TY - JOUR AU1 - Moraru, Christian AB - Christian Moraru “Neutrality” as Nomos? Paradigm, Nuance, and the Politics of Coterritoriality in Late Barthes I’ve spoken of the nuance as a fundamental practice of communication a number of times; I even risked giving it a name: diaphoralogy. Barthes, e P Th reparation of the Novel 45. e t Th erritory’s generic function . . . [i]sn’t just a matter of security, it also has to do with a constraint of distance: the spacing of subjects between one territory and another within the territory itself. Intra- territorial spacing is reduced whenever the territory is under threat . . . Barthes, How to Live Together 117 There are two references in my tittle that call for some clarification upfront. The most obvious is, of course, to Roland Barthes, specifically to his 1976–1980 Col- lège de France lectures and seminars. For these, the critic either took detailed notes that he used and left as such—fragments showing various degrees of elabo- ration, “bulleted” lists serving the usual mnemonic purpose, and the like—or pre- pared lengthier, more complex, and more uid fl presentations. Also available in English, they came out from Seuil in a series of three volumes more than twenty years aer TI - “Neutrality” as Nomos?: Paradigm, Nuance, and the Politics of Coterritoriality in Late Barthes JF - The Comparatist DA - 2016-11-11 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/neutrality-as-nomos-paradigm-nuance-and-the-politics-of-L6pGwOKuUN SP - 284 EP - 298 VL - 40 IS - DP - DeepDyve ER -