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
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