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08/02/2005 Archived Entry: "Gibson"

Gibson
William Gibson on William Burroughs and sampling:

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.

Yup. That's what I've been saying all along.
Dear composition studies: awake. Awake from the slumber of the tropes of audience and purpose. Forget about plagiarism. Welcome to the digital.