Roland Barthes
Were the French structuralists of the 1960s really as cool as they seemed?
With Althusser murdering his wife and Foucault dallying with prepubescent boys, some of the group seem simply to have abdicated personal responsibility
Hail dairy
A lifetime obsession with milk has resulted in 350 numbered, lightly edited and loosely connected remarks about milk, its colour, its smell and much else. Weird or what?
Cathedrals on wheels
Stephen Bayley hails the automobile – a miracle of technical and artistic collaboration – and mourns its demise
A brainy delight
The Japanese are sometimes said to suffer from ‘outsider person shock’ (gaijin shokku) when travelling abroad. Recently in London we…
