Roland Barthes (1915-1918)
- Sickly child
- Excepted from Military duty
- Long history of criticism: Semiology and Structuralism
- Criticized the use of signs by bourgeois circles, as well as established notions of literary and artistic criticism
- pioneered the "Death of the Author"
- Hit by a laundry van on his way home from lunch one day
- laboriousness vs. leisure
- pachinko vs pinball
- Single Movement vs. Ongoing Adjustment
- Nutritive Circuit vs. Sex Replacement
No Address
- Is the practical always the most rational?
- Anonymity as purpose?
- "This city can be known only by an activity of the ethnographic kind: you must orient yourself in it not by books, by address, but by walking, by sight, by habit, by experience
The Station
- the more contained an area, the stronger the likelihood that it will have a center
- center of Japanese areas are the train stations, and they are empty
- Locations of commerce, without any comment
Ads in Train Stations
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