{"id":34,"date":"2009-03-18T22:35:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-05-12T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T02:37:25","slug":"death-of-the-author-birth-of-the-plagiarist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Death of the author; birth of the plagiarist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a project I created in 2003 for my Honours degree in Literary Studies. In researching a very, very dry essay on the rise of plagiarism, I decided that the best approach to make my point was to actually plagiarise the entire work. I stole around 3000 words of other people&#8217;s ideas on authorship, literary private property and intertextuality, then built a 3d Flash system to explore the idea of writing as being a mosaic or tissue of past ideas. The result is a non-linear, cross-referenced, polemical exploration of plagiarism whereby I stole the words, which in turn themselves &#8216;steal&#8217; from the texts around them. I ended up writing more words of code than I would have had to had I just done a normal essay, and it nearly got me kicked out of the subject because it&#8217;s not your typical academic essay, but it does have the unique quality of making you seasick if you look at it for too long.<\/p>\n<p>File: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/plagiarism_revised.swf\">Death of the author; birth of the plagiarist (flash)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism1.gif\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-38\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/?attachment_id=38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38\" title=\"plagiarism1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism1-300x63.gif\" alt=\"plagiarism1\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism1-300x63.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism1.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism2.gif\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-39\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/?attachment_id=39\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" title=\"plagiarism2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism2-300x186.gif\" alt=\"plagiarism2\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism2-300x186.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/plagiarism2.gif 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a project I created in 2003 for my Honours degree in Literary Studies. In researching a very, very &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-flash-design","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislocated.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}