And Bluesky would have me believe that you wrote your post in German:

I’m with you in Rockland.

Would watch.
‘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.’

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.

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!

Is this my old typewriter, now in the happy service of smut?

Thank you, Nicholas.

Intimations of apocalypse notwithstanding, here are the journal’s plans for the future:

- 2026 will be a special issue on Le Plaisir du texte, guest-edited by Bryan Counter;
- 2027 will be a collection emerging from the recent ‘Global Barthes’ symposium in Leeds.

Et après? Who knows?

We usually publish each new volume of the journal annually on 12 November (Barthes’s birthday), but everything was ready by this evening, so, following a chat with the Reviews Editor, I decided to publish early. (The way things are going, who knows if the world will still be here come 12 November?)

Plus:

Patrick ffrench reviews Claude Coste’s Dictionnaire Roland Barthes;
Michael Wood reviews John Lurz’s The Barthes Fantastic;
Andy Stafford reports on the Global Barthes symposium in Leeds in June.

This year’s volume features:

Hilary Thompson on Roland Barthes and Sumana Roy;
Mynt Marsellus on Barthes and Ordinary Language Philosophy;
Lennard J. Davis and Trevor Pateman on studying with Barthes in the 1970s;
David Johnson on inspiration, photography, notebooks,
and the beginning of writing.

There’s no French version of this short text in Barthes’s Œuvres complètes, and it’s not mentioned in Thierry Leguay’s ‘Roland Barthes: bibliographie générale (textes et voix), 1942-1981’.

NB: The version on the TLS website also includes Barthes’s nomination for the ‘overrated’ category (Malraux).
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