scholarly journals Roland Barthes : pour une écologie de l'écriture

Labyrinth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Alexandru Matei
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
The Future

Roland Barthes: For an Ecology of Writing Abstract Even if the theoretical prestige of the notion of ecology is recent, an ecological writing has already been racticed, without receiving this name, by Roland Barthes. On several occasions, progressively after Writing Degree zero (1953), Roland Barthes envisaged writing as a multifaceted practice, the most suitable for overturning the only order worth to be revolutionized, the symbolic order. We will take a fresh look at Barthes' writing as a theoretical concept in the early 1950s, along a shift that takes the term first to the name of a technique. Finally, in the mid-1970s, writing comes to be defined by Barthes as a practice that ignores the dichotomy between matter or body and mind or idea, and which arrives, in a spiral return movement, at an inclusive conception that recovers both the concept and the practice. This is where writing meets, in Barthes' work, the act that Latour calls "greening" and which he defines above all as a new relationship between facts and values.  In the light of the latest research in "Barthesian studies" we would like to show that the future of "theory", if it is ecology today, lies in the practice and ecological commitment of writing, as a mediator of meaning, a tool of "charitable fiction", at the confines of spirit and matter.   

scholarly journals Roland Barthes : pour une écologie de l'écriture

Labyrinth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Alexandru Matei
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
The Future

Even if the theoretical prestige of the notion of ecology is recent, an ecological writing has already been racticed, without receiving this name, by Roland Barthes. On several occasions, progressively after Writing Degree zero (1953), Roland Barthes envisaged writing as a multifaceted practice, the most suitable for overturning the only order worth to be revolutionized, the symbolic order. We will take a fresh look at Barthes' writing as a theoretical concept in the early 1950s, along a shift that takes the term first to the name of a technique. Finally, in the mid-1970s, writing comes to be defined by Barthes as a practice that ignores the dichotomy between matter or body and mind or idea, and which arrives, in a spiral return movement, at an inclusive conception that recovers both the concept and the practice. This is where writing meets, in Barthes' work, the act that Latour calls "greening" and which he defines above all as a new relationship between facts and values.  In the light of the latest research in "Barthesian studies" we would like to show that the future of "theory", if it is ecology today, lies in the practice and ecological commitment of writing, as a mediator of meaning, a tool of "charitable fiction", at the confines of spirit and matter. 

scholarly journals Cities in the experience economy: the rise and the future of urban leisure formats

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-192
Author(s):  
Piotr Zmyslony ◽  
Karolina Anna Wędrowicz
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Leisure

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rise and the future of urban leisure format (ULF), i.e. local seasonal short-lived and repeatable small-scale place-time-based staging urban leisure experiences which become the focus of recreation and tourism development in many cities. It aims to analyse the structure of the ULF by identifying its main features and also to propose the future developments of the concept. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on the experience economy principles. It develops the models for structured experiences/experienscape by adding the analogy with television programme formats to propose the general logic of constructing, organising and packetizing urban leisure experiences that are multiplied effectively to other urban time-spaces. Findings The ULF’s future potential lies in its ability to adopt local components, i.e. people and urban resources, to global trends using a structured experiences/experience logic which makes the ULF formattable, i.e. with the capacity to get informally standardised, then repeated and adapted to other cities’ contexts. Research limitations/implications The paper provides a conceptual framework for formatting the leisure events and places under the framework of the structured experience, will be carefully adapted to the micro-local level, i.e. community activities sphere. The ULF is a theoretical concept and needs empirical research to verify its validity. Practical implications The ULF provides urban managers with a framework for replicating, multiplying and adapting urban leisure events and sites within the structured experiences (SE) designing framework. Originality/value The study contributes to the scientific discussion on the experience economy by introducing the ULF concept which can be adapted to various urban conditions.

