Word: everydayness
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Speaking to a group of 40 in the Leverett House Dining Hall, members of the Fortune Society called for the restructuring of the prison system and for counseling programs aimed at helping ex-cons adjust to everyday life...
...such is Barthes's language and technique--an investigation of contemporary myths, hiding, as myths always have, in the nooks and crannies of everyday life. The style is lively and talkative, despite a vocabulary drawn from Marx, Sartre and the structuralists. The subjects covered by the short essays making up most of the volume are fascinating and immediate: professional wrestling, Garbo's face, soap powders and detergents, ornamental cookery, strip-tease, plastic...
Originally published in French in 1957, these essays are an attempt to apply to everyday myth the tools of semiology, the science of signs sketched out in Barthes's earlier works and the works of his mentor, the linguist Saussure. Viewing all the products of culture as systems of signs, Barthes has created a kind of "pan-criticism" which, although it has made him best known as a literary critic, takes in anything from Racine to underground film to popular magazines...
...photography magazine, Camera, devoted two special issues to the genre. Photography, probably just because it appears to reproduce reality, has always been able to create the grotesque and surreal, and these issues demonstrated that the sequence was particularly well suited to creating fantastic moments out of a series of everyday images. One of the earliest practitioners of the sequence, Duane Michaels, uses eight frames in one of his works to show a young girl coming into a room and climbing into cardboard carton, which then floats out of the frame, and apparently right through the ceiling...
...French last week declared war on the English language. Worried about the incursions of terms like le whisky and le weekend, the government banned 350 offenders from official usage and urged the French to drop them from everyday currency as well. In place of the Anglicisms, the government proposed French substitutes. Flashback, for example, can be replaced by retrospectif; hit parade will succumb to pal-mares (literally, prize list); one-man show will be rendered spectacle solo; tanker will become navire citerne...