Diggedy Derek
Stray Dog
I'm not well versed in post-structuralist thought, but years dipping into Roland Barthes suggest to me he's right more often than not. F'instance the Death of The Author business is actually a very nuanced theory- his contention that we're all readers, but the writer is at least first reader (thus retaining some notion of authorship as the "site of discourse", perhaps) i find pretty convincing. It also echoes a documentary maker I'm studying, Jean Rouch, whose made open-ended films, but which he denoted himself (the cameraman) as "the first viewer" of.
His thought is pretty broad, if that of a dilletante, perhaps. Overall he seems to find a lot of ways of representing radical positions in fairly positive ways, which I like.
I'm just an amateur in this theory-game, though- anyone got a beef or any thoughts with Barthes?
His thought is pretty broad, if that of a dilletante, perhaps. Overall he seems to find a lot of ways of representing radical positions in fairly positive ways, which I like.
I'm just an amateur in this theory-game, though- anyone got a beef or any thoughts with Barthes?