a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
it becomes a palimpsest of literary-historical-stlistic sources and allusions
it’s been configured and reconfigured over the years since into a drywall palimpsest
the palimpsest of cultural meanings that preoccupy the way we imagine housing and security.
a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction
for Benjamin, the act of remembrance through writing had a palimpsest, dialectical character that raced backwards and forwards in time
the original song lives on in the parody like a palimpsest, the trace of text remaining on a page that has been erased
Most gardens are palimpsests of previous gardens
it is already a palimpsest, spooked by itself; at least two versions are playing, out of sync
the hotel - itself a palimpsest of fantasies and atrocities, an echo chamber of memories and anticipations
The computer was suddenly revealed as palimpsest
the labor movement loves to trace its lineages through the deep palimpsest of antecedent organizations and their mergers and the internal culture shifts they necessitated
They are more interested in constructing a quick palimpsest of wounds and tones and triggering events
a palimpsest in which a certain dream of ease and affluence was painting itself over a complicated tableau of working-class struggle, certain groups’ stories held up as emblematic
A Theory of Justice was a kind of palimpsest
the board was empty aside from a hazy pastel palimpsest to remind them of the work they had done.
Perhaps Facebook no longer fully understands its own tangle of algorithms--the code, all sixty million lines of it, is a palimpsest, where engineers and layer upon layer of new commands.
this is true, I don't even understand how Macro works and I wrote all the (much fewer lines of) code myself