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I would argue that's not the case. The entire concept of "reality" is left to the individual in post-modern thought. I think eliminating the notion of authorship would be a solidly post-modern position to take.


Do you have a citation for that? I've seen that as a cartoon of postmodernism, but I don't think I've ever seen a postmodernist scholar claim that.


> Postmodernism rejects the possibility of unmediated reality or objectively-rational knowledge, asserting that all interpretations are contingent on the perspective from which they are made;[5] claims to objective fact are dismissed as naive realism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism


When reality is dependent on who is speaking, authorship seems to be even more important!




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