The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => The Forum of Interesting Things => Topic started by: sciborg2 on February 16, 2014, 02:13:00 am
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Roland Barthes and the conception of aesthetic experience (http://www.academia.edu/1167999/Roland_Barthes_and_the_conception_of_aesthetic_experience)
I don't pretend to have read copious amounts of Barthes, but I do enjoy his work and recommend the book Mythologies whole heartedly...sadly I need to procure a new copy for myself....At least the essay about theatrical wrestling (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wrestlin.html) is online.
Anywho, I'm making a thread because I came across a reference to Barthes' "Obtuse Meaning" in a textual discussion of shamanism.
I gave the paper above a first pass, and will need to read Barthes' original essay on The Third Meaning (http://perf.tamu.edu/musc402/files/2012/02/Barthes-The-Third-Meaning.pdf).
I thought Barthes' work might prove to be of interest as hidden within it I feel like there is an any interesting & impassioned argument about consciousness.