4 Creative works are cyborgs
Nothing we make is truly original. All creative work is inspired by something, draws from something, builds on something. As Tiago Forte says in the tweet below, creative work is assembled. Philosophically, assemblages are component parts brought together in a way that is fluid (not fixed). Donna Haraway uses the metaphor of [[cyborgs]]1 or “making kin”2 for assemblages: you bring together things that might not otherwise fit together instead of resolving the tensions between them....