Rewrite, Reuse, Recycle: Some Cool Recent Developments on the Remix Front

Okay, finally, as promised, more stuff on the remixing, revision, re-composition, and reconstitution issues that have been on my mind of late…

We Swim in the Stream: Kate Armstrong’s RSS Poetics, News Feeds, Twitter Streams

Kate Armstrong’s “Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics,” originally published in a special issue of of The Capilano Review devoted to writing and technology, is available as part of a fascinating online reiteration/remix of that issue by Web artist and writer J.R. Carpenter.  In her essay, Armstrong proposes a new literary art that might arise from [...]

Whose Text, Pt. II: More thoughts on remixing, revision, recursiveness

My thoughts in the last post I wrote ended up kind of truncated because I was rushing to finish the post and hadn’t really thought about how the Hemingway story I highlighted relates to some of the other issues I find myself dealing with on an almost daily basis in my work as a writing [...]

Whose Text Is It Anyway? Of Editions and Remixes

Haven’t been able to write much this week due to a combination of out of town company (fun!) and car trouble (not at all fun). But last night I had a moment to scan through the NY Times just to catch up on what was going on. I always check out the Op-Ed page and [...]

Get RIP(ped)!

Believe it or not, I got in a little “work” during the Athfest-ivities last weekend. Taking a break on Saturday afternoon from the crippling Georgia heat, I retreated to Cine, Athens’ cool (literally, thank the gods!)  independent movie theater, which was featuring a number of rock docs as part of the weekend’s events. I caught [...]