points i find useful:
1. "the author does not precede the works" (foucault 118-19) - leaving it open for the hypering of multiple authors - against ownership, copyright
2. "if we are accustomed to presenting the author as a genius, as a perpetual surging of invention, it is because, in reality, we make him function in exactly the opposite fashion" (foucault 119) - the ideological, traditional politicized category is "constraining," not the actuality - has to be that system of constraint - reducing the danger which the author presents - questions of power (not primarily individuality or not individuality per se)
3. "fiction and its polysemous texts" (foucault 119) - polysemy - multiplicity - democracy
4. "the author is a modern figure, a product of our society" (barthes - first page in our copy) - cf. ion (or woodmansee for that matter) - not a single person - not confined
5. "such distinctions really becoming invalid" (barthes 2) - interdisciplinary focus - not separation - peering over barriers between genres and categories
6. "one could talk here with brecht of a veritable 'distancing'" (barthes 3) - the distancing of the author, the narrowing, the focus, the diminishing of the one - monolithic - entity of power - into dispersal, sharing (btw - brecht?!)
7. "a text is ... a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash" (barthes 4) - obvious application
8. "to refuse god and his hypostases - reason, science, law" (barthes 5) - devil's-advocate argument in a nutshell
9. "classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader" (barthes 6) - "the reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a reading are inscribed without any of them being lost" (also barthes 6) - the continuity is in the reader - the monolith is the "author" concept - a focus on the community
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