by Adrian Miles 
InterMedia UiB and RMIT 

Currents in Electronic Literacy Spring 2001 (4), <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/ 

An aside: secured pleasure is in contradistinction to Barthes' jouissance, which is a pleasure which is not secured by a return to the ego. In the terms utilised by Bataille, which I shall use, jouissance is a pleasure of the text which is a general, rather than restricted, economy.