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Jill Walker Rettberg

The Medium - The Hitler Meme - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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remix text subtitles parody YouTube

shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • It turns out you could play make-out music, show slow-mo clips of any two male actors interacting, throw up suggestive title cards (“a truth they couldn’t deny”) and — presto — any American blockbuster could be shown to chronicle love between two men
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      Interesting - and this is also relevant to Kurdin's trailer where she shows an example of Harry Potter as a Brokeback Mountain spoof. I also like the way in which the author of this article draws a conclusion that CROSSES all the remixes - the many similar remixes make an argument as a group, in a way?
  • what’s the larger point of the “Downfall” remixes?
  • satirists who for years have been snatching video and audio from “Downfall,” the 2004 German movie of Hitler’s demise, and doctoring it to tell a range of stories about personal travails and world politics.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • subtitles
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
       
      This should be useful for Kim's project!
  • the lesson of the parodies seems to be that “Downfall” was a closeted Hitler comedy. Having seen the spoofs before seeing the movie, I find it virtually impossible now to watch the film with a straight face
  • many of the “Downfall” parodies choose not to have Ganz-as-Hitler directly ventriloquize another politician or figure of derision. Instead, as with the Malaysian parody, the spoofs often make the new speaker a disappointed supporter of a public figure.
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 10 Sep 09
     
    Interesting NYTimes article about the many creative subtitlings of the scene from Downfall (a 2004 movie about Hitler's demise) - this article is a wonderful example of how you can analyse a whole group of remixes. If this were an academic article you'd also want to include more context about this (what is remixing? what kinds of other video/subtitle remixes exist? what sort of things are scholars writing about remixes like this?) but the ANALYSIS of what the remixes means would be perfect. I especially like how the author makes interpretations across the whole group - see some of my annotations/comments.
Sissel Lenvik

Total Recut Contest Results - The Winners! - 0 views

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Remix videos Lessig Jenkins challenge

shared by Sissel Lenvik on 01 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Congratulations to all of our winners! After a gruelling public vote and an even more intense celebrity judging round, the winners of the 2008 Total Recut Video Remix Challenge have finally been determined.
    • Sissel Lenvik
      Sissel Lenvik on 01 Sep 09
       
      Video challenge "What is Remix Culture?". Including alot of interesting movies.
  • Sissel Lenvik on 01 Sep 09
     
    Video challenge including ten videos on the theme "What is Remix Culture?"
Cecilie wIan

Digitale kulturer « Likevel.net - 0 views

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Blog digital culture

shared by Cecilie wIan on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Cecilie wIan on 23 Aug 09
     
    this is the blog of Cecilie
Elisabeth Nesheim

remix aesthetics, a short primer on taxonomies of re-intrepreted musics - 0 views

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remix taxonomy extension translation mashup abstraction

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 31 Aug 09
     
    Reflections from the US based Zachary Mccune, a BA-student of Modern Culture and Media at the Brown University who looks into the taxonomy of remix
Jill Walker Rettberg

Political Remix Video - The New Activism | Youth Radio - 0 views

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remix politics political parody

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 27 Aug 09
     
    Short article about political remix videos - with an example at the end which is a pretty clever remix of So You Think You Can Dance with the US presidential campaigns (Obama and McCain debating). Great video.
Elisabeth Nesheim

YouTube - SV mash-up - 0 views

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poltical remix SV norwgian mash-up

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  • Elisabeth Nesheim on 14 Sep 09
     
    Political remix, mash-up with the Norwegian political party SV
Jill Walker Rettberg

YouTube - Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer - 0 views

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peter gabriel sledgehammer music video mtv textual poachers

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 15 Sep 09
     
    Example of the kind of MTV music video Jenkins talks about in Textual Poachers - non-narrative, the opposite in many ways to the fan videos that are remixed from popular TV series.
Jill Walker Rettberg

...i WaNt To HoLd YoUr HaNd...: My opinions on the text of Benjamin Walter - 0 views

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shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • They are not trying to reproduce reality but they try to remember the experience and the feelings that arise in certain situations. And this is not a contemporary decay of the aura, but rather an attempt to bring it to life in time.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 17 Sep 09
       
      Great point - I really like that you're using Benjamin's terms and expanding on his ideas. I think this is a good point, too.
  • Could happen that the actor, after many years of study, come to have two auras, one of himself and the other one of the character he plays. The first one does not interfere with the second one but rather complement each other creating a complex character.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 17 Sep 09
       
