Roland Barthes Quotes
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text. Translated by Richard Miller, Hill and Wang, 1975, p. 57.
This was typical of Bloomberg’s candor and honesty. He was willing to admit his own use of marijuana while at the same time supporting the laws that made marijuana illegal.
Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of many schools of theory, including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, design theory, anthropology and post-structuralism. He was particularly known for developing and extending the field of semiotics through the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture.
