Table of Contents
Contributors
Peter Holliday; Randolph A. Jackson; John Kaliski; Janet O'Brien; Sam Seymour; Bruce C. Webb; and Gordon G. Wittenberg.
Cite 6
Spring-Summer 1984
Editor’s Note
This issue of Cite was guest edited by John Kaliski, who, in his article "Great From Afar, Far From Great," writes the following:
In his oft-quoted essay on the Eiffel Tower, Roland Barthes evoked the emptiness of this monument as one of its most powerful attributes. For Barthes there was only one use for the Eiffel Tower: it functioned as a symbol of Paris and France for the world. Precisely because the Eiffel Tower is empty, yet always present, "it means everything." The Houston skyline, though suffering from current economic conditions, is inhabited. Yet from the freeway, from the detached environment of the car, its emptiness is virtual."
John Kaliski