Friday, February 27, 2009

In response to Barthes

Barthes spends the majority of his essay about textuality highlighting the binary oppositions that differentiate work from text. While this is undoubtedly a valuable distinction to create, I feel that he does not address the issues of direct physicality involved with both work and text. In what ways does the boundary between work and text dissolve, and to what degree, and under which circumstances? There are multitudinous situational schemata that could be instantiated to produce an empirical rhetoric of textuality, which may be more personally involved than Barthes binary oppositions.

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