A French literary critic named Roland Barthes once wrote an essay titled ‘The Death of the Author’, wherein he argued that a reader must not rely on the intention and background of an author to draw ...

Media performance artist Dayna McLeod asked ChatGPT to write an increasingly snarky and heated dialogue between Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault about The Death of the Author, a famous essay by ...

Roland Barthes was a quintessentially French intellectual who became internationally famous with his sprightly, witty and uncompromising essays on photography and popular culture. Born in 1915 he ...

“Death of the Author,” which takes its name from a (far less accessible) essay by literary theorist Roland Barthes, brings brainy material down to earth in the best way. A critic of Zelu’s ...