...makes the entire motionless chart of language vibrate. Mot-mana ~ Mana-word In an author's lexicon, will there not always be a word-asmana, a word whose...that by this word one might answer for everything? Such a word is neither eccentric nor central; it is motionless and carried, floating, never pigeonholed,...

...authorizes it. 43 l borrow the notion of the mana-word from Roland Barthes: "ln an author's lexicon, will there not always be a word-as-mana, a word whose...that by this word one might answer for everything? Such a word is neither eccentric nor central; it is motionless and carried, floating, never pigeonholed,...

...the mana-word from Roland Barthes: "In an author's lexicon, will there not always 100 MICHAEL RENOV be a word-as-mana, a word whose ardent, complex, ineffable,...that by this word one might answer for everything? Such a word is neither eccentric nor central; it is motionless and carried, floating, never pigeonholed...

...Photography?" ( CL, 22) and that in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes he identified corps as his "mana-word": "a word whose ardent, complex, ineffable, and somehow sacred signification gives the illusion that this word holds an answer to everything" (RB, 129). 1f we use Scarry 's description of culture as "perceived-pain-wishe...

...inescapable source of self-knowledge.19 For Roland Barthes, the body is nothing less than the mana-word, the "word whose ardent, complex, ineffable, and somehow...the illusion that by this word one might answer for everything."20 Marshall McLuhan hyperbolized that television was an extension of the central nervous...

...1980), p. 15; OC, 2:1343; and, most important, in the following fragment: "In an author's lexicon, will there not always be a word-as-mana, a word whose...that by this word one might answer for everything?" ("Mot-mana — Mana-word," in Barthes, Roland Barthes, p. 129; OC, 3:194). 22. The Italian psychoanalyst...

...of a master signifier, "In an author's lexicon, will there not alwavs be a word-as-mana . . . whose sacred signification gives the illusion that by this word one might answer for everything"?1Affect and Action: Gateways to the Worldhood of the World Despite these caveats about...