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Roland Barthes
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“Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Pleasure of the Text (1975)
“La forme bâtarde de la culture de masse est la répétition honteuse: on répète les contenus, les schèmes idéologiques, le gommage des contradictions, mais on varie les formes superficielles: toujours des livres, des émissions, des films nouveaux, des faits divers, mais toujours le même sens.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern," in The Pleasure of the Text (1975)
“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 trembles with desire.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking," in A Lover's Discourse (1977)
“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 (1915–1980) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sentence," in The Pleasure of the Text (1975)
“The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Myth is depoliticized speech.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Statistically, myth is on the right. There, it is essential, well-fed, sleek, expensive, garrulous, it invents itself ceaselessly. It takes hold of everything, all aspects of the law, of morality, of aesthetics, of diplomacy, of household equipment, of Literature, of entertainment.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Text is not a definitive object.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed. A Text, on the other hand is engaged in a movement … a deferral … a dilation of meaning … the play of signification. Metonymy — the association of part to whole — characterized the logic of the Text. In this sense the Text is "radically symbolic" and lacks closure.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or "filiation"), the Text is without a source — the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source