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Author.

by Go As DeatH

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    These tapes are part of the Crossed-Out series (CO06) on Domestic Surveillance Tapes, dubbed-over hateful Christian rhetoric.
    Home-dubbed with a pro cassette duplicator. Blank white hand-cut and hand-folded J-cards tied with loose cassette tape in ziplocks.
    Artwork/Layout by John McVay.
    Domestic Surveillance Tapes//DST010.
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Exposition 38:58
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The End 38:58

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The Death of The Author implies that all texts are fluid and subject to revision and rebuttal, simultaneously opening up an agency in responsive thinking and also freeing us from the invisible pressure of originality and expertise.
The Death of The Author "...is the birth of the reader.

Death of the Author is a concept from mid-20th Century literary criticism; it holds that an author's intentions and biographical facts (the author's politics, religion, etc) should hold no special weight in determining an interpretation of their writing. This is usually understood as meaning that a writer's views about their own work are no more or less valid than the interpretations of any given reader. Intentions are one thing. What was actually accomplished might be something very different. The logic behind the concept is fairly simple: Books are meant to be read, not written, so the ways readers interpret them are as important and "real" as the author's intention. On the flip side, a lot of authors are unavailable or unwilling to comment on their intentions, and even when they are, they don't always make choices for reasons that make sense or are easily explainable to others (or sometimes even to themselves).

Likewise, as some critics note, it is elitist to assume that all artists are intellectuals or they have to be intellectuals, i.e., that works with deep meaning and ideas come only from people who are culturally and philosophically learned, rather than deriving from instinct, observation, creative inspiration, and artistic genius. Many consider this the Shakespeare authorship fallacy, i.e., that because Shakespeare was unlikely to possess the intellectual wherewithal to write his plays, the alderman's son from Stratford cannot have been the author of deep philosophical plays with dazzlingly complex characters. The academic consensus and textual studies overwhelmingly support William Shakespeare as the author and they note that whatever makes the plays deep comes entirely from command of language, stagecraft, and dramatic intuition, and while these skills can be intellectualized they are not innately intellectual, and while there's great depth, power, and meaning to a number of scenes in his plays the reasons for such meaning can vary between appealing to different kinds of audiences, subverting or parodying a convention that had already gotten stale way back then, or simple playfulness.

Although popular amongst postmodern critics, this has some concrete modernist thinking behind it as well, on the basis that the work is all that outlives the author (hence the concept's name) and we can only judge the work by the work itself. The author's later opinions about their work are themselves a form of criticism and analysis, and therefore are not necessarily consistent with what's written unless the author or publisher actively goes back and changes it—and it can still be argued that, since the original work still exists, the author has merely created a different version of it. One critic's understanding of the author's background and opinions is likely to be just as accurate as another's, especially if the author has an idiosyncratic or even anachronistic perspective on their own work. Modernists are more likely to appeal to the similar-yet-different concept of the Intentional Fallacy, which does not discount biographical information or other works by the same author."
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeathOfTheAuthor#:~:text=Death%20of%20the%20Author%20is,an%20interpretation%20of%20their%20writing.

"Author." = tapes and contact mics processed through pedals straight to tape. Rewriting history, revising and refining pain for your pleasure. The Birth of The Reader = DeatH to the Author.

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released May 26, 2023

Recorded 03/26/2023 @ Gallery of Death, Las Vegas, Nevada.
All tracks recorded-over: "Docs/light; walking. Authority/parents." c77 cassette tape sermon from 1974, R.B. Thieme Jr., Bible Ministries, Houston, Texas.

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Go As DeatH Las Vegas, Nevada

Go As DeatH is cassette tape/effects pedal-based Harsh Noise/Death Industrial from Las Vegas.

Horror, nihilism, control, and consumerism are cut-up, looped, rearranged, and repeated.

Go As DeatH plus a few side projects and collabs.

All works by John McVay & co.
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