To abolish the author's role in literature will in turn abolish self-referential subjects in literature by ceasing to reference specific excerpts that allude to the author. Authorship, as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault argue, becomes a hierarchical focal point to the written word. The role of the author must be subverted for the sustainability of the text in order for the reader to connect to the work in a more meaningful way with public discourse.
Some solutions should be expanded to the ideas presented in Foucault's What Is An Author? by and Barthes' Death of the Author by understanding how text could be disseminated and read by the public without the subservience of the author and his or her book. Examples of ongoing discourse is found in anarchy's role of the historical construction of the avant-garde that comes from the resistance to representation and authorship. The struggle against the limits of symbolic representation in literature is parallel to the anarchist critique of political representation. There are thematic links between anarchy and the historical influences of literature that divert from the fragment.
The analysis hopes to present how modernism intertwines an anarchist aesthetic and literature as one through direct action and public theatre; and to show how a social anarchist aesthetic can function by effectively creating performance art by not only achieving a radical message against consumerism but by collectively undermining the authorship role. Demonstrators behind masks that subvert capitalism by attracting the attention of others through a public spectacle of performance art and literature essentially criticize politics with the goal of finding what is thwarting progress, and replacing its absurdity with better ways of reaching a conclusion.
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New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Holquist, Michae. Dialogism (Bakhtin).
London: Routledge, 2002.
Kocur, Zoya and Simon Leung. Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985.
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
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