WEEK SEVEN: POST-STRUCTURALISM

Post Structuralis

m- BARTHES

-DERRIDA

-KRISTIA

Reception Theory- WOLFGANG KEMP

Phenomenology- MERLEAU-PONTY

-HUSSERAL

Discourse Analysis/Theory- FOUCAULT

Hermeneutics- HEIDEGGER

• Foucault: What is an Author?
  • the term author is different than the actual person who writes it
  • names have signification
  • the meaning of author has been altered and the name almost makes for a classification
  • content is not important but the author itself/ or the writing becomes a symbol for the author despite the content itself
  • particularity of writing disappears so there is a collection of work, cohesive,a collection of Twain
  • through authorship you are liberating yourself because you become something else
  • cohension of work, overarching theme or design, etc. brand to fit into the linear narrative of art
  • hegemonic discourse is what an author is
  • move from authorship to transcendental anonymity
  • cant just accept the lack of author that has left a void but interrogate it
  • many shifts during French Revolution
  • authorship by nature is a discourse and suggestive spce, not a void 
  • poster, letter, contract- non have an author. specific investigations of writing
  • authorship gives us a standard of quality, coherense, stylistic uniformity, temporal coherense (time date of author)
  • aart history no longer wants intent because there is no way to prove it, no biography because it has nothing to do with the understanding and interpretation of the works
• Barthes, Death of an Author
  • we know now a line of text is not a line or words but a multi-dimensional in which works clash, nothing original anymore, death of the "author-god"
  • master with original thought (like Mark Twain) is false because inspiration and thought has to come frmo someone
    • already come up with the same words. not linear
  • reading is where writing actually happens
  • impose an author onto a text limits and closes off interpretation of the text, limit of author relationship
  • white paintings of rausenberg in black mountain college. Cage sees them, landind strips, collect dust, collect life
  • reader in which all the interpretations of writing become found and lost. 
    • birth of the reader comes at cost of death of the author
  • expect our ideas to be legible in the real world
• Barthes, From Work to Text
  • the work is the thing (a book), the text is the discursive space that interrogates the book
  • plurality of meaning but not a cohesion of meaning, lack of meaning, 
  • rely on your personal perspective
  • respect for the manuscript and the authors declared intentions
    • way we establish cultureal hegemony, establish power
    • patriarchal system of power
  • freedom from the author, gives a source of pleasure in reading, of a work
  • meaning is a closed system
• postructionalism- antihumanist. meaning of meanings. promotes new way of looking at things. 
• "new art history"
  • no longer talking about history of art but of art history, discursive space, no tjust art works and their makers