Remediation and Originality

The subject of remediation and originality is fitting to come after the discussion of tropes and metaphors.  Since in the process of reading about tropes we learn that a very effective way of understanding certain things is through comparison using tropes.  It is through these tropes and metaphors that we best find the way to explain the look, feel, sound of things around us in the world.  We use our previous knowledge to explain many things in the world around us.

I find remediation to have similar qualities.  Although someones work is piggy backing off of another idea each person has their unique qualities that make their work original.  As for the tropes someone using a metaphor is using past experiences to make an original claim of something else.  I do not find the argument someone makes that no work is original to be helpful on any front.  The use of others work to create an idea of your own is an age old process that helps our society reach new goals and become more intelligent.  In the reading they talk of a device that delivers the exterior world to the wearer of this device.  This is supposed to be the remediation of the world that is given to the wearer.

Bolter and Grusin write that, "the wire threatens to make obsolete all technologies of representation."  This means to me that this device is taking place of the use of metaphors and comparisons to be able to arrive at the most educated and useful meaning of the world.  The device is taking place of the use of remediation and the advantages we can find through it.