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Michel Foucault's "What is an Author?"

Theory & Philosophy

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What Is an Author?

The text today has freed itself from the necessity of expression. Despite this, it is not bound by interiority. It implies a perpetual exteriority coded by signification and those are my words. So ironically, such an exteriority repeatedly reifies and faces the writing subject. What we see then is a kind of perpetual transformation within the logic of signification.

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