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Martians

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Barthes, R. (2012). Martians. In Barthes, R. Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation. Hill & Wang, pp. 38-40

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

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Western mythology attributes to the Communist world the very alterity of a planet: the USSR is a world intermediate between Earth and Mars

—p.38 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago

Western mythology attributes to the Communist world the very alterity of a planet: the USSR is a world intermediate between Earth and Mars

—p.38 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago

(adjective) of or relating to dreams; dreamy

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the figurative elements of this power, the oneiric themes composing it

on the myth of the USSR

—p.38 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago

the figurative elements of this power, the oneiric themes composing it

on the myth of the USSR

—p.38 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

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it is a sort of Manichaean melee, cast under the eyes of a third Onlooker

—p.40 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago

it is a sort of Manichaean melee, cast under the eyes of a third Onlooker

—p.40 by Roland Barthes
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6 years, 10 months ago