Title
(Re)Locating Pleasure in Media Studies: Toward an Erotics of Reading
Abstract
ab-stract, (n.) 1. a summary of points (as of a writing) usu. presented in skeletal form. (adj.) 1. difficult to understand: abstruse. (vt.) 1. dissociate, remove, separate. This essay concerns how language is, at once, structured (producing meaning) and infinite (destabilizing meaning). Both functions of language are tied to pleasure. Contemporary critical media studies, it is argued, has attacked the pleasure (plaisir) of language's structuring function while simultaneously repressing the pleasure (jouissance) of language's dismantling function. Is this to(o) abstract?
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420410001685386
Keywords
pleasure, Roland Barthes, text, jouissance, productive criticism
Publication Date
6-1-2004
Recommended Citation
Ott, Brian L. "(Re) locating pleasure in media studies: Toward an erotics of reading." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (2004): 194-212.
Journal Title
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
