Postmodern philosophers once hailed “the death of the author,” which was part of their strategy to decenter meaning in texts and free culture from the tyranny of metanarratives. Meaning cannot be found in a text without discerning the author’s intentions. All such controls and stipulations should be rejected as authoritarian. Objective meaning must give way to subjective and constructivist accounts of texts. “Truth” is only a power ploy.
I wrote against this highbrow sophistry in […]
Plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Suicide of the Author – Minding The Campus
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