Sontag drops a lot of names, a trait which is of varying attractiveness. Many of these references are interesting, but what am I to make of a sentence like (from One Culture and the New Sensibility):

Some of the basic texts for this new cultural alignment are to be found in the writings of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Antonin Artaud, C.S Sherrington, Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, André Breton, Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Siegfried Gideon, Norman O. Brown, and György Kepes.

That's quite the reading list, and she neither cites any texts or expands upon what these authors have in common.

That is the worst example (she cites McLuhan later in a more sensible way) but it gets at what I don't like about her writing.