{"id":61,"date":"2010-09-08T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-09-08T02:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:17:43","slug":"foucault-and-the-pseudonymous-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Foucault and the Pseudonymous Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay, &#8220;What is an Author?&#8221; Michel Foucault treats authorship as though it were some kind of fiction.\u00a0 It is, he says, a &#8220;function of discourse&#8221; \u00a0(<em>Language,\u00a0Counter-Memory, Practice, <\/em>p. 124).\u00a0 Discourse in our culture, he says, is &#8220;an action situated in a bipolar field of sacred and profane, lawful and unlawful, religious and blasphemous&#8221; <em>(Ibid<\/em>.<em>)\u00a0. \u00a0<\/em>In other words, authors do not create their works; instead their works are ultimately the result of a discursive practice in which they participate by virtue of living in a certain place and time.\u00a0 Other discursive practices produce other types of &#8220;author-function.&#8221;\u00a0 I wonder how the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic artists understood their relationship to their work?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_65\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65\" title=\"hieroglyphtoon\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"Rhymes with Orange cartoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon-300x138.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon-150x69.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon-1024x472.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/2010\/09\/hieroglyphtoon.jpeg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art of Decoding<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay, &#8220;What is an Author?&#8221; Michel Foucault treats authorship as though it were some kind of fiction.\u00a0 It is, he says, a &#8220;function of discourse&#8221; \u00a0(Language,\u00a0Counter-Memory, Practice, p. 124).\u00a0 Discourse in our culture, he says, is &#8220;an action situated in a bipolar field of sacred and profane, lawful and unlawful, religious and blasphemous&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.veriteatem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}