I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Quote by Roland Barthes

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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,...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending...

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...

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

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

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...