Mastodawn

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

Judith Beyer Apr 26

Even if I consider #LeviStrauss to be the only structuralist & many others would consider #Foucault, #Lacan and #Barthes post-structuralists, we can maybe all agree on the fact that how Henry has portrayed the four men here (in 1967) is brilliant and captures their characters very well #anthropology

asupala Apr 19

New entry on speaking the city, Barthes' semiology and the urban, architecture, and the two languages of space.

https://asupala.me/2026/04/19/entry-25-speaking-the-city/

#barthes #language #architecture #writing #city

Judith Beyer Apr 10

More brutal, even: "No surer way to kill a piece of research and send it to join the great waste of abandoned projects than Method." #Barthes

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7mqzu7aleiaz4hi44hod7x2/post/3mj5wpmn5j22u

Judith Beyer Apr 10

Brutal: #Barthes on the 'contractual totality' of teaching: "the comfort of the teaching relationship: the 'good' teacher, the 'good' student are those who accept philosophically the plurality of their determinations, perhaps because they know that the truth of a relationship of speech is elsewhere"

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Jörn Reinhardt Feb 25

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 Foucault's role in it.

Very, very interesting indeed.

La fourmi dans la coquille Feb 17

De l’art moderne, au marketing et aux mythologies contemporaines, la couleur n’a jamais été autant porteuse de sens.

Épisode 16 du #podcast à écouter sur https://lafourmi.media/podcast/semiologie-de-la-couleur-contemporaine

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.