Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix

Creation, Resistance, and Refacement: Postfuturist Storytelling, Cultural Flows, and the Remix Investigating contemporary storytelling, I read experimental works of Kathy Acker, Stewart Home, and Jeff Noon alongside critical insights of Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, Fredric Jameson, and McKenzie Wark. Fusing the elements of quest and activism, these works speak against oppression and challenge the boundaries between and among disciplines, genres, and media. Vital to my work is the notion of the remix, suggesting an interconnectivity among diverse textual and audio-visual narratives. This reflects some of the permeating modernist concerns pertinent to contemporary critical and creative voices. Instead of excluding from the debate experiences ungraspable through language, the remix operates in the form of alternating cycles of silences and sounds. Disrupting discourse, they open up the lateral avenues for rethinking the socioscape and creation in terms of trust and love.