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Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 9-2015 Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix Nikolina Nedeljkov Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1069 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix by Nikolina Nedeljkov A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2015 © 2015 Nikolina Nedeljkov All Rights Reserved ii This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in English to satisfy the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Peter Hitchcock Date Chair of Examining Committee Mario Di Gangi Date Executive Officer Anne Humpherys Gerhard Joseph Nicholas Birns Supervisory Committee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix by Nikolina Nedeljkov Dissertation advisor: Peter Hitchcock Abstract Constitutive of my dissertation is an exploration of contemporary literature and culture. Vital to my research is the notion and practice of the remix. Originating in music, it is perceived and deployed as a hybrid expressive mode combining textual, audio, and visual components. The text of the dissertation, accompanying photographs, and supplementary video files demonstrate this principal aspect. Focusing on the fusion of quest narratives and social activism, the dissertation looks at critical and creative vernaculars as forms of peaceful/peaceable resistance against multiple oppression. Reflecting some of the permeating modernist and postmodernist concerns, it emphasizes an understanding of postfuturist storytelling as cultural exchange in the intersection of the time axes. Reading the works of Stewart Home, Jeff Noon, and Kathy Acker, alongside critical insights of Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, Fredric Jameson, and McKenzie Wark, contextualizes contemporary idiosyncrasies historically, thereby rendering tradition remixable, rather than radically abandoning it. The remix investigates alternating cycles of noise and silence in the communication channel as a basis for the disambiguation of the misconception about the totality of discourse. The approach delineates vision of refacement: rebirth through subtonic solidarity of selfless, yet reindividualized, fellow humans engaged in enduring the hindrances to patient, persistent creation of a free culture based on love and trust. iv Acknowledgements Thanks to: my family for undivided belief & support; my friends for invaluable insights and inspiration; and the community of both offline and online, academic and nonacademic fellow cyborgs for generously challenging, simultaneously reconfirming the vitality of human communication, restorative potential of creative / critical responses, and the vibrancy of the remix. v Table of Contents Chapter One: Deadly Dis-Quieted Metaphysics: The Remix of Noise through Subtonic Hi-FI 1 Chapter 2: Wiered to a Maze: Pixel Saturnalia and Refacement 37 Interlude One: Low Tech Postfuturist Poetics: Imagery and Tone in the Service of Knowledge 73 Chapter Three: Shadow Talk: Sites of Decapitated Majesties, Cites of Dethroned Words, and… 99 Interlude Two: Book-Quest at Work 140 Chapter 4: We Care A Lot: (Latter Day) Modernists against Destructiveness and Ossification 170 Interlude Three: Days: Secrecy Schisms 203 Chapter Five: Reanimating the Signature from the Ashes: On Who There Is 232 Chapter Six: DJ / MC Session: From the Linguistic to the Radical Light Shift 268 Works Cited 303 vi List of Photographs1 2) Turntablist poetics. NYC. May 2010. p.1. 16) The Haçienda Apartments. Manchester, UK. June 2008. p.44. 18) Urbis. Manchester, UK. June 2008. p.48. 22) Fiscal Noise and the Sound of Creation. Aberdeen. August 2010. p.57. 25) Remixable. London. August 2009. p.64. 32) Streets of Leith. Edinburgh. August 2010. p.92. 36) Hackney. London. August 2009. p.122. 41) Leicester Square. London. June 2008. p.158. 42) Victoria. London, UK. December 2010. p.158. 43) L.E.S.. NYC. November 2009. p.159. 44) The Statue of Liberty. NYC. March 2009. p.159. 45) Siberia. Aberdeen, Scotland. August 2010. p.159. 47) Art. Shoreditch, London. August 2009. p.160. 48) Lieth. Edinburgh. August 2010. p.160. 49) Washington Heights. NYC. September 2010. p.161. 50) Trafalgar Square. London. August 2010. p.161. 51) The Living Colour. Central Park, NYC. June 2010. p.161. 52) East Harlem. NYC. September 2009. p.162. 