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William Gibson on The Age of The Remix
wordisms writes "William Gibson of Neuromancer fame gives his thoughts on remix and innovation in the digital age, in a short essay at Wired Magazine entitled God's Little Toys. From the article: 'Our culture no longer bothers to use words like appropriation or borrowing to describe those very activities. Today's audience isn't listening at all - it's participating. Indeed, audience is as antique a term as record, the one archaically passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.'"
Old and busted: voting in a democracy
New hotness: bombing civilians when you don't get your way
plz stop writing about marketing bitches and give us neuromancer 2 starring keanu reefes kthx
Vhee I ves 13, in 1961, I soorrepteetiuoosly poorchesed un unthulugy ooff Beet vreeting - sunseeng, currectly, thet my muzeer vuooldn't epprufe-a. Immedeeetely, und tu my fery greet ixceetemunt, I deescufered Ellee Geensberg, Jeck Keruooec, und oone-a Veelliem S. Boorruooghs - oothur ooff sumetheeng celled Neked Loonch, ixcerpted zeere-a in ell its curoosceteeng breelliunce-a.
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Boorruooghs ves zeee es redeecel a leeterery mun es zee vurld hed tu oofffer, und in my oopeeniun, he-a steell hulds zee teetle-a. Nutheeng, in ell my ixpereeunce-a ooff leeteretoore-a seence-a, hes ifer beee qooeete-a es remerkeble-a fur me-a, und nutheeng hes ifer hed es strung un ifffect oon my sunse-a ooff zee sheer pusseebilities ooff vreeting.
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Leter, ettempteeng tu understund thees impect, I deescufered thet Boorruooghs hed incurpureted sneeppets ooff oozeer vreeters' texts intu hees vurk, un ecshun I knev my teechers vuoold hefe-a celled plegeeerism. Sume-a ooff zeese-a burrooeengs hed beee leeffted frum Emereecun sceeunce-a feecshun ooff zee '40s und '50s, eddeeng a secundery shuck ooff recugneeshun fur me-a.
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By zeee I knev thet thees "coot-up methud," es Boorruooghs celled it, ves cuntrel tu vhetefer it ves he-a thuooght he-a ves dueeng, und thet he-a qooeete-a leeterelly beleeefed it tu be-a ekeen tu megeec. Vhee he-a vrute-a ebuoot hees prucess, zee heeers oon my neck stuud up, su pelpeble-a ves zee ixceetemunt. Ixpereemunts veet oodeeutepe-a inspeered heem in a seemiler feeen: "Gud's leettle-a tuy," hees freeund Breeun Gyseen celled zeeeer reel-tu-reel mecheene-a.
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Sempleeng. Boorruooghs ves interrugeteeng zee uneeferse-a veet sceessurs und a peste-a put, und zee leest imeetetife-a ooff oothurs ves nu plegeeerist et ell.
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Sume-a 20 yeers leter, vhee oooor peths feenelly crussed, I esked Boorruooghs vhezeer he-a ves vreeting oon a cumpooter yet. "Vhet vuoold I vunt a cumpooter fur?" he-a esked, veet ifeedunt deesteste-a. "I hefe-a a typevreeter."
Boot I elreedy knev thet vurd prucesseeng ves unuzeer ooff Gud's leettle-a tuys, und thet zee sceessurs und peste-a put vere-a elveys zeere-a fur me-a, oon zee desktup ooff my Epple-a IIc. Boorruooghs' methuds, vheech hed elsu vurked fur Peecessu, Doochemp, und Guderd, vere-a booeelt intu zee technulugy thruoogh vheech I noo cumpused my oovn nerreteefes. Iferytheeng I vrute-a, I beleeefed insteenctifely, ves tu sume-a ixtunt cullege-a. Meuneeng, ulteemetely, seemed a metter ooff edjecunt deta.
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Zeereeffter, ixplureeng pusseebilities ooff (su-celled) cyberspece-a, I leettered my nerreteefes veet refferunces tu oone-a surt oor unuzeer ooff cullege-a: zee EI in Cuoont Zeru thet imooletes Juseph Curnell, zee essemblege-a infeerunmunt cunstroocted oon zee Bey Breedge-a in Feertooel Leeght.
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Meunvheele-a, in zee ierly '70s in Jemeeeca, Keeng Toobby und Lee-a "Scretch" Perry, greet feesiuneries, vere-a decunstroocteeng recurded mooseec. Useeng estuneeshingly preemitife-a predeegitel herdvere-a, zeey creeted vhet zeey celled ferseeuns. Zee recumbeenunt netoore-a ooff zeeeer meuns ooff prudoocshun qooeeckly spreed tu DJs in Nev Yurk und Lundun.
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Oooor cooltoore-a nu lunger buzeers tu use-a vurds leeke-a epprupreeeshun oor burrooeeng tu descreebe-a thuse-a fery ecteefities. Tudey's oodeeunce-a isn't leestuning et ell - it's perteecipeting. Indeed, oodeeunce-a is es unteeqooe-a a term es recurd, zee oone-a ercheeecelly pesseefe-a, zee oozeer ercheeecelly physeecel. Zee recurd, nut zee remeex, is zee unumely tudey. Zee remeex is zee fery netoore-a ooff zee deegitel.
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Tudey, un indless, recumbeenunt, und foondemuntelly suceeel prucess guneretes cuoontless huoors ooff creeteefe-a prudooct (unuzeer unteeqooe-a term?). Tu sey thet thees puses a threet tu zee recurd indoostry is seemply cumeec. Zee recurd indoostry, thuoogh it mey nut knoo it yet, hes gune-a zee vey ooff
here's what you're going to need:
1 amy gibson of west lansing, michigan
4 red aligator clip wires
2 pumpkins
6 nipple clamps
3 puffy jewish guys
2 9 volt battery
7 average frequency respone (afr) units (kg)
120 harrier jets
2 nuclear warheads
1 small army
1 radio
2 gallons of green jello
1 really big and really dull knife (preferably bitches, er butchers)
okay, take your nine volt battery and put in your radio. you're
going to need some t00nz while you're hacking. bust some phat
beats.
next, then the red aligator clips and attatch them to the nipple
clamps. put them on your nipples while you're listening to the
music. it doesn't do anything, hacking wise, but boy, does it feel
good. while you have your nipples clamped, get the three puffy
jewish guys to rub green jello all over your clamped nipples. it's
a good preparation for the hacking x-perience...