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Ah. Repurposing. I knew there was a term I was forgetting. Luke asked for the terms, and those are three currently in usage: appropriation, sampling, repurposing. Though borrowing seems a likely one. I offer no ethical interpretation or connotation, historical or otherwise. That seems a kind of spectrum-like form of activity. Your appropriation is my borrowing, that sort of thing. I don’t really think of Shakespeare as plagiarism because he lived in a pre-copyright world, in which repetition and "repurposing” was a literary norm. 

Rewilding. I would love the possibility of rewilding language, but can it be applied in what is essentially an editorial form of writing? Isn’t it more like re-orcharding? Surely, I jest.

Must get back to Wagner (egads).  



On Jun 14, 2018, at 3:04 AM, Drew Milne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Doesn't all writing write through earlier texts, to varying degrees of conscious or procedural knowing, but somehow in the hope of freeing itself of its textual precedents,  and is thus doomed to veer between conscious uncoupling, repurposing and deceitful appropriation: Shakespeare's an expert at plagiarism that is better than its sources. You could call it rewilding by analogy with rewilding movements.

Drew


On 14/06/2018 09:26, Jaime Robles wrote:
[log in to unmask]" class=""> I believe the terms you want are appropriation or sampling. Sampling is a borrowed term from recording.





On Jun 13, 2018, at 6:04 PM, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

not acknowledging your source text as you write?

So e.g. if I can write a poem using 'April is the cruelest month' and in some sense free myself of its original meaning?

I have two months to read about it if it is a thing, as I hope.

Luke

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