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Prestidigitweeze · 03-09-2014, 11:16 PM

I once spent an afternoon trying to explain Blanchot, Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" and Foucault's "What Is an Author?" to a well-known science fiction writer. This was the SF writer's reaction:

"If Foucault were still around, I'd ask him to sign some papers with me forgoing responsibility for the physical effects of our experiment. Then we'd wrestle. Eventually, I'd pin his arms and bend him over a table, so that when I asked whether there was an author behind him, I'd get a straight answer."

03-09-2014, 11:16 PM	#231
Prestidigitweeze Fledgling Demagogue Posts: 2,384 Karma: 31132263 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: White Plains Device: Clara HD; Oasis 2; Aura HD; iPad Air; PRS-350; Galaxy S7.	I once spent an afternoon trying to explain Blanchot, Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" and Foucault's "What Is an Author?" to a well-known science fiction writer. This was the SF writer's reaction: "If Foucault were still around, I'd ask him to sign some papers with me forgoing responsibility for the physical effects of our experiment. Then we'd wrestle. Eventually, I'd pin his arms and bend him over a table, so that when I asked whether there was an author behind him, I'd get a straight answer." Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 03-10-2014 at 05:15 PM.