Monster theory 2.0: remix, the digital humanities, and the limits of transgression
Monster theory 2.0: remix, the digital humanities, and the limits of transgression
Monstrous metaphors abound in remix and new media scholarship. Similarly remix, that “monstrous hybrid,” seems both everywhere and nowhere in twenty-first-century digital culture. This chapter begins with the question: Is remix a monster, and digital humanities the means through which it is destined to bring down the old-fashioned, exclusionary, and hierarchical modes of humanities past? Using the metaphor of Frankenstein and his creature, I will stitch together theories of monstrosity and transgression from both literary and media studies to explore this question. The answer, I argue, is that the transgressive potential of remix and the digital humanities lies less in the form of these disciplines, and more in their practice: how they are allowed to intersect, evolve, and escape their traditional (anti)humanist foundations.
remix, digital humanities, monsters, Frankenstein, decolonisation, postcolonial studies, mashup, transgression
109-124
de Bruin-Molé, Megen
50c0d19d-e9c9-4ad4-9b14-8645139e1ef9
4 March 2021
de Bruin-Molé, Megen
50c0d19d-e9c9-4ad4-9b14-8645139e1ef9
de Bruin-Molé, Megen
(2021)
Monster theory 2.0: remix, the digital humanities, and the limits of transgression.
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Navas, Eduardo, Gallagher, Owen and burrough, xtine
(eds.)
The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities.
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Monstrous metaphors abound in remix and new media scholarship. Similarly remix, that “monstrous hybrid,” seems both everywhere and nowhere in twenty-first-century digital culture. This chapter begins with the question: Is remix a monster, and digital humanities the means through which it is destined to bring down the old-fashioned, exclusionary, and hierarchical modes of humanities past? Using the metaphor of Frankenstein and his creature, I will stitch together theories of monstrosity and transgression from both literary and media studies to explore this question. The answer, I argue, is that the transgressive potential of remix and the digital humanities lies less in the form of these disciplines, and more in their practice: how they are allowed to intersect, evolve, and escape their traditional (anti)humanist foundations.
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 May 2020
Published date: 4 March 2021
Keywords:
remix, digital humanities, monsters, Frankenstein, decolonisation, postcolonial studies, mashup, transgression
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Eduardo Navas
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Owen Gallagher
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xtine burrough
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