
Where Art Belongs
In a recent issue of the London Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger used Michel Foucault’s essay “What Is an Author?” to account for George W. Bush’s absence from his own autobiography, a text that enacts Foucault’s idea of “a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.” While the former president’s book exemplifies the dissolution of the author function, Weinberger’s analysis cautioned autobiographers and writers alike. Writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus is searingly aware of the discourse in which she functions, and transforms it into something redolent of Simone Weil’s poeticism