Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. - Roland Barthes
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
- Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th… - Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th…
The author enters into his own death, writing begins. - Roland Barthes
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence. - Roland Barthes
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. - Roland Barthes
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? - Roland Barthes
How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power. - Roland Barthes
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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 t… - Roland Barthes
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 t…
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