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Roland Barthes

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To whom can I put this question (with any hopes of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?


— Roland Barthes


#mourning #love

There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.


— Roland Barthes


#sentence #music

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.


— Roland Barthes


#age

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.


— Roland Barthes


#new #value

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!


— Roland Barthes


#clearly #deal #ending #entire #great

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.


— Roland Barthes


#invisible #photograph #see

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


— Roland Barthes


#einstein #formula #image #knowledge #mythology

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.


— Roland Barthes


#eat #morality #nature #rare #represents

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.


— Roland Barthes


#condition #contradiction #full #i #live

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


— Roland Barthes


#creates #establishes #itself #man #offers






About Roland Barthes

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Did you know about Roland Barthes?

In 1948 he returned to purely academic work gaining numerous short-term positions at institutes in France Romania and Egypt. e. Barthes continued to contribute with Philippe Sollers to the avant-garde literary magazine Tel Quel which was developing similar kinds of theoretical inquiry to that pursued in Barthes' writings.

Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism semiotics social theory anthropology and post-structuralism.

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