Reading in the in‐between: Pre‐scripting the “postscript” toElizabeth Costello

Acoustic Palimpsests and the Politics of Listening

“…And for scores of street artists in my New York neighborhood, the palimpsest is the model for a radically democratic method of collaborative artistic creation, in which one artist's work becomes a colorful canvas for someone else the next day. Nethersole 2005;Balas et al 2003). Without endorsing this behavior, I will only note that the irony created by scholars of palimpsests plagiarizing a text about palimpsests is of a decidedly postmodern (not to mention palimpsestic) flavor.…”