CONCLUSION
Everything is there – but floating
(Barthes)
Roland Barthes makes a distinction between two kinds of pleasure available from ‘reading’ texts: plaisir and jouissance. Plaisir is contentment, but jouissance describes a more explosive kind of joy – in French the word is synonymous with the joy of sexual pleasure. Texts which get near to producing jouissance are not usually associated with the news.
However, it is possible to move from mere plaisir towards a more active kind of intercourse with news if you take the initiative. This book is intended to provide you with some of the discursive concepts and strategies for approaching news texts which will help to get you started on a more productive role for yourself. Umberto Eco has provided ...
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