Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

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            One of the very few things that fanfiction, Pokémon, and the Marvel comic series The Avengers have in common is that they have all been or are forms of remediation. They have other artists that have emulated the works of someone else. In his piece titled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin says that this reproduction has the ability to transform the aura of art, to make it wither away. The aura he refers to mean the authenticity and originality of a work that produces something that cannot be recreated. Benjamin says that the aura has the ability to aura “withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art.” Fanfiction and Pokémon both show large flaws in that argument.  Fanfiction shows that the inspiration that can be drawn from reading a book, watching a television show or a movie, playing a video game, can spark someone to dedicate so much of their lives to that book, movie, show or game. Pokémon shows that inspiration from a seemingly trivial childhood memory can be the reason for others to have been brought that same joy in the form of remediated video games.  

           Remediation has began changing the way that we look at different forms of art. Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin say that "we call the representation of one medium in another remediation, and we will ague that remediation is a defining characteristic of the new digital media"(45). Remediation allows for new things to be added and changed in the way we view an original piece of art, for the better. Remediation gives back the ability to recreate the aura however we see fit.

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