It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville
What constitutes as great art, is it only the originals
Joseph Campbell and the monomyth
The hero with a thousand faces, pg.23
The seven basic plots theory
The culture of the copy - Hillel Schwartz
How does this change the way we think about our own work?
Cultural appropriation, damaging act, one culture being used by another
-black face, minstrel - attention to power imbalances that recall colonial oppression
Cultural exchange, the mutual sharing of information, usually cultural, for the purpose of improving understanding between them
Task:
Find a thing and remix/rework/reinvent it
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