If you've never heard of Roland Barthes, congrats - clearly you were never forced to study structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism or semiotics. Lucky you. It was as a semiologist that Barthes (b 1915 - d 1980) was best known, and in simple terms, semiotics is the study of signs, symbols and their meaning. For obvious reasons, academic texts that deal with semiotics (and structuralism, and post-structuralism, and deconstructivism) tend towards the abstruse. When the king of the deco...
If you've never heard of Roland Barthes, congrats - clearly you were never forced to study structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism or semiotics. Lucky you. It was as a semiologist that Barthes (b 1915 - d 1980) was best known, and in simple terms, semiotics is the study of signs, symbols and their meaning. For obvious reasons, academic texts that deal with semiotics (and structuralism, and post-structuralism, and deconstructivism) tend towards the abstruse. When the king of the deco...
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