This isn't really what 'death of the author' - a piece of hyperbolic rhetoric - is about. More how readers bring their own meanings to texts
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Replying to @ianpacemain @Nothercupacafe
I know. That's why I specified 'in general conversation.' I've argued before that this has broken its moorings & become more general.
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That the idea we create our own meaning of words & they're just as valid as the author's has become twisted & used to serve political ends
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain
There's a point here though where it becomes "how can anyone know what anyone else means?"
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Replying to @Nothercupacafe @ianpacemain
Well, yes. Theorists like Derrida would argue that they can't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nothercupacafe
Derrida isn't is as crude as that, though some of his Anglophone interpreters often can be. Rather he talks about meaning being 'deferred'.
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Replying to @ianpacemain @Nothercupacafe
Forever. Every text "engenders infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion."
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Nothercupacafe
Yes, so meaning is never 'exhausted'. But which doesn't imply no meaning at all.
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Replying to @ianpacemain @Nothercupacafe
This isn't the practice here, either. Ppl are claiming their interpretation more valid than the speakers & proves their ideological point.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ianpacemain
So this is where people are just straight up intellectually lazy, and prefer one's intent to match their own. I see you deal with this...
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They're offence-seekers who see everything through a system of power structures & privileges & look for evidence of racism/sexism.
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