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Quotes from The Pleasure of the Text — Roland Barthes

1915–1980 France

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Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words.

The Pleasure of the Text (1975)

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