Day: October 1, 2022

Link’s abilities in Tears of the Kingdom illustrate the remix principles of selectivity, recombinatoriality, and recyclability that guide all creative processes and production—no matter how limiting the context might seem.

The sudden disruptive jolt that follows from not landing an attempted skateboard trick can offer more than an opportunity to snarl at a blameless handrail or weathered curb.

Wabi-sabi, a concept in Japanese aesthetics revolving around the beauty of imperfection and impermanence, aligns well with both the goblincore aesthetic and subculture and some of J.R.R. Tolkien’s short, hairy creatures.

Buddhist philosophy and punk ideology probably don’t come across at first glance as complementary models for attaining a life without suffering. But they both advocate principles that demand the raising of one’s fists to put an end to an unsatisfying, oppressive, and cyclic existence in very similar ways.

When production and output is understood as being dependent upon all else in causal-effective chains of interrelation and combinatorality, remix theory starts to sound quite a bit like…Buddhist philosophy.