Tantric orgasms of critical insight

Source: Snarkmarket

Instead of constructing multivolume monuments of systematic thought, Barthes wrote short books built out of fragments. He was less interested in traditional coherence than in what he called jouissance: joy, surprise, adventure, pleasure — tantric ...
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Riff: How Roland Barthes Gave Us the TV Recap

Source: The New York Times

Among the brand-name French theorists of the mid-20th century, Roland Barthes was the fun one. (Foucault was the tough one, Derrida was the dreamy one, Lacan was the mysterious one — I like to imagine them sometimes as a black-turtlenecked, clove-sm ...
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Don Quixote

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Jan Christoph Meister [1] 1 Definition [2] Narratology is a humanities discipline dedicated to the study of the logic, principles, and practices of narrative representation. [3] Dominated by structuralist approaches at its beginning, narrato ...
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The vamp figures in various forms of popular music. A phrase repeated to generate expectation before the introduction of a vocal or an arrangement’s intensification, it is particularly effective in live performance, where it often prefigures a char ...
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