Escritura y fragmento: la política del gesto en Roland Barthes

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodological reading of Roland Barthes’ work and his questioning of writing as an unstable signifier of language. Thus, it invites us to rethink the author’s idea of writing from four different perspectives: as a neutral space, as a signifier structure, as a draft of a text theory, and as a plastic proposal emerging from the fragment. This last perspective can be read from the politics of gesture, which the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben proposes to enunciate that Barthes’ intellectual position picks up the overflow of style as impossibility for closure of the sense.