yvannairie: drawing of someone experiencing visible silence (why)
Van Irie ([personal profile] yvannairie) wrote2019-04-18 07:17 pm

Words are not co-operating

So there's this post.

That's giving me... thoughts? Relating to how I think the core tension in media criticism is about how "death of the author" has been used to justify a lack of interest in marginalised authors and promotion of the work based on the circumstances of its creation (over presumed quality) and hyperfocused on the "author" as a cipher for the work... over the fact that it's actually the propensity of marginalised authors to write texts that speak to marginalised audiences mostly b/c marginalised authors know what they would have liked to hear

And how... like, now when the social discourse is turning, we've overcommitted to that, overcommitted to the author as a function of the text, and people have forgotten bad text can only be judged on its own merits without needing to know anything about the circumstances of its creation. If a text, you feel, is violent and bad, then you don't need to prove that it was written with violent and bad intent, just like a text can be good and enriching by virtue of existing.

Bluh.


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