“We know that a text does not consist of a line of words, releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God), but is a space of many dimensions, in which are wedded and contested various kinds of writing, no one of which is original: the text is a tissue of citations, resultin…”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.orgTagged: Author-God, Copyright, Originality, Ownership, Remix
“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”— Roland Barthes, tbook.constantvzw.orgTagged: Authority, Authorship, Death of The Author, Infinity, Joyful Complexity