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Traditionally I've loved the process of doing a cutup in the "intended" way. That is I would take two sources, cut the papers in half, tape them together, and use a typewriter to write a new page from the source. For ten years or so I've considered making a "digital" version of this.

In coming back to this process I've realized that the process of making sense of what is on the page, dealing with lines not coming together, typing it out manually and the choices one makes doing so, are the process. The rest is just two pieces of paper.

If I do a digital method of cutups it would involve being able to take two sources as they are, align and tape them digitally, and no automation or anything that "makes it easy." They would be printed in the sense that it would not allow selection of text across the page, if it were text at all, it could be better to do this with images.

To do this "analog" would require no work development work, and in some sense it's nice to "get away" from the computer in a sense (I'm typing these up using an iPad and external keyboard).

I'd like to combine cutups and github into one thing - being able to track the original through the process. This may be as simple as a citation.

Or I could intake the original materials and version them. Perhaps the "left side" is the master document. That would require creating a workflow around the original material - taking it in, documenting the source, "printing" it, and then working over it. See issue #2 for printing thoughts.