Nancy Luxon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has also published several articles based on her archival research at the Foucault archives in Caen and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

• 1. Authority and its discontents; 2. Risk and resistance; 3. Conversations with the unknown; 4. What is an author(ity)?; 5. The authorial subject; 6. Audiences and the proliferation of meaning; 7. Breaking the frame, composing the event.

Nancy Luxon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has also published several articles based on her archival research at the Foucault archives in Caen and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

• 1. Authority and its discontents; 2. Risk and resistance; 3. Conversations with the unknown; 4. What is an author(ity)?; 5. The authorial subject; 6. Audiences and the proliferation of meaning; 7. Breaking the frame, composing the event.

Nancy Luxon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has also published several articles based on her archival research at the Foucault archives in Caen and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

• 1. Authority and its discontents; 2. Risk and resistance; 3. Conversations with the unknown; 4. What is an author(ity)?; 5. The authorial subject; 6. Audiences and the proliferation of meaning; 7. Breaking the frame, composing the event.