Description:Q1695

With the help of a peer-to-peer online database, Davies has translated Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text into text messaging language: '[d PlsUR of d Txt] is available in an edition of 160 copies (the character limit of a text message or Tweet) and contains the full translated work as well as preface's from Dr Clare Wood and Dr Beverly Plester from the Psychology Dept. of Coventry University.' Edition Number 39/160. Text source: http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/2011/10/barthes-txtspk-cellphone-mobile.html.