Showing posts with label Roland Barthes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roland Barthes. Show all posts
Monday, February 14, 2011
Roland Barthes, 'The Image' in The Rustle of Language, p.356
'I Crave, I long for Abstinence from Images, for every Image is bad' - Roland Barthes, 'The Image' in The Rustle of Language, p.356
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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.
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.
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