Creative Quotations from . . .
Roland Barthes
(1915-1980) born on Nov 12
French critic. "He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote "Writing Degree Zero," 1953."
 
   
F
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words. . ."

R
"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."
A
"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them."
N
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
K
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition. . . always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "The Pleasure of the Text, "Modern" (1975)."
R: "Inaugural lecture, 7 Jan. 1977, Collège de France (published as Leçon, 1978; repr. in Barthes: Selected Writings, 1982)."
A: ""Mythologies, "The New Citro"n" (1957; tr. 1972)."
N: "Mythologies, "Myth Today: Reading and Deciphering Myth" (1957; tr. 1972)."
K: "The Pleasure of the Text, "Modern" (1975)."



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