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The author['s] remains: Foucault and the demise of the "author-function"
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July 1, 2002
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FOUCAULT AND THE DEMISE OF THE "AUTHOR-FUNCTION"
In "What is an Author," Michel Foucault quotes Samuel Beckett: "What matter who's speaking, someone said, what matter who's speaking?" (Foucault 1977b, 115). Foucault cites this statement in reference to an "indifference" that characterizes contemporary writing, an indifference that reveals "an opening where the writing subject endlessly disappears" (116). Yet this "indifference" is introduced in a decidedly non-indifferent way: though the statement proclaims itself as anonymous-"what matter who's speaking, someone said . . ."-its source is explicitly identified in Foucault's text as Beckett.1 Why does Foucault name his source for the ...
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