Rewriting the

Author

authorship fluctuates

Author

nuanced understanding

popular discourse

Who writes this stuff, anyway?

Problem:

Authorship is not a static construct

Situational Authorship

Encyclopedic Authorship

Filtering

Re-composing

Evaluating

Surveying

Textual Curation

1728

The Work is, what it ought to be, a Collection ; not the Produce of a single Brain, for that would go but a little way ; but of a whole Commonwealth. …

The Book is not mine, ‘tis every body’s ; the mix’d Issue of a thousand Loins.

- Ephraim Chambers

1738

advertising for submissions

perpetual editions

is never finished.

new forms of authors

new forms of curators

Bot-writtentexts

be polite

match human syntax

drive change

Darwin, MN

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Who wrote this entry?

Who owns this knowledge?

Genre shapes authorship.

Rethink.

Rewrite.