Lost in the quest for novelty : remarks on the role of openness of the culture to repetitions

2013
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dc.abstract.enRepetitions can be analysed from various perspectives: historical, moral, legal, commercial etc. Their evaluation varies depending on the point of view one chooses to adopt. For instance, plain repetition (copying) can be considered a theft from the moral perspective, while in the same time it can be considered beneficial from the perspective of culture propagation. From the perspective of memetics, such repetitions are necessary for the memes to survive and the tendency to repeat those “memes” constitutes their fitness to cultural environment. To be closer to biological analogy one should recognize those repetitions as replications. From such perspective the program of reducing replications through the means of “prohibition” becomes not only absurd and unreachable but also it would significantly slow or even push the process of evolution backwards. One should notice that any restrictions on copying were absent in various historical periods. For instance, one of the most important ideals of culture in middle ages was exact copying and preserving the works of the Antique, obviously without any permission of the authors or their successors. It is not until the time when the artistic value becomes reduced to its commercial value that the problem of an intellectual theft arises. No artist works in an intellectual vacuum, thus no one has the full rights to the composition. There are two main reasons for such introducing the concept of an intellectual value. The first is the liberalization of the society leading to its decay into individuals aiming at their own interests. The other is the rapid growth of the “new media” technology, which allows for mindless copying – disregarding any justification or understanding. The latter is not a big problem due to the error elimination in the process of evolution. The former, however, as leading to the disintegration of society is really dangerous. In the nature it would result in the species extinction. In the culture some similarities can also be seen and will be analysed in the present paper.pl
dc.affiliationWydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Filozofiipl
dc.contributor.authorSuwara, Marek - 100190 pl
dc.contributor.authorPłazowski, Jan - 100189 pl
dc.date.accession2015-12-17pl
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-18T13:49:11Z
dc.date.available2015-12-18T13:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2013pl
dc.description.admin[AB] Płazowski, Jan [SAP11006149] 50000135pl
dc.description.number3pl
dc.description.physical26-38pl
dc.description.publication1,1pl
dc.description.volume5 (22)pl
dc.identifier.eissn1337-9690pl
dc.identifier.issn1337-9275pl
dc.identifier.urihttp://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/18551
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.cejsh-7f68b07e-96a6-48fc-b528-38475c861ba4?q=bwmeta1.element.cejsh-6aff7cd7-8e5b-403e-9336-c8cdc605252f;1&qt=CHILDREN-STATELESSpl
dc.languageengpl
dc.language.containerslopl
dc.rights.licencebez licencji
dc.subject.enrepetitionspl
dc.subject.encopyingpl
dc.subject.enmemeticspl
dc.subject.enintellectual valuepl
dc.subject.entechnologypl
dc.subtypeArticlepl
dc.titleLost in the quest for novelty : remarks on the role of openness of the culture to repetitionspl
dc.title.journalWorld Literature Studiespl
dc.typeJournalArticlepl
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