Roland Barthes
(12 Nov 1915 - 25 Mar 1980)

French philosopher and literary critic.

Science Quotes by Roland Barthes (1)

In the hierarchy of the major poetic substances, it [plastic] figures as a disgraced material, lost between the effusiveness of rubber and the flat hardness of metal.
— Roland Barthes
'Plastic', in Mythologies (1957), trans. Annette Lavers (1972), 98.
See also:  |  Plastic (2)


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