Camille Paglia: Provocations
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- Much has changed since Camille Paglia burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, but her laser-sharp insight, matchless wit, and fearless commentary continue to be ahead of the curve-not only capturing the tone of the moment, but often anticipating it. Ever an intellectual firebrand, Paglia will share her always provocative takes on religion, the rise of the right, the state of LGBTQ activism, presidents past and present, and more, in her newest book, Provocations-a collection of essays, articles, columns, and interviews drawn from the full span of her wide-ranging and important career as a public intellectual.
This program is generously underwritten by Ellen Stone Belic and presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
This program was recorded on October 30, 2018.
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Can't get enough of her. It's too bad she doesn't video tape her classroom lectures and post them online. I feel like a whole world of knowledge resides in her, which could benefit people like me greatly.
For me, Paglia has a place like Jordan B. Peterson as an exellent intellectual speaker/teacher
@@dsamurai4725 Paglia is a thousand times more intelligent than Peterson
@@BananaFries08 no doubt that, I probably meant the area of incluence back theb
From Spain. I adore Paglia. It,s the best thinker since 80,s. The best.
If you love her you should check out Jordan Peterson
Culturally speaking, she is America's national treasure.
Omar Mizdaq agreed
Omar Mizdaq completely agree.
I say this all the time!
ugh, then why is she not known? She should be.
@Chris Saint Prince Futurama is right around the corner.
Camille Paglia was a breath of fresh air when I was in grad school. Now she’s one of the few liberals I listen to.
@C M So true C M. BTW This has been difficult for me to learn but it is becoming clearer to me lately.
@C M Truly so. Leftists have literally sodomized the term. Whenever I hear "liberal" nowadays I sneer of disgust.
It's funny how the more you educate yourself the more you begin to see lies everywhere.
Is she liberal?
@@6789uiop Americans use the word liberal differently. I've given up trying to pin it down but it seems to be basically synonymous with Democrat.
@@harryradley And Democrats are most illiberal.
She is brilliant! Thank god for her sanity in this chaotic time!
What an amazing perspective, a breath of fresh air for us young people, I think. The newer generations absolutely have to listen to these sane minds, who were brought up in academia before the corruption and radicalization we see today.
You put it most excellently.
You are so correct. I am from the same period of time as is she, and what has happened to education is unbelievable.
My late teenage children are very cynical about this sjw stuff. It’s falling out of fashion.
Great. Perhaps things are looking up.
@@scottalbers5405 it feels like we are living in a second dark ages doesnt it?
I agree with Camille that no intellectual should be politically partisan, they should always retain that ability to stand back and present a critical point of view
"If you don't pay a price for your avant garde gesture, it's not avant garde."
"If problems of the Left are not dealt with, they'll gain in force and be dealt with by the Right."
So damn brilliant and concise. I haven't read Provocations yet but I'll be ordering it out of my next check. Or, my girlfriend wants to know what to get me for Christmas, so I may just wait for that.
I love this woman. I can't tell you the effect Sexual Personae had on me but it was mighty.
Camille is the greatest female philosopher of this generation.
And G.Greer
Ya but what about her well documented NAMBLA advocacy? Just an odd footnote?
Isabelle Stengers
Totally agree. Brilliant and able to analize the human behavior always.
Art historian, cultural critic. Philosophers have systems and agendas. That said, I would devour her work of philosophy if she wrote it.
I just found her 1992 interview, and as a man of reasonably traditional background, was gobsmacked at her sound absolutely grounded views on what makes us, both men and woman, tick.
She is a very precious lady.
Her 1990 book, the Sexual Personae changed my perspective on a lot of things and thus she will always have my gratitude.
May she live a long and happy life.
Razor sharp intellect. Laser plotted insights. Scathingly frank. Brutally honest. Absolutely admirable. A voice of reason and sanity in the face of the dystopians.
I could listen to Camille Paglia all day ! Intelligent, eloquent and witty. Her first few books came out when I was a teenager and from there I've been hooked. She is a voice of logic in a world swiftly loosing touch with sanity.
"Professional cynics ". What a perfect way to describe my experience in graduate school with professional cynics as the faculty!!
OK, for God's sake, she's not brilliant, she's a genius! As I continue watching her, I've come to realise a little narcissism isn't the end of the world.
Ken Johnson
Women cannot be geniuses
And that’s according to this Paglia character too.
lazydays
Nope. Just fewer women will be genius’s.
