Barnett, Earl Gordon: Governance of Meaning: AI-Mediated Authorship and Epistemic Justice for Disabled Scholars

This paper argues that governance, not inscription, is the correct model of authorship for disabled scholars with communicative disabilities, with implications for disabled scholars whose expressive continuity is disrupted by disability more broadly. Drawing on Ricoeur’s hermeneutics and Foucault’s author-function, it establishes that meaning precedes and exceeds the act of inscription, and that authorship consists in the governance of meaning rather than its physical production. It then argues