Journal 6

            To start, Arola uses Deleuze way of describing bare repetition as a type of repetition consisting of the same element, one who’s governed by nostalgia. As an example, she states that bare repetition can be seen as performing a fancy dance in the same way as your ancestors. A more personal example for me would be the bible. Growing up saying my prayers was something big and I constantly had to say them before bed as well as other situations, then I didn’t know that my prayers were considered as a bare repetition.

            In order to make an assemblage ethical the author must combine an aspect of something, then take another familiar aspect and combine it so that it is still accurate from the original borrowed piece. In the words of Arola, an ethical assemblage “is a process of repeating that pays homage without insisting upon essences”. An example of an ethical assemblage would be the marvel series. I choose this as because marvel benefits everyone. They have the marvel series as rides at local theme parks, party supply material with the marvel characters and even some books are marvel series. On the other hand, harmful assemblages can be seen as unethical and should always be recognized and challenged, seemingly to those who are strong in their cultural society. This contributes to the audience in ways of reenactment of past cultural activities.

           In some ways, fair use does have some indications when it comes to assemblages because objects and text are used from previous works being put together and used to create another piece. Fair use enforces that no one can copyright your ideas. It doesn’t allow someone the ability to take credit for someone else’s work. I do believe that circulation can affect assemblages ethical status because it’s being shared and recreated all over which gives it a whole new meaning to someone else’s work; this now gives assemblages several different meanings. Distribution and circulation put authors in a spot in which they become aware to a good from a bad assemblage. It shows you how it is being distributed to the world and how often it is going around through digital media.