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It’s very strange to me to see how people now seem to be using death of author to completely disconnect the artist from their work in terms of culpability or consequence. I used to never see it as anything but meaning of a work is not beholden to author intent, whether due to author intent being unknown or the meaning transcending author’s own intent or even it betraying the author.
I think its a defense mechanism. People can overreact to any implication that they aren’t being their best moral selves. Sometimes with anger, others with denial. An example of the former is the unwarranted hatred that gets thrown at vegans. Not really for being vegan but for the implication that the non vegan is being a bad person. That’s where the viciousness comes from: we, as a culture, are obsessed with being a good person and drawing a line between ourselves and the bad people.
Weaponized delusion can arise from that same place. These death of the author types are harnessing denial to hollow themselves out. Instead of confronting the author’s monstrous nature they avoid it. They get to have their cake and eat it too, condemning the monster while celebrating his works.