Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismSpiritual Fourfold London Calling!Not the quotation, not the allusion, but the sample. It's a way of doing something with--or to--whatever is there before you, what used to be called the past. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid says it loops history forward, makes it come from in front of you: "Sampling is like sending a fax to yourself from the sonic debris of a possible future." [1] It's the resurrection of the simulacrum from the proleptic tomb of history. Sample as second coming. Scratch Jesus. [2] Notes1. paul d miller, rhythm science (Boston: MIT, 2005), somewhere in the middle. 2. So maybe that's what Equiano was up to. See The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, ed. Vincent Carretta (New York: Penguin, 1995). Navigation |