Everything anachronistic is obscene.
Roland Barthes Quotes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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| Birth: | 12th November, 1915 |
| Death: | 26th March, 1980 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Critic, Philosopher, Theorist |
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Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
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