• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We all love to dunk on reactionaries, but there is no final right way to interpret media.

    According to “death of the author” literary theory, any reading that can be backed up with the text is valid. These valid theories may contradict each other and even the author of the work. (please don’t confuse multiple valid readings with silly relativism that any reading is as good as any other, that’s a straw-person argument).

    Death of the author is valuable and useful. This is how many classic media have been reinterpreted to take on queer readings for example.