Another of his works analyzed Balzac's Sarrassine, and his contributions to a leftist French newspaper culminated in his Writing Degree Zero
This thinker developed the opposing concepts of studium, a more general cultural or political study of an image, and punctum, the "sting" or direct, personal impact of a photograph.  He wrote several "fragments" discussing the various figures of language "spoken...by thousands of subjects...but warranted by no one" in A Lover's Discourse.  Another of his works analyzed Balzac's Sarrassine, and his contributions to a leftist French newspaper culminated in his Writing Degree Zero He discussed the elevation of signs from popular culture in Mythologies.  For 10 points, identify this French author of S/Z who claimed the titular figure was now merely a "scriptor" in "The Death of the Author".
This thinker developed the opposing concepts of studium, a more general cultural or political study of an image, and punctum, the "sting" or direct, personal impact of a photograph.  
Roland {Barthes}