Newness

Newness enters the world through hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, ideas, politics, movies, songs, [from] ...Melange, hotchpotch, a bit of this and a bit of that.

-Rushdie cited in 'Narrativizing Visual Culture: Towards a Polycentric Aesthetics' (Shohat & Stam)