Punctum

A concept from Roland Barthes' book Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography.

1. To wound.
2. Denoting the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.

"Yet the punctum shows no preference for morality or good taste: the punctum can be ill-bred."
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Page 43).

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punctum douchebag

A person who makes a grand gesture of deriving pleasure from a small detail which was the not original point of the image, sound, or situation in question.

G: Did you notice the bee that landed on the wall in the sex scene?

S: Whatever, punctum douchebag!

Roland Barthes (famous philosophical and linguistic writer and purveyor of French orgasms) is the ultimate punctum douchebag.

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