Beaming Messages to the Nation that even so, where in one case the pastiche comes from authored works consciously plagiarizing earlier works, in our case the pastiche will come as an ideological overlay upon works that exist in completely different circumstances. AR: The point is however that there are today more and more American — especially American — theoreticians of the Third World who would speak of a culture-surplus, and speak of a symmetric opposition, and it is worth pointing out that when we speak 52 of culture-surplus we are in most cases speaking of the state, and the state's uses of culture. Journal of Arts <& Ideas