Introduction by Joseph Tabbi

Trace Reddell's "Litmixer: The Literary Remediator" is what critical writing could look like once scholars and critics begin making use of the performative possibilities within networked environments. With his software groovebox, Reddell applies the tools and strategies of the DJ to the performance of literary interpretation and critical speculation. Jacques Derrida's essay, "Plato's Pharmakon," becomes in Reddell's hands not so much a master text as a set of recording masters, less a source of supporting citations than a sampling source to be played off against related discourses - on music, drugs, technology. And it's all presented in the context of a "user's manual," a rhetorical framework that both participates in techno-culture and invites further activity on the part of the reader/listener/user.

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