Reappropriates

To his credit, Blomkamp (who expanded the movie from his 2005 short “Alive in Joburg”) reappropriates these old ideas to make something new and fresh. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Benjamin Francis Leftwich bravely reappropriates the term, employing his imagination as a defence against the risk of sinking into platitudes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Freezing discretionary spending, the spending that Congress reappropriates every year, at current levels will similarly yield only very small budgetary savings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Starting at “birth”, and possibly even prior to it, being-thrown reappropriates itself or rather ex-appropriates itself in forms which are not yet those of the subject or the project. ❋ Enowning (2009)

Intan Paramaditha: Through its cinematic language, Pasir Berbisik explores the dimensions of female gaze and female voyeurism as well as reappropriates the Oedipal narrative structure. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nietzsche in order to show how inescapable the self-inverting scheme is whereby no matter how violent the reminder to the philosopher of the limits placed on him by his language, philosophy always reappropriates this critique (which consists in a version of the quintessential philosophical thesis) (177). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Wentworth reappropriates the phraseology of Christ's miracles to emphasize His dreadful power rather than to emphasize His mercy. ❋ Unknown (1679)

Pasir Berbisik explores the dimensions of female gaze and female voyeurism as well as reappropriates the Oedipal narrative structure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here you have an excerpt from a photo that isolates a ubiquitous object (in this case, Obama’s face, which is not IP in itself) and reappropriates it as completely different subject matter (unless someone would like to say that the Hope poster had something to do with George Clooney or Darfur). ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Hey, [nice car].” “Yeah, thanks. I reappropriated it from [some asshole] who clearly wasn’t driving it to it's full [potential].” ❋ Tequila Lizard A.k.A. Liz (2021)