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Taako Taaco @UltSithLord

 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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       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.