Anonymity

In his essay ‘What Is an Author?’, Michel Foucault affirms the writing of a discourse freed of impositions of authorship, stating [foucault] “the author is the ideological figure by which one marks the manner in which we fear the proliferation of meaning” [/foucault] indicating how the concept of an author acts to close and fix the meaning of the text.

In [knowledge_object_id:21] and [knowledge_object_id:22] I’d like to show how a certain kind of anonymity may risk the meaning of the texts to proliferate, in a manner potentially unity imposing and (ironically) authoritative – by looking at collaborative writing platforms online. Firstly I believe we’re seeing two types of Anonymity, which can be categorized as:

1. Individual Anonymity : anonymous contributions made by anonymous individuals.

2. Collective Anonymity : contributions made anonymous via collective editing.

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#collection [id:20, creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-25T01.41.58.0Z", tag:"Anonymity, Individual Anonymity, Collective Anonymity, Foucault"]

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#foucalt [creator: "Michel Foucault", title:"What Is an Author?" description: "in Paul Rabinow ed., The Foucault Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984)", time: "1970-01-01T00.00.00.0Z", tag:"Author, Function, Language, Post Structuralist, Post Modern" ]

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