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Cut-up technique
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<p>The cut-up technique (or <i>découpé</i> in French) is an <a href="/facts/Aleatory/b11xg8Cl">aleatory</a> <a href="/facts/Narrative_technique/AIXweqEU">narrative technique</a> in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the <a href="/facts/Dada/jzSrVtQo">Dadaists</a> of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by writer <a href="/facts/William_Burroughs/h3YPCA0a">William Burroughs</a>. It has since been used in a wide variety of contexts. </p>