![]() ![]() Hisġ957 review of the Citroën DS famously begins, " I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great GothicĬathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not ![]() Thought hard about ordinary things - the first serious anatomist of pop culture.Īnd one of the things he thought hard about was automobiles. Part anthropologist, part philosopher, part journalist (the part that couldn't get a good table at a restaurant), Barthes Neil, The Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2004Įven though the great French critic Roland Barthes has been dead for nearly 25 years, I bet he The Mercedes E500 4Matic puts us in a philosophical mood. Larry David and other great philosophers weigh in on the semiotics of vehicle type. The record, the fellow liked the new Mercedes station wagon. full of references to semiotics and other really I read them all the time, and I came across a review today ![]()
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