Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
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“The photographic image ... is a message without a code.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)