“Lethem argues that no one owns art, that it can only, wonderfully and mysteriously, be given away. Artists offer their work as a gift, and those who enjoy it, give back. It’s a community of love. This goes to the creative process itself. We steal art we admire in order to put our love into it, remixing it and returning it to the community to be remixed again but someone else. Instead of seeing literature as a market where texts are owned and copyrighted, he proposes we see it for what it seems to be by nature—a gift economy.”
“Lethem argues that no one owns art, that it can only, wonderfully and mysteriously, be given away. Artists offer their work as a gift, and those who enjoy it, give back. It’s a community of love. This goes to the creative process itself. We steal art we admire in order to put our love into it, remixing it and returning it to the community to be remixed again but someone else. Instead of seeing literature as a market where texts are owned and copyrighted, he proposes we see it for what it seems to be by nature—a gift economy.”
LOVE this!! Thanks for these wonderful thoughts.