Entries, translucid availabilities: the mourning as work in Roland Barthes

Abstract

In this work, the analysis consists of affirming the power of Barthesian isolation nowadays. The mourning, alive and present affection, will be the principle that unifies teaching, writing and life: in the ultimate Roland Barthes, in ourselves. Classes, dates, images and a file of translucent readings afflicted by beams of light that demand an update of the forms in a body that writes. There’s nothing to overcome, since pain is the moment. The fantasy of such loneliness is written having the Barthesian text, the teaching we practice and, as the oxymoron, our living-together while an action potential of a Vita Nova. Thus, we’ve listed four precisions: the mourning manifests itself by and at work, as a mark ensouling the present production; actualized in a class, mourning harmonizes the affection of loss and didactic creation: not being able to develop, not being able to sustain, not being able to impose; mourning can only be experienced instantly: it surprises as an inaugural experience and therefore potentially mutative (the unsustainable as a condition); and mourning only allows its experience (innocently translated into practice), never its domain. Teach, write, research, live as if an amateur. Translucent availabilities at the edge of breathtaking. That is what it is about.