#barthes — Public Fediverse posts

new post:
https://www.outsidelight.online/it-is-what-it-is-recognition-in-cinema-and-ai-is-automated/
#photography #painting #cinema #AI #Barthes #Deleuze #Guattari

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pass-the-salt

I shake hands with #Austin, #Derrida, #Searle, #Wittgenstein, #Nietzsche, and #Barthes on this journey – even a bout with #Pinker.

#philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #salt #justice #blog #podcast #artificialintelligence #robots #parsing

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology

New entry on speaking the city, Barthes' semiology and the urban, architecture, and the two languages of space.

https://asupala.me/2026/04/19/entry-25-speaking-the-city/

#barthes #language #architecture #writing #city

Brutal: #Barthes on the 'contractual totality' of teaching: "the comfort of the teaching relationship: the 'good' teacher, the 'good' student are those who accept philosophically the plurality of their determinations, perhaps because they know that the truth of a relationship of speech is elsewhere"

I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.

👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE

#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality

Fotografia e inconscio tecnologico
ci sono tre libri per 'capire' la scrittura di ricerca: le Notes di Duchamp, L'impero dei segni di Barthes, e Fotografia e inconscio tecnologico di Vaccari.

bisogna leggere
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/12/17/fotografia-e-inconscio-tecnologico/
#art #ExperimentalPoetry #ScritturaDiRicerca #ScrittureDiRicerca #SegnaliEAzioni #teoria #TestiDiMgOnline #ZinesAuthors #Barthes #Duchamp #FotografiaEInconscioTecnologico #FrancoVaccari #ScritturaDiRicerca

✨ An Updated Barthes

Taylor Swift isn’t just a singer.
She’s the Showgirl who shows the Girl.

Her Eras, her branding, her billions—each is myth made marketable.
She is both the product and the critique.

My latest essay explores pop, performance, Jesus, capitalism, and the impossibility of the “ethical billionaire.”

📖 https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/an-updated-barthes

#TaylorSwift #Mythologies #Barthes #PopCulture #Capitalism #ShowgirlLogic

📣 New Essay Just Dropped

"Side Effects May Include Myth"
A meditation on trust, advertising, psychiatric meds, and what Roland Barthes might say about the voice inside the box.

I wrote it after a stay in a crisis center. It's raw, reflective, and a little angry.

Featuring:
💊 Pharma ads
🧠 Informed consent
📺 Media myth-making
🧼 Barthes on soap
🎨 Original art

Read it here:
🔗 https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/side-effects-may-include-myth

#MentalHealth #Barthes #Mythologies #PharmaCulture #DepthAdvertising #Essays #WritingThroughIt

Ancienne chronique (du temps de @franceinter !) sur les mots de l'amour! #SaintValentin
(Références: Barthes "Fragments d'un discours amoureux"/ la linguiste Julie Neveux "Le langage de l'amour") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUiIZu7SBj0 #amour #linguistique #litterature #Barthes

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-nuits-de-france-culture/roland-barthes-sur-les-traces-de-marcel-proust-a-paris-2944837 Let's take a walk with #Barthes and look for traces of the Paris of #Proust. #radio

"The impact of these ideas in the US, though considerable, was mostly concentrated in literature departments. Jameson argues that “theory was always a revolt against disciplines”. While that might have been true in France in the 1960s, where the whole gamut of the sciences humaines fell to the structuralists, it wasn’t true in the US in the following two decades.

“The American interest in these people,” Jameson adds, “was certainly part of a ’60s passion for new thinking which had to do with politics as much as anything else.” But, you might ask, what kind of politics? As Todd Gitlin, a leftwing sceptic of the politics of theory, observed mordantly at the time: “While the right has been busy taking the White House, the left has been marching on the English department.”"

https://www.ft.com/content/08139cab-6655-4643-96c2-d8efaf0097b8

#Jameson #USA #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Derrida #Foucault #Barthes

The entire rest of «Le Plaisir du texte» heehee https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/12/08/the-entire-rest-of-le-plaisir-du-texte/

#weblog #writing #reading #barthes #pleasure #text

@design_law. #Sasse really should read his #Emerson, which talks about the #corruption that follows when #language doesn't meaning anything. These strung together words are incoherent and an utter embarrassment. If I'm going to have to work to understand language, bring on #Barthes, #Derrida, #Genette.

Posted in the weblog (rather than inflicting it all on Mastodon)!

Returning to my (far-too) close reading of "The Pleasure of the Text".

More Barthes: Communauté https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/08/19/more-barthes-communaute/

#barthes #weblog #text #amreading

Posted! Barthes and Murray and various books and the history of Scotland and... Once again based on a recent post here. :)

Good and Bad Books are Hard to Finish https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/08/05/good-and-bad-books-are-hard-to-finish/

#books #reading #amreading #barthes #murray

Being #Barthes , he casually drops in the word #doxa as though it had some clear meaning. (This is still The Pleasure of the Text.)

I suppose he means it in the mild sense of "opinion", of something believed but falling short of knowledge, as he says

«le temps de la doxa, de l'opinion, et celui de la paradoxa, de la contestation. Un troisième terme manque, autre que le plaisir et sa censure».

and here he's being cute with "doxa" vs "paradoxa", comfortable opinion vs disturbing paradox, calm pleasure vs chaotic bliss.

But still one can't entirely ignore the way translators of the bible translated the Hebrew word kavod (כבוד) for God's Glory into the Greek doxa (δόξα) for reasons probably lost to time.

So in referring to the comforting pleasure of opinion, is he reminding us that even the Glory of God is from many angles (angels?) just another part of the Opiate of the Masses?

So I've decided to (try to) read #Barthes more quickly now, not stopping to try to make sense or ramification of every paragraph.

If I were someone who writes (wrote?) in books, I might be scrawling on the pages here: "what?", "no!", "what can this mean?", "obviously false, but poetic", "intriguing in its wrongness".

Is pleasure vs bliss a property of a text, or a property of how a particular reader experiences a text? I think he sees no reason, has no desire or intention, to be consistent on that. Okay!

#amreading #writing #text

This #Barthes stuff is so dense, I decided trying to do it in Toot-sized bits was a mug's game, at least for what I wanted to write tonight; so I posted direct-to-weblog: https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/calm-and-explosive-joy/

No AI involved :) just the Text of Comfort and the Text of Ecstasy. (Or what you will).

#barthes #reading #writing #text #amreading

I posted about what #bard and #chatGPT did when asked a slightly nontrivial question about #Barthes .

Generative AI on Barthes' Jouissance https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/07/15/generative-ai-on-barthes-jouissance/

#AI

Posted this to the weblog, too:

https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/brio-part-two/

#amreading #Barthes

Maybe some day soon I'll try another entire paragraph. :)