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Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
But when I reflect on the history of creativity—van Gogh reworking Eisen, Dalí channeling Bruegel, Sheeran defending common musical DNA—I’m reminded that recombination has always been central to creation. The economist Joseph Schumpeter famously wrote that innovation is less about invention than “the novel reassembly of existing ideas.” If we tried... See more
AI copyright anxiety will hold back creativity
They explicitly lower the barrier to the literal remixing of everyone else's content. In their app, they have a wealth of features that make it dead simple to grab any element from another TikTok and incorporate it into a new TikTok.
Eugene Wei • American Idle — Remains of the Day
There are countless examples of imitation turning into legitimate innovation. Having a romanticized vision of an artist, genre, or tradition may allow you to create something new, because you see it from a different perspective than those closer to it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
This form of originality is called recombination because it requires finding novel combinations of two or more existing—and therefore unoriginal—concepts.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
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