Postmodern aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of what is considered beauty in a specific time/era .1 For example, during the Renaissance, women who were to be considered beautiful and sexy were expected to have voluptuous curves and bodies in contrast to today's size 0 beauty standards. This shows that views, perception and aesthetics change with each era. Etymologically the word aesthetics derives from the Greek verb αισθάνομαι, which means I perceive, I feel. A key feature of postmodern aesthetics is the ideology and theory that the author is dead and that his intentions should not be considered the most important thing about his work, but how others interpret his work. The main person who discusses this theory is the French critic and literacy theorist Roland Barthes in his essay "The Death of the Author" (1967). In his text, traditional notions of authorship are questioned and, in doing so, challenge writers. /authors have control over their text. For example, many postmodern critics, including Roland Barthes, argue that what the reader brings to a text has as much to do with how a reader interprets a text as with what the author writes and intends. Similarly, social constructionists argue that authors themselves are written by their cultures and societies, authorship is a social construct and is granted by various communities, such as academic and professional groups. After reading Roland's text, I believe he is right about the author's intention of not being the only way to interpret a work of art, a text or even a music (song), since every individual who looks a specific piece has its own set of values, morals. and the... half of the sheet... the edge and their work.21 This relates very much to what Barthes talks about in his text, because if it is not the author/artist himself who produces a body of work but a "muse/genius", then we cannot quite believe that the author/artist should have any say in what their work is about. Furthermore, in the fashion and music industry it is clear that things repeat themselves after a certain period of time. Therefore, there is not much originality left in the world as everyone is "inspired" by someone in the past to help them produce their work. All in all, I firmly believe that Roland Barthes is right with his ideology that the artist in general is progressively losing his authority over his own creations, because if they were not and we should thank all those who have contributed to a body of work that they produced anyway we would have died before finishing.