Text changes via technology.Before history,it was lists ,almanacs,herds ,ownership
Even Bibles were chained to Latin pulpits.Museums of dead languages(French Academy)
Only a few could own books/papyrus re-purposed/reused/recycled as palimpset
Reproduction was oral as troubador/folk/blues/
substituted artifact for original performance/displacing griot and magician /soothsayer/medicine man
making a cult of the book/rules/obedience/military intelligence.Computers post Surrealism/cutups
make concrete poetry out of sliced texts .Copyright of GOOGLE maps?Classics post author's life?
Art assembles/montage/collage images-we READERS DIGEST words.Steal as re-purpose.
Romeo and Juliet(itself stolen from the Italian/becomes WEST SIDE STORY/musical /film.
PYGMALION becomes MY FAIR LADY becomes EDUCATING RITA /morphs American...
Originality a false god.Creativity via editing/riffing with allusion to themes and styles retro /perspective
NEW relies upon ignorance of OLD .My friend is sueing GOOGLE for digitalising texts without permission.
Banksy and Damien Hirst ,Dali and Warhol showed appropriated images as their own
Factories of apprentices make signed art reproductions-like fake leather jackets sold at laybys.
Access to text almost universal-what is to be done?This digital mock literacy a supermarkup model-
if you can Wikipedia or Wikileak,what firewall can stop Anonymous?Intelligence agencies false fronts
test our readiness for digital warfare.It is ongoing.Access is not enough.Texting is not poetry
Internet programs have a genesis in military.Our exodus is when rioters use Twitter and Blackberry.
Syria and Iran and China censor the Internet and deny access.Modern literacy is an active application of activism.
Words are dogma/too slow for network news.Images of burning TVs and Burning Man the new Gutenberg
Grammarians run Museums.Dialecticians loot,burn,pillage ideas from Vandals and Vikings and Visigoths
Everywhere is burning-books,ideas,thoughts,
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