starting to suspect the great human binary divides people who (can? do?) separate empirical claims and abstractions generally from Machiavellian social considerations, and those who can't or won't
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that seems basic-ass, yeah; but mainly i see Death of the Author used to claim that any random idiot's wilfully ignorant misinterpretation of a text is just as valid as an actual analysis that engages with authorial intent
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This is irksome because if art is anything at all, it's communication of authorial intent -- art is work with a result intended to induce a sequence of emotional states in the experiencer of the work's result. DotAuthor denies that communicative act.
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Probably ought to hop in and defend the core pomo critique as basically correct as written but almost universally misunderstood and misapplied by contemporary enthusiasts "power games are pervasive!" --> "the outgroup has power and is abusing it"
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yeah, absolutely stipulated i just want to be able to better apprehend what is actually going on, mang is that so much to ask
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