Roland Barthes wants you to take it easy for le week-end:

Roland Barthes knows what you’re up to:

My essay in the latest issue of Barthes Studies is out! sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/arti...

Just published: Michael David Szekely, ‘The Corporealisation of Language Through the Body of Music: Revisiting Barthes’s “Musica Practica”’: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

This essay about Barthes as a teacher is a delight and revelation. "Barthes apparently preferred socializing with students to being with colleagues. He hung out with Bouttes and his roommate smoking marijuana and enjoying a kind of student bohemian life." (Ohmygawd! Roland!)

My new essay on #RolandBarthes as professor. This is based on my year in his seminar 1972-73 in Paris.

Volume 11 of Barthes Studies is now available online. As usual, all articles are completely free to read: sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...

Includes a response by Roland Barthes. (Thanks to @johnwbuaas.bsky.social for pointing this out.)

The Séminaire annuel de l’équipe Barthes is about to begin again at the École normale supérieure in Paris. The programme of events, which are open to all, is here: roland-barthes.org/seminaire/

Several of the articles in this 2020 special issue titled Neutral Life/Late Barthes — including Barthes’s ‘Colouring Degree Zero’ — are currently free to read in OA format.

Volume 10 of Barthes Studies is now available online. All articles are free to read. This year’s volume is a special issue titled ‘Preparations’, guest-edited by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani. sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/volu...

The Scottish Literary Review (@scotlit.bsky.social) has published a study of the work of the late Callie Gardner. Callie was the first Reviews Editor of Barthes Studies and their Cardiff PhD thesis became the wonderful Poetry & Barthes book in 2018. muse.jhu.edu/article/930914

An agent in the field texts me the sad news that Michael Jayston has died. To me he *is* Peter Guillam (though I also love Michael Byrne’s performance in Smiley’s People). It is time to revisit the greatest TV series ever made.