Title- untitles, medium- organic pulp, 2020Michel Foucault in this particular context could be considered a theorist of history and also a post-structuralist thinker, it’s very difficult to definite him to a particular school of thought. We can consider him as an augural figure of a school thought by himself. In his lifeline, it is important to draw a number of ideas, and methods from a range of schooling traditions from Marxism, literature, phenomenology,history, etc.
In “what is an author” Foucault uses the term “Author Function” a concept that primarily replaces the idea of the Author a portion, and this essay is a response to the criticism of Foucault’s use of Authorial figures in different discursive clusters in the order of his critical writings. In the process of this criticism, Foucault also theorized the function of the author in a pre-given discourse. “The question of the author demands a more direct response. Even now, when we study the history of a concept, a literary genre, or a branch of Philosophy, these concerns assume a relatively weak and secondary position in relation to the solid and fundamental role of an author and his works”. Foucault tries to also tell us the figure of the author, how prominent in the western traditions and is often invoked as a stable entity, that we have to revisit. There’re many ways in which we could read and discourse about the author’s socio-economic state, but Foucault also tells us in the essay to stay in a none relationship between the author and the text, it can also seem the author also stays out of the text. What Foucault trying to assert here, in the era of modernism and postmodernism any kind of authorial attention has been set, so that means the composition or the act of writing claimed to capture reality and represent the scientific explanations, it’s no longer staying scientific frictions anymore. In the modern era authors not only lives in any frictional reality but they also work with various languages and push the limitations. So, the writings and get more about, what language does and within that how the act of signification is worked and how the author’s functionality and the “act of writing” are changed. Writings are no longer to capture something and represent a particular sign. Now it comes to redder to receive the nonrepresentational existence of author in the texts or narratives, is the primary task to erasing author themselves from narratives and employing the languages and the playfulness to establish the narratives takes over its own from.
The idea of the Author’s functionality is a concept that primarily Replaces the idea of the author as a person, and instead refers to the discourse that surrounds an author’s body of work. When it comes to the case of recognition that authorship and the different values and meanings associated with the cultural products vary widely from time to time and also signified place or sudden space. For example, scientific texts are mostly valued for their content rather than their authorship, while in the case of literary texts and authorship becomes the most interesting aspect of the work. According to Foucault, critics invent a variable idea of an author and of authorship that depends entirely upon their preconceptions.
A major contribution of Foucault is that he developed the idea of “discursive” or specific in this paper discursive formation as an alternative conception of orthodox theories and ideologies in his contemporary time. According to Foucault, a discourse consists of the whole range of related utterances that shape a particular question, of the field of thought and inquiries. discourses’ produce a kind of knowledge and illusion of powers, and they follow the orthodox and rules. In the case of an artist or art-practitioner, the discursive formation into which they fit includes not only their statements but also the critical writing on their work, popular representations, and myths are institutional conditions of stern categories. There’s also a tendency of the institution to incorporate and legalize the general ideas about art and artists. art practice as a form of human understanding whose cognitive processes are delivered through various language mediums and contexts which are often used to separate and make meaning from images and objects. ‘Artists’ and other places where artists choose to create an object of art or other such places chosen for the creation of a critique for the emergence of new ideas, are theatrically powerful and methodologically represent robust sights of inquiry. Any kind of drawing and sketch has the agency to argue about the way of taking an account of art practice.
So, what does Foucault’s account to the idea of the author a stable point of origin a concept of the fundamental model of the artist and the genre of the art history? Those critics are invested in the idea of the author as the utility of meaning, a stable entity who precedes and originates the wok by depositing any closer significance into it. According to Foucault, it can assume that the idea of the author is fiction invented by the critic to provide a unifying principle that sets limits on the text’s infinite meanings. There the author contains the theatres posed by the work complexities also here author serves to naturalize or generalize those contradictions and structures, through repressive stracture4s of power.
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