I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Quote by Roland Barthes

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices,...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress,...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which...

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to...

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life,...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not...

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.