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One example of an assemblage that would follow the lead of Arola and Arola's bare repetition is a Renaissance festival. This is not so much a celebration of the Renaissance lifestyle as an escape into fantasy. Guests and performers dress up in period costumes and perform acts thatare by today's standards associated with the Renaissance. An example of an ethical assemblage is art made of recycled materials, namely trash, as a way to highlight waste and the amount of trash people create. A specific example is Michelle Reader's sculpture titled "Seven Wasted Men" created out of a month's household trash. It brings light to the amount of garbage a family can make in just a month. Although the Renaissance festival isn't necessarily a harmful assemblage, no one identifies closely with that era and its only complaint is probably historical accuracy, there are hurtful assemblages as we have seen in the Arola and Arola piece. We should respond to these harmful assemblages with intelligence. We as a society should have the intellectual intelligence to recognize when an assemblage is hurtful and the emotional intelligence to react in a way that doesn't make it more harmful. Depending on the type of content being created, I'm not even sure that Fair Use applies. For example, does Fair Use apply to the Renaissance fare, or in a similar vein historical reenactments? These types of historical celebrations wouldn't necessarily fall under Fair Use, because no one owns these ideas or events. In other assemblages, not necessarily in the one that I chose, their distribution and circulation puts the authors of both the original and transformed texts are put in a precarious position, where their content is in a position of instability, because it is able to be changed and criticized and used in unintended ways. This affects readers and shifts the meaning of the subjects in different ways, but it ultimately opens up a conversation about different subject matters.