Thurston, N (2014) Who is taking responsibility for that text? In: Proceedings. 102nd College Arts Association (CAA) Annual Conference, 12-15 Feb 2014, Chicago, IL, USA.
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Keywords: | Conceptual Writing; Author Function; Horizons of the publishable |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2016 11:33 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2018 12:57 |
Status: | Published |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87541 |