But the other reason is bricolage. Every time it happens, you fix it and then you go forward from there. There’s this perception with regards to financial crisis that, “Oh, one’s enough, you couldn’t possibly want to do that again.”

To Nabokov, an author was more than a bricolage artiste, more than a recombiner of older materials.

The result was that Chile’s effort to build a cybernetic socialism largely had to repurpose existing technologies in order to stand any chance at being successful. It was a sort of bricolage approach, using what was available and cobbling together something new.

Mathematical models are, after all, bricolage constructions inscribed with curdled utopias

The usual teen bricolage of contempt & template identity: parallel cuts on my thighs, IM convos about suicide & atheism, calling other people "normies", reading Burroughs, Bataille, Poppy Z.

the knowing devices of postmodernism, as bricolage

Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.

if one takes postmodernism's proffered exit and happily turns the novels into fascinating melodramatic bricolage

itself a bricolage of raw street knowledge and confected “street dreams,”