I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
ROLAND BARTHESWhat love lays bare in me is energy.
More Roland Barthes Quotes
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The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
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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.
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I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.
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We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!
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Where you are tender, you speak your plural.
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One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
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A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The ‘anything whatever’ then becomes the sophisticated acme of value.
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Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
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Literature is the question minus the answer.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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