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remixthecontext Hardback - 2017

by Mark Amerika

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From the publisher

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 caf 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.

Details

  • Title remixthecontext
  • Author Mark Amerika
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 182
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2017-11-02
  • ISBN 9781138065635 / 1138065633
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Satire, Experimental fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2017029109
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Mark Amerika is the author of many books including remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 -- remixthebook.com), META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007) and the novels The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood (both with FC2/University of Alabama). His intermedia artwork has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Walker Art Center. In 2009, Amerika released Immobilit, generally considered the first feature-length art film ever shot on a mobile phone. He is a Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado where he is the Founding Director of the Doctoral Program in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance and a Professor of Art and Art History.

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