Authorship
Authorship names the position from which someone can stand behind a text's framing, selections, and consequences.
Working Definition
In this inquiry, authorship is not reducible to producing the words. It is the accountable endorsement of the structure, emphases, and tradeoffs a text carries.
Structural Expansion
Generative systems separate production from judgment more easily than earlier writing environments did. That makes authorship less visible at the level of the finished artifact and more dependent on who is willing to answer for its claims.
Related Terms
Related Chapters
- authorship-after-visible-rupture
Referenced in this Inquiry
- The Author Becomes Responsible
Once production is no longer enough, authorship has to be grounded in judgment, framing, endorsement, and responsibility.