Everything is a Remix was a film which we watched in our week 3 seminar, when studying artistic and philosophical postmodernism. I found it a very interesting watch in applying some of the thinking around postmodernism which we did in the seminars in a contemporary setting, and thinking about how those theories might be usefully applied outside ‘high-brow’ artistic settings.

The film made me consider that postmodernism’s focus on process – which I spoke about in an earlier post – is extremely central to it: postmodernism is actually part of the process of creation of anything, as the act of creation is to copy and transform. It also drew attention to the way that in creating, we mimic others’ models of creation, copying their methods: this is what we call technique! Finally, the postmodern notion casts into doubt the idea that anything can be truly original.

References

Ferguson, K. (2015) Everything is a Remix. Available from: https://vimeo.com/139094998 [Accessed 15 November 2015].