Names sell books. Susan Sontag's name sells books. But the content of this book isn't worth much. Pretentious, pseudo-intellectual concepts (on the level of a clever college freshman's thinking), awkward writing (trying too hard to find academic-sounding words), in general, just plain silly. Sadly, our universities are full of people who read stuff like this, write stuff like this, and assign stuff like this. As a semi-professional photographer and former college teacher (literature), I would not recommend this book to anyone.