When The Void Becomes Eloquent

Roland Barthes (1915-1980)

'We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.'

Roland Barthes (1915-1980), The Death of the Author (1968) [published in Image-Music-Text, 1977]

Admirers of Barthes' essay should also read: What is an Author? - Michel Foucault (1969)


Reading:

The Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The World of Percpetion - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Viewing:

King Kong (1933) - d. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack