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The disappearance of the author and meaning making

Summary/Abstract: The study is aimed at the analysis of the consequences of the disappearance of the author asa unifying principle organizing meaning and determining the interpretation of the text in theera of digital media and hypertext. It is based on the movement aimed at the displacementof the concept of the author from this dominant position, reflecting the approaches of thinkerssuch as U. Eco, R. Barthes and M. Foucault. These authors particularly understand thetext as a space in which intertextual relations dominate and readership perception replacesthe principle of the author. More than a natural extension of these considerations is the areaof texts published in electronic version, which, according to J. D. Bolter, allow significantlygreater fragmentation and differentiation than printed texts, which even more reinforces theirperceptual aspects. Reconstruction or rather making of meaning in the process of reading issubject to certain specifics that are at the centre of our consideration because there also appearsthe spectre of what remained of the author, as some of his features are still present in thetext. Consequently, we move to the description of double writing: writing the self and writingculture. Relying on Bolter’s as well as Foucault’s analysis, we can say that hypertext writingis an ongoing process of eclectic writing and self-publishing. It is exactly the way we acquirea new virtual identity that enables and stands in the basics of digital communities. If hypertextis a place of this constitutive practice of subjectification, this means not only a return to theorigins of philosophy, that is to the practice of the care for the self, which it always has been,but also the beginning of a new era of reading, writing and thinking.

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