The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
"Roland GĂ©rard Barthes" was a France/French literary theory/literary theorist, philosopher, Linguistics/linguist, critic, and Semiotics/semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, designtheory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Literature is the question minus the answer.
A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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