DON’T ASK ME WHO I AM: MICHEL FOUCAULT’S IMPOSSIBLE ANONYMITY
To take the centenary of Michel Foucault’s birth in 1926 as an occasion to revisit his reflections on authorship is replete with contradiction. A birthdate, serving as a common tool for identification, marks individuality and subjective development and is thus one part of the author function Foucault situated in its historical stratum in his 1969 lecture “What Is an Author?” On the example of graffiti artist Banksy, Harmon Siegel demonstrates that anonymity doesn’t undo authorship; neither does it resolve the critic’s task of considering the concept’s historicity and ethical implications.
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