The Assemblage

The assemblage can be separated into two categories: ethical and unethical.  The difference between these two categories are decided by use and meaning of the pieces that make up the assemblage.  In order to break these two categories down, I will provide two examples.
The first example is one of an ethical assemblage.  An ethical assemblage takes pieces that were not created by the assemblage's creator and applies them in a unique way that creates a new message.  The following assemblage is a horror remake of the Cat in the Hat movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9KZ6DkbZ_M
Notice how the addition of horror elements to the Cat in the Hat movie changes the entire message and meaning of the movie itself.  The consumer of this text will gain a unique experience from a piece made of multiple unoriginal pieces.  The author of the assemblage has ethically used the assemblages parts to contribute a new idea to the world of text.

An unethical example would be the ever present use of culture in a Halloween costume.
These costumes use pieces of other cultures in their work, but they do not contribute any new message to the discourse of expression.  Note how I am not talking about whether or not the costumes should be considered offensive, that is an entirely separate issue.  Because these pieces are not creating a new message with the use of their original works, these assemblages are to be considered unethical.

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