Remix = Renaissance?
6 August 2009
Is our so-called “remix culture” really a new Renaissance of learning and cultural progress? Certain thinkers such as Lawrence Lessig and Yochai Benkler knock vigorously on that door but are wise enough not to walk through. Plenty of bloggers and blog commenters, however, show no fear in ecstatically breaking through that thought barrier. In this post I will argue that in fact there are many parallels between the origins and rise of the European renaissance and our modern embrace of unauthoriz