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

Pachinko

- 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

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