Ott, Brian L., authorRoutledge, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032004Ott, Brian L., (Re)locating Pleasure in Media Studies: Toward an Erotics of Reading. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (June 2004): 194-212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420410001685386http://hdl.handle.net/10217/60070Brian Ott was a professor in the Department of Speech Communication at Colorado State University.Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212).ab-stract, (n.) 1. a summary of points (as of a writing) usu. presented in skeletal form.(adj.) 1. difficult to understand: abstruse. (vt.) 1. dissociate, remove, separate. This essay concerns how language is, at once, structured (producing meaning) and infinite (destabilizing meaning). Both functions of language are tied to pleasure. Contemporary critical media studies, it is argued, has attacked the pleasure (plaisir) of language's structuring function while simultaneously repressing the pleasure (jouissance) of language's dismantling function. Is this to(o) abstract?born digitalarticleseng©2004 Routledge.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.Barthes, Rolandpleasuretextjouissanceproductive criticismTexthttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14791420410001685386