What is an Author? A Question for the Cartels

After a year's experience of being part of one of ISLP's cartels, the question of authorship emerged, not in the sense of plagiarism or of who can claim ownership over an idea or a text. Our question about authorship centres on the big Other, the field of a knowledge devoid of subjectivity, unconscious knowledge where one does not know who it is that knows . The co-ordinates of the big Other, understood as utterly distinguishable from the One, will be questioned with reference to Foucault's address to the Collège de France, entitled "What is an author?”.…