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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Without reading (I am a staunch antiintellectual, yuck), is diegetic essentialism the boiling down of a text into strictly what happens within the text and ignoring the fact that it’s humans who consume the text and that that process can create meaning beyond that of the literal text?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

It's ok if you're just having fun, but we are so far past that point.

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