Intertextuality
A text is never fully alone — it is shaped by other texts through quotation, allusion, calque, pastiche, and parody, the way a stone wall is shaped by the stones that came before it.
Intertextuality is the literary field's name for what the castle's canary wing calls reproduction: the channels through which one text's meaning is shaped by another. The channels vary by genre: academic prose runs on citation (formal, traceable, attributed); fiction runs on allusion and homage (informal, untraceable, often deliberately ambiguous); code runs on forking and reuse (mechanical, verbatim, the norm rather than the exception). The field's intertextuality norms determine what "copying" even means — which is why the moderate context (how distinctive the surroundings must be to hide a canary) is one craft per field.
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Discourse community
A discourse community is a group of people who share unwritten rules about what…
WORD · brickdetection-entitlement
Detection is knowing your work was copied; entitlement is the right to make the…
WORD · brickcanary trap
A canary trap is a mark planted in a work before it leaves your hands — a fictit…
ROOM · wallIs the moderate context one craft per field, the way the moderate definition is?
The right frame for a candle depends on the room — a cathedral wants its own light, a study wants the candle's, and the craft is knowing which room you are in.
ROOM · wallCould the canary be embedded in content that invites reproduction — a quotable phrase, a code snippet — so the spreading is done by others, and does the canary that spreads organically still count as planted?
The farmer who wants his seed to cross the forest does not carry it himself — he wraps it in a fruit the birds will eat, and the birds carry it where they will. But the tree that grows from a bird-dropped seed is the bird's tree or the fruit's tree, and the farmer's claim to it has become a question.