reuser

The medium was important to the reuser as a surface for inscribing his words, the material which had been on the medium were completely dispensable and irrelevant to him.

Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

Gould and Lewontin later garbled the argument to discredit any hypothesis that any trait is an adaptation: they hid the operation of natural selection behind evasive verbiage about "co-opting" and "reusing" spandrels which never identifies the co-opter or reuser.

'The Blank Slate': An Exchange Pinker, Steven 2003

Katherine Soucie is a reuser, or maybe a repurposer.

canada.com Top Stories 2010

The archive though were full of handwritten records and texts, from the days before printing presses and computer and mass communications, when copies had to be laboriously, slowly, and expensive copied by hand, to expensive media--paper and parchement were expensive, which is why the reuse of the Archimedes calculus text occurred, the reuser didn't value the Archimeded text likely the person was incapable of understanding but mainly didn't -care- what he was deleting and writing over....

Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

That doesn’t make his use of a fashion photo unfair, but it is telling that he explained himself as a reuser of materials women’s images that were just out there in the world, free for him to use, with no humans involved.

IP and Gender: The Unmapped Connections: Panel 2 comments Rebecca Tushnet 2006