Anne on Nostr: Currently reading Mythologies by Roland Barthes and came upon this bit from his essay ...
Currently reading Mythologies by Roland Barthes and came upon this bit from his essay A Few Words From Monsieur Poujade:
“…the whole petit bourgeois mythology implies the refusal of alterity, the negation of the different, the happiness of identity, and the exaltation of the similar… it has laid claim from the start to a mythological truth and posited culture as a disease, which is the specific symptom of all fascisms.”
Haven’t read French theory since uni. Sitting here chewing on it.
“…the whole petit bourgeois mythology implies the refusal of alterity, the negation of the different, the happiness of identity, and the exaltation of the similar… it has laid claim from the start to a mythological truth and posited culture as a disease, which is the specific symptom of all fascisms.”
Haven’t read French theory since uni. Sitting here chewing on it.