I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text (1973)
(Source: larmoyante)
Subculture forms in the space between surveillance and the evasion of surveillance; it translates the fact of being under scrutiny into the pleasure of being watched.
― Hebdige (1988), Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things (via fashinpirate)
