Episode 261: Death of the Author
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Meaning in Art
Sally Kohn: Meaning in this very local sense, I think, makes this. So then the question is, does that word capture something about the interpretive process? She says if you're talking about the oranges in the godfather, if he really didn't, as far as he can tell, you give him sodium pentathol, he's like, no, I mean, he would have oranges.Kohn: It also matters how we within the culture, compared to other works of art, in that like how that comes across also matters. All these things matter.
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