Clothing Degree Zero: A Late Reading of Barthes’ Fashion ‘System’

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Feng Jie
Keyword(s):  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Degree Zero ◽  
Neutral Form ◽  
Late Works

Drawing upon Roland Barthes’ posthumously published notebooks from his 1974 trip to China, in which he remarks upon the ‘complete absence of fashion. Clothing degree zero’, this article offers a ‘late’ reading of Barthes’ interest in fashion, suggested here as a form of writing. In reference to the late works, specifically Barthes’ penultimate lecture course on the Neutral and Travels in China, supplemented by François Jullien’s comments on Barthes’ trip to China (regarding the use of the term ‘blandness’), as well as mention of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Chung Kuo-Cina (which Barthes viewed with ‘methodological’ interest), it is possible to draw together a reading of fashion as a neutral form. As a final step, reflection is given to Susan Buck-Morss’ reading of ‘history as passing’, as discontinuous moments (whereby fashion is symptomatic of such transformations). Barthes’ writerly mode – which works upon incidental details (also found in the work of Antonioni) – is revealed to be a pertinent method.

Apocalypse NOW!

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Woltersdorff
Keyword(s):  
Coming Out ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Aids Activism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Work Of Mourning ◽  
The One

This essay analyses apocalyptic rhetoric in recent queer theoretical writings on negativity and temporality, in particular the invocation of an end, and its use for political radicality. The suspension of progressive time in favour of alternative temporalities, such as reversion, circularity or endless presence, has for long been a strategy of subcultural performance, coming out narratives, AIDS activism, and other queer politics. Such strategies stage a rupture within the linearity of time and the symbolic order of discourse. The author illustrates the potentials and pitfalls of this rhetoric gesture by elaborating its inherent dialectics between the disruption and the emergence of temporality. The dialectics consist precisely in that by radically negating historicity, apocalyptical rhetorics make history. Invoking the end of future thus empowers the one who is speaking, as it installs an immediate urgency for action and interpellates queer subjects. Yet, the assumed radicality often hides the privileged condition of its formation. By universalising the particularity of this perspective, it runs the risk of turning radical negativity into radical affirmation. In conclusion, the author claims that it is the loss of futurity rather than, as some antisocial approaches argue, the active destruction or negation of futurity that ought to be regarded as queer momentum. For when the experience of a queer loss results in a work of mourning, it aims at reappropriating the future and articulating it in unforeseen and queer ways.

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI TUBUH DAN KECANTIKAN DALAM TIGA CERPEN INTAN PARAMADITHA: SEBAGAI SEBUAH TATANAN SIMBOLIK DALAM DUNIA PEREMPUAN (Representation of Body and Beauty in Intan Paramaditha’s Three Short Stories: as a Symbolic Order in Women World)

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Ery Agus Kurnianto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Subjek penelitian ini adalah cerpen “Misteri Polaroid”, “Cerpen Perempuan Tanpa Ibu Jari”, dan Cerpen “Darah” karya Intan Paramaditha yang terdapat dalam antologi cerpen Sihir Perempuan. Dalam bingkai strukturalisme, yaitu mengidentifikasi perilaku, pola pikir tokoh-tokoh, dan mitos seputar kecantikan yang terdapat pada ketiga cerpen tersebut, peneliti menggunakan teori Levi Strauss dan Roland Barthes. Teori Foucault  tentang seksualitas dan kekuasaan dipergunakan untuk mengidentifikasi dominasi kaum patriarki terhadap tubuh dan kecantikan perempuan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif analitis dengan menggunakan pendekatan objektif. Analisis data dilakukan berdasarkan fakta yang ada secara empiris dalam ketiga cerpen yang dianalisis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perempuan tidak memiliki kekuasaan atas dirinya sendiri. Konstruksi patriarki tentang cantik dan tidak cantik membuat perempuan menjadi liyan. Konstruksi tersebut diperkuat juga oleh sifat ambivalen perempuan tentang tubuh dan kecantikan yang ada dalam diri perempuan.Abstract:The research centers on Paramaditha’s short stories of “Misteri  Polaroid”,  “Perempuan Tanpa Ibu Jari”, and “Darah” taken from the anthology of “Sihir Perempuan”. The writer applies Levi Strauss and Roland Barther’ theory to identify behaviour, characters’ way of thinking, and myth on beauty in three short stories in structural way. Foucault’s theory on sexuality and power was used to identify patriachal domination toward women’s body and beauty. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis with objective approach. Data analysis is empirically conducted based on the fact in three short stories. The result of the research shows that women have no power over themselves. Patriarchal construction on being  and not being beautiful makes them turn into other person. The construction is also reinforced  by their ambivalent nature about body and beauty that exist in their perception.