      Interesting idea!
Jill Walker Rettberg

Ethan Zuckerman: How Cute Cats Help Combat Online Censorship - 0 views

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copyright censorship cats

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 27 Sep 09
     
    With a title like this, I *really* want to watch this one hour lecture :)
Jill Walker Rettberg

Gisle Hannemyr: Lommejuss omkring digitale medier - 0 views

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remix culture copyright Norwegian norsk Norway

shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Natur og Ungdoms satiriske bearbeidelse av Jens-portrettet fra filmplakaten til filmen «Olje­berget»
  • en kunsthistorisk tradisjon som i det minste tolerererer denne typen gjenbruk av vernede verk i satirisk og politisk øyemed
  • det burde være rom i opphavsrettslovgivningen (de lege ferenda) for at denne typen satiriske og kritiske ytringer skal være tillatt.
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
     
    Overview of Norwegian copyright law (in Norwegian...) Særlig interessant for oss er avsnittene om sitatrett og appropriasjonskunst.
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
     
    Overview of Norwegian copyright law as it concerns digital media written by Gisle Hannemyr.
Jill Walker Rettberg

Sitatrett - Wikipedia - 0 views

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shared by Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09 - Cached
  • verkets karakter ikke må «forandres eller forringes». Siteringen må således som utgangspunkt være en uforandret gjengivelse
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      In Norway, the right to quote sections of another copyrighted work has quite a lot of limitations: for instance you mustn't take it out of context, or "change or harm" the quality of it. Remixing and parodies might seem difficult, then? THis is quite different from US "fair use", which explicitly allows parodies.
  • gjengi verket på en måte som er krenkende for verkets anseelse eller egenart
Jill Walker Rettberg

What is an Author? - Mark Tribe - Brown University Wiki - 0 views

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  • in a civilization like our own there are a certain number of discourses that are endowed with the 'author function:' while others are deprived of it. A private letter may well have a signer- it does not have an author; a contract may well have a guarantor - it does not have an author. An anonymous text posted on a wall probably has a writer - but not an author. The author function is therefore characteristic of the mode of existence, circulation, and functioning of certain discourses within a society.
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Neva noted in her reading reflections post on this that this is important for our understanding of remix culture and anonymous or collaborative art - do mashups and remix culture have an author function?
  • In our culture, how does one characterize a discourse containing the author function?
  • four different characteristics.
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  • First of all, discourses are objects of appropriation.
  • authors became subject to punishment
  • discourse was not originally a product, a thing, a kind of goods; it was essentially an act
  • The author function does not affect all discourses in a universal and constant way, however. This is its second characteristic
  • it has not always been the same types of texts which have required attribution to an author
  • There was a time when the texts that we today call 'literary' (narratives, stories, epics, tragedies, comedies) were accepted, put into circulation, and valorized without any question about the identity of their author; their anonymity caused no difficulties since their ancientness, whether real or imagined, was regarded as a sufficient guarantee of their status
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      An alternative to the author function: ancientness.
  • Scientific discourses began to be received for themselves, in the anonymity of an established or always re-demonstrable truth; their membership in a systematic ensemble, and not the reference to the individual who produced them, stood as their guarantee
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Another alternative to the author function: - re-demonstrable truth (as in science) - membership in a system (e.g. professor at X University)
  • literary discourses came to be accepted only when endowed with the author function
  • literary anonymity is not tolerable
  • The third characteristic of this author function is that it does not develop spontaneously as the attribution of a discourse to an individual.
  • It is, rather, the result of a complex operation which constructs a certain rational being that we call 'author'.
  • directly derived from the manner in which Christian tradition authenticated (or rejected) the texts at its disposal
  • trying to prove the value of a text by its author's saintliness
  • the author is therefore defined as a constant level of value
  • the author is thus defined as a field of conceptual or theoretical coherence
  • the author is here conceived as a stylistic unity
  • the author is here seen as a historical figure at the crossroads of a certain number of events)
  • The author is also the principle of a certain unity of writing
  • The author also serves to neutralize the contradictions that may emerge in a series of texts
  • signs referring to the author. These signs, well known to grammarians, are personal pronouns, adverbs of time and place, and verb conjugation. Such elements do not play the same role in discourses provided with the author function as in those lacking it
    • Jill Walker Rettberg
      Jill Walker Rettberg on 21 Sep 09
       
