Facing the death of the Author : Cultural professional's identity work and the fantasies of control

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Facing the death of the Author : Cultural professional's identity work and the fantasies of control
Original language description
This article takes Barthes' concept of the death of the Author as a starting point to organize a reflection on the role of Author-related discursive structures (termed subject positions here) in participatory processes within cultural institutions, focusing on cultural professional and audience subject positions. The theoretical assumption in this text is that identities (and subject positions) are not stable or homogenous, but contingent and diverse, and fed by social fantasies. This assumption (supported by culturalist identity theory and psychoanalytic theory) allows analyzing how the subject position of the cultural professional has been articulated through a series of contemporary fantasies. This article will first focus on two fantasies: The resistant modernist fantasy of the cultural professional as Author, and its still modernist counterweight, the democratic-populist fantasy of the death of the Author. The strong disconnection of both these fantasies with the present-day cultu
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Democratising the Museum : Reflections on Participatory Technologies
ISBN
978-3-631-64916-9
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
111-130
Number of pages of the book
240
Publisher name
Peter Lang
Place of publication
Frankfurt am Main
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