Latest posts tagged with #barthes on Bluesky
When I asked #ChatGPT about Barthes' death, I got a wild story: #Barthes had left the Collège after lunch with #Foucault and was run over by a Bulgarian laundry supplier. He died instantly. A manuscript he had with him disappeared. A whole series of myths surround this manuscript, the lunch and […]
On y parle du rose soi-disant féminin, de Kandinsky, de Johannes #Itten et du Bauhaus, de Roland #Barthes, et des images des télescopes spatiaux...
Bref, on termine sur les #mythologies modernes et on essaie de faire preuve d'un peu d'esprit critique.
“I was overcome by an "ontological" desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what Photography was "in itself," by what essential feature it was to be distinguished from the community of images.”
- Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
#Barthes #Phenomenology #Photography #CameraLucida
Such a good writer …. #barthes
Euh #quotidien vous allez nous parler tous les soirs de #Bardella ? On ne vous regarde pas pour ca ! Vous voulez le faire monter ou quoi ? Pourquoi autant de publicité pour le #RN Yann #Barthes ? @quotidienofficiel.bsky.social
Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention.
The crowd doesn’t want truth.
It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue.
A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in.
#philosophy #identity #Barthes #internet
Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention.
The crowd doesn’t want truth.
It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue.
A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in.
#philosophy #identity #Barthes #internet
The next addition of Bending Back Barthes is out now:
Shock Photos — from the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony.
How Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...
#Barthes #Gaza #Palestine #Mythologies
The ruins of Gaza stretch into the horizon — a vast field of collapsed concrete and twisted rebar, with two Palestinian flags visible amid the rubble. Overlaid white text reads: “Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.” The URL wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com appears faintly at the bottom.
Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — out now.
From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.
📷 Mahmud Hams / AFP
🔗 […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
✨ An Updated Barthes
Taylor Swift isn’t Taylor Swift.
She’s Taylor Swift as Taylor Swift.
#TaylorSwift #Barthes #MythMaking #Capitalism #Showgirl
✨ An Updated Barthes
Taylor Swift isn’t just a singer.
She’s the Showgirl who shows the Girl.
Her Eras, her branding, her billions—each is myth made marketable.
She is both the product and the critique.
My latest essay explores pop, performance, Jesus, capitalism, and the impossibility of the […]
language is not a tracing of reality
#Barthes
Just dropped a new essay on Substack:
The Tech Bro
A modern myth, after Barthes’ Jet-Man
Speed, power, detachment—rewired for the algorithmic age.
It’s not hate. It’s reflection.
#TheMirrorCycle #Barthes #Myth #TechBro
Word drop!
From Barthes’ The Jet-Man ✈️
Ascesis = disciplined self-denial (think monk-core)
Coenesthesia = background bodily harmony, your felt sense of being alive
#Barthes #WordOfTheDay #TheJetMan #CriticalTheory #SkeetSet
📚 Two Words of the Day (from Barthes’ Mythologies)
✈️ Essay: The Jet-Man
Ascesis – disciplined self-denial, a form of training or abstention often for spiritual or aesthetic goals. Think monk vibes, but French and poststructural.
Coenesthesia – the unified sense of being alive in your body, the […]
🐐 New Substack drop:
The GOAT Samaritan
🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/the-goat-s...
#GOAT #Myth #Barthes #SouthernParable #Substack #Goated
New post just dropped on Substack:
🐐 The GOAT Samaritan
Neil deGrasse Tyson walks by.
Brady nods, but keeps going.
Madonna smiles, faintly.
And only the real goat stops—and offers him milk.
This is a modern parable. A myth for our moment. A mirror.
(And yeah, it bleats back.)
✍️ […]
Poujade feels like justice but props up power.
Barthes unpacks how myth works through aesthetics, not just ideology.
And I saw it before I read it.
The mirror reflects when you’re on time.
Sometimes the text echoes your life.
#Barthes #Mythologies #Populism #SpiralWitness #BlueSkyPolitics
💊 New essay just dropped:
“Side Effects May Include Myth”
On how pharma ads sound scientific but sell us something deeper — a story.
#Barthes #MentalHealth #PharmaAds #Mythologies #Essays #Books2025
It sounds informed. But it’s a myth. A performance.
Advertising’s job isn’t to inform. It’s to make you feel like you’ve been informed.
That’s not consent. That’s narrative.
#Mythologies #Barthes #DepthAdvertising
Nemo > Empire. Myth > PR.
#Barthes #Nautilus #LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen #Mythologies #BadMovieGoodMyth
🍟 New drop: “Blood on the Plate”
Fries. Steak. Class.
Barthes would’ve loved a Big Mac.
From Dracula to Wagyu, from Royale with Cheese to Obi-Wan and the tofu — this one's got it all.
#Substack #Barthes #FoodWriting #PulpFiction #ClassCritique #BurgerTheory #StarWarsWithTension
Just finished Barthes on steak frites.
Man saw right through the meat.
Steak is never just dinner — it’s class, it’s identity, it’s a whole performance.
Blue rare? That’s money talking.
Well done? That’s safety.
#Barthes #Mythologies #SteakFrites #FoodIsSymbol #EssayLoading #BartenderBrain
Just read Barthes’ “Wine and Milk.” As a bartender, I get it—wine’s a whole myth in France. In the U.S.? Milk had its moment (got milk, Gatorade vibes), but water’s king again. Hydro homies, sparkling water, clear and crisp like white wine. Myth flows, baby. 🍷🥛💧
#Barthes #Mythologies
« Qu’est-ce que théâtraliser ? Ce n’est pas décorer la représentation, c’est illimiter le langage. »
#Barthes
Today’s Barthes: Power and “Cool”.
He says the gun isn’t about death — it’s gesture. The move toward the gun becomes a language of power. Still true.
Think Pacino. Think Goodfellas. You don’t need to fire — just reach.
Cool stays cool. #Barthes #Film #PowerAndCool
Beauty, as myth.
Not essence—structure.
#Barthes #GretaGarbo #ZooeyDeschanel #MediaTheory #Philosophy #Mythologies #BeautyAsSign #NowReading #LitCrit
Barthes was talking about comics in the 1950s, but the myth he dissected hasn’t gone anywhere. Even the most “uniting” institutions carry the same old divisions.
#BookReflections #Barthes #Mythologies #CulturalCritique
