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Nov 26, 2025 28 min

What are we doing when we read?

from Philosopher's Zone Hosted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Reading seems like a simple, uncomplicated activity that most of us enjoy without thinking too much about it - but how simple is it really? Literary theorists have been arguing for decades over what it is to read, what it is to interpret a text, what it is for something to be a text. This week we're catching up on some of the recent debates.

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