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The Rebirth of the Author
An interesting piece on CTheory by Nicholas Rombes entitled The Rebirth of the Author which puts forward the idea that Blogging is very much living proof that the Author is far from dead. Not so long back some new media theory was championing hypertext as working proof of the truths of post-structuralism (Landow et al) and now it seems it can disprove it too!
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=480
He also has some interesting things to say about academic writing and the nature of authorship and digital technology.
some unabasged self-promotion, but on the issue of the re-birth of the Author keep an eye on the forthcoming issue of the The Velvet Light Trap, JOURNAL OF FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES,(57, 2006) devoted to authorship. It will include a piece of mine entitled ‘'Technology in search of an artist: questions of auteur/authorship in contemporary cinema'. email me, should anyone be interested in a preview. Anna
Posted by: Anna Notaro | October 14, 2005 at 09:43
I'm interested in the language Rombes is using, as it's difficult in the end to see what his attitude actually is. He talks about the 'dictatorship' of the author or auteur in an article that appears to be welcoming the resurgance of the idea, if only in terms of career enhancement.
Posted by: Alan Drury | October 18, 2005 at 11:35