Or idiots for that matter.
Fainites Barley
Well I can name plenty of female ’Idiots’.
But not one female genius.
And it certainly would not be some failed transgendered academic from Pennsylvania.
Still, these words have some movement with regards to criteria and meaning.
(IQ being a technical standard).
Face it though, women are a subverted gender entrusted with the most important and necessary task of all; reproduction.
lazydays
Well really women are the ‘norm’ and men are the means of spreading the gene pool around. Seems to work pretty well.
The point about the IQ distribution curve doesn’t mean none at the extremes. Just far fewer.
Fainites Barley
Fine, but can you at least name one female genius ?
I'm thinking also beyond the IQ question and in addition to talent which isn't the same thing.
There are plenty ’brilliant’ women I suppose but in history I just don't think genius is a female thing.
This could be a fringe of a fringe.
I Camille Paglia.
Same, Allan Peda.
(((
"only weak women cannot recognize the grandeur of men"
I love how it ends with Camille Paglia going, “Oh well!” That’s the essence of her.
What a sensation she is. I absolutely adore her, and could listen to her go on about just about anything, for hours.
Camille is the smartest woman of my generation.
Paglia at about 38:00 mentioning how you know what the pundits are going to say reminded me of something Stephen Kotkin said--An ideologue is a person who knows the answer before the question is asked.
I remember Jordan Peterson (love him or hate him, not here to argue about thay) saying something similar. Called it being ideological possessed. Interesting.
I had to set playback speed to about 1.25 to get back to what I am used to from the Pag -- was murmuring to myself while watching, "either she started reading comments on her talks on youtube, or she is on medication," haha. Love what you do, Camille
more like 2x speed
Its refreshing to hear a scholar who reflects a genuine awareness of the historical development of civilization rather than hollow popularity for money and position.
Correction. Camille is the greatest philosopher of this generation.
Great stuff. Last few minutes are epic.
Kon Berner I agree! And then when she asks « Have I gone on too long? » ... I love it when she speaks fast and passionately: I actually understand her better!
listen to it on 125 percent speed for the full Camille experience
fancy wrong I noticed how much slower she talks here lol
She's such a unique voice and thinker to what I normally hear. Just wonderful. :)
I would love to have Camille as an art teacher.
University of the Arts in Philly
I just discovered her amazing insight. Wow, why oh why is she not as popular as Jordan Peterson
Because no one has the guts to step to her Intellectually. Students and media arrogantly underestimated Peterson and suffered the wrath of true intellect.
Whenever I hear the term "a return to" I instantly know that it will never happen -- not because I don't think it would be GREAT that many good things should be brought back, but because I know 80% of the population hold strongly to that old shibboleth "you can't bring back the past". Camille, like so many of us from the 60s, is an idealist, but unfortunately, so many today are not. They are stuck in the ideologies of the present (economic rationalism, consumer capitalism, etc) such that the grand visions of people like Camille are destined to fail. Sad but true.
She talks slowly and calmly now. It's surprising coming from her. :)
EDIT: Yeah she's on fire at the end. I knew it was starting too calm haha!
I respect Camille Paglia so much. Was waiting for the ‘uhmmm, oks ‘ to drop and they did ! 😂Such a sane and free thinker .
This is an epiphany. Everything & so much more that I have thought about but was not capable intellectually of articulating has just been outlined by this Brilliant Woman. On a level with Christopher Hitchens, Jordan Petersen & all the great intellectuals in my lifetime. Camille is very special.
She is the sharpest of them all...
But sadly pro pedo.
Stay for the Q&A session. It's the best part, in my opinion.
Breath of fresh air
Absolutely. Teach world religions, most important and super interesting.
She's talking a bit slower. I hope she's okay.
could be a stroke.
I just thought she sounded a bit down. Maybe the political climate is wearing on her, but it might have something to do with the event/venue that she's speaking at too.
Normal aging process I think. Now she’s in syc with most of the rest of us.
@@kipling1957 Hope you're right. I noticed that she's been a bit quiet the past six months or so.
@@tmusic18 Yeah, I noticed that she picked up a little bit during the Q&A session
BRILLIANT, MASTERFUL PERFORMANCE. I love her. Here she is as brilliant as ever.
love her work. Thanks camille
love her so much! hahaha. It's fascinating just to listen to her talk
I remember reading "Feminine Mystique" in college and feeling a bit offended. Realizing that I agree with a good deal of what Camille says.
