Week 2


 * How does Barthes define code? How does it relate to rhetoric?
 * How does Barthes clarify representation? Is he in a discussion with Baudrillard, Benjamin...?
 * Considering his definition of the Text, what value does Barthes place on the Author? the audience? (148)
 * What is the difference between one who listens versus one who plays music? (149)
 * Who are the professional and amateur? How do they influence the development of the rhetoric of music? (150)
 * what is musica practica? (153)
 * How does a band like Gorillaz factor into Barthes' assertion about live performance?
 * In his "Work to Text" chapter, Barthes asserts that "the Text is experineces only in an activity of production" (157)? What does this mean for the analysis of Text?
 * ​Further he asserts "The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practive of writing" (164)? Why might he assert this and how does this influence digital scholarship? Does this mean that all scholarship without practice is problematic?
 * Can one ever encapsulate music in words? (pure remediation/representation? (180)
 * What is the grain of the voice and how does Barthes differentiate it from pathos? What role do each play in the reception of meaning by an audience (185)?
 * great quote-188