Episode 261: Death of the Author
Very Bad Wizards
The Constraints of Reading a Text
I think we agree that there are cases in which people's even really, really worked out close readings of things are batshit. And I take it that that's what, for instance, room 237 is all about where you're just like, well, like clearly. Except the one about the native. Or the moon landing. Right. But I don't want a theory that doesn't allow me to say that there, there's little to no value in what they're saying because it's not grounded within the texts. Like, and that's the thing. There are better and worse interpretations.
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