#barthes

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

The author is dead.

Long live the author.

[readmydesire]

roland barthes on his late mother, from camera lucida: reflections on photography pub. 1980.

[thirdity]

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

[brideofquietness]

"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, A Lover's Discourse

[punti-disutura]

“Come fai ad amare un po’? Che cosa vuol dire amare «un po»”? Io vivo nel regime del troppo o del non abbastanza; avido come sono di coincidenza, tutto ciò che non è totale mi sembra parsimonioso; ciò che io cerco è occupare un luogo da cui non siano più percepibili le quantità, e da cui sia bandito il bilancio. […] Non ho pelle (tranne che per le carezze).”

Roland Barthes, Frammenti di un discorso amoroso.

[zurich-snows]

[acertainidontknowwhat]

Am I in love? – Yes, since I'm waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.

Roland Barthes, The Lover’s Discourse

[barthesexplorer]

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