Tag Archives: Roland Barthes

common sense: gossiping around the village pump

The decline of common sense and why we might wish to revive it…. A truly surprising paradox is implied in all this. Prideful thought and common sense stand at opposite poles, yet the poles turn out to be the very … Continue reading

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acknowledged silences

We are dealing with unavoidable traumatic effects; actual and not idealized fancified tragedies and catastrophes. We don’t need T.S. Eliot preaching how low we have sunk. It was the trial run of eugenics, Fabianism, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and … Continue reading

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two faced value

Threatening complacency and self-satisfaction. Wallowing in the glory of inertia. Taking a pass on disturbing entrenched assumptions. By extension, not resisting to conformity means a negation of what is regarded as the uncannily human, meaning one ventures onto the slippery … Continue reading

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banking with igor: foreclosure on bad anima

It gives rise to strange sensations when we transfer the body into an emotional language, a coded language that no longer seems common. Maybe it reveals a certain vulgar emotional truth about our own perceived deformities as well as providing … Continue reading

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belley up

He may be viewed as a rebel or a thrill seeker,a radical,  but he never did leave the mainstream. Girodet’s representation of the liberation of slaves, equality, had little to do with liberation; he was a democrat of the most … Continue reading

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raft of the medusa redux: can i get a coke with that?

Most of us know the original sad story of the Medusa, immortalized by Gericault. There are recurring elements in pop culture that have no qualms of turning impact of powerful visual art narratives into…. Gilligan’s Island? Satire. Copy Cat art. … Continue reading

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an original of a copy

But, then is not the artist themselves, whether man or woman, merely a “copy” an “imitation” even a forgery of the original’ the original first, man and women, of which after the Fall have lot their original aura, their sense … Continue reading

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if you meet a shaman on the road…

“From the cavern, man does not like to stir” – W. Benjamin. Where is the scariest place to live. It may just be inside of us. But we love to project…..Antonin Artaud studied the Tarahumara indians in Mexico in 1936,who … Continue reading

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tiger’s leap into the past

Roland Barthes  once claimed  that a society produces images, splices of mythologies peddled,  as magical instruments to enforce a  social order.All nations have their founding mythologies, the necessary illusions that maintain the social hierarchy. In Israel, it was  conquering and … Continue reading

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ball four strike 3 fair or foul?

Who’s on first? Does it matter? Although the actors change, the same situations repeat themselves, almost, in an eternal cycle. But, baseball is a business. It may be the national pastime, imbued in the national fabric but it remains a … Continue reading

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