Complex authorships: Intellectual coproduction as a strategy for the times

Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 189-204

  Johnson, Richard ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 29144522768     PISSN: 0969725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09697259808572009     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. The rethinking of "authorship" in literary studies parallels the rethinking of identity, subjectivity and agency in cultural theory more generally. Critical have been the structuralist and poststructuralist programmes, allied to, or in tension with materialist approaches. Key texts include Roland Bardies, "The Death of the Author" in Image Music Text Essays Selected and Translated by Stephen Heath (Glasgow: Fontana, 1977) 142-48;
2. Michel Foucault, "What is an Author?," trans. Kari Hanet, Screen 20.2 (1979): 13-33;
3. Pierre Macherey, A Theory of Literary Production, trans. Geoffrey Wall (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978)
4. Nancy Miller, "Changing the Subject Authorship, Writing and Reader" in What is an Author?, ed. Maurice Biriotti and Nicola Miller (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1993) 19-41.
5. For classic readings see Sean Burke, Authorship: From Plato to the Postmodern: A Reader (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1995).
6. For this view see Liz Stanley "On Auto/biography in Sociology," Sociology 27.1: 41-51.
7. Speech at the Stuart Hall Conference, Open University, May 1998.
8. Debbie Epstein and Richard Johnson, Schooling Sexualities (Buckingham: Open UP, 1998).
9. Deborah Lynn Steinberg, Debbie Epstein and Richard Johnson (eds.), Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality (London: Cassell, 1997).
10. Our first cowritten piece was "On the Straight and the Narrow: The Heterosexual Presumption, Homophobias and Schools" in Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education, ed. Debbie Epstein (Buckingham: Open UP, 1994).
11. J.K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitaiism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell 1995) xi.
12. E.g. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics (London: Hutchinson, 1982);
13. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies: Education Group, Unpopular Education: Schooling and Social Democracy since 1945 (London: Hutchinson, 1980).
14. The Popular Memory project in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies focused initially on issues of national identity in the wake of the Falklands/Malvinas War. It developed a method of studying subjective relations to national and other discourses through the writing of autobiographical fragments, a method which, following a Berlin women's group, we called "memory work." The later work was more widely concerned with the production of individual and collective identities in narrative forms of remembering. For the early work of the group see Richard Johnson and Graham Dawson, "Popular Memory: Theory, Politics, Method" in CCCS, Making Histories 205- 52.
15. See also notes 12 and 30 below. For "memory work" see Frigga Haug (ed.). Female Sexualisation: A Collective Work of Memory (London: Verso, 1987).
16. Mariette Clare and Richard Johnson, "Method in Our Madness? Power and Identity in Memory Work Method" in Memory and Method, ed. Susannah Radstone (London: Dent, forthcoming).
17. Jane Miller, Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture (London: Virago, 1990);
18. bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education and the Practice of Freedom (New York and London: Routledge, 1994);
19. and, for recent debates, Celia Kitzinger and Sian H. Griffiths, "Bosom Buddies," Times Higher Education Supplement 12 June 1998: 15.
20. For our own account see Epstein and Johnson, Schooling Sexualities 131-35, 144, 150.
21. For teaching in CCCS see Richard Johnson, "Teaching without Guarantees: Cultural Studies, Pedagogy and Identity" in A Question of Discipline: Pedagogy, Power and the Teaching of Cultural Studies, eds. Joyce Canaan and Debbie Epstein (Boulder CO: Westview, 1997) 42-73.
22. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics; CCCS Education Group, Unpopular Education: Schooling and Social Democracy since 1945;
23. Education Group II, Education Limited: The New Right and Education since 1979 (London: Hutchinson, 1990); Steinberg, Epstein and Johnson (eds.), Border Patrols.
24. E.g. CCCS Media Group, "Fighting Over Peace: Representations of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the Media," CCCS Stencilled Paper 72 (1981).
25. The best account remains Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus, trans. Peter Collier (Cambridge: Polity, 1988).
26. For a recent defence see Homi K. Bhabha, "Commitment to Theory" in The Location of Culture (London and New Yorlc Routledge, 1994) 19-39.
