Author : Mark Amerika
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351659928
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Book Synopsis remixthecontext by : Mark Amerika
Download or read book remixthecontext written by Mark Amerika and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: remixthecontext is a cunning and satirical collection of "theoretical fictions" composed by artist, novelist and media theorist Mark Amerika. A compelling riff on the classic Platonic dialogue, Amerika's remixthecontext features Walt Whitman Benjamin, a Professor of Creative Urgency who intellectually jams with an assemblage of characters that resemble the actual artists, poets, and scholars who populate the university café culture depicted in the book. Each chapter is enlivened by Amerika's provocative mash-up of literary metafiction, new media rhetoric and witty repartee setting the stage for a series of freewheeling exchanges that playfully investigate a multitude of themes including remix culture, psychic automatism, gender fluidity, social media dystopia, MOOCs as performance art, and the challenges presented by cutting-edge digital arts and humanities curricula within a sclerotic academic environment.