Derivative Works is the personal website of Daniel X. O’Neil (me). Laboring under this 2005 manifesto, I’ve been publishing here for a couple decades.

Hypertext enjambment

Building on the idea of compilation, I started modifying other works using a method I invented that adds meaning through hyperlinks, title tags, and other juxtapositions. Here’s an explanation and here’s examples:

https://www.derivativeworks.com/2003/11/what_are_googob.html
http://www.derivativeworks.com/2003/12/whats_this_all_-2.html
https://www.derivativeworks.com/2004/09/putins_remarks_.html

Personal posts & essays

I’ve also used this site as a more traditonal blog, writing in topics under Art, Home, and Work, and I’ve written dozens of longer-form essays.

https://www.derivativeworks.com/2015/03/on-jesus-isil-and-brokenness.html
https://www.derivativeworks.com/2020/11/king-von-john-lewis-10-minutes-17-miles-in-the-american-south.html
https://www.derivativeworks.com/2022/08/found-poem-meek-deals.html