Nothing is Original (part 2)
Adaptation- adjusting something to make it something else; e.g. a movie created from a book. Taking something and making it new e.g. Romeo and Juliet (modern, American film), Pride and Prejudice (has been made Indian).
Adaptation as dominant mode- Companies feel by re-creating already existing movies, gives them a safe ground for their work e.g. Star Wars series and the Marvel series.
Adaptation in art- one of Banksy’s images; showing black women working in a field, one of the women has been cut out the image, to almost fight against slave labour.
Nostalgia- Best described as comfort
Nostalgia as aesthetic – changing filters etc to make them look older, or to give a different quality to them
Hauntology- Ghosts and the study of natures being. Write up – (Buse and Scott, Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History, I I )
Hauntology and art- putting the past over the present – showing how places/people have changed over time.