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06/19/2005 Archived Entry: "The Take 'N Use Composition Process"

The Take 'N Use Composition Process
A favorite topic: Rip Mix Burn. This is a question for the rhetorical situation: where is the point where ideas cross/shape/appropriate/steal from each other (a point Jenny has complicated in her work on the rhetorical situation)?
What is the logic of the mix? Art precedes technology (as McLuhan noted). In the age of the network, why resist the logic of art/media?. On WPA-L, I once brought up the question of a culture that already functions this way through the arts: the remake/the repeated plot formula/the sitcom/the cover. Appropriation is no longer something to marvel at. We have grown up with it. So:
A thread on the The Comics Journal message board (via Metafilter). A good example of writing outside the tautology of student writing for its interest in

  • technology (a message board)
  • subject matter (comics and rap)
  • desire to write (why engage with a thread on comics?)
    But also worth looking at for the rip/mix/burn logic at play (at play in implicit and explicit ways - the implicit marking the moment when we do it without realizing we already work in the logic of a new media shift).
    What is responding to what? What is appropriated from what Snoop as Doom? Doom as Doom (the pattern of drinking)? MF Doom? Doom? MF Doom is Viktor Vaughn!
    Doom cheat the game like walk-thru
    Run 'em, son 'em like Mr. Rourke do Tattoo
    The way alotta clowns get down is unnatural
    This flow flip like oranges, apples
    Rhymes like limes to a Lemonade Snapple
    Leave her at the chapel, don't eat Scrapple
    First thing they notice when they come to is they bling is gone
    Then they start remembering the Klingon with the rings on
    In came the Villain with their own gear like, "Hi, there"
    Y'all play the rear, this whole year MY year
    Metal face beard like Brillo pad
    Y'all know his steelo so don't feel so bad
    Seed call him, "Ol' dad," the one the ol' hoe had
    Knew he was a winner since a swimmer in the gonads

    Not a question of "visual rhetoric" but mixthoric. The solution to our fears of writing? "We are doomed." Really?

    fantasticfour142

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