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The Culture of the Copy
Author(s) -
Leach Neil
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2098
Subject(s) - copying , sociology , replication (statistics) , art history , digital culture , work (physics) , law , media studies , art , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics
Is copying necessarily a bad thing? Theorists from Walter Benjamin to Richard Dawkins, and from Judith Butler to Homi Bhabha, have suggested not. Drawing on their work, Neil Leach , Professor of Digital Design at the European Graduate School and Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, challenges the notion of authenticity and argues that the entire history of human culture is built on a constant process of replication.