Author Dying and Text Dying
There are two concepts which I find work well in regard to writing. First, is the death of author (Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault). Briefly, the author does not mean anything any more because we do not care for this modernity figure. We are only interested in text how it appears in contesting, arguing, sizzling discourses.
And the second theory, which I associate with the name of Russian philosopher and poet Dmitry Prigov, is that the opposite happens. Text is of no importance, and we are not interested in text. We only care for the author.
The first theory is about the author dying in text, and the second, text dying in author.
“In other words, everyone died.”