PLAGIARISM: AESTHETICS OR CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT?

Abstract

This article deals with the status due to plagiarist proposals, and with the possible existence of a programmatic unity under the label of Plagiarism. In order to do so, plausible historical models and appropriation poetics are considered, a quest is led for founding acts as well as a comparison of some of the trends grouped under the label of “Plagiarism” and postmodern poetics.

Keywords

• Intertextuality
• Plagiarism
• Afterpop
• Postmodern poetics
• Appropriationism
• Neoism
• Ciberpunk.