I'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)
Wβ¦what. Itβs literally justβ¦ youβre fucking tell me thatβ¦ okay soβ¦ death of the author is really, literally about someone doing the era equivalent of claiming Bridget is still male no matter what the author said?
Did I understand that right?!
That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools