Read Mohebat Ahmadi's piece "The Death or the Revivals of the Author." Interesting how the article explores how Barthes and Foucault don't so much as disagree about authorship itself, more like how it functions and what that means for discourse around a text. Researching this for my own chapter in my book. My argument? There are four ways for an author to die. Some will do so more than one way. #Authorship #Barthes #DeathOfTheAuthor #Foucault #Ahmadi #Fandom #Discourse #Writing #Research

When I was reading the TV Tropes page for "#DeathOfTheAuthor", I didn't expect it to be so long. It's difficult for me to fully understand long texts if they aren't more blunt. But I think I got the premise.

Anyway, I like the idea of applicability and everyone having their own interpretations and internal versions of a work, including the author and anyone else who worked on it. I think that's what makes art special. But also I can see the frustration of everyone else not "getting" what you put into a piece of work.

The limit for me would be to assume what the creators of something intended. Like saying "this is what I saw in this art so that must be what the artist intended". Don't put words in people's mouths, we can never really know how the creators see their own work unless they tell us.