You remember the scandals over Bill Cosby, Orson Scott Card, and Michael Jackson and how that affected their art? If we did that for everyone, it would be pandemonium. So what if we just pretended they were all dead? ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/1BnwfrKt51s related: https://youtu.be/xQGs3eYxGRw ------------------------------------------------------------ references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault F for Fake and the Death of the Author - Brows Held High https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6OTVyybZU Does It Matter What Evangelion's Creator Says? | Idea Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVm65tlhqw8 ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ----------------------------------------- Wiki: "The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. The title is a pun[citation needed] on Le Morte d'Arthur, a 15th-century compilation of smaller Arthurian legend stories, written by Sir Thomas Malory. The essay's first English-language publication was in the American journal Aspen, no. 5-6 in 1967; the French debut was in the magazine Manteia, no. 5 (1968). The essay later appeared in an anthology of Barthes's essays, Image-Mus