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Remix Theory » Archivio » WHAT COMES AFTER REMIX? by Lev Manovich - 0 views

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remix definition history art Manovich

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  • officially accepted
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      Hm, that doesn't seem to fit with Lessig and others' arguments about the music industry suing people who use remix?
  • “appropriation” never completely left its original art world context where it was coined.
  • I think that “remixing” is a better term anyway because it suggests a systematic re-working of a source, the meaning which “appropriation” does not have
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  • The other older term commonly used across media is “quoting” but I see it as describing a very different logic than remixing. If remixing implies systematically rearranging the whole text, quoting refers inserting some fragments from old text(s) into the new one.
  • “montage” and “collage”
  • three differences.
  • we can say that if modernist collage always involved a “clash” of element, electronic and software collage also allows for “blend.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      This is really interesting!! Consider in relation to our discussions about film theory and editing - Kuleshov, Eisenstein and more.
  • database of culture
  • Remixing originally had a precise and a narrow meaning that gradually became diffused
  • If post-modernism defined 1980s, remix definitely dominates 2000s
  • Wired magazine devoted its July 2005 issue to the theme Remix Planet.
  • In his book DJ Culture Ulf Poschardt singles out different stages in the evolution of remixing practice
  • Around the turn of the century (20tth to 21st) people started to apply the term “remix” to other media besides music: visual projects, software, literary texts
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
     
    Useful short article by Lev Manovich, who is a prominent scholar of digital culture, about the history of remix and its relationship to other related practices in art and literature (appropriation, quoting, montage, etc). Read this!
Jill Walker Rettberg

Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author. Aspen no. 5+6, 1967. - 0 views

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author literary theory authorship

shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story's hero, concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac, endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it the author Balzac, professing certain "literary" ideas of femininity? Is it universal wisdom? or romantic psychology?
  • all writing is itself this special voice, consisting of several indiscernible voices, and that literature is precisely the invention of this voice, to which we cannot assign a specific origin: literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
  • in primitive societies, narrative is never undertaken by a person, but by a mediator, shaman or speaker, whose "performance" may be admired (that is, his mastery of the narrative code), but not his "genius"
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  • linguistically, the author is never anything more than the man who writes, just as I is no more than the man who says I: language knows a "subject," not a "person,"
  • once the Author is discovered, the text is "explained:
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 22 Sep 09
       
      See the discovery of would-be-pseudonymous video "authors": Lonelygirl16, karen26, ParkRidge47
  • Once the Author is gone, the claim to "decipher" a text becomes quite useless.
  • To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 22 Sep 09
       
      Very close to Foucault's analysis in What is an Author? (1970)
  • utterly transforms the modern text
  • he reign of the Author should also have been that of the Critic,
  • by refusing to assign to the text (and to the world as text) a "secret:'
  • no one (that is, no "person") utters it:
  • he true locus of writing is reading.
  • the reader is a man without history, without biography, without psychology; he is only that someone who holds gathered into a single field all the paths of which the text is constituted.
Jill Walker Rettberg

Remixing Shakespeare | MIT World - 0 views

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remix Shakespeare literature theatre

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 19 Aug 09
     
    A video of a lecture given by Diana Henderson and Peter Donaldson at MIT about how Shakespeare's plays were changed, "remixed" and altered both historically and how this is happening as the plays are interpreted today.
ziska 04

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR - ROLAND BARTHES - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy - 0 views

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  • The image of literature to be found in ordinary culture is tyrannically centred on the author, his person, his life, his tastes, his passions,
  • Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile.
Thais B.

YouTube - The Child - 0 views

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shared by Thais B. on 23 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Thais B. on 23 Sep 09
     
    A great video. A world made only with typographics. Is that a remix culture? I hope you like it!
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 24 Sep 09
     
    Oh, I love this. I'm not sure whether it's remix - that would depend on your definition. It certainly repurposes letters/words in an interesting way. I'm intrigued by whether or not this is "literature", too. The story itself is rather simplistic, but it's so beautiful to watch, almost more visual art/poetry/music than narrative, although there IS a narrative there. Interesting too that it's made "for a DJ". That suggests that the music and the FEELING are the focus here? Thanks, Thais!
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