Roland Barthes
Biophysical soul Abusing notation
I don’t share the traditional belief that there’s a divorce in nature between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the writer, as if the former were endowed with a “freedom” and the latter with a “vocation,” both of them likely to spirit away or sublimate the true limits of their situation: my claim is to live to the full the contradictions of my time, which can make sarcasm the condition of truth.
–Roland Barthes, preface to the 1957 edition of Mythologies