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Garfield the Deals Warlock @UltimateSithLord

 After reading first this week’s collection of 
 Twitter posts and then Brad Troemel’s paper 
 “Art After Social Media,” I began to 
 recognize how

9:40 PM - 9 Oct 2017

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      Garfield the Deals Warlock @UltimateSithLord - 16m
      Replying to @UltimateSithLord
      social media has changed the notion of 
      originality and ownership. With a tool 
      like Twitter, conceptual accounts 
      like @KimKierkegaard &
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      @pentametron are able to utilize the 
      works and words of others and 
      transform them into something new, 
      refreshing, and maybe even literary/
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      artistic. In this way, they connect 
      to Troemel’s argument that, with social media, 
      art and therefore even words may not 
      belong solely to a 
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      single entity, which is reflected in 
      his term ‘image anarchism’
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      “Image anarchists behave as though 
      intellectual property is not property at all…
      [but rather] a bureaucratically regulated 
      construct…
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      ...Whether "shared" or "reblogged," all content 
      on the Internet exists to be moved from 
      one place to the next" - Troemel
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      @KimKierkegaard & @pentametron both 
      take from content that is not 
      originally their own and thus reflect 
      this broken idea of intellectual 
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      property that comes with social media. With 
      the arrival of this technology and the 
      internet itself, restrictions have been 
      abandoned in a 
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      world where ‘sharing’ or ‘retweeting’ 
      has become the new norm. Because of social 
      media, nothing ever truly belongs to a 
      singular individual 
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      any longer but rather to the internet en masse.
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      in closing, since I’m referencing 
      @TheZoneCast w/ my name, 
      I'll quote this for fun: 
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      “FANTASY COSTCO, WHERE ALL YOUR 
      DREAMS COME TRUE! GOT A DEAL FOR YOU!”

What more fitting for a Twitter page than a Twitter concept. With Twitter concepts, it becomes clear that social media has indeed turned into a form of literature, with readers engaging by liking or retweeting it, also by replying and sending it to others. Tweets go viral because it finds traction with people that can relate to it or find some amusement.