Sontag throwing shade on Walter Benjamin’s montage work:
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism - victimless collecting, as it were - this should not be taken to mean that Benjamin disapproved of, or did not indulge in, the real thing. For it was Benjamin’s conviction that reality itself invited - and vindicated - the once heedless, inevitably destructive ministrations of the collector. In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.
Sontag, Susan (1973) On Photography, pp. 75-76.
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