The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition..… - Roland Barthes

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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Roland Barthes

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About Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician.

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Alternative Names: Roland Gérard Barthes

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Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. We never encounter a state where man is separated from language, which he then elaborates in order to 'express' what is happening to him: it is language which teaches the definition of man, not the contrary.

Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.

Je t'aime est sans nuances. Il supprime les explications, les aménagements, les degrés, les scrupules.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. - Roland Barthes

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