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Roland Barthes

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French literary theorist referenced in context of separating the art from the artist and the 'death of the author' concept.

Mentions (5)
"I used to have normal desires like 'kind woman in flowy skirt reads Barthes with me.' Now I'm in love with gendered chaos wearing greasepaint."
I thimk I have clown girl brain damage. · u/DJGBright · ↑418 · 2025-05-20
"'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 lov"
from Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse (1977) · u/NadruYakhni · ↑41 · 2021-12-16
"Only yesterday I was talking to a person on Barthes and his novels but he mentioned that he went to nyu."
Honestly I feel like an animal. · u/homonietzsche · ↑41 · 2024-12-13
"The zoomed mind is not just incapable of separating the art from the artist in a Barthes sense; there is something implicit within a mind socialized within the panopticon of the Reel-infected mind."
Zoomed ghosted me for liking Nabokov · u/ru-fus-tee-fire-fly · ↑29 · 2025-06-27
"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 love"
from Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse (1977) · u/NadruYakhni · ↑41 · 2021-12-16
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