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There is no system for that. Which is why I would prefer approaching the text without an elaborate analytic scaffolding.

It doesn't explain what is good about a book to me.

I don't really get much of what you're saying. Barthes ascribes value to a text according to an ideal--what he calls the "writerly", which means something like its openness to plurality of meaning. The "readerly"--what he identifies with the western classical tradition-- is something that has a...

I would look at a piece of writing and say "I like this / I don't like this. Here is why I think I liked it." Barthes is not allowed to say that. He is not allowed to say that something is beautiful.

Also, for his criticism of connotation as a sort of engineered and thus problematic meaning-instrument, he relies pretty heavily on it once he gets going.

I know later in his career he was open to aesthetics but in S/Z he is comically afraid of any deeper interaction between the mind and the text than that of playing around in a web of meanings.

His codes are not different kinds of interpretation. They are sort of tracks on which the text runs. It is not reductive in the sense of restricting any of what he calls "meanings," but in restricting what the meaning of a text can be, which in his case is entirely logical...

Mythologies was interesting enough. S/Z struck me as a boring and reductive way of reading. A way of formalizing, to a ridiculous degree, what should be immediately present to anyone with basic reading capabilities.

versh did you play that assassins creed that's set in egypt? you get to explore the pyramids and all sorts of secret tombs and crypts it's extremely cool

spooky

are you bullying me you cunt

there is a lust for revelations that invalidate existing thought networks. it's a normal healthy death drive

There is something very strange and slightly unnerving about imagining Messi speak English isn't there? He has somehow yet to utter a word of English in public.

Iniesta is 39 though and I thought Suarez' knee was busted

Yeah it looked crazy how much space he had between the lines. Busi can find him there in his sleep too. Just noticed Inter Miami is in last place in the league,.

Vernon, great name

One of the Harry Potter movies has a scene where an irritating fat lady inflates like a baloon and flows away into the sky and it's about the funniest thing ever put on film

There is a sort of inner economy to it. We use these valves to find a balance in the psychosocial accounts. Having bad posture for example doesn't mean that you are nervous and shy but if you're forced to suddenly stand up straight and walk through the world like that then I think something will...

Bit of a shame that Messi obviously still has one or two top europe level seasons in him. Can't say he hasn't earned the right to ease off though.