Long live the most honourable intellectuals of our time 🌹♥️🌹
I love Camille Paglia! When you question a scholar of her great learning you open a flood gate. You have been warned. 😊
Can't STAND Foucault! Thank you for saying he was a fraud. I knew it immediately I was forced to read his shit.
same here...
How refreshing!!!! I love Camille!!!
She's absolutely Wonderful. Cant get enouvh of her stuff.
Great speech. Highlighting a lot of today's ridiculousness, and also reaffirming the fact that she has been talking about these things for decades. Just ordered her older book Sex, Art, and American Culture.
Been saying this about video games for years - the level of art in them is incredible ... and music. And architecture. And, occasionally, storytelling.
Always, storytelling. Just have to look in the right places.
She's fabulous!!
I’ve loved this woman for thirty years.
I see now why Camille holds on to the Classic, Conservative, Western Art, and the Philosophy of Religion and the original Science of the West. As the 1960’s were all about a rebellion against them, Warhol for one, she mentions. How can one contrast and rebel against a Western vision when it has been forgotten? What is one to base ones ideas upon, when all one has is to be “Not That”! The 60’s and especially the 1970’s, are revealed as a Negative Space, a youthful thoughtless destruction. Her students today have the void, which they fill with “self”. A Selfie, as Warhol redux.
Absolutely brilliant mind. This women is a national treasure!
Always the best! spot on with everything she says...someone has to say it!
SET THE MARKETS FREE.
Love Camille, i have since I was turned on to her in the early 90's and she remains an intellectual force.
Man, she is on point on everything! She is what these brainwashed kids need.
She is hilarious and knows so much, I discovered her recently and I already admire her. She says "ok" so damn much though haha
Please stream her lectures online!
My God she is brilliant...!
paglia is absolutely wonderful...
Love Camille, what a brilliant mind.
Ms. Paglia is indeed, as Mr. Mizdaq states, a national treasure.
An essay on David Bowie?? A must read for me!
America's living national treasure
Omg such an exquisite treasure that is camille paglia
The way she talks and expresses herself reminds me of Tarantino, most fascinating minds, very passionate, unapoletically expressive, clearly a lot going on in their minds, pretty weird honestly but that's theiur genius! When I noticed she'd been consistently saying... "Ok?" after making points that was what made me think of Tarantino and then I noticed the other paralels that came along with that lol Plus Tarantino definitely speaks at a similar pace 😂
Paglia is an American Goddess in the classical-pop sense!
Excellent. Always a joy.
Ohhhh, Camille is such a gem. Her asides, her barbs, just crack me up. Eg, "Oh how I love to punch Foucault"!!!
This is mind blowing. Why don’t they study her works in colleges?! Brilliant mind.
Whoa she slowed down...awesome! When she was all hyper frantic and rambly it really made her seem looney sometimes, now she seems much smarter
I love Camille Paglia
She's brilliant
This is what liberalism is supposed to be like.
Love this woman.
What a wonderful woman. Big smile.
Going to church and listening to sermons, going to Catholic school and studying catechism, going to Sunday school -- even watching Hollywood's version of the life of Jesus, plus Ben Hur etc. All that is pretty much gone.
In 1995 most people had 2400 or 4800 bps modems, and you had to wait a long time for web page graphics to load. The computers were also much slower so there was a bottleneck there as well. Compare that to 100 MB bps common today with pages that load on today's computers almost instantly. You needed to have some foresight to see what the web could be when Internet bandwidth and computing power increased - but Moore's Law (computing power will double every eighteen months) was well known even back then, so it was not impossible to think ahead.
In 1995 we had 14.4k modems (28.8 if you spent more) web pages loaded fine as they were mostly all text. People had cable broadband from what? 1996?
@@josephinemchale4763 Thanks for this info. My memory sounds like it was a couple years off, the 2400 probably from 1992-1993 or so. Still the multimedia capability was not there, that was my point.
But I remember even after 1995, there were experts saying they'd done the business analysis and found that making money off the Internet was going to be very difficult if not possible for businesses. Ha!
Love love love her
That ending is so her.
camille should live in Europe: she would be throughrouly understood and appreciated
It's so odd hearing her speak without her usual "okay" every few seconds
She seems to do that most when she is formulating new thoughts or making new connections.
@@jkovert Yes, and maybe more when talking to an individual rather than an audience..
I noticed that too. She must have worked on it. Guess it's better than "like" or "uh."
