R emix as Tactical
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Remix as Tactical
Dustin Edwards // @edwardsdusty // Miami University // Session #K08
The Rhetorical Potentialof Reappropriating Oppressive Discourse
re•mixverb. the process of taking old pieces of text, images, sounds, and video and stitching them together to form a new product
--Ridolfo & DeVoss
}tactics & strategies resignification
tac•ti•cal re•mixverb. the intentional re-use and redeployment of dominant discourse that has at least one of the following aims: • expose, invert, or challenge damaging,
injurious, or otherwise unjust conditions• (re)claim a sense of agency • circulate counter discourses to imagine
and work toward a more just world
mêtis “making do”
case oneThe Work of Elisa Kreisinger, the Pop Culture Pirate
“appropriating mainstream media texts and re-editing them into
subversive stories[…]gives us an opportunity to see ourselves and
our communities included in popular culture in a way that no longer demands we compromise our politics to be entertained.”
-- Elisa Kreisinger“Mashing Up Mad Men”
resistsubvert
challenge
case twoThe Real @OxfordAsians
“By juxtaposing incongruous ideas, Burke says, we ‘shatter pieties.’ In
other words, by juxtaposing one ideological correctness together with
another, of a different ideological stripe, the two call each other into question. And it is more likely that the less powerful one will act upon
the other in such a way as to reduce its power; the piety will thus be
shattered.”
--Julia Allen & Lester Faigley
kairotic“[A tactic] takes advantage of ‘opportunities’
and depends on them” (37)
--Michel de CerteauThe Practice of Everyday Life
case threeSlutWalk
“The word that wounds becomes an instrument of
resistance in the redeployment that destroys
the prior territory of its operation” (163)
--Judith Butler, Excitable Speech
circulation"parallel discursive arenas where members of
subordinated social groups invent and circulate counterdiscourses to formulate
oppositional interpretations of theiridentities, interests,
and needs”
--Nancy Fraser’s definition of “subaltern counterpublic”Rethinking the Public Sphere
taken together[
(1)Remix has transformativepotential.
(2)Tactical remix responds kairotically.
(3)Tactical remix buildscommunity.
(4)Tactical remix succeeds bycirculation.
(5)Tactical remix is connectedto the body.
how can we bring tactical
remix into compclassrooms?
& should we?
yescareful
<thank you>