Roland Barthes

Through the mythology...

Through the mythology...

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a...

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Language is 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...

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Literature is the...

Literature is the...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Literature is without...

Literature is without...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even...

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What I claim...

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...

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Language is legislation,...

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...

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There is only...

There is only...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of...

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The photographic image....

The photographic image....

The photographic image. . . is a message without a code.

Source: The Photographic...

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To try to...

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...

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What the public...

What the public...

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Source:...

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All official institutions...

All official institutions...

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all...

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I call the...

I call the...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its...

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I think that...

I think that...

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of...

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Myth is neither...

Myth is neither...

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Source: Mythologies, ...

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The bastard form...

The bastard form...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition. . . always new books, new programs, new films, news items,...

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Historically and politically,...

Historically and politically,...

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. . . . The bourgeois and proletariat...

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Pleasure is continually...

Pleasure is continually...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

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Language is legislation,...

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...

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New York. ....

New York. ....

New York. . . is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish...

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The skyscraper establishes...

The skyscraper establishes...

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

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