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together on From Cliché to Archetype —he said
basically you are the content of any medium you
are using. The user is the content. So when you get
into From Cliché to Archetype , what you are doing
is playing your experience and knowledge against
the new combinations of thoughts that arise from
these new bits and pieces. You are the bond of the
thoughts, you the reader. The substance is
provided by the reader. That method left a lot of
academics uncomfortable, very uncomfortable,
because that’s not an academic method, it’s like
poetry. Marshall—he was very fond of Dada, of
absurdism, fond of the interplay of things that
were not meant to be connected at first. He was