Who is taking responsibility for that text?

This paper will outline my understanding of the constitutive problematics that figure a context for so-called Conceptual Writing, with a focus on the politics of how and why such writers write. I will begin by transposing two propositions from the discourse of literary theory: Michel Foucault's concept of the "Author function" (1969) and Rachel Malik's concept of the "horizons of the publishable" (2004). Conjoining them in an age of born-digital textualities, I will propose the concept of "publishing as praxis" as a lever to help us speculate on how so-called Conceptual Writing over-works an interpellated identity of the writer-as-consumer and consciously inverts the traditional compositional logic of production then reproduction. So leveraged, I will conclude by showing how even trans-disciplinary acts of Conceptual Writing work onto the inside of literature (as an institution plus its criticisms) by re-phrasing its central epistemological question of authoriality.