27. I do not have space here to construct this cluster as a "group." It may not even be appropriate. Nonetheless I am struck by the common theoretical elements in, for example, the work of Homi Bhabha, Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, and Jonathan Dollimore: Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture;
28. Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (London: Methuen, 1986);
29. Jonathan Dollimore, Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault (Oxford: Clarendon, 1991).
30. Stuart Hall, "For Allon White: Metaphors of Transformation" in Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, eds. David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (London and New York: Routledge, 1996) 287-305.
31. For an early use of Bakhtin/Volosinov in Birmingham-related work see Charles Woolfson, "The Semiotics of Working-Class Speech," Working Papers in Cultural Studies 9 (spring 1976) 163-97.
32. Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist, Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1984) 103.
33. For the salience of this theme in Bakhtin scholarship see Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz, "From M.M. Bakhtin to Bakhtin Studies: Art and Life in Dialogue" in Critical Studies 1.2 (1989), "Special Issue: The Bakhtin Circle Today" 1-17.
34. Stuart Hall, closing speech, the Stuart Hall Conference, Open University, May 1998.
35. V.N. Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (New York and London: Seminar, 1973) 86. Emphasis as original.
36. Key references include Bhabha, The Location of Culture, especially chapter five;
37. Stallybrass and White, Politics and Poetics;
38. Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism and the Problem of Domination (London: Virago, 1990);
39. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto, 1986).
40. For recent reviews and uses see Stuart Hall (ed.), Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (London: Sage, 1997);
41. Kathryn Woodward (ed.), Identity and Difference (London: Sage, 1997).
42. For the distinction intrapsychic/intersubjective see Benjamin, The bonds of Love 20-24.
43. For "incommensurability" see Bhabha, Location of Culture, especially 162-64.
44. Compare Ken Plummer, Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds (London and New York: Routledge, 1995)
45. and the more structural/ historical stress in Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities (London and New York: Routledge, 1994). Much in Dawson's (and Johnson's) versions derives from the CCCS Popular Memory Group discussions.
46. Stallybrass and White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression, especially 192-202.
47. Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language 88.
48. Barthes, "The Death of the Author" in Image Music Text Essays Selected and Translated by Stephen Heath 142.
49. Homi K. Bhabha, "Interview: The Third Space" in Identity, Community, Culture, Difference, ed. Jonathan Rutherford (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990) 207-21.
50. M.M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist, trans. C. Emerson and M. Holquist (Austin: U of Texas P, 1981) 293-94
51. Compare Dale Spender, Man Made Language (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980).
52. For "standpoint" in feminism particularly see Sandra Harding, The Science Question and Feminism (Bloomington IN: Indiana UP, 1986).
53. For discussion of these issues see Michèle Barrett, The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
54. See Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, especially 288-94; for "a social language" 356-58.
55. For discussions of "best practices" in cultural studies see the essays in Canaan and Epstein (eds.), A Question of Discipline and in Elizabeth Long (ed.), From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives (Maiden MA and Oxford, 1977).
56. Multiple intersections of social differences is a key theme in "sociological" literatures, especially feminist debates. E.g. Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis, Radalised Boundaries: Race, Gender, Nation, Colour and Class in the Anti-Racial Struggle (London and New York: Routledge, 1992);
57. Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (London and New York: Routledge, 1997);
58. Linda Nicholson and Steven Seidman (eds.). Social Postmodernism: Beyond Identity Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995).
59. See also her "Working Together Using Feminist Methodologies to Explore Researcher Relationships with Women from Other Communities," paper presented to the conference, Women on the Threshold of the XXIst Century (Havana, November 1997).
60. For "entrepreneurialization" see Robert Ovetz, "Turning Resistance into Rebellion: Students Movements and the Entrepreneurialization of the Universities," Capital and Class 58 (spring 1994): 113-52. Thanks to Joyce Canaan for this source.
61. See, for example, Higher Education Funding Council for England, 1996 Research Assessment Exercise: Guidance on Submissions, Circular 2/95, Annex B: Rating Scale (London: HEFCE, November 1995) 9-10.
62. Joe Moran, "Cultural Studies and Academic Stardom," International Journal of Cultural Studies 1.1:70.
63. James Sosnoski, Token Professionals and Master Critics: A Critique of Orthodoxy in Literary Studies (Albany: State U of New York P, 1994)
64. quoted Moran, "Cultural Studies and Academic Stardom" 71.
65. See HEFCE, 1996 Research Assessment Exercise: Guidance on Submissions, cited above.