[lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 02:04:37 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com>wrote:

To use a classical example cited by Roland Barthes - a picture of a black
> soldier saluting the French flag on the front cover of a French magazine -
> the picture itself signifies two different levels of meaning - the literal
> (i.e. person with specific characteristics in a specific situation0 and
> "mythological" as Barthes calls it (i.e. the French empire and its
> connotations, either good or bad.)
>

I may not know much, but I do recall that the picture was of a young schoolboy, and not of a "soldier" in any sense that most of us might recognize.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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