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magratpudifoot · 1 month ago

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I've been ruminating on a Disc Horse since some time last night, and I am rewarding myself with a piece of carrot cake for keeping out of it and just reading some books.

But...just checking in...do we all know what oppositional reading is? Where a consumer of a piece of art can come to a different conclusion about the meaning of that art than what the author intended? A different interpretation than what is commonly accepted as "right"? And that doesn't make the oppositional reader wrong, and in fact is totally fine and normal?

We all know this, yes?

It is very important to me that we know this.

#BIG GIANT SCREAMING CAVEAT that oppositional reading is for RECEPTION OF ART #NOT FOR FACTS #wincest was not intended by the creators of spn but is an oppositional reading of the text #climate denial is not an oppositional reading #reading Jane Eyre as a horror tragedy is (kind of?) an oppositional reading #saying Jews and/or queer people were perfectly safe in 1930s Europe is not a defensible argument #and is NOT an oppositional reading #no one asked you ms p #save me stuart hall #I'm going to lose my fucking mind #no but seriously thiis is really important to me that we can understand this concept #because I feel like I'm winding up to kick a hornets' nest with the paper I'm working on right now and it doesn't need to be like that #I shouldn't be hoping only aarp members come to my panel if my paper is accepted because I don't want the qa to be a dogpile

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