He could riff in his writings on the cultural theories of Susan Sontag, Lionel Trilling and R.D.