# Roland Barthes

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11. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (with Helen Miller)

What happens when a French philosopher writes about photography while grieving for his mother? Did you think that was the setup to a Freudian joke? What’s wrong with you? You people make us sick. The wonderful Helen Miller joins us to discuss Roland Barthes’ seminal photography text Camera Lucida. …

The Mechanical Oracle: Accidental Peeping Tom

Now on Amazon. Click the image to buy. Here’s one of Hieronymus Schitzolini’s favorite quotes from Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: “What Calvino calls “the true total photograph” accomplishes the unheard-of identification of reality (“that-has-been”) with truth (“there-she-is”), it becomes a…

Shipping: the Author is Dead, Long Live the Queers

Have you ever looked at two fictional characters and thought to yourself omg they are gay and so in love despite the aggressively platonic or heterosexual relationships they’re shown in? Have you ever been personally victimised by a straight showrunner for 10 seasons of TV? In this episode we discu…

The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author

For our penultimate episode in this series David talks to Kathleen Stock about Roland Barthes’s idea of the Death of the Author (1967). Once very fashionable, the notion that readers not writers are the arbiters of what a text means has had a long and sometimes painful afterlife. As well as explori…

105: Narratology and Narrative Theory with Steven Cousler

Let's hope our professors hear this one... Content warning: this episode contains mentions of transphobia, bodily functions (defecation), conflict We're back late after having to factory reset my laptop for our most inscrutable episode yet, as Steven achieves his goal of coming on this show a…

Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illuminating details, momentary experiences, and the most subtle and brief of auditory stimulations to consider their role in thought and emotion. The ch…

Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illuminating details, momentary experiences, and the most subtle and brief of auditory stimulations to consider their role in thought and emotion. The ch…

Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illuminating details, momentary experiences, and the most subtle and brief of auditory stimulations to consider their role in thought and emotion. The ch…

Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illuminating details, momentary experiences, and the most subtle and brief of auditory stimulations to consider their role in thought and emotion. The ch…