The Rhetorical Mission: Barthes’s Seminars from 1964 to 1969
by Claudia Amigo PinoEditorial (Volume 5)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial: Roland Barthes at 100
by Neil BadmingtonVery Fine Gifts: An Interview with Chris Turner
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 3)
by Neil BadmingtonBOOK REVIEW: Detours All the Way
by Neil BadmingtonReview of Claude Coste, Roland Barthes ou l’art du détour (Paris: Hermann Éditeurs, 2016).
Editorial (Volume 4)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 6): S/Z/L: Fifty Years of S/Z
by Neil BadmingtonCatherine Belsey (1940-2021)
by Neil BadmingtonRoland Barthes in English: A Guide to Translations
by Neil BadmingtonCallie Gardner (1990-2021)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (volume 7)
by Neil BadmingtonCALL FOR PAPERS – Preparations (special issue, edited by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani, forthcoming in November 2024)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 8)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 10)
by Neil BadmingtonAPPENDIX: ‘Roland Barthes at 100’ conference programme, Cardiff University, 30-31 March 2015
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 9)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 11)
by Neil BadmingtonEditorial (Volume 12)
by Neil BadmingtonBOOK REVIEW: Proceed South for French Theory
by Neil BadmingtonReview of Onur Erdur, School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory, trans. by Andrew Brown (Polity, 2026).
Bliss
by Thomas BaldwinArticle is by Thomas Baldwin and Patrick ffrench.
BOOK REVIEW: A Subtle Dance
by David F. BellReview of Katja Haustein, Alone With Others: An Essay on Tact in Five Modernist Encounters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
A Battle of Wills
by Catherine BelseyBOOK REVIEW: In the Monastery
by Sarah BernsteinReview of Knut Stene-Johansen, Christian Refsum, Johan Schimanski, eds, Living Together: Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community (Bielefeld: transcript, 2018).
Roland Barthes and The Literary Absolute: The Conditions of the Necessity to Write Intransitively
by Jacob BittnerTuning In
by Brian BlanchfieldBrian Blanchfield in conversation with Kate Briggs.
Preparing
by Kate BriggsArticle co-authored by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
Augmentation infinie de la mayonnaise: On the New Edition of Roland Barthes’s La Préparation du roman
by Kate BriggsLearning
by Kate BriggsArticle co-authored by Kate Briggs and Sunil Manghani.
Beginning
by Victor BurginRacine and Barthes: The Power of Love
by Delphine Calle‘The Material Effectiveness of Music’ in Barthes’s 1941 Postgraduate Dissertation ‘Évocations et incantations dans la tragédie grecque’
by Christophe CorbierRoland Barthes’s Visits to Greece
by Claude CosteRoland Barthes: Terror in Poetry
by Claude CosteTranslated by Andy Stafford.
The Absence of the Book: Preparing, Researching, Reading with Barthes
by Bryan CounterIntoxication: Reading Between Proust and Barthes
by Bryan CounterSpiralling Relations: Barthes, Kant, and Balzac
by Bryan CounterIntroduction – Contiguous with Life: The Pleasure of the Text
by Bryan CounterBOOK REVIEW: À la recherche du temps retrouvé
by Ruth DalyReview of Roland Barthes, Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts, ed. by Éric Marty, trans. by Jody Gladding (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
‘The portly dignity of a Trafalgar Square pigeon’: The Form and Resistance of Character in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus
by Friederike DanebrockTutoy-ing: Roland Barthes et Moi
by Lennard J. DavisTravel, Classicism and Writing in Barthes’s ‘En Grèce’
by Maarten De PourcqBarthes on Jargon
by Jeffrey R. Di LeoThe Rhetorical Apprenticeship of Roland Barthes
by Jonathan DoeringInterrupting
by Anfisa DoroshenkoBOOK REVIEW: ‘A craving to be engulfed’ (Notes re: Reading, rereading, translating)
by Georg Du BoulayReview of Sharon Kivland, Her Discourse (JOAN, 2025) and its companion Envois / The Complete Correspondence: Love Letters from Jacques Lacan to Sharon Kivland, 1953–1981 (Tenement Press, 2025).
Not Paying Attention: Barthes’ Textual Intermittence, Interrupting Digital Capture
by James DuttonBOOK REVIEW: The Generous Writer
by Sophie EagerReview of Jürgen Pieters, On Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021).
