pt. 1. Reflections on photography: Barthes's discretion / Victor Burgin. "What has occurred only once" : Barthes's winter garden, Boltanski's archives of the dead / Marjorie Perloff. The filter of culture and the culture of death : how Barthes and Boltanski play the mythologies of the photograph / Nancy M. Shawcross. Barthes and Bazin : the ontology of the image / Colin MacCabe. Roland Barthes's obtuse, sharp meaning and the responsibilities of commentary / Derek Attridge. Photographeme : mythologizing in Camera lucida / Jolanta Wawrzycka. Narrative liaisons : Roland Barthes and the dangers of the photo-essay / Carol Shloss. Circulating images : notes on the photographic exchange / Liliane Weissberg. Roland Barthes, or The woman without a shadow / Diana Knight. The descent of Orpheus : on reading Barthes and Proust / Beryl Schlossman
pt. 2. Seeing language, seeing culture: The imaginary museum of Jules Michelet / Steven Ungar. Barthes with Marx / Philippe Roger. Beyond metalanguage : bathmology / Pierre Force. Who is the real one? / Antoine Compagnon. The art of being sparse, porous, scattered / Marjorie Welish. Genetic criticism in the wake of Barthes / Daniel Ferrer. Roland Barthes abroad. Dalia Kandiyoti. Un-scriptible / Arkady Plotnitsky
Conclusion: a false account of talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia / Bob Perelman.
