The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.
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Roland Barthes was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes’s work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.
A synopsis of Barthes’ “Rhetoric of the Image”.
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