Barthes

Famous quotes containing the word barthes:

    The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what’s left of them.
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)