Otto Dix, Self Portrait of Mars, 1915 McLuhan said: “Every media work us out completely” I’ve been (re)dragged into excessive conversations with all sorts of softwares, communicati… more →
Methods and Black SquaresTiago wrote 1 week ago: Considering economists in a wider cultural context, not just as scholars, but as public intellectual … more →
mpr2020 wrote 3 weeks ago: Roland Barthes is preoccupied with the containments that people apply – creating limits in order to … more →
smartykatt wrote 3 weeks ago: This post is lengthy and I apologize. I’ve tried to break it up as best I can, but there … more →
lyingdetective wrote 3 weeks ago: Below is a piece I wrote for a now defunct website/blog, which featured a writers of various profess … more →
theoreticaldilettante wrote 3 weeks ago: The Death of the Semiotician: Reviving Barthes’ Mythological Marxism The briefest f … more →
A.R. Duckworth wrote 1 month ago: Roland Barthes published Mythologies in 1957, it was a collection of articles he wrote for ‘L … more →
hamsterific wrote 1 month ago: Roland Barthes Death of the Author Barthes says that “every text is eternally written in the … more →
Earthpages.ca wrote 1 month ago: discriminación by Dimitri dF Semiology (or Semiotics) The study of signs. The term was coined by … more →
drsteer wrote 1 month ago: Last week I read another essay about Barthes’ Camera Lucida – “Touching Photograph … more →
Adam Joseph Drici wrote 1 month ago: Since becoming a full-fledged spin-off from Slate, I’ve read again and again about Double X … more →
grasswire wrote 1 month ago: What exactly is the underlying libidinal economy of infatuation between photography and decay, this … more →
notesfromaroom wrote 1 month ago: I experience alternately two nights, one good, the other bad. To express this, I borrow a mystical d … more →
notesfromaroom wrote 1 month ago: Humboldt calls the sign’s freedom volubility. I am (inwardly) voluble, because I cannot anchor my di … more →
dylanoc wrote 1 month ago: Looking for references to the aesthetic I am trying to achieve, I came across the Tableau Vivant. A … more →
doctordogbrother wrote 1 month ago: The next book on the top shelf of vintage volumes is The Popular Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge: A … more →
jercoffey wrote 1 month ago: film sex is bad sex. or let me say it another way: film sex in films not explicitly pushing sex is … more →
battypip wrote 2 months ago: One Bad Rat I bought The Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot today. And read it today too. I was onl … more →
notesfromaroom wrote 2 months ago: I am mad to be in love, I am not mad to be able to say so, I double my image: insane in my own eyes … more →
notesfromaroom wrote 2 months ago: What do I think of love? — As a matter of fact, I think nothing at all of love. I’d be glad to … more →