Today, originality is being challenged in so many ways: comedians “stealing” jokes, cultural appropriation, remixes, not to mention the myriad ways that generative artificial intelligence has made plagiarism of all kinds possible. We value originality over imitation, creativity over copying, and novelty over the “same old, same old.” But, why is originality such a cherished value? Is it even possible, or is everything just a remix or a copy?
We bring new, never before heard, insights to the topic of originality this week!
In this episode, we discuss the following things, issues, texts, thinkers, and concepts:
- Hinterland Kölsch
- Dovetail Kölsch
- Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde lives in California and Rachel Maddow’s discussion of this issue
- The Rachel Maddow Show and Maddow’s discussion of Eric Hovde
- Plato’s Phaedrus
- Giles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
- Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
- Axiology
- Devo’s cover of “Satisfaction”
- Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”
- Mickey Mouse and copyright law
- Prof. Jeff Jarvis on copyright
- Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson, “Quotation and Originality”
- Jeremy Bentham’s “Auto-Icon”
- Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?”
- Our previous episode on “Robots” with David Gunkel (before he was a host!)
- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Appendix to Part I
- The law concerning AI as author
- South African law concerning AI as author
- Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulations”
- Fake robocall of Joe Biden
- Pablo Picasso, Woman in a Chemise in an Armchair
- Aristotle, Poetics
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