Barthes' initial project of demythologizing mass culture artifacts was designed to liberate readers from the tyranny of mass-produced consciousness by decoding hidden messages in cultural artifacts to discover who is generating them and for what purposes, usually coercive purposes rooted in Marxist tradition
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“ultimately the point or at least initially his point of demythologizing of finding the hidden meanings caught within the artifacts of mass culture was to liberate us from the tyranny of mass-produced consciousness”
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