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[David Ewers]

"Prove it!"

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Thank you!  I found these translated (but still Foucault's?...) tidbits on Author Function, anonymity, etc., and I agree: there's something to it.  

http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Foucault-AuthorFunction.html

Without even getting into substance, this:
   It is obviously insufficient to repeat empty slogans: the author has disappeared; God an man died a common death. Rather, we should reexamine the empty space left by the author's disappearance; we should attentively observe, along its gaps and fault lines, its new demarcations, and the reapportionment of this void; we should await the fluid functions released by this disappearance

I sure hope you/we will take it up.

I'd love some insight on this here:
... Thus, the essential basis of this writing is not the exalted emotions related to the act of composition or the insertion of a subject into language. Rather, it is primarily concerned with creating an opening where the writing subject endlessly disappears.



p.s. Personally, I read Wicks as 'absorbs', so like ... the Rev 'drinks Cherrycoke' (absorbs America, maybe?)...


On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:58 AM, alice malice wrote:

> "Nobody has blinded me!"
> 
> - Odysseus
> 
> I'm too busy to look into it just now, but I know we've discussed this
> at  length in the past, and we will, I'm sure, take it up again
> 
> the Wicked man in the Cherry Cloak, burning his wick here now is
> "guilty" of the Author Function;  Foucault, in several essays,
> explains the history of anonymity, authorship, the crimes of
> authorship and anonymity, the punishments, the Saint Jerome school of
> Literary Criticism....etc...and,
> 
> of course the Pynchoeon Family that Hawthorne new so well -- one he
> unearthed, as much as his own, perhaps to expiate but not exonerate,
> but surely to record (some, as our frame narrator tells us  are not
> even recorded), included not only a man who, like the biblical Ahab,
> covets another man's land, accuses him of being a devil, executes him,
> takes the land, as Judge Pyncheon does to poor Matthew in HSG--had a
> famous or infamous author whose book was burned.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> David Ewers writes:
>> page 9
>> The crime of "Anonymity" - as in posting publicly without attaching
>> your identity to your words, seems prescient to me, considering so
>> much on-line debate today, 'flaming', etc.
>> 
>> nice link...I just saw it as a metaphor for the upcoming
>> --1800s--future of strangers everywhere...
>> One could not be Anonymous easily in times of small towns, farms,
>> cities that were real neighborhoods, generally.......notice he got
>> caught.
>> 
>> See Baudelaire on streets of Paris, for example...the anonymity of
>> most industrial revolution work in factories, etc....
>> 
>> Another way he is a heretic?...he is the character caught between two
>> worlds, the Christian and the
>> coming modernity...
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