Eating with Barthes: The Comfort of Touching the Real
by Sophie EagerForgetting Gide: A Study of Barthes’s ‘Ursuppe’
by Sam FergusonBOOK REVIEW: Concise Portraits
by Sam FergusonReview of Roland Barthes, ‘Masculine, Feminine, Neuter’ and Other Writings on Literature: Essays and Interviews, Volume 3, trans. by Chris Turner (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2016) AND ‘Simply a Particular Contemporary’: Interviews, 1970-79: Essays and In …
BOOK REVIEW: The Dictionary as Phalanstery?
by Patrick ffrenchReview of Claude Coste, ed., Dictionnaire Roland Barthes (Honoré Champion, 2024).
The Faint Smiles of Postures: Roland Barthes’s Broadcast Interviews
by Guido Mattia GalleraniList of Print, Radio, and Filmed Interviews Given by Roland Barthes
by Guido Mattia GalleraniEditorial: The Terrible Power of Language
by Calum Gardner‘The Dwelling-Place’: Roland Barthes and the Birth of Language Poetry
by Calum GardnerRoland Barthes: Life as a Text
by Marie GilTranslated by Sam Ferguson
BOOK REVIEW: Lines of Influence
by Thomas GouldReview of Anna Lovatt, Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019).
BOOK REVIEW: Critical Encounters
by Thomas GouldReview of Ryan Bishop and Sunil Manghani, eds, Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
BOOK REVIEW: The Voice of a Friend Who has Gone
by Nicholas P. GrecoReview of Philippe Sollers, The Friendship of Roland Barthes, trans. by Andrew Brown (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017).
‘The antithesis of inner and outer: abolished’: Roland Barthes and the Politics of the Closet
by Nicholas P. GrecoBOOK REVIEW: ‘Plastic’ ‘Paul’: Self-Writing and the Writing-Self
by Nicholas P. GrecoReview of Scott S. Elliott, The Rustle of Paul: Autobiographical Narratives in Romans, Corinthians, and Philippians (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).
Aeration and Truth: Reading Mourning Diary as Fragment, Haiku
by Nicholas P. GrecoBOOK REVIEW: Feeling for the Sense
by Katja HausteinReview of Kate Briggs, This Litle Art (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017).
BOOK REVIEW: Modernist Barthes
by Katja HausteinReview of Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Zahi Zalloua, eds, Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
Memoirs of a Gaysha: Roland Barthes’s Queer Japan
by Benjamin Hiramatsu IrelandFollowing Barthes and Inspiration: An Exploration of Photography, Notebooks and the Beginning of Writing
by David JohnsonBOOK REVIEW: The Somatic Joys of Kicking
by Benjamin N. JudkinsReview of Paul Bowman, Mythologies of Martial Arts (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
‘Jouir fantasmatiquement de mon corps unifié’: Music, Writing and Affect in Barthes’s L’Obvie et l’obtus
by Henriette Korthals AltesRoland Barthes and Literary Minimalism
by Diana LecaBOOK REVIEW: Imprinted by Proust
by Eleanor LischkaReview of Thomas Baldwin, Roland Barthes: The Proust Variations (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019).
A Poetic Enquiry: Barthes and Bataille’s Story of the Eye
by Claire LozierTranslated by Andy Stafford.
Working It: On Notation and The Fashion System
by John LurzREVIEW ESSAY: Changing the Object
by Sunil ManghaniReview of Diana Knight, ed., Interdisciplinary Barthes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Preparatory Space: Roland Barthes and Large Language Models
by Sunil Manghani‘The Death of the Author’ and Ordinary Language Philosophy
by Mynt MarsellusBarthes: Rhetoric, Style, Society
by John McKeaneThe Tragedy of Roland Barthes
by John McKeaneBOOK REVIEW: The Bud Equals the Flower
by John McKeaneReview of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self (London: Anthem, 2023).
We Must Imagine Barthes Happy: An Interview with Joe Milutis
by Joe MilutisInterview by Neil Badmington.
Barthes’s Places: Les lieux
by Armine Kotin MortimerBOOK REVIEW: A Lover’s Discourse Through Fresh Eyes
by Armine Kotin MortimerReview of Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews, eds, ‘Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again’, special issue of CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, 9.1 (April 2023).
What Has Become of Jouissance?
by Armine Kotin MortimerBOOK REVIEW: Roland Barthes, Victor Burgin, No Comparison
by John MuseReview of Ryan Bishop and Sunil Manghani, eds., Barthes/Burgin: Research Notes for an Exhibition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
BOOK REVIEW: Who Killed Roland Barthes?
by Lucy O'MearaReview of Laurent Binet, The 7th Function of Language, trans. by Sam Taylor (London: Harvill Secker, 2017).
