Presented By: Department of Film, Television, and Media
SAC Speaker Series Presents A Talk by USC Professor Akira Lippit: "Like a Sleeping Cat (In Roland Barthes's Empire of Sleeping Cats)"
How might one understand Barthes’s legacy, his preferred spaces of photography, forms of erotic literature, imagined Japan, political stances, and his cinema? This presentation considers Barthes one hundred years after his birth, seeking to illuminate the distinct forms of affect that form not only the mood of his writing, but also its mode. What sort of subject does Barthes project in his empires of signs? Who or what forms the subject of his semiotics?
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