Excellent work - and prescient, as I’ve pulled that face one or twice today

Finally, there’s a good interview with RB - titled, if you can believe it, “Interview: A Conversation with Roland Barthes” - that gives a good sense of some of the ideas at play. Funnily enough, the interview concludes with a reflection on the teaching of literature (if that’s not too meta)!

But he’s also problematising what we mean by reading and writing - and troubling the binary too. Volume 6(?) of @barthesstudies.bsky.social was a special issue on S/Z, if you’d like some more contemporary opinions. But Barbara Johnson’s essay, in The Critical Difference, is indispensable I think.

Oh blimey - different ways of approaching this, obviously. One can read it as part of the history of structuralism, of course. I suppose one of the things you have to contend with is that S/Z is both a reading of a text and a text in its own right: in other words, an act of reading AND writing…

Time for a new mug, I feel

I know the feeling 🥲

Safe from the lasers at least! Honestly tho, wtf

As a former employee, it’s a strange day! Though not, sadly, an unexpected one - travel stores have been carrying WHS for some time now. Fond memories of trying to locate books with such descriptors as: well, I think it has a red cover.. I think. It was on the breakfast show this morning, you know..