Notes : : Structuralist Activity / The Activity of Structuralism
[1] Form (1966), 5.
[2] Form (1966), 5.
[3] Not translated again until 1972 in Roland Barthes. Critical Essays, trans. Richard Howard (Northwestern University Press: Evanston, 1972).
[4] Spyros Papapetros. Lecturing on Documents and the KBW for Clip/Stamp/Fold: Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X, Princeton University, 4/23/2007.
[5] Form (1966), 13.
[6] Form, no. 9, (1969): 24.[7] Yve-Alain Bois, "Formalism and Structuralism," Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, ed. Hal Foster, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, and Rosalind Krauss (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004), 32.
[8] Bois, 33. Furthermore, Barthes was denying the claims of the antiformalist champions that formalist critics, in bypassing "content" to scrutinize forms, were retreating from the world and its historical realities to the ivory tower of a humanistic "eternal present." (Bois, 32)
[9] Bois, 33.
[10] See Françoise Gaillard's excellent "For a Political Roland Barthes," French Theory in America, ed. Sylvère Lotringer and Sande Cohen (Routledge: New York, 2001), 47-58.
[11] Bois, 32.
[12] Ibid, 33. The parentheses belong to Bois.
[13] Ibid, 33.
[14] Barthes, (1966) 13.[15] Bois, 33-34.
[16] Barthes (Gras, 1972), 157
[17] Ibid, 157-158.
[18] Ibid. 158.
[19] Ibid. 158.
[20] Barthes (Bann, 1966), 13.
[21] Barthes (Gras, 1972), 158.
[22] Barthes (Bann, 1966), 13.
[23] Ibid, 13.
[24] Ibid, 14.
[25] Ibid, 14.
[26] Ibid, 14.
[27] Ibid, 14.
[28] For an extended meditation on the possible readings of an absent "e" see Perec's La Disparition.
