Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New
social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed
the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries
with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital
editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered
how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope
employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation
of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art
through the mashup.
In "remixthebook," Mark Amerika explores the mashup as a
defining cultural activity in the digital age. A pioneering media
artist and acclaimed cultural theorist, Amerika offers a series of
philosophical essays that trace the art of the remix to previous
forms of avant-garde and modernist art through mashups of deftly
sampled phrases and ideas from a wide range of visual artists,
poets, novelists, musicians, comedians, and philosophers--among
them Alfred North Whitehead, Guy Debord, William S. Burroughs,
Kathy Acker, and Allen Ginsberg.
A provocative textual performance that is at once a dazzling
model of the literary remix and a state-of-the-art reflection on
remix culture, "remixthebook" captures the unique and continually
shifting digital moment in which we live and situates the remix as
an art form and literary intervention. To coincide with the
publication of "remixthebook," Amerika will launch a companion
website, remixthebook.com, to facilitate new ways of participating
in remix culture by inviting other artists and writers to create
"remixthebook" mashups of their own, pushing the boundaries of art
and literary culture further, beyond the current publishing
paradigms.
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