Roland Barthes Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980
Birthday: November 12
Death: March 25
One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates, where everything is transformed into images: only images exist and are produced and are consumes ... Such a reversal necessarily raises the ethical question: not that the image is immoral, irreligious, or diabolic (as some have declared it, upon the advent of the Photograph), but because, when generalized, it completely de-realizes the human world of conflicts and desires, under cover of illustrating it.
topic: Ethical Questions, Our World, Desire, Reversal, Illustrating
