Appropriation - a reading list assembled in Facebook

Appropriation: History, Theory, Practice (working course title)

Authorship

• What Is An Author?
• The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
• Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote (here in Spanish)
• Canal Zone Richard Prince YES RASTA: Selected Court Documents

Ecstasy

• The Writer As Meme Machine
• The Wire: The Digital Democracy of Sound

Plagiarism

• The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism
• Tales From The Public Domain: Bound By Law
• Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey A critique by artist Mark Vallen

Cultural Appropriation

• Cultural Appropriation: Roundtable - Artform
• The Poet Who Went Too Far
• Don’t Cash Crop on my Cornrows video by Amandla Stenberg

BOOK EXHIBIT

• Canal Zone Richard Prince YES RASTA
• Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote - Argentine journal Sur, May 1939 -> request? OR El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths) OR Ficciones (1944)
• Reality Hunger, A Manifesto
• An OBEY Obama poster
• Something by Kenneth Goldsmith - Seven American Deaths and Disasters or TRAFFIC