The EPI’s name emerged from borrowed cultural fragments, not original invention

Evidence

Thus, Morrissey found his band through Barbara Rubin, his venue courtesy of Jackie Cassen, and the words “inevitable” and “erupting” from the back jacket copy of Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. (The word “plastic” was his own contribution.) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 838

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core thesis about avant-gardes being produced by conditions — here literally assembled from other people’s vocabulary.