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Reflections on Photography.
This book was written towards the end of the French philosopher's life (in 1980) and finds him in contemplative mood after his own mother's death.
Barthes examines a series of photographs, one of a condemned man the night before his execution, and further explores his pet themes of presence, absence; 'punctum' and 'studium'.
Rambling perhaps, but never dull.
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The Writerly Text
Barthes' classic close examination of Balzac's story Sarrasine is introduced through an exposition of 'what is in the practice of the writer and what has left it'.
'What can be written' is the 'writerly' text - the creative space in which the reader becomes the writer. Contrast with the 'readerly' - the meaning we can only recieve from an author, that closes off interpretation, and that demands our submission to the authorial voice...
This is an important moment in understanding the subversion of the author - and therefore of authority. And yet can we not overplay its significance? Is it not a paultry kind of freedom to produce meaning, merely when consuming another's text? Why not simply write our own?
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