Theoretical Lenses: Post-Modernism and the Limits of Representation

Apply Barthes' concept of the 'death of the author' to texts where the author's human perspective is deliberately effaced to represent non-human consciousness.

Apply Barthes' concepts of the 'readerly' and 'writerly' text to analyze science fiction that attempts radical alterity.

Formulate an argument on whether the representation of truly alien consciousness requires a text to resist conventional meaning-making.