1 The photographs and videos are listed in order of appearance in footnotes instead of providing captions. The choice reflects the approach pivotal to the theme and the structure of the dissertation. It is an integral part of the remix: an antidistraction form of resistance to oppression as an instance of noise in the communication channel. UnleЬЬ otheЫwiЬe indicated, all photogЫaphЬ and videoЬ aЫe the authoЫ’Ь contЫibution, illuЬtЫating the Ыemix aЬ a conversation between and among different modes of expression. The photographs were taken and video material recorded during the research at different locations in the UK and the US, primarily in New York, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Some are titled, some are not. The videos are available as supplementary files in the electronic version of the dissertation and on You Tube. vii 53) Hyde Park. London. August 2009. p.163. 54) Harlem. NYC. October 2009. p.163. 56) Hackney, Library. London. January 2011. p.164. 57) Drummatics, 34th St, Herald Square subway station. NYC. September 2008. p.164. 58) Hackney, Empire. London. January 2011. p.165. 59) The Brick Lane area: the historic Huguenot immigrant and working classes neighborhood famous for enduring resistance against oppression. London. August 2009. p.165. 60) Leith, Theater. Edinburgh. August 2010. p.166. 61) Off Strand. London. August 2009. p.167. 62) Brookland. NYC. October 2011. p.167. 63) MUF, Ladbroke Grove, London. August 2010. p.168. 64) Streets of London. London. August 2009. p.168. 65) National Theatre. London. August 2009. p.170. 66) Coke. NYC. Summer 2011. p.171. 69) The East End of London. London. July 2010. p.186. 71) The Millennium Bridge. London. July 2009. p.200. 73) South Street Seaport. NYC. Summer 2011. p.203. 75) Housing. NYC. Summer 2011. p.206. 76) Williamsburg. NYC. Summer 2011. p.208. 77) Sugarland, Williamsburg. NYC. Summer 2011. p.210. 78) South Street Seaport, Detail. NYC. Summer 2011. p.213. 79) Harlem Magnolia. NYC. April 2011. p.216. 80) London Wall. London. July 2009. p.218. viii 81) Coke. NYC. Summer 2011. p.220. 82) Mack. NYC. Summer 2011. p. 220. 83) Funky Clouds. Winter Garden. NYC. Summer 2011. p.222. 84) Traffic. NYC. Summer 2011. p. 226. 86) Like…Candy. Winter Garden, NYC. Summer 2011. p.227. 87) Bryant Park. NYC. Summer 2011. p.229. 88) Ladbroke Grove Station. London. December 2010. p.232. 90) Think Coffee Café. NYC. May 2012. p.235. 91) Bassett Road. London. June 2008. p.240. 93) Ladbroke Grove, Detail. London. July 2010. p.244. 94) Ladbroke Grove, Streets. London. August 2010. p.247. 95) Blake Close, Ladbroke Grove. London. August 2010. p.252. 96) 104 Cambridge Gardens. London. June 2008. p.262. 98) Brick Lane. London. July 2010. p.268. 99) Central Park. NYC. October 2010. p.269. 101) Hyde Park, Tree. London. December 2010. p.282. 102) Harley. NYC. June 2010. p.282. 104) Central Park, Off Season. NYC. October 2010. p.283. 105) Harlem, Pavement Graffiti. NYC. June 2010. p.285. 106) Harlem, Street Art. NYC. June 2010. p.288. 107) (le) poisson rouge. NYC. June 2010. p.289. 108) Central Park, Water & Sun. NYC. June 2010. p.290. 109) A View from Manhattan. NYC. June 2010. p.292. ix 110) E 22nd Street: Health. NYC. June 2010. p.293. 111) E 22nd Street: Work. NYC. June 2010. p.294. 112) E 22nd Street: Play. NYC. June 2010. p. 295. 113) E 22nd Street: Housing. NYC. June 2010. p. 296. 115) Edinburgh, Streets & Culture. Scotland. August 2010. p. 296. 116) Hackney, Library. London. January 2011. p.298. 117) Central Park, Fountain. June 2010. p.298. x List of Videos 17) Narrow Daylighte. p.44. 26) ResT. p.70. 30) Edi_I Choose to Thank. p.86. 34) This Is Radio NYC! p.104. 46) whose record. p.160. 55) Ial. p.163. 85) aT. p.226. 89) A Lot. p.235. 100) Haters Against. p.269. 103) Let. p.283. 114) The Sun, The Moon, And ST. p.296. xi Chapter One Deadly Dis-Quieted Metaphysics: The Remix of Noise through Subtonic Hi-Fi “The end iЬ wheЫe we ЬtaЫt fЫom.” T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets 1.1 Toward the Beginning 2 Vital to my dissertation is the redemptive potential of creation. The work combines creative and critical components, focusing on the idea of the remix-creation nexus as a manifestation of the restorative capacities. The remix is a form of peaceful/peaceable resistance against multiple oppression. It is also the source of novel forms of storytelling and critical reexamining of cultural realities through DJ/turntablist poetics. Originating in music, the remix is perceived and practiced as a hybrid form of storytelling combining textual, audio, and visual expressive modes. Through
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