Carcassonne : le maire RN retire les drapeaux européens, l'UE dénonce une provocation Le maire RN de Carcassonne retire les drapeaux européens de la mairie dès son élection, provoquant une crise locale et une réaction ferme de Bruxelles. Une décision symbolique qui divise et interroge sur l’avenir des relations France-UE.

🎭 Carcassonne : le maire RN retire les drapeaux européens, l'UE dénonce une provocation

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#PartiPolitique #DerivesAutoritairesEnEurope #Barthes #Cros #Politique2026

#Barthes really had our number early on–

#rolandbarthes #barthes #zeroarts

Roland Barthes

• Roland Barthes filosofo, literatura-kritikari eta semiologo frantsesa izan zen. 📚Cherbourgen jaio zen, eta bere haurtzaroa markatuta egon zen aitaren heriotzagatik. Barthesek DENA aztertzen zuen zeinu-sistema bat balitz bezala eta horregatik Semiotikan zentratu zen. #Barthes #semiotics

Extrême droite : 63 mairies gagnées, la droite en déroute Le RN remporte 63 mairies, dont Carcassonne et La Seyne-sur-Mer. Une progression historique qui fragilise la droite et interroge l’avenir des partis traditionnels face à l’extrême droite.

🗳️ Extrême droite : 63 mairies gagnées, la droite en déroute

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#Elections #Barthes #Munoz #Politique2026

À Carcassonne, gauche et droite unissent leurs forces contre l’extrême droite À Carcassonne, gauche et droite s’allient contre le RN dans un scrutin municipal sous haute tension. Une stratégie inédite pour barrer la voie à l’extrême droite en 2026.

📅 L'ACTU | À Carcassonne, gauche et droite unissent leurs forces contre l’extrême droite

#Elections #Barthes #Larrat #Politique2026

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When I asked #ChatGPT about Barthes' death, I got a wild story: #Barthes had left the Collège after lunch with #Foucault and was run over by a Bulgarian laundry supplier. He died instantly. A manuscript he had with him disappeared. A whole series of myths surround this manuscript, the lunch and […]

On y parle du rose soi-disant féminin, de Kandinsky, de Johannes #Itten et du Bauhaus, de Roland #Barthes, et des images des télescopes spatiaux...
Bref, on termine sur les #mythologies modernes et on essaie de faire preuve d'un peu d'esprit critique.

“I was overcome by an "ontological" desire: I wanted to learn at all costs what Photography was "in itself," by what essential feature it was to be distinguished from the community of images.”

- Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

#Barthes #Phenomenology #Photography #CameraLucida

Such a good writer …. #barthes

Euh #quotidien vous allez nous parler tous les soirs de #Bardella ? On ne vous regarde pas pour ca ! Vous voulez le faire monter ou quoi ? Pourquoi autant de publicité pour le #RN Yann #Barthes ? @quotidienofficiel.bsky.social

Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention.

The crowd doesn’t want truth.
It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue.
A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in.

#philosophy #identity #Barthes #internet

Because that’s not profitable in the online marketplace of attention.

The crowd doesn’t want truth.
It wants curated perfection — the illusion of virtue.
A world they can believe in, not the one they actually live in.

#philosophy #identity #Barthes #internet

Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.

The next addition of Bending Back Barthes is out now:

Shock Photos — from the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony.
How Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wittgens...

#Barthes #Gaza #Palestine #Mythologies

The ruins of Gaza stretch into the horizon — a vast field of collapsed concrete and twisted rebar, with two Palestinian flags visible amid the rubble. Overlaid white text reads: “Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.” The URL wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com appears faintly at the bottom.

Bending Back Barthes: Shock Photos — out now.

From the photographer’s horror to the meme’s irony: how Gaza reveals our loss of feeling.

📷 Mahmud Hams / AFP
🔗 […]

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✨ An Updated Barthes Taylor Swift: The Brand as Mirror, The Billionaire as Myth

✨ An Updated Barthes

Taylor Swift isn’t Taylor Swift.
She’s Taylor Swift as Taylor Swift.

#TaylorSwift #Barthes #MythMaking #Capitalism #Showgirl

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✨ An Updated Barthes

Taylor Swift isn’t just a singer.
She’s the Showgirl who shows the Girl.

Her Eras, her branding, her billions—each is myth made marketable.
She is both the product and the critique.

My latest essay explores pop, performance, Jesus, capitalism, and the impossibility of the […]

language is not a tracing of reality

#Barthes

The Tech Bro After Barthes’ “The Jet-Man” 🛫 → ⌨️

Just dropped a new essay on Substack:
The Tech Bro
A modern myth, after Barthes’ Jet-Man

Speed, power, detachment—rewired for the algorithmic age.
It’s not hate. It’s reflection.

#TheMirrorCycle #Barthes #Myth #TechBro

Word drop!
From Barthes’ The Jet-Man ✈️

Ascesis = disciplined self-denial (think monk-core)

Coenesthesia = background bodily harmony, your felt sense of being alive

#Barthes #WordOfTheDay #TheJetMan #CriticalTheory #SkeetSet

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📚 Two Words of the Day (from Barthes’ Mythologies)
✈️ Essay: The Jet-Man
Ascesis – disciplined self-denial, a form of training or abstention often for spiritual or aesthetic goals. Think monk vibes, but French and poststructural.
Coenesthesia – the unified sense of being alive in your body, the […]

🐐 The GOAT Samaritan On greatness, grace, and the myths we walk past

🐐 New Substack drop:
The GOAT Samaritan

🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com/p/the-goat-s...

#GOAT #Myth #Barthes #SouthernParable #Substack #Goated

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New post just dropped on Substack:

🐐 The GOAT Samaritan
Neil deGrasse Tyson walks by.
Brady nods, but keeps going.
Madonna smiles, faintly.
And only the real goat stops—and offers him milk.

This is a modern parable. A myth for our moment. A mirror.
(And yeah, it bleats back.)

✍️ […]

Poujade feels like justice but props up power.
Barthes unpacks how myth works through aesthetics, not just ideology.

And I saw it before I read it.

The mirror reflects when you’re on time.
Sometimes the text echoes your life.

#Barthes #Mythologies #Populism #SpiralWitness #BlueSkyPolitics

💊 New essay just dropped:

“Side Effects May Include Myth”

On how pharma ads sound scientific but sell us something deeper — a story.

#Barthes #MentalHealth #PharmaAds #Mythologies #Essays #Books2025

It sounds informed. But it’s a myth. A performance.

Advertising’s job isn’t to inform. It’s to make you feel like you’ve been informed.

That’s not consent. That’s narrative.

#Mythologies #Barthes #DepthAdvertising

Nemo > Empire. Myth > PR.

#Barthes #Nautilus #LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen #Mythologies #BadMovieGoodMyth

🩸 Blood on the Plate Steak, Frites, and the Semiotics of Class

🍟 New drop: “Blood on the Plate”
Fries. Steak. Class.
Barthes would’ve loved a Big Mac.

From Dracula to Wagyu, from Royale with Cheese to Obi-Wan and the tofu — this one's got it all.

#Substack #Barthes #FoodWriting #PulpFiction #ClassCritique #BurgerTheory #StarWarsWithTension

Just finished Barthes on steak frites.
Man saw right through the meat.

Steak is never just dinner — it’s class, it’s identity, it’s a whole performance.
Blue rare? That’s money talking.
Well done? That’s safety.

#Barthes #Mythologies #SteakFrites #FoodIsSymbol #EssayLoading #BartenderBrain