December 2009
22 posts
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“i have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own...”
– marcel duchamp
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for David.
in bluer skies by echo and the...
“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...”
– anais nin
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“The Pleasure of the Text is a short book published in 1975 by Roland Barthes. It was written in French and later translated into English. Barthes sets out some of his ideas about literary theory.
In the book, Barthes divides the effects of texts into two: plaisir (translated as “pleasure”) and jouissance. Jouissance is translated as “bliss”, but the French word also...
