Continuity of the Centre: “Point Zéro” de la France
“Au mois d’avril 1768, le chapitre de Notre-Dame de Paris a fait placer dans son parvis, au pied de la tour septentrionale de son église, une pierre triangulaire, du milieu de laquelle sort un...
Tagged: Roland Barthes
De Hooghe’s Map, Babylon/Paradise/Desert as centre of Biblical lands
Romeyn De Hooghe (Amsterdam 1654 – Haarlem 1708) was a Dutch engraver and painter. His works are quite prolific, and he is regarded as one of the best Dutch Baroque artists. One of his...
Power’s jargon and texts. “Le plaisir du texte” of Roland Barthes
“For each jargon (each fiction) fights for hegemony; if power is on its side, it spreads everywhere in the general and daily occurrences of social life, it becomes doxa, nature: this is the supposedly apolitical jargon of politicians, of agents of the State, of the media, of conversation; but even out of power, even when power is against it, the rivalry is reborn, the jargons split and struggle among themselves. A ruthless topic rules the life of language; language always comes from some place, it is a warrior topos.”
