March 2008

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The Mashup and the Remix: Fetishizing the Fragment

From Soviet montage to the Memorex mix tape, leftist Western thinkers have proudly declared their membership to a “sample culture.” Remix theory, the latest version, keeps the candle burning bright. Like its predecessors, it attempts to found an aesthetic regime on the claim that the explicit selection of texts – sampling in music, collage in [...]

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