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This week, we're much more tiddly than usual, so what better time to talk about anonymous authorship and literary theory? First we go through our favourite pieces of literature penned by anonymous or pseudonymous authors, including some very old medieval poems. Then we rant about the misuses of Roland Barthes' concept of the death of the author, the art of shit posting and anonymous social media accounts, as well as the wankiness of author Joshua Cohen and his thoughts on writing in a time of internet ubiquity.

Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author: https://sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf

Matt's essay, The Afterlife of the Death of the Author:
https://areomagazine.com/2020/08/10/the-afterlife-of-the-death-of-the-author/

Joshua Cohen interview in Bomb Magazine:
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/joshua-cohen/

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