Molemaison: Inception and a boy free zone
John Wetton, 'Sinister'; Trevor Rabin, 'Flyboys'; Trevor Rabin, 'Gridiron Gang'. I Am Reading... Hugo Ball's Sound Poems; J.C.Ryle 'Practical Religion'; Philip Hoare 'Leviathan'; Roland Barthes, 'Mythologies'; Strindberg, 'A Dream Play' ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 06:54PM EST
Fairytale gone reality: The Ladies Alphabet
~Roland Barthes~. Have many interests. Being an eclectic spirit means having a lot of interest. Ask yourself what you like, why you like it, what draws you to the experience or item... and how to showcase it in your life. ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 10:03AM EST
Little-known about Christian Louboutin Shoes « Christian Louboutin ...
As Roland Barthes put it (when talking about photography in general) the medium was 'a new form of hallucination…a mad image of christian louboutin, chafed by reality'. The exhibition includes key modernist photographs, many of which ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 08:17AM EST
Julia Allison: Hahahahahaha!!!! Those Gays Are Such Fags ...
Roland Barthes. John Cage. Michael Cunningham. Walt Whitman. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Shakespeare. Michelangelo. And my beloved Oscar Wilde. I could go on, of course, but I'm having too much fun picturing all those guys “sparkling” ...
Posted 07/29/2010 at 06:57AM EST
The “myth” (in the sense established in semiotic theory by Roland Barthes) compressed this entire dialogical contest into an emblem–a metonym for the narrative: the scene of first-cabin men adhering to the code of the sea. ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 09:52PM EST
Christopher Grimes Gallery: News: Behind the Fourth Wall
The picture Aernout Mik gives us in Convergencies is no longer what Roland Barthes calls "a pure cut-out segment with clearly defined edges," for its edges fray out into an indeterminacy of space and time. Like Harun Farocki's Immersion ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 06:07PM EST
Running into Meaning « pieto/the/media/ecologist
Saussure's distinction between the paradigmatic and syntagmatic is relevant, particularly as it was developed by Roland Barthes in his work The Fashion System. Saussure saw two relations in any langue; the syntagmatic and the ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 02:17PM EST
Dior Girl − Inside Love: History, Science and Paradox
In his book “A Lover's Discourse: Fragments”, Roland Barthes mentions the term Tutti Sistemati, which in his words occurs when “the amorous subject sees everyone around him as “pigeonholed”, each appearing to be granted a little ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 01:27PM EST
Students of Sustainability — Blog — Christian Louboutin images by ...
As Roland Barthes put it when talking about photography in general the medium was 'a new form of hallucination…a mad image, chafed by reality'. The exhibition includes key modernist photographs, many of Christian Louboutin Very Prive ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 02:40AM EST
David Shields' Reality Hunger and James Wood's philosophy of ...
This is what Wood is highlighting when he discusses Roland Barthes' “reality effect,” which fiction can achieve: “All this silly machinery of plotting and pacing, this corsetry of chapters and paragraphs, this doxology of dialogue and ...
Posted 07/28/2010 at 12:07AM EST
Roland Barthes's analysis of photography, Camera Lucida , claims that photography is ultimately a question of affect, and famously delineates two forms of affect that photographs may provoke, or that provoke our interest--perhaps even ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 11:03PM EST
Roland Barthes's analysis of photography, Camera Lucida , claims that photography is ultimately a question of affect, and famously delineates two forms of affect that photographs may provoke, or that provoke our interest--perhaps even ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 11:03PM EST
Kosmograd: Unit: Design/Research 02: Space and structure
So you'll find bits of articles from Van Doesburg and Rodchenko, articles about structuralism, essays by Roland Barthes, and plans for Black Mountain College by Gropius and Breuer, amongst others. It's hard not to feel nostalgic for a ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 06:10PM EST
Surplus Matter : An Index to the work of Tom McCarthy
He has also written a work of non-fiction, Tintin and the Secret of Literature, which uses the ideas of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other highfalutin post-structuralists to interpret the adventures of the plucky boy reporter. ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 04:39PM EST
Eagerly Awaited in Necronautical Circles | A Books Blog
He has also written a work of non-fiction, Tintin and the Secret of Literature, which uses the ideas of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other highfalutin post-structuralists to interpret the adventures of the plucky boy reporter. ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 04:39PM EST
Christian Louboutin Ray's finest Surreal comes from a little-known ...
As Roland Barthes put it when talking about photography in general the medium was 'a new form of hallucination…a mad image, chafed by reality'. The exhibition includes key modernist photographs, many of Christian Louboutin Very Prive ...
