Every semester I talk w/my students about the power of citation - it's not just ticking a box or giving appropriate credit, it's also a form of politics + poetics, a way of entering conversations you want to be part of, of making community, and it's its own form of writing.
The past few weeks’ discourse reinforces for me the value of framing citation as an ethical commitment and aesthetic / poetic opportunity — rather than merely a bureaucratic obligation and clerical practice
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Beautifully put, Elaine!
there’s a rabbinic teaching that “whoever cites a teaching in the name of the one who said it redeems the world”
It is also about respect. We are all standing on the shoulders of giants.