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“the language of the fashion magazine—the structural analysis of descriptions of women’s clothing by writers about fashion—Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: “Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don’t calculate; if clothing’s producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation”
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“Philosophical Investigations – Philosophische Untersuchungen”. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. SECOND EDITION, revised. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. Large thick 8vo in publishers blue clothed hardcover with the original slightly worn but now protected dustjacket (see photo). x,229+229,xivpp. Contemporary (neat) name to free font endpaper else overall a near fine,…
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“A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless.”Sylvere Lotringer. According to Jacques Lacan, humans distinguish themselves from animals the moment shit becomes for them an embarrassing leftover, a source of shame, something to be secretly disposed of. As such, shit casts its shadow even at the most sublime moments of human experience. In ancient Greek theatres, a hole in the middle of the large stone seats in the front rows allowed members of the privileged classes to undergo a double katharsis—a spiritual purification by which their souls were cleansed of bad emotions and a bodily purification to eliminate bad-smelling excrement. Far from being a theoretical joke about the unmentionable ‘that,’ Laporte’s History of Shit confronts the most fundamental issues of what it means to be human
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Translated into English by John P. Leavey and Richard Rand. University of Nebraska Press, 1990 (1986). Large 8vo paperback. 262 pages. A remainder mark to bottom edge and some edgewear and scuffing to corners, but clean inside First edition in English language, 1st printing as paperback











