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Aaron Radney@aaronradney.bsky.social |
Random thought because I need to take my mind off the serious things happening for just a moment. I've been thinking about "death of the author" a lot lately and while I understand the idea... does anyone else feel like it gets trotted out as an excuse for poor media literacy and missing the point?
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Dino Sorcerer
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and an excuse to ignore how the context of a work (which includes the author and their ideas & intentions) informs it
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VelenZaiga
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More often than not it kinda feels like people use it to engage in their own interpretations entirely biased by people's own views.
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Aaron Radney
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Like, there was a story we read in college I remember misinterpreting pretty egregiously. The author was saying something important and I engaged in some weak death of the author interpreation because I felt called out by the message and didn't want to engage with her point.
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Grey
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While I won't say that "death of the author" is intrinsically bad or wrong or anything, I will say the number of times I've seen it used in an engaging or thoughtful way is far, far, far less than the number of times I've seen it used to avoid having to engage with or think about the work.
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