Recent Posts Tagged With 'barthes'

• ‘And the night illuminated the night’

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 05:48 in barthes, john of the cross

  I experience alternately two nights, one good, the other bad. To express this, I borrow a mystical distinction [from John of the Cross]: estar a oscuras (to be in the dark) can occur without there being any blame to attach, since I am deprived of the...

• No director

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 05:42 in barthes

  Humboldt calls the sign’s freedom volubility. I am (inwardly) voluble, because I cannot anchor my discourse: the signs turn ‘in free wheeling’. If I could constrain the sign, submit it to some sanction, I could find rest at last. If only we cou...