Darren Tofts

“What Now? The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix”

Issue 15 of Fibreculture Journal

Edited by

Darren Tofts, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Christian McCrea, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

From the Editorial Introduction:

The Downfall meme is a portrait in miniature of the doxa of contemporary remix; namely, the collaborative, socially-networked taste for creatively manipulating work made by someone else. These received ideas presume the assurance of an invisible yet simpatico audience of like-minded, DIY-capable remixers alive to the vertiginous pleasure of knowing that anything labeled a remix is one file in a conjugate (yours, mine, ours) Shareware .zip archive of infinite re-use. In other words, an assurance of many happy returns.

Featuring essays by Mark Amerika, Ross Harley, Lisa Gye, Ian Haig, Steve Jones, Esther Milne, Craig Saper.

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue15/index.html

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