Episode 261: Death of the Author
Very Bad Wizards
The Anti-Intentionalist View of Art
I think that the anti-intentional stance is the counterintuitive one for so many people. Like, where it's just too hard to like, we even impute intentionality on things that are created by computers. I don't take it as determinative of meaning, if I can even make sense of that. And I think that sometimes it's going to be a lot more interesting than others. Sometimes it'll influence my own way of understanding the text. Other times, it won't be completely irrelevant, but it might not be that significant either. That's all.
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