I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
ROLAND BARTHESIn front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott’s psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.
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What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.
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Language is never innocent.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
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The book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
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Ultimately, Photography is subversive, not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks.
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Don’t say mourning. It’s too psychoanalytic. I’m not mourning. I’m suffering.
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language – the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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