Susan Sontag Quotes About Aliens

Quotes about: Aliens

• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Disease

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Military, Health, Medicine

• The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.

  Susan Sontag

  Perspective, Exotic, Association

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