(Re)Locating pleasure in media studies: toward an erotics of reading
Date
2004
Authors
Ott, Brian L., author
Routledge, publisher
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Abstract
ab-stract, (n.) 1. a summary of points (as of a writing) usu. presented in skeletal form.(adj.) 1. difficult to understand: abstruse. (vt.) 1. dissociate, remove, separate. This essay concerns how language is, at once, structured (producing meaning) and infinite (destabilizing meaning). Both functions of language are tied to pleasure. Contemporary critical media studies, it is argued, has attacked the pleasure (plaisir) of language's structuring function while simultaneously repressing the pleasure (jouissance) of language's dismantling function. Is this to(o) abstract?
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Brian Ott was a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).
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Barthes, Roland
pleasure
text
jouissance
productive criticism