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The beginning of this reflection was most often a feeling of impatience regarding the “natural” in which art, the press, and common sense unceasingly dress up a reality that, for all that we live in it, is nevertheless part of history. In a word, it made me suffer to see Nature and History confounded in our everyday discourse. I wanted to get a grasp of the ideological abuse that is, in my view, hidden in the decorative exposition of what-can-be-taken-for-granted.
Barthes, Mythologies
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“Myth” - Roland Barthes
• Summary of the Lecture:– Semiotics: Language and “Myth”– Class and Culture– Closure, Naturalization, Exnomination
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Semiotics: Language and “Myth” (Barthes)
• Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
• Semiotics (Semiology)
• Double Articulation
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Semiotics (Semiology)The study of signification
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Double Articulation(Barthes)
LANGUAGE
MYTH
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“Myth” - Roland Barthes
• Summary:– Semiotics: Language and “Myth”– Class and Culture– Closure, Naturalization, Exnomination
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Class and Culture
• Medieval estates and cultures
• Modern classes
• Petty-bourgeois culture
• The Death of Working-Class Culture?
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Medieval estates and cultures
• Courtly culture
• Burgher culture
• Peasant culture = main locus of folklore
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• The bourgeoisie– true or haute bourgeoisie= main locus of “high”
culture– petty (petite) bourgeoisie= main locus of the
“middle-brow” part of popular culture• relatively socially insecure, desirous of “respectability”
• The working class (proletariat) – main locus of a disappearing working-class culture
• The Lumpenproletariat (“bum proletariat”)
Modern classes
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Bourgeois and petty-bourgeois
• bourgeois culture (high culture - critical, restrained, cynical)
• petty-bourgeois culture (complacent, feel-good, has values, “normal”)– the marginalization of the working class after
World War II
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Petty-bourgeois culture
• Became dominant as the middle classes expanded, especially after World War II
• It is the “naturalized” culture that Barthes attacks
• According to Barthes it makes bourgeois domination possible by making alternatives unthinkable
• It is part of popular culture (more specifically: “middle-brow culture”)
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The demise of the working class and its culture
• working-class culture (oppositional, ribald, carnivalesque)
• Barthes: petty-bourgeois culture imposed on the working class:
• embourgeoisement
• makes working-class resistance to capitalism difficult
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• “Main-stream” popular culture = petty-bourgeois culture– Sit-coms– Martha Stewart
Petty-bourgeois culture today
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“Myth” - Roland Barthes
• Summary:– Semiotics: Language and “Myth”– Class and Culture– Closure, Naturalization, Exnomination
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Closure, Naturalization, Exnomination (Barthes)
• Petty-Bourgeois Myth as Mystification
• History (Culture) Mystified as Nature
• The Bourgeoisie Exnominated
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Barthes, Elements of Semiology
• ”… my denunciation of the self-proclaimed petit-bourgeois myths... semiology -- the close analysis of the process of meaning by which the bourgeoisie converts its historical class-culture into a universal nature.”
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Example of a
Myth: Einstein’s
Brain• Simple (all
knowledge reduced to a formula)
• Infinite (the formula is the secret of all knowledge)
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