@@kirkpatticalma7911 or "i feel" instead of "i think" or "i'm convinced"
It was probably brought to her attention that she displays this "tick" during her lectures, prompting her to be more mindful of it.
Where have you been, Camille, and why aren't we hearing from you lately???
She’s pretty old now, 78 i think. she’s earned her rest and break from the public. Camille seems like the type that knows when it’s time to hang it up too. Apparently she was still teaching at UArts until it closed a couple months ago tho.
@@DHU11 Uh, pretty old. :) A year older than I am. Sure would like to hear her take on life, culture, and whatever else strikes her fancy.
@@DHU11 77 as of April
'i don't think any intellectual should be partisan' yeah i agree
Brilliant talk. Love her!! 💛
I have a lot of time for this person.
I Am Frank She is our Jeanne D’Arc. 😉
So very smart!
Camille is awesome!!! :-)
I enjoy listening to Camille and she's really helped to illustrate the forces affecting our modern world.
But I'm amazed that she still doesn't see that her 60's philosophy is a failure. Despite all the chaos she can't throw it away and admit it's a failure, instead, like the Marxists, she seems to say "This isn't true 60's philosophy".
It's a failure because the majority aren't like Camille, they're simple people with simple flaws. That's why only a return to Christianity can save us from this turmoil. Camille like her contempories has flown too close to the sun, but they can't admit it to themselves.
Wow, that was a leap!
Only Christianity can save us? Ideologue much?
@@brendancahill3723 Christianity is a religion not an ideology.
You don't seem aware of the impact Christianity had on European civilization.
Most modern people trash Christianity mindlessly.
@@krileayn I'm not saying Christianity is an ideology, I'm saying your over confident claim that "only Christianity can save us" is ideological as it implies there is only one solution to a problem that not everyone agrees is a problem to begin with.
Save us from what exactly? Who is us? And who is asking to be saved? It's like you know the answer before there's even a question and the fact you leaped to Christianity which Paglia herself has criticized as much as praised is a sure fire sign of ideological possession. There's plenty of things that can save Western culture and tradition from extinction if that's what you mean but Christianity is only one answer.
I'm fully aware of the impact Christianity had on Western culture, that's why I don't trash it as I used to when I was an edgy atheist teenager, but it's not the be all end all. Christianity can't save you from the pains of Christianity. I'd argue paganism contributed more in terms of art and beauty to the west than prudish image phobic Christianity ever did. It's still going strong even today.
@@brendancahill3723 Fair enough. However it's not like we haven't tried other system's of organizing our societies. The 20th century was the century of the greatest experiments in alternatives and also the greatest dead body count.
The way atheists and secularists ignore this glaring fact gives any sane reasonable person pause.
@@krileayn what are you talking about? What atheist/secularist doesn't understand what happened over the last hundred years? (Edgy teens and far left idiots aside)?
That's clearly a hyper generalization and it's not even entirely relevant as not all atheists (Camille and I for example) are anti Judeo-Christian/Western capitalism. You're synchronizing atheism with communism so that you have someone to blame and something to rant about because you're angry people can still find meaning in life without being Christian which brings into question whether we need to pray or go to church at all. I don't know where to start with you or your absurd claims.
"We've tried a few other belief systems and people died therefore we all need Jesus and Christianity is the only thing that can save us"
Honestly if there's anything worse than post modern neo Marxism it's crazy devout Christian evangelists who think capitalism is flawless.
She's awesome
I like her more and more
DITTO !
Camille’s talks are jazz
Brava!
She totally rocks.
I am sorry i missed this as i was.out of town
I forgive you
54:44 a gift to those who suspect that the low-energy opening will last throughout the lecture. Fear not.
Life is so unfair...why was this woman not my college professor?
way too sane to be today's voice of reason.
SET THE MARKETS FREE.
Funny how when she got rolling on the idea that we humans, men and women both have true divine value and purpose, and need each other, it was cut short.
Speaking Truth to Power at 95mph!
She is so amazing
Camilla is so inspiring, her intellect is in league of her own.
And she knows it!
I always wonder how much more she knows and how vast her thoughts are. I tend to think similar things as what she says but I could never find the words and speak so clearly as her.
So fascinating and inspiring thinker of our time. It's such shame that our world doesn't run rationally anymore.
@@9axel5read her essays if you want to get a real idea! she knows her stuff. It’s insane how smart and insightful she is, she is an encyclopaedia of arts and culture, so cool so inspiring.