      Do we see such signs in remix?
  • Everyone knows that, in a novel narrated in the first person, neither the first-person pronoun nor the present indicative refers exactly either to the writer or to the moment in which he writes, but rather to an alter ego whose distance from the author varies, often changing in the course of the work. It would be just as wrong to equate the author with the real writer as to equate him with the fictitious speaker; the author function is carried out and operates in the scission itself, in this division and this distance.
  • all discourses endowed with the author function do possess this plurality of self.
  • (1) the author function is linked to the juridical and institutional system that compasses, determines, and articulates the universe of discourses; (2) it does not affect all discourses in the same way at all times and in all types of civilization; (3) it is not defined by the spontaneous attribution of a discourse to its producer, but rather by a series of specific and complex operations; (4) it does not refer purely and simply to a real individual, since it can give rise simultaneously to several selves, to several subjects - positions that can be occupied by different classes of individuals.
  • in the sphere of discourse one can be the author of much more than a book - one can be the author of a theory, tradition, or discipline in which other books and authors will in their turn find a place
  • transdiscursive
  • 'founders of discursivity
  • They have produced something else: the possibilities and the rules for the formation of other texts.
  • The relationship (or non-relationship) with an author and the different forms this relationship takes, constitute - in a quite visible manner - one of these discursive properties.
  • First, there are theoretical reasons. On the one hand, an analysis in the direction that I have outlined might provide for an approach to a typology of discourse.
  • an introduction to the historical analysis of discourse
  • modes existence
  • re-examine the privileges of the subject
  • Second, there are reasons dealing with the 'ideological' status of the author
  • How can one reduce the great peril, the great danger with which fiction threatens our world? The answer is: one can reduce it with the author. The author allows a limitation of the cancerous and dangerous proliferation of significations within a world where one is thrifty not only with one's resources and riches, but also with one's discourses and their significations. The author is the principle of thrift in the proliferation of meaning.
  • the author is not an indefinite source of significations which fill a work; the author does not precede the works; he is a certain functional principle by which, in our culture, one limits, excludes, and chooses; in short, by which one impedes the free circulation, the free manipulation, the free composition, decomposition, and re-composition of fiction
  • It would be pure romanticism, however, to imagine a culture in which the fictive would operate in an absolutely free state, in which fiction would be put at the disposal of everyone and would develop without passing through something like a necessary or constraining figure
  • I think that, as our society changes, at the very moment when it is in the process of changing, the author function will disappear, and in such a manner that fiction and its polysemous texts will once again function according to another mode, but still with a system of constraint -one which will no longer be the author, but which will have to be determined or, perhaps, experienced.
  • We would no longer hear the questions that have been rehashed for so long: Who really spoke? Is it really he and not someone else? With what authenticity or originality? And what part of his deepest self did he express in his discourse?
  • What are the modes of existence this discourse? Where has it been used, how can it circulate, and who can appropriate it for himself? What are the places in it where there is room for possible subjects? Who can assume these various subject functions? And behind all these questions, we would hear hardly anything but the stirring of an indifference: What difference does it make who is speaking?
Jill Walker Rettberg

Is cropping a photo lying? - 0 views

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thais sindre cecilie fake manipulation photo cropping

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  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 17 Sep 09
     
    The opposite of remix: Newsweek removed 2/3 of a photo of Dick Cheny, and Cheny complained that that made the photo "fake".
  • Jill Walker Rettberg on 17 Sep 09
     
    Relates to Cecilie's and Thais's and Sindre's projects, I think.
Cecilie wIan

kanyelicio.us - 0 views

kanyelicio.us

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  • Cecilie wIan on 17 Sep 09
     
    More of the Kanye thing.
Sissel Lenvik

Kanye West Will Let You Finish - I'ma Let You Finish - 0 views

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  • Kanye West Will Let You Finish
    • Sissel Lenvik
      Sissel Lenvik on 17 Sep 09
       
      Will he let you finish?
ziska 04

YouTube - Wise Guys - Alle meine Entchen - Tekkno Remix - 0 views

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  • ziska 04 on 22 Aug 09
     
    Wise Guys is a German band, in this video they are remixing childrens songs...
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