remix culture

clipped from people.clarkson.edu February 02, 2004 remix culture “One day we’ll need archaeologists to help us guess the original storylines of even classic films.” Another corner, tight. “Musicians, today, if they’re clever, put new compositions out on the web, like pies set to cool on a window ledge, and wait for other people to anonymously rework them. Ten will be all wrong, but the eleventh will be genius. And free. It’s as though the creative process is no longer contained within an individual skull, if indeed it ever was. Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.” - William Gibson, Pattern Recognition Which is, of course, the definition of slippage in the semiotic chain, something we’ve been experiencing culturally for several decades but have yet come to terms with, at least in popular understanding. Posted by johndan at February 2, 2004 09:40 AM | TrackBack