The Pursuit of Post-Authorship: The Ascending Ecology of the World-Author
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Abstract: This paper develops a world-systems and theoretical analysis of the mechanisms of production and uneven distribution of authoriality in the global literary field. Its title is therefore intentionally duple in its ambiguity: the pursuit of authorship will be shown, simultaneously, as the action of pursuing something as a career (the writer who wishes to become a professional author, for instance, by writing and publishing a text or what I will call the author’s work) and, in parallel, as an activity of a specified and specialized kind (the entire range of elements and processes involved in the social production of authorship or what will be defined as the work of authorship). To this end, the function of world-authorship and its emergent model of ascension will be both situated within the neoliberal regime of capitalist production and the sphere of world literary studies by pursuing the contours and implications of a materialist, posthuman, and ecological approach, while also hinting at its value and processes indexed in terms of forms, figures, functions, and forces. Finally, then, understood within the post-theoretical conjuncture unfolding today, post-authorship will be defined as both a commodity and a world-apparatus.
Keywords: world-authorship, authorial ecology, world-dispositif, the ascension of the author, post-author, world-systems analysis, the work of authorship, the function of authorship. deneme bonusu veren siteler
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