A01=Kaja Marczewska
Author_Kaja Marczewska
Category=ABA
Category=DSA
Category=DSBH
Category=JBCC
Category=JBCT
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Product details
- ISBN 9781501357336
- Weight: 422g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In This Is Not a Copy, Kaja Marczewska identifies a characteristic ‘copy-paste’ tendency in contemporary culture—a shift in attitude that allows reproduction and plagiarizing to become a norm in cultural production. This inclination can be observed in literature and non-literary forms of writing at an unprecedented level, as experiments with text redefine the nature of creativity. Responding to these transformations, Marczewska argues that we must radically rethink our conceptions of artistic practice and proposes a move away from the familiar categories of copying and originality, creativity and plagiarism in favour of the notion of iteration.
Developing the new concept of the Iterative Turn, This Is Not a Copy identifies and theorizes the turn toward ubiquitous iteration as a condition of text-based creative practices as they emerge in response to contemporary technologies. Conceiving of writing as iterative invites us to address a set of new, critical questions about contemporary culture. Combining discussion of literature, experimental and electronic writing, mainstream and independent publishing with debates in 20th- and 21st-century art, contemporary media culture, transforming technologies and copyright laws, This Is Not a Copy offers a timely and urgently needed argument, introducing a unique new perspective on practices that permeate our contemporary culture.
Kaja Marczewska is Lecturer in English and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster, London, UK. Her research focuses on experimental arts and writing, print culture and innovative forms of publishing, contemporary aesthetics, and intersections of art, technology and law.
