{"id":22865,"date":"2012-10-05T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-against-recreativity-critics-and\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:41:53","slug":"austinkleon-against-recreativity-critics-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-against-recreativity-critics-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22865 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-against-recreativity-critics-and\/attachment\/22866\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m9ajycUZy91reaoyfo1_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/32938087431\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2012\/10\/against_recreativity_critics_and_artists_are_obsessed_with_remix_culture_.html\"><strong>Against recreativity: Critics and artists are obsessed with remix culture<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2012\/10\/against_recreativity_critics_and_artists_are_obsessed_with_remix_culture_.html\"><em>Slate<\/em><\/a>, Simon Reynolds lumps a recent crop of books on remixing and artistic theft (mine included) into a field called \u201crecreativity.\u201d His final point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The stealing and the storing is the easy part. The much harder\u2014and forever mysterious\u2014stage is the transformation of the borrowed materials. Recreativity has nothing to say about this stage of the process, the bit where, every so often, genius comes into play. It\u2019s not the fact or the act of theft but what\u2019s done with the stolen thing that counts: the spin added that \u201cmakes it new\u201d (to twist slightly the modernist injunction of Ezra Pound, a major exponent of quotation and allusion himself). The hallmark, or proof, of genius, in fact, is not merely transmitting or remixing. It\u2019s fashioning something that others will someday want to steal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure if Reynolds made it to chapter three in <a href=\"http:\/\/steallikeanartist.com\">my book<\/a> (all the pull quotes he uses are from chapter one) but here\u2019s the last paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the end, merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them. Adding something to the world that only you can add.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or, stealing a bit from Coppola, how I usually end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinkleon.com\/2012\/05\/04\/tedx-talk-steal-like-an-artist\/\">the <em>Steal<\/em> talk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take [the thing you\u2019ve stolen] back to your desk, combine it with your own ideas and your thoughts, transform it into something completely new, and then put it out into the world so we can steal from you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>austinkleon: Against recreativity: Critics and artists are obsessed with remix culture Over at Slate, Simon Reynolds lumps a recent crop of books on remixing and artistic theft (mine included) into a field called \u201crecreativity.\u201d His final point: The stealing and the storing is the easy part. The much harder\u2014and forever mysterious\u2014stage is the transformation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5WN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22867,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865\/revisions\/22867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}