Mastodawn

"Roland Barthes in his classic study of photography, Camera Lucida, uses two terms, punctum and studium, to descrube our reactions to photographs.

"The studium can be translated as what the photo represents in aesthetic and intellectual terms, wholly disconnected from our emotional response.

"The punctum can be translated as the wound of the photograph. It's both emotional and individual. The punctum for you might be different from my sense of the punctum in a photograph.

"It's a small detail that wounds us, a bou's crooked teeth in a photograph of smiling boys, a man shading his eyes from the sun in another."

--Robin Hemley, essay Lines that Create Motion, The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre

Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography used book by Roland Barthes: 9780374532338

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/camera-lucida-reflections-on-photography-9780374532338

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-far-edges-of-the-fourth-genre-an-anthology-of-explorations-in-creative-nonfiction-9781611861211

#robinhemley, #rolandbarthes, #creativenonfiction #savednotes

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 22

“Usually the #stereotype is a sad affair, since it is constituted by a necrosis of #language, a prothesis brought in to fill a hole in the #writing.” - #RolandBarthes, “Writers, Intellectuals, Teachers,” Image Music Text

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 21

"Language, according to Beneviste, is the only #semioticsystem capable of interpreting another #semiotic #system ... How, then does #language when it has to interpret #music? Alas, it seems, very badly.' #RolandBarthes, "The Grain of the Voice," Image Music Text

Ilkka Janatuinen

Mar 5

There aren’t many books I think everyone should read, but Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography definitely is one. New Finnish translation published by Bokeh Editions just landed on my desk and it’s beautiful!

https://holvi.com/shop/bokeh-kauppa/product/2cfe4fd8ab311dd0de375377ff6ee093/

#RolandBarthes #CameraLucida #bookstodon

Comité Laïcité République Feb 16

« Ces intellectuels maoïstes, aveugles et sourds » (Le Figaro Magazine, 13 fév. 26)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://laicite-republique.org/revue-de-presse/acteurs-politiques/gauche/article/ces-intellectuels-maoistes.html

Apokrif Feb 7

"Valeurs républicaines" #verbiage #RolandBarthes

The Lifeboat Academy Feb 5

What passes for “common sense” often defines which forms of intelligence are allowed to speak.

When we stop trying to force coherence through control, a different wisdom becomes audible — carried through exhaustion, relational signals, and shared attention. Listening reconnects us with what we already know, but have learned to ignore.

Full reflection for this week here:
https://emotus.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-that-is-already-there

#TheWisdomThatIsAlreadyThere #RelationalInfrastructure #PracticedAttention #RolandBarthes