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Or, is it, in information, an iconic taxonomic designation (some might say a \u201cclassification\u201d) for a group of writings that are recognized by the public in some particular way? What does it mean when a search engine, or catalog, asks a user to enter the name of an author? And how does that accord with the manner in which the data have been entered in association with the names of the entities identified with the concept of authorship?<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The authors use several cases as bases of phenomenological discourse analysis, combining as best the authors can components of eidetic bracketing (a Husserlian technique for isolating noetic reduction) with Foucauldian discourse analysis. The two approaches are not sympathetic or together cogent, so the authors present them instead as alternative explanations alongside empirical evidence. In this way the authors are able to isolate components of iconic \u201cauthorship\u201d and then subsequently engage them in discourse.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 An \u201cauthor\u201d is an iconic name associated with a class of works. An \u201cauthor\u201d is a role in public discourse between a set of works and the culture that consumes them. An \u201cauthor\u201d is a role in cultural sublimation, or a power broker in deabstemiation. An \u201cauthor\u201d is last, if ever, a person responsible for the intellectual content of a published work. The library catalog\u2019s attribution of \u201cauthor\u201d is at odds with the Foucauldian discursive comprehension of the role of an \u201cauthor.\u201d<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 One of the main assets of this paper is the combination of Foucauldian discourse analysis with phenomenological analysis for the study of the \u201cauthor.\u201d The authors turned to Foucauldian discourse analysis to discover the loci of power in the interactions of the public with the named authorial entities. The authors also looked to phenomenological analysis to consider the lived experience of users who encounter the same named authorial entities. 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