/lit/ - Literature

Why does marxist literary theory hold "the author" in such contempt?

Why does marxist theory resent the author (and deify the critic) so much?

Why'd this fuck have to go and ruin everything?

*ruins criticism*

now i love this man all to hell but what i am thinking is that in the 21C the death of the author is actually something that is probably doing more harm than good.

it has to do with spec-fiction. the Voices from Beyond that Paul Atreides heard were the same voices that Herbert heard in his head. herbert knew the deal. fuck, so did melville. obsession and monomania will fuck with you. both were geniuses i their own way. melville > herbert obv but whatever for now: The Spice Must Flow is kind of a thing.

the reason why perhaps we should not go so hard on the DotA today is because *the crafting of myths is psychologically necessary.* we live today in a world of radical suspicion where every fucking thing we think or write or feel carries with it, always-already, the soul-crushing legacy of Muh Oppression. sensitive readers *know* this but *guess fucking what* - it's *choking people half to death.* and if people *can not write* then they *will go fucking mental.*

this is why peterson matters. but he's just an outlier in something which is much, much bigger. if you *are not able* to articulate a myth, Nature will find a way, and it will come out in *politics.* the whole problem with the new mode of literary criticism is that they fucking *suffocate* all of the shit that people *need to work out* in order to be healthy, happy, friendly, *psychologically* upwardly-mobile members of society.

the *real* issue is that when you write a Big Story, ofc you want it to be *popular* - and meditating on the nature & origins of popularity and fame will lead you into philosophyfag plateau, from which there *is no easy escape* -

except -
except -

wait for it -

fucking /lit/. b/c here you can go and be anonymous and work all your shit out, uncensored, unfiltered, unwhatevered. b/c a university environment will be *swarming with politics* and the *real world is a fucking spook.*

barthes is great. death of the author a thing. but. the fact is that *people NEED to write ideologies* because *otherwise they can't work their shit out.* an ideology isn't written to be *obeyed,* it's written to be *let go of.* but we live in a world which *runs on criticism* and *boy is it ever fucked because of it.*

write myths. myths are the deal. get them out. who fucking cares what anybody else thinks. if you don't write them they will eat you alive. some fucking odious cunt is *obviously* going to run a third-rate lacanian program on you and find all the Symbology of Power and phallologocentrism because *that shit must be there* and *that is the point of writing it.* all that shit is there to connect with the philosopher-king w/in. all of it.

if you're going to write, i say, you have to regard the critics & the fans with a kind of caution. fans are going to love some things & critics are going to love others. the point is to write it. so that the black hole doesn't crush you to pieces. it's not about being read or heard. not what is playing you/level 2. just level 2.

>>5316498
>Unless the author expresses something officially, you're a fucking smug asshole making shit up to seem smarter than you really are.

>>4925356
>the author is still alive
o rly?