Barthes Studies
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An open-access, independent, peer-reviewed journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes. Based at Cardiff University.
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Source = ‘Racine is Racine’, translated by Richard Howard, in this edition of Mythologies:
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Source = ‘Racine is Racine’, translated by Richard Howard, in this edition of Mythologies:
‘It’s too late to be unwritten’, as Mark Doty says in his ‘My Tattoo’ poem. Or, more simply, it’s too late to stop now.
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
‘It’s too late to be unwritten’, as Mark Doty says in his ‘My Tattoo’ poem. Or, more simply, it’s too late to stop now.
It’s fabulously lovely, Lorna!
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It’s fabulously lovely, Lorna!
Typo: the boat was *Le* Montaigne.
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Typo: the boat was *Le* Montaigne.
If you want more detailed information, there are two letters to Barthes’s mother about his death in Roland Barthes’s Album (Columbia University Press). The first is from the Commander of the Second Patrol Squadron; the second is from Captain Exelmans.
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you want more detailed information, there are two letters to Barthes’s mother about his death in Roland Barthes’s Album (Columbia University Press). The first is from the Commander of the Second Patrol Squadron; the second is from Captain Exelmans.
He was killed in naval action in the North Sea on October 27 on a patrol boat called La Montaigne.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
He was killed in naval action in the North Sea on October 27 on a patrol boat called La Montaigne.
I know exactly what you mean.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I know exactly what you mean.
Source of photograph = the catalogue of the 2002-03 R/B exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris:
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Source of photograph = the catalogue of the 2002-03 R/B exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris:
And Bluesky would have me believe that you wrote your post in German:
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And Bluesky would have me believe that you wrote your post in German:
I’m with you in Rockland.
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m with you in Rockland.
Would watch.
‘I have seen sidereal archipelagos you people wouldn’t believe…’
‘I have seen sidereal archipelagos you people wouldn’t believe…’
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Would watch.
‘I have seen sidereal archipelagos you people wouldn’t believe…’
‘I have seen sidereal archipelagos you people wouldn’t believe…’
I suspect he’d say what he said in The Neutral when describing how he’d spilled a bottle of ink at home a few days earlier: ‘Little domestic complications.’
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I suspect he’d say what he said in The Neutral when describing how he’d spilled a bottle of ink at home a few days earlier: ‘Little domestic complications.’
I was about to post a reply in praise of your heroic stance, but then I had an accident refilling my fountain pen and have concluded that I would be better off handing every aspect of my pathetic life over to the robots.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I was about to post a reply in praise of your heroic stance, but then I had an accident refilling my fountain pen and have concluded that I would be better off handing every aspect of my pathetic life over to the robots.
Sorry! Have just added the details in the thread.
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sorry! Have just added the details in the thread.
Thanks to Alan in the Cardiff University IT section for fixing the journal’s platform settings so that the volumes now appear in the correct order on the website.
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thanks to Alan in the Cardiff University IT section for fixing the journal’s platform settings so that the volumes now appear in the correct order on the website.
I thought I recognised the typeface! So happy to see that it’s found such a suitable home!
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I thought I recognised the typeface! So happy to see that it’s found such a suitable home!
Is this my old typewriter, now in the happy service of smut?
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Is this my old typewriter, now in the happy service of smut?
Thank you, Nicholas.
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Thank you, Nicholas.