31 May, 2008

In translation. In writing. In speaking. In e-mailing. In IMing. In a text message. In gesture. In a glance. In a gaze.

(Pleasure/Bliss: terminologically, there is always a vacillation – I stumble, I err. In any case, there will always be a margin of indecision; the distinction will not be the source of absolute classifications, the paradigm will falter, the meaning will be precarious, revocable, reversible, the discourse incomplete) (4).

Roland Barthes. The Pleasure of the Text. Trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill and
Wang, 1975.

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