Wittgenstein's Monster
Charlotte Joanne📚🔍 Once an avid fan of every Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme release, I find myself having drifted away from these series over the years. Wonder if "Unnatural Death" & "The Watchmaker’s Hand" could reignite the old spark? #MysterySeriesNostalgia #BookReflections 🤔💫
“The narration is objective, but actually it rests on the pathetic collusion of white flesh and black skin, of innocence and cruelty, of spirituality and magic, beauty and beast. Civilization of the Soul subjects the barbarism of instinct.” — Roland Barthes, Bichon among the Blacks
Barthes wrote this in 1957 about a children’s comic strip.
Still chillingly relevant: how “neutral” stories smuggle in whole ideologies.
#Barthes #Mythologies #BookReflections #Colonialism #CriticalTheory