Cassie Lagner- Everything is a Remix

Starting off this blog post, I am going to start off with the definition of remix because this all is about remix! As seen in the videos, remix is defined as; to combine or exit existing materials to produce something new. I think this definition explains everything. All our lives we have grown up listening to you favorite songs of the year or even of your childhood mixed together to form the all time remix. At least that is what I did! The primary thesis of this series is to relate the theory of a remix to rhetorical purposes. I found it very interesting that 74/100 movies and books are sequels based on something that was already created. Fergueson’s concept of remixing relates to our learning of rhetoric in this course because in order to fell you understand the definition of rhetoric or what it is, we learned from many different sources. This is showing remixing in the learning of rhetoric because took a bunch if different ideas from different people and related it back to the same idea of rhetoric. Looking at the three parts of Fergueson’s concept of remixing and connecting it back to rhetoric is interesting. I never knew that you can look at rhetoric and the learning process of it as a remix. I also never knew that movies and shows can be considered a remix. I have only known remixes to be a bunch of songs put together. When we read “Bad Ideas About Writing” with Patricia Roberts-Miller, I now realize that she used the technique of remixing by bringing in the beliefs and writings of Plato, Aristole, and Socrates to get, what she thought, the definition of rhetoric was. Also, “From the Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” Jenny Edbauer brings into account all different authors opinions in what they thought Rhetorical Ecologies meant.After watching these video on remix, I find this so fascinating that I did not even realize that this can be considered a remix. I really enjoyed those videos.