Posted 07/27/2010 at 02:32AM EST
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Posted 07/27/2010 at 12:15AM EST
Discussing E.B. Whipe/Marquis de Sade “The Elements of Style ...
First, it is drawing on some of the actual writings of Sade to point out the virtue of different style rules, which is kind of odd and funny (there is that great quote from the famous French critic Roland Barthes about how Sade's ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 01:34PM EST
The big picture: Paris, 1956 – Audrey Hepburn on the set of Funny ...
Roland Barthes once remarked that the face of Greta Garbo was an idea, that of Audrey Hepburn an event. The idea, in Garbo's case, was Platonic, a severely abstract dream of perfection. The event or events were the thoughts and emotions ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 07:37AM EST
“(those who fail to re-read are obliged to read the same story everywhere)” —Roland Barthes. The already said: “This website is an attempt to push myself into writing”. “Once upon a time I said that my 'Pah' isn't dismissive—it's more ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 07:20AM EST
“vogueing” , the installation from “udk rundgang 2010″ « aykansafoglu
“vogueing” , the installation from “udk rundgang 2010″. vogueing, an installation with mimosa pudica, wallpaper and roland barthes' “fragments of a lover's discourse”. by aykan safoğlu ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 01:10AM EST
What Does Simulation Want? « URBAN_MOLECULE
This entry was posted on July 25, 2010. It was filed under art / photography, media theory and was tagged with Alyssa Monks, exhibit, painting, photograph, Roland Barthes, sherry turkle, simulation, telegraph. ...
Posted 07/26/2010 at 12:06AM EST
GaspundKiss.: The Fetish of the Wound..
I end up relating wounding to Roland Barthes' idea of Punctum, as although there are many theories as to why people enjoy wounding sexually – no one theory fits all people, it has meaning for some and not others, symbolic importance to ...
Posted 07/25/2010 at 08:38PM EST
still and still moving: twenty-eight of fifty-two
Mythologies by Roland Barthes 10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 11. The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets 12. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine 13. Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler 14. The United States of Arugula by David Kamp ...
Posted 07/25/2010 at 07:14PM EST
... Long Life Cool White: Photographs & Essays by Moyra Davey; Part 1: The Contest of Meaning, edited by Richard Bolton; Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes; Portraits, by Michael Kimmelman; Conversations with Artists, by Selden Rodman ...
Posted 07/25/2010 at 03:15PM EST
BrontëBlog: When Barthes was Thackeray
The philosopher and literary critic Roland Barthes made an appearance on André Téchiné's 1979 film Les Soeurs Brontë as W.M. Thackeray (in the picture): André Téchiné, a leading member of the second wave of Cahiers du Cinéma critics to ...
Posted 07/25/2010 at 12:03PM EST
NOTES: The 10 best movie cameos
Roland Barthes André Téchiné, a leading member of the second wave of Cahiers du Cinéma critics to become auteur-directors, is the dedicatee of the essay "Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein" by his mentor and one-time lover, the influential and ...
Posted 07/25/2010 at 10:58AM EST
Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Writers like Roland Barthes, Zora Neal Hurston, and Audre Lorde reappear throughout the book. Trinh seems particularly intrigued by Hurston, the African American novelist and 'insider anthropologist' sent by Franz Boas to collect Black ...
Posted 07/24/2010 at 04:14PM EST
TV Multiversity: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Writers like Roland Barthes, Zora Neal Hurston, and Audre Lorde reappear throughout the book. Trinh seems particularly intrigued by Hurston, the African American novelist and 'insider anthropologist' sent by Franz Boas to collect Black ...
Posted 07/24/2010 at 04:14PM EST
Silkworms Ink: Sex | Chapbook | Vol XXI, Zygote Tankas by Alana I ...
Ted Berrigan. Plagiarism and / or the Found Poem. A Creative Writing Lesson. - Ralph Hawkins Ted Berrigan had a habit of writing on and in the margins of books. A copy of Roland Barthes *Writing Degree Zero*, which he gave t. ...
Posted 07/24/2010 at 12:23PM EST
The Daily Provocateer III: Revenge of the Stiff « The Daily ...
Late post today, as I've been hanging round the Birds Nest with Bowditch who has actually had a traumatic incident involving gaffer tape and bamboo. More to come on that but “Whatever happened to Panda Obscura?” as Roland Barthes the ...
Posted 07/24/2010 at 11:16AM EST