Quotes by Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978

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As a general rule, desire is always marketable: we don’t do anything but sell, buy, exchange desires. . . . And I think — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. Peo — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it com — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it. — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm (opposition), there is meaning . . . elliptically — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at t — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experie — Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978