Remix from Last Class

Since last class I have been thinking about Ridolfo and DeVoss's excerpt on rhetorical velocity. And based on last week's discussion the general idea I got was that their argument is based on the idea that an "original" text is not necessarily original, it is just a remix of another previous text. Or better yet the idea that, "Remix is how we as humans live and everyone within our society engages in this act of creativity"(Remix). This definition took me a little while to unpack; but what I ended up getting from it was that everything a society or humans create is a remix of something that has been created in the past. With this thought I began to think of things that could be considered a remix... one of the first things I thought of was a television set. Every day we see commercials about  a new and improved TV on the market, but no one really thinks of it as a remix, of a remix, of a remix, and so on, of an even older TV. Which is in turn then a remix of a zoetrope. (Ugh! Exhausting, right? No wonder why no one thinks of it like that... but it is cool to think about sometimes.) So the case of the TV, this new and improved TV that is being marketed as original is not necessarily original after all. Like Ridolfo and DeVoss said, nothing is original, just a remix. This statement holds true for books, movies, TVs, and even pictures.


Works Cited:
Ridolfo, Jim, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. “Composing for Recomposition: Rhetorical Velocity and Delivery.” Kairos 13.2 (2008): n. pag. Web.