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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"]
#hiromi [creator:"Hiromi Ozaki", time:"2009-09-25T01.41.58.0Z", tag:"Anonymity, Individual Anonymity, Collective Anonymity, Foucault"]
#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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Sputniko! creates machines, films and music exploring technology, feminism and pop culture. Her narrative works are produced via research investigation with scientists and specialists to critically investigate a possible future of human and technology. In 2010, after her graduation from Royal College of Art, Sputniko!'s works were exhibited at the Contemporary Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 2011, she also exhibited her works at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 