{"id":24032,"date":"2012-03-25T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rereading-an-operation-contrary-to-the-commercial\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T15:56:12","slug":"rereading-an-operation-contrary-to-the-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rereading-an-operation-contrary-to-the-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>rereading, an operation contrary to the commercial and ideological habits of our society, which would have us \u2018throw away\u2019 the story once it has been consumed\u2026so that we can then move on to another story, buy another book\u2026, re-reading is here suggested at the outset, for it alone saves the text from repetition (those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<blockquote>\n<p>roland barthes, <em>s\/z<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This should probably, speaking of contemporary society, be extended to all types of texts (movies, images, music etc.). I feel a bit na\u00efve saying this, but I\u2019ve always felt a bit odd for liking to reread and rewatch (especially rewatch) things, a practice I think is utterly underrated. When \u201cnew\u201d is always deemed \u201cgood\u201d, you tend to put less attention on the \u201cre-actions\u201d of things. Why spend 2 hours on a movie you already seen? On a book you already read?<\/p>\n<p>I love rereading. I just hadn\u2019t put it into words till now. On the other hand, I might\u2019ve got it all wrong, Foucault is probably as close to semiotics as I\u2019ll ever get, and Barthes only make sense to me when he gets personal with his photographs.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/imageobjecttext.tumblr.com\/\">imageobjecttext<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In several of his critical essays, Roberto Bola\u00f1o concludes by emphatically urging that \u201cwe must reread Borges\u201d or \u201cwe must reread Swift\u201d. It\u2019s a moral argument for him: great literature is inexhaustible, and so when we reread it, we engrave its lessons on our hearts. Since we are fallible creatures, prone to distortion and forgetting, rereading helps us remember. Moreover, rereading is not <em>repetitious<\/em> because each time we reread, we are <em>changed<\/em> (or changed again). And this vigilance that he recommends, to always be learning and changing, is precisely what prevents our actual lives from becoming repetitious. As Barthes says, \u201cthose who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/towerofsleep.tumblr.com\/\">towerofsleep<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rereading, an operation contrary to the commercial and ideological habits of our society, which would have us \u2018throw away\u2019 the story once it has been consumed\u2026so that we can then move on to another story, buy another book\u2026, re-reading is here suggested at the outset, for it alone saves the text from repetition (those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}