The decentered subject displaces the humanist fantasy of man as origin and author.

Evidence

It represents the dislocation of the subject from the position of authorship and authority. It is the dislocation from that humanist dream which, I think, is really a humanist fantasy, that actually man [sic] is the center of the universe; it all proceeds from us and we are the origin. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1193

Categorization

• XREF: Anti-humanist decentering is the shared presupposition behind the genealogical critique of Orientalist authorship and authority.