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Barthes, Roland

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Examines the critical concept ‘zero degree’ through the work of Roland Barthes and Victor Burgin. In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the editors’ ongoing collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. The book is composed of key chapters by the editors and Burgin, a series of collaborative texts with Burgin and four commissioned essays concerned with the relationship between Barthes and Burgin in the context of the spectatorship of art. It includes an in-depth dialogue regarding Burgin’s long-term reading of Barthes and a lengthy image-text, offering critical exploration of the Image (in echo of earlier theories of the Text). Also included are translations of two projections works by Burgin, Belledonne and Prairie, which work alongside and inform the collected essays. Overall, the book provides a combined reading of both Barthes and Burgin, which in turn leads to new considerations of visual culture, the spectatorship of art and the political aesthetic. Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics is part of a two volume set, alongside Barthes/Burgin,. The two books represent the editors’ long-term collaboration with artist and writer Victor Burgin. Read together, the books set out the preparatory work for an exhibition, as well as detailed critical reflections and extended research, cutting across art practice, critical theory and the politics of aesthetics.

Semiotics and art. --- Sémiotique et art --- Barthes, Roland --- Burgin, Victor --- Influence. --- Influence.

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This book confronts the singularity of the relationship between two exemplary writers of the last century in order to challenge and to reinvigorate our notions of what art and criticism - literary or otherwise - can do. While it takes Roland Barthes's encounters with Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu as its specific focus, the implications of its argument are far-reaching. Indeed, the book argues that Barthes's writing on Proust's work between the early 1950s and 1980 (including a substantial set of unpublished notes for a series of seminars delivered at the University of Rabat in 1969-1970) proposes not only a critical culture of Proust that is productively inconsistent, but also, more generally, a fresh understanding of criticism as a creative activity that embraces insecurity and variation as it refuses to remain fixed upon reassuringly stable themes, meanings and interpretations.

Barthes, Roland --- Proust, Marcel, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Barthes, R. --- Барт, Ролан --- Bart, Rolan --- Baruto, Roran --- בארת, רולאן --- بارت، رولان --- ロラン・バルト --- Luolan Bate --- 羅蘭・巴特 --- variation --- creative criticism --- literature in theory --- Roland Barthes --- Marcel Proust --- rewriting