But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.
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…
- Roland Barthes
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.
Every photograph is a certificate of presence. - Roland Barthes
Every photograph is a certificate of presence.
The author enters into his own death, writing begins. - Roland Barthes
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes
Literature is the question minus the answer.
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…
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?
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power. - Roland Barthes
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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