{"id":2059,"date":"2025-10-01T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:07:36","slug":"paraphlagiarisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/?p=2059","title":{"rendered":"paraphlagiarisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I started a new net art project: <a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/para\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>paraphlagiarims.<\/em><\/a> This title is a neologism: a portmanteau of paraphrase and plagiarise. A <i>paraphlagiarism<\/i> is tailored to internet \/ social media presentation and consists of a simple short video (actually, nothing more than a photo with audio waveforms) and a strong audio track, but, perhaps most importantly, i contains a <i>paraphlage<\/i>: a paraphrased\/plagiarised quotation (usually from a well-known writer or artist) that represents an important or quirky view of art and\/or music. Paraphrasing is performed in the manner of a student plagiarising big ideas in an essay or conversation. For example this, from Slavoj \u017di\u017eek, from my first <em>paraphlagiarism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;One often hears that to understand a work of art one needs to know its historical context. Against this historicist commonplace, a Deleuzian counter-claim would be not only that too much of a historical context can blur the proper contact with a work of art (i.e., that to enact this contact one should abstract from the work\u2019s context), but also that it is, rather, the work of art itself that provides a context enabling us to understand properly a given historical situation.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>might become, in the hands of the <i>paraphlagiarisor<\/i>, this <i>paraphlage<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;to understand a work of art you&#8217;ve got to know its historical context\u2026ah, yes, but a counter-claim to that would be that it&#8217;s the work of art itself that gives us the context to understand a given historical situation.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first three\u00a0<em>paraphlagiarims\u00a0<\/em>are on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paraphlagiarisms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram<\/a>. I should be releasing these elsewhere in the near future, along with examples by other artists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/para\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More details<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/para\/makin.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to make<\/a> <em>paraphlagiarisms.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year I started a new net art project: paraphlagiarims. This title is a neologism: a portmanteau of paraphrase and plagiarise. A paraphlagiarism is tailored to internet \/ social media presentation and consists of a simple short video (actually, nothing more than a photo with audio waveforms) and a strong audio track, but, perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[266,272,271,270],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paraphlagiarism","tag-netart","tag-paraphrasing","tag-plagiarism","tag-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael-edwards.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}