I'm thinkin derrida in the main but really the entirety of death of the author
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Replying to @palecur @eigenrobot
okay, i can see it. but isn't that just a basic ass accurate observation, that it matters to us what we read not what dude was trying to write, that like all things is subject to sturgeon's law in what people do with it?
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Replying to @chaosprime @eigenrobot
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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Replying to @palecur @eigenrobot
and i totally agree that that's taking it too far in a revealingly self-indulgent direction, i just don't think that means the core observation is bad or useless, because people take literally fucking everything too far in a revealingly self-indulgent direction
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Replying to @palecur @eigenrobot
i just realized that it's exactly like Java: the language is fine, the culture is terrible you and
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Dunno. I could make an argument for the opposite, at least insofar as I'd include Zelazny in pomo culture. (Though perhaps that more post-structuralist, which opens a whole new can of cliches.)
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speaking of which, what should I try of Zelazny's if I found Nine Princes bad due to there being nobody in the book I didn't want dead
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Replying to @palecur @StevenBrust and
I'm probably in a huge minority here but Creatures of Light and Darkness was the book that really made me like Zelazny. Though really,
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Creatures of Light and Darkness is the absolute fuckin' shit too, @palecur in particular should read it
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Replying to @chaosprime @CeltiBurroughs and
I hated it the first time I read it. Now it's one of my faves. I dunno.
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