That was certainly an interesting watch, I quite enjoyed learning more about the Death of the Author, and I'd like to see more videos like these!
@yellowstarproductions6743
Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@NezumiVA
Жыл бұрын
Well done! Very good video, Tiny.
@yellowstarproductions6743
4 ай бұрын
Agreed 👍
@liamfitzgerald1400
Жыл бұрын
A very comprehensive yet succinct look at the topic, one of the more thought-provoking videos I've seen on it.
@yellowstarproductions6743
Жыл бұрын
Agreed
@phosphorescenceking6114
Жыл бұрын
Personally, I think that stuff like this needs a real cause-and-effect lens to deconstruct it accurately. Take the JKR stuff, her social identity has shifted from being an author of children's books to being a political mouthpiece. These can be partially related, but there are plenty of other political mouthpieces saying the same things she's saying that have an audience without being famous writers or anything of the sort. Her political fame is likely a product of itself, not of her fame as an artist. Anyone that has the slightest opportunity to preach from a soap box can do so and garner attention if their rhetoric and message inflames and and incites an audience. I don't think most people listen to her politics because of her background as a writer, they simply do so because she has a name that people might recognize. Having an opinion on her work isn't necessarily the same thing as buying her products and giving her money. 1 is a capitalist transaction, and the other is an appraisal of art. We can praise a piece of art while acknowledging that buying it as a product is also bad in some ways. And even then, this is a muddied point because you can pretty much always point to valid reasons to criticize purchasing any product. If you buy headphones from best buy, there're sweat shops that made plastic and electronic parts you're supporting, environmental damage from the shipment of products you're supporting, etc. Almost every transaction is bad in some ways when you study the whole pipeline. Saying that buying JKR products is bad because it supports her bottom line isn't as compelling of an argument when you consider that almost every transaction you ever make is bad in some ways that are hard to compare. The Ship of Theseus also plays a role in these discussions. Something a writer made in the 80s might be totally different from what they made in 2020. Everyone, audiences and artists themselves, are constantly changing over time. Ship of Theseus suggests that the same author might as well be two completely different people at different times, and logically there's nothing against that interpretation. Once a writer finishes and publishes a product, it is finite, it will exist as a time capsule, regardless of how the author changes from that point. In that sense, even if you care about the intentions of the author, it might not reflect who the author is right now. I think, for analysis and discourse on art, it's very dependent. If someone is full death of the author and ignores the actual message of media, it can be unhealthy to media as a tool for communication and expression. People can use it as an echo chamber to interpret every story to what they already want to hear. But, at the same time, it can allow for new interesting interpretations of work. The intrigue and communication value of art I feel is less dependent on intent vs death of the author, and is more about reduction vs non-reduction. If you look at art with a reductionist mindset and think "no we shouldn't do that" or "Art can't be that" then you're limiting the ultimate value of the art. People who put those mental limitations or ignore certain avenues, that's what causes the art to stifle. At that point, the problem comes from people's freedom of interpretation. Is it disrespectful to an artist who put their heart and soul into expressing something in a story for the audience to just ignore it and interpret it as something opposite? Is it ignorant and a breakdown of communication for people to consume something and oversimplify it and fail to grasp the complex intent and messages? If we view art as a means of communication like any other, is it problematic that people can utterly fail to communicate, to accurately hear what is being spoken to them? Art can be viewed as a product that has to meet expectations and is made to be criticized, or it can be viewed as a labor of love to be experienced honestly, or it can be a genuine plea of communication from speaker to listener, or it can be seen as a vehicle to attach your own purposes onto, like any public event, something in the public eye that you can talk about with the intention of spreading your own ideas and messages. It goes back to ancient 15th century criticisms of widespread literacy. Plato and others felt it was dangerous to give peasants and normal people the ability to read and write, because writing is powerful, it's finite, it creates it's own identity separate from the writer, it feels heavy and real to those who read it. Anyone, without guidance, can write anything they want, and read anything how they want, which in the wrong hands, can totally destroy truth and meaning to communication. As much as I love media because I see the value of it when it's consumed in a healthy way, over the years I've studied and realized that Plato is right. Media is powerful, and highly exploitable. Any form of fixed media: text, recorded audio, video, etc. All fixed media is prime for empowering messages, miscommunication and spreading falsehoods, etc.
@fitnessstuff915
Жыл бұрын
wow! thank you. best explanation ever.
@yellowstarproductions6743
4 ай бұрын
Agreed
@salup_
Жыл бұрын
Lovely video essay! I love how you word things, makes it easy to digest!!
@charlartie
Жыл бұрын
Wow, what a interesting and informative video! Good work!
@yellowstarproductions6743
4 ай бұрын
Agreed
@ItsShaz1
Жыл бұрын
Interesting
@yellowstarproductions6743
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@finn-mf1vv
Жыл бұрын
Persona 4 Yu narukami pfp (i keep running into persona fans 😰)
@Xxth3_murder5cenexX
Жыл бұрын
every passing day i hate jk rowling more and more..
@phant0m811
Жыл бұрын
Honestly idk what happened to her. I used to look up to her so much before she posted those things on Twitter. For someone who wrote something as adventurous and unique as Harry Potter, I didn't expect her to be so fearful and hateful towards others.
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