Closer to Dust

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Rich
Keyword(s):  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Dead

No one thinks straight. At least no one remembers straight. But ten years ago, things were different, weren’t they? Roland Barthes once wrote that color in a photograph is like make-up on a corpse. No one is fooled. In anarchic denial of convenient truths, a young international couple meet and marry on a small Mediterranean island. Ten years later, the couple separate in part due to complications with immigration laws. Following this transcontinental rupture, fragmented histories emerge in response to the woman’s encounters with a series of color snapshots. There is death here, familiar to the mourner, as the photographs issue their special powers to magically and auspiciously predict the future and simultaneously to permit the return of the dead. The woman recognizes pieces of herself as past objects indexed within photographic stills, but paradoxically, she is present, outside in this chaos trying not to fall apart. The images and their objects yawn to remind us of the reluctant destiny of all our beloved memories, bodies, and things: that is, to disintegrate. Borrowing its title from a passage in The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, Closer to Dust is a séance, a gathering of invitees: inherently biased elegies, the images that conjured them, and the reader- viewer in attendance who is warmly invited to order these intimate fragments into cohesion.

A Future for Theory?

Paragraph ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
Leslie Hill
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Shared Commitment

What is it that guarantees the truth of literary theory? And what is it that testifies to its survival into the future? This paper, intended primarily as a tribute to the work of Malcolm Bowie, examines some of the implications of Bowie's view that literary theory, rigorously applied, as in the case of psychoanalysis, was inseparable from its status as creative, productive, futural, perhaps even fictional performance. The paper considers these questions further in the context of that shared commitment to the neuter or the undecidable that is a striking feature of the writing on literature of Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, and which is also a way of thinking the futural possibilities and possible futures of theory.

scholarly journals Modalities of globalistics: theoretical doctrine or the concept of postmodern ideology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Natalya Belova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Species Difference ◽  
Theoretical Data ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
False Consciousness ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of

In order to implement a theoretical approach to the theory of globalism, the author concentrates on the original definitions of its terms, which methodologically belong to the second modern (U. Beck), including the definition of the subject of globalism. It is emphasized the necessity of the category of «ideology» as an important theoretical component of the study of one of the elements of social systems, namely – social consciousness in terms of producing mass forms, which in recent decades have acquired qualitatively new specific species and types of existence. The main aspects of understanding of the concept of ideology are analyzed : as an ideal expression of the dominant material relations and as a false consciousness (das «falsche Bewusstsein»). The methods proposed by researchers to achieve the future perspective of cosmopolitanization of society, in particular, the «internal globalization» of U. Beck are specified. As a result of the analysis of the concept of «sustainable development», it is proved that the definition of «sustainable development», although in form can be attributed to the category of definitions due to genus and species difference, by its content belongs to the so-called «definitions in use» (G. Reichenbach), which are to receive meaning in a certain context. Due to the fact that the context contains epistemologically ineffective features, in particular the term «needs of the future» cannot be explicated by available empirical or theoretical data, taking into account the social, cultural and scientific and technological changes that accompany human development, it is impossible constructively use the concept of «sustainable development» as a theoretical concept of philosophy. At the same time, the term «sustainable development» can be effective in a particular political or ideological construction, which will be the bearer of the meaning of this concept. It turns out that globalism can be considered both as a condition and as a mechanism for the formation of mass consciousness, and in this respect corresponds to many features of ideology as a complex social mechanism for the formation of subjectivity.

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