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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Day of the Locus:  Also Sprach Zartaloudis

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:42 pm

From Thanos Zartaloudis
“The Experience of Migration:  From Metaphor to Metamorphosis,”
On Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 10 (2020) —

"To paraphrase Roland Barthes, the ancient soothsayer
'
speaks the locus of meaning but does not name it,'
while the modern metaphoric-apotropaic subject
'names it but does
not speak of its locus.' 12

12 Roland Barthes, “The Structuralist Activity,” in:
Critical Essays, transl. by Richard Howard
(
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972),
213–220, here: 219."

A related locus:

"For Times Square Church," Steven H. Cullinane, Log24 , Feb. 6, 2018.

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