REMINDER: this Friday, 3PM, Sale Hall Chapel: Philosophy & Film lecture: "Remix as Redemption in DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation"

[Nathan Nobis]

 

A flyer is here for download:

https://sites.google.com/site/aphilosopher/mcateerflyer.pdf  

This Friday, March 19, Sale Hall Chapel, 3PM

"The Replay of Meaning:

Remix as Redemption in

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation”

John McAteer, Ph.D. 

Philosophy Department, University of California, Riverside

Why would an African-American hip hop musician host a public showing of a racist movie such as DW Griffith's KKK propaganda film Birth of a Nation?   In this multimedia lecture, Dr. John McAteer will argue that the peculiar ontology and authorship of hip hop remixes and mashups allows artists such as DJ Spooky to creatively appropriate immoral artworks in order to both undermine their ideological power and also to transform their moral value.  If this is correct, then artistic recontextualization could function as a moral argument.