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Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo
Posted By: thebruce0 <g.may@thebruce.net>	Date: 7/4/12 9:49 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo (Dragonclaws) : Now, if I spoke to the author, I'm sure she'd say she never : intended to write anything racist. The "death of the author" : says that I can disregard that intent and say it is racist, and it's due : to the author's racism. Well that's where it splits apart, IMO. On one hand, yes it allows you to regard the piece itself as containing racist content, but to claim that the author IS racist is presuming their intent (conscious or not) was racist. But there is such a thing is mistake, error, unintentional coincidences and connections and whatnot. If the author had absolutely no racist intent, but it happened that people inferred racist undertones, there are two branches that can happen from there... The readers can presume intentional offense and blame the author, labeling them as something they claim they are not, or The readers can excuse the author for unintentional undertones, and hope the author addresses the issue respectfully in some manner, whether it be altering the piece or sufficiently explaining the content. My beef is forcefully labeling someone something socially negative that they're not based on a presumptive connection. That's the problem I have when "death of the author" is taken too far. It has its place for an expanded analysis of a piece in light of current cultural context, but to extend those finding onto intent of the author is a recipe for controversy. Raise the issue as an interpretation of the piece based on the removal of author intent, then see how it plays out. At worst, it brings to light the author's true intent. At best, it resolves a misunderstanding. Secondly, I think that if art (in this case, the example of The Matrix) is created in order for the viewers to apply their own interpretation without being influenced by the creator's intent, then that is the creator's intent. And so the art is still primarily based on the creator's intent. The resulting meaning, however, is personalized to the viewer. Artist intent is still key to art.

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Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colors	Flynn J Taggart	7/2/12 2:18 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Dragonclaws	7/2/12 2:42 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/2/12 10:14 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Louis Wu	7/2/12 11:09 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/2/12 12:23 p.m.
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Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Flynn J Taggart	7/2/12 1:51 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/2/12 2:00 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	7/3/12 2:56 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	SonofMacPhisto	7/4/12 1:19 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Cody Miller	7/2/12 2:56 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Dragonclaws	7/2/12 3:44 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Cody Miller	7/2/12 4:50 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/3/12 6:55 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Cody Miller	7/3/12 12:10 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/3/12 12:17 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Cody Miller	7/3/12 12:31 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Battuta	7/3/12 12:58 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Cody Miller	7/3/12 1:07 p.m.
Re: Intent and dead authors	Architechnid	7/3/12 2:00 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Dragonclaws	7/3/12 2:11 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	thebruce0	7/4/12 9:49 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Leisandir	7/4/12 10:48 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	thebruce0	7/4/12 12:08 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Vagueness	7/4/12 8:19 p.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	thebruce0	7/5/12 8:27 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	Architechnid	7/5/12 10:35 a.m.
Re: Purple and pink are long time Bungie game colo	General Vagueness	7/4/12 6:28 p.m.
Re: Feminist Analysis of TFoR	General Vagueness	7/2/12 1:35 p.m.
Re: Feminist Analysis of TFoR	Dragonclaws	7/2/12 2:12 p.m.
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