>>5931731>>5931728>>5931745>The more personal the work (that is, the more bound to the specific time, place, culture, religion, local geography, upbringing, individual experience, etc.), the more an understanding of the author can become necessary ...Well, the marxists or Russian formalists or structuralists have that theory of social reproduction, ie every work of fiction essentially reproduces existing political and economic value structures and hierarchies from the real world (because this is inevitably all the author knows or can do).
And even if you believe the author is an incorruptible source of nonpolitical bias, remember that audiences, platforms, films games etc are commercially funded... what gets financed and distributed or promoted / not censored on any platform etc must conform to or meet the approval of the ethos of prevailing power structures etc. (eg Why was Manhunt
>>5927700an amazingly designed and prescient game, censored / banned... The Last Of Us, which has similar violence broken shard shiv aesthetics / game mechanics but different ethos value framing wins all the acclaim, awards...)
So you create... a magical wizard school... it is so magical, oohhh... it could be anything... it is exactly Eton lol? This is especially funny if the author JK Rowling herself did not attend Eton yet still reproduces the entire value system status and social hierarchy (of course, Harry Potter magic comes from family lineage and is inherited). You can also see this from that familiar critique of early Star Trek "black woman answering space telephone" and I suppose the equally horrible unrepresentative of reality / modern Hollywood engineered diversity contrivance version of it "superhuman black girl hero child empowerment triumphs with zero threat over everything" Woman King pic related here
>>5920316 and also the unbelievable superhero girl in Doctor Sleep
>>5922590 >>5922576 >>5920791I think the important thing about that Death Of The Author interpretative approach from Barthes is to recognise it is a form of propaganda.
In fact the denial of history, politics, economics and the investigative intent into motivation of "authors" (ie agents or political socioeconomic actors... you know who they are) is prevalent in nearly all Western narratives, lol Putin just tried to retell the Silmarillion of Russian / Slavic history going back 5000 years to Tucker Carlson (I admit I am interested in history and have read Dostoyevsky but I could not follow or remember any of it lol). Nearly all western news reporting denies history (look Dune Part Two in Yemen... these terrorists are just randomly attacking our ships!! For no reason!! etc) Of course, if you studied the VAMPIRE SORCERY economics you are very interested in the history, the reasons and motivations. And hopefully, 4chan knows better
