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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9625168" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I see &quot;authorship&quot; as meaning something pretty specific: an intentional creator carefully selecting a specific set of things. I do not follow Barthes' demotion of authors to mere scriptors, though I do understand that his criticism of author-centric analysis came from a context where people were kinda claiming they could objectively prove the one and only correct understanding of a given work (which is a supremely silly idea).A random process can't be an author, in this sense, because there is no &quot;selection&quot; at all, just random chance resulting in one option occurring instead of another. My ignorant-bystander idea (which I mostly suggested just so I had something other than &quot;100% pure pre-authorship&quot; and &quot;100% pure randomness&quot;) is thus not really an author in the sense I mentioned above, as there is no intentional creation going on, but there is an actual selection, as in, someone is choosing something over something else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9625168, member: 6790260"] I see "authorship" as meaning something pretty specific: an intentional creator carefully selecting a specific set of things. I do not follow Barthes' demotion of authors to mere scriptors, though I do understand that his criticism of author-centric analysis came from a context where people were kinda claiming they could objectively prove the one and only correct understanding of a given work (which is a supremely silly idea). A random process can't be an author, in this sense, because there is no "selection" at all, just random chance resulting in one option occurring instead of another. My ignorant-bystander idea (which I mostly suggested just so I had something [I]other than[/I] "100% pure pre-authorship" and "100% pure randomness") is thus not really an author in the sense I mentioned above, as there is no [I]intentional[/I] creation going on, but there is an actual selection, as in, someone is [I]choosing[/I] something over something else. [/QUOTE]

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