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...Miller, who has raised coyness to a critical art form, continues to practice it delightfully in Bringing Out Roland Barthes, where he approaches the French critic at that intersection of gay politics/identity/community/practice and literary criticism that has emerged in the past few years as queer theory. He sets out to articulate the present-but-never-explicit links between gay sexuality and Barthes's tests, and in doing so "proposes an album of moments...in what journalism might call my 'homosexual encounter' with Roland Barthes...
...album is inspired by Incidents, a collection of Barthes's late writings recently translated by Richard Howard, packaged together with Bringing Out Roland Barthes in matching bindings, bound together back-to-back with a wide paper band that depicts the two authors' eyes. Barthes gazes out, solemn, from one side of this literary package; Miller smiles impishly from the other. Just as it is hard to tell which book to read first--is the Miller an introduction or a commentary to the Barthes?--it is impossible finally, to say where the encounter between these two men begins or what...
Like Bringing Out Roland Barthes, Incidents is also an "album," consisting largely of excerpts from two journals kept by the French critic, lovingly chroncling loveless encoutners with hustlers and half-requited crushes on younger men. Miller defers his thoughts on Incidents until the end of Bringing Out Roland Barthes, but the "snapshots" in his album might be seen as responding to Barthes's pre-AIDS world by focusing on distinctly post-AIDS aspects of U.S. gay male culture. One of the book's finest moments is its discussion of gym culture and the erotic ethic of display that underpins...
...Dance Umbrella attracts top-name companies from around the world. Alliger is indebted to luminaries such as the celebrated, cutting-edge artist Mark Morris. Morris's dancers have performed annually with Dance Umbrella since 1984, when they presented Mythologies, a trilogy based on the essays of philosopher Roland Barthes...
...talked to her last spring. The house was very interested in her--she expressed some interest. I think she'd be fantastic," said Roland L. Dunbrack '85, resident tutor of philosophy...