Roland Barthes Interview (bio) from The Tel Quel Reader

p.256 - Mythologies not political but ideological, targeting the petite-bourgeoisie

p.262-63 - position as tourist diminishes the emphasis on the Japanese petty bourgeoisie,

and 'on writing' in relation to Zero degree

p.267 - on the work as awaiting and a preparation for 'socialist practice'?

In your article on Julia Kristeva's Semeiotike ('The Stranger', 19070) you write that in a society deprived of socialist practice, thus condemned to "discourse", theoretical discourse is temporarily necessary'. Do you mean to say that your work is an awaiting and a preparation for 'socialist practice'

Your question runs the risk in my opinion of reducing the plural of the subject in representing is as tending towards something unique and full; your question denies the unconscious. I accept it, however, and I will answer this: if it is absolutely necessary, to live and to work, to have a representation of an end (which is sometimes curiously called a Cause), I would just remind you of the tasks that Brecht suggests for the intellectual in a non-revolutionary period: liquidate and theorize. These tasks are always coupled together by Brecht: our discourse can represent nothing, prefigure nothing; we only have a negative activity at our disposition (Brecht called it critical, or even epic, that is, interruptive [entre-coupee], interrupting [qui coupe] history), at the end of which shines only, like a distant glimmer, intermittent and uncertain (barbarism is always a possibility), the ultimate transparency of social relations.