University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course:
21G.017 | Germany and Its European Context
Academic year:

2021
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17

Pages:

2
Author:

contravavif

Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (1969) discourse-- concepts and theoretical relationships within a work discursive units: natural history, political economy author function-- text points to a figure who is outside text and who precedes text Beckett: “What matter who’s speaking?” aligns with pastiche -- does it matter who has the authorial voice? --116/ the basis of writing is not the exalted emotions related to the act of composition (or the insertion of a subject into language)... rather, it is concerned with creating an opening where the writing subject endlessly disappears Death of the author; writing today kills the author || the author has disappeared Nietzsche: god and man died a common death 123/ the author’s name is not a fx of a man’s civil status... nor is it fictional... it is situated in the breach... among the discontinuities.. which gives rise to new groups of discourse and their singular mode of existence when did this shift in author function happen? 1 125/ late 18th c., when ownership and copyright rules were established this is when the transgressive properties of writing became the forceful imperative of literature the author function rises out of the scission (division and distance) between the actual writer and the fictional narrator author function is tied to the legal/institutional systems that define and articulate discourses ***131/ produce the possibility and the rules of formation of other texts... i.e. they don’t just produce their own work they establish the endless possibility of discourse 2

Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?”

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