Roland Barthes: Writer, Intellectual, and also Professor
by Trevor PatemanFragments of a Consolatory Discourse: Literature and the Fiction of Comfort
by Jürgen Pieters‘As if spoken by a character in a novel’: The Tragic Knowledge of Barthes’ Performative Writing
by Kris PintArticle co-authored by Kris Pint and Maria Gil Ulldemolins.
The Hatred of Poetry: Barthes and Bataille
by Jean-Michel RabatéFantasizing with Barthes: Writing the Present
by Michael ReganBOOK REVIEW: And Other Writings
by Nat RileyReview of Roland Barthes, ‘A Very Fine Gift’ and Other Writings on Theory: Essays and Interviews, Volume 1, trans. by Chris Turner (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2015) AND Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography: Essays and Interviews, Vol …
The Work as Will (will to begin)
by The Roland Barthes Reading GroupBarthes as Reader of Dante: The Mediation of Sollers and the Role of Commentary
by Jennifer RushworthBOOK REVIEW: Thinking Barthes Through, and as, Performance
by Timothy ScheieReview of Harry Robert Wilson and Will Daddario, eds, Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance: A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
The Displeasure of the Text in the Age of Generative Reproduction
by Timothy SecretS/Z/COOPER/COOPER: Barthes with Twin Peaks: The Return
by Robin SimsBOOK REVIEW: Let the Poem Speak for Itself
by Macs SmithReview of Eddie Tay, Creative Practice as a Way of Life: After Barthes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Preface and Acknowledgments
by Andy StaffordMarx and/or Nietzsche? Ancient Greece and Tragedy in Barthesian Theory
by Andy StaffordBOOK REVIEW: ‘Et tout le reste est littérature’
by Andy StaffordReview of Tiphaine Samoyault, Roland Barthes. Biographie (Paris: Seuil, 2015)
Michael Sheringham, 1948-2016
by Andy StaffordRoland Barthes Dialectician? In the Final Instance?
by Andy StaffordBOOK REVIEW: An Ideological Revolver?
by Andy StaffordReview of Roland Barthes, ‘The “Scandal” of Marxism’ and Other Writings: Essays and Interviews, Volume 2, trans. by Chris Turner (Calcutta: Seagull Press, 2015).
CONFERENCE REPORT: Global Barthes
by Andy StaffordReport on the ‘Global Barthes’ conference held at Meiji University, Tokyo, Saturday 18 May 2024.
CONFERENCE REPORT: ‘Global Barthes’ — An Early Career Researchers’ Symposium
by Andy StaffordReport on ‘Global Barthes’ — An Early Career Researchers’ Symposium, University of Leeds, 27-28 June 2025.
CONFERENCE REPORT: Global Barthes, from China to Brazil
by Andy Staffordan introduction to what will never be written, part 2
by Isabella StreffenSade After Eros: Barthes, Carter, and the Pornography of Meaning
by Austin SvedjanReading at the Threshold of Writing: Roland Barthes and Haiku in The Preparation of the Novel
by Rudolphus TeeuwenSpider, Fly, Bird, Mouse: At Large in Roland Barthes’s The Pleasure of the Text
by Rudolphus TeeuwenWithstanding Time: The More-Than-Human Punctum from Roland Barthes to Sumana Roy
by Hilary ThompsonBeyond the Fragment in The Preparation of the Novel: Exploring the Subtle Relationship Between Rhapsodic and Patchwork
by Ruiqi WangFrench Lessons
by Michael WoodBOOK REVIEW: Resistance
by Michael WoodReview of Philip Watts, Roland Barthes’ Cinema, ed. by Dudley Andrew, Yves Citton, Vincent Debaene, and Sam Di Iorio (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
The Discourse of Others: Returning to S/Z
by Michael WoodBOOK REVIEW: A Consistent Theory of Film
by Michael WoodReview of Patrick ffrench, Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).
BOOK REVIEW: Very Magic
by Michael WoodReview of John Lurz, The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language (Chicago University Press, 2025).
BOOK REVIEW: New Mythologies
by Martyn WoodwardReview of Rebecca Houze, New Mythologies in Design and Culture: Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2016).
Rehearsing
by Katarina ZdjelarKatarina Zdjelar in conversation with Kate Briggs.
BOOK REVIEW: The ‘Unclassifiable’ Barthes
by Yue ZhuoReview of Andy Stafford, Roland Barthes (London: Reaktion Books, 2015)
