The Death of the Subject and the Role of History

The text always bears signs that refer to the author, or create the "author function." The most easily recognizable of these signs is a pronoun, "I," though we know better than to assume that the "I" of a narrator is identical to the "I" of an author. Foucault suggests that the author function arises out of the difference, and separation, between the "author function" and the writer signified in the text. This is most easily seen in narrative fiction, but is true of any form of discourse, according to Foucault.

ART cannot be ART without MEANING

i said to her but she was having none of it

She said ART is a game of CHANCE of
random grains of sand RUNES thrown in the air
and cast down to form MEANING only in the mind of the interpreter

she DENIED what she produced meant anything
said she had constructed it with purpose to CONFOUND
and AMUSE

if the only worldview we can ever have is SUBJECTIVE
i said to her, we cannot ever interpret the UNIVERSE!

she said the words she had written about me were a
MAGNIFICENT ARTIFICE devoid of emotion merely
abstracted OBSERVATION

she said these days we do not do Parrhesia because Parrhesia is accused of Polemic.

i said, the Parrhesiastes is someone who takes a RISK. you will not EXPLAIN,
because to EXPLAIN would leave you with political DISADVANTAGE

she said: i am a MASK

i took her by the shoulders and SHOOK: what is your MEANING?

but there was nothing there, only a vacant space and
all that was left was a RANDOM COLLECTION OF DOTS,
where in a cloud of probability, atoms might have been.