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Roland Barthes
Through the mythology...
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a...
Language is a...
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...
Literature is the...
Literature is the question minus the answer.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Literature is without...
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even...
What I claim...
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of...
Language is legislation,...
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all...
There is only...
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of...
The photographic image....
The photographic image. . . is a message without a code.
Source: The Photographic...
To try to...
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and...
What the public...
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Source:...
All official institutions...
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all...
I call the...
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its...
I think that...
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of...
Myth is neither...
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Source: Mythologies, ...
The bastard form...
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition. . . always new books, new programs, new films, news items,...
Historically and politically,...
Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. . . . The bourgeois and proletariat...
Pleasure is continually...
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...
Language is legislation,...
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all...
New York. ....
New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish...
The skyscraper establishes...
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...