Episode 261: Death of the Author
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
What's the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thinks about the end of 2001? Or is the artist's interpretation just one interpretation among many once the text is out in the world? We explore the question of authorial intent, and brace yourselves - this is just about as postmodern as David gets.
Plus – do we have what it takes to get an invite to the thought criminals club?
Links
The Party is Canceled [newyorker.com]
Was I Wrong About The Irishman? by Thomas Flight [youtube.com]
Authorial Intent [wikipedia.org]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:30.0 | The lady on his phone says, |
| 0:35.4 | I know her attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:40.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:52.0 | Good man. |
| 0:53.0 | They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:03.0 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:11.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:15.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:17.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:19.0 | We wanted a Celtics Lakers finals. |
| 1:25.0 | It would have been good. |
| 1:27.0 | It would have been awesome. |
| 1:29.0 | As of recording, we've played a total of seven games in the conference finals. |
| 1:33.0 | The Celtics and Lakers are a combined O and seven. |
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