Editing Cut-up technique (section)

{{Short description|Literary technique of rearranging text}}
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[[File:Cut up text.jpg|thumb|A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article]]
The '''cut-up technique''' (or ''découpé'' in French) is an [[aleatory]] [[narrative technique]] in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the [[Dada]]ists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by writer [[William Burroughs]]. It has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.