remake/remodel:+ blurring+the+lines+
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Remake/Remodel: Blurring the Lines
Arts One Jon Beasley-‐Murray September, 2013
Vancouver Public Library
• Blurred Lines • Lexicon • Life • History • Philosophy • Literature
BLURRED LINES
Criss-‐crossed Lines
• Law Revue Girls, “Defined Lines”
• Robin Thicke R. Pharrell, “Blurred Lines”
• Robert Palmer, “Addicted to Love”
• Marvin Gaye, “Got to Give it Up”
• Patrick Nagel, Rat Pack, Las Vegas, VMA…
LEXICON
How Many Ways to Say “RepeYYon”?
• copying • appropriaYon • parody • pasYche • criYque • remaking • remodelling • sampling • mimcry • response • desecraYon • reworking • adaptaYon
• mirroring • reversal • homage • inspiraYon • derivaYon • renovaYon • covering • plagiarism • theR • influence • sequel • reply • (re-‐)reading
LIFE
What is Life?
• YOLO? • Or is life a series of repeYYons…
• Heartbeat, breathing, generaYon, cicadianism
• Habits, rouYnes, rituals • Seasons, birthdays, anniversaries
• The virtue of recycling? • Language
HISTORY
What kind of a story is history?
• Is Yme a line? • What is an event? • History as progress • History as regress • History as circles • History as eddies
PHILOSOPHY
What’s the Deal about IdenYty?
• Who am I? • A = A? • Difference and RepeYYon
• Copy and Original • CitaYon, IteraYon, Singularity
LITERATURE
What is a Canon?
• “Great Texts” • Who decides? • Borges, “Kaea and His Precursors”
• The present can influence the past
• Past texts become Kaeaesque
• Rereading and reorganizaYon
More Resources
• Jorge Luis Borges, Collected FicYons • Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism”
• Robert Venturi, Denise Scoh Brown and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas
• hhp://artsone-‐digital.arts.ubc.ca