Everything anachronistic is obscene.
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Any refusal of language is a death.
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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 as a purely magical object.
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Birth: | 12th November, 1915 |
Death: | 26th March, 1980 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Critic, Philosopher, Theorist |
Roland GĂ©rard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, 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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