From Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy by Carl Olsen (I added paragraph breaks): Within the context of postmodern art, Mark C. Taylor identifies, for instance, two processes at work: disfiguring and cleaving. These two operations are identified by Taylor in his attempt to grasp the chora, a nonexistent that stands behind being and [...]
I rediscovered this wonderful paper by Siân Bayne of the University of Edinburgh entitled “Temptation, Trash and Trust: the authorship and authority of digital texts”. In his influential essay ‘What is an Author?’ (Foucault, 1977), Foucault explores the notion of the author – conventionally taken for granted as a knowable entity existing in a stable [...]
