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What if remix culture (and concomitant sampling practices) are to blame<\/strike> credit for the willfully negligent truncations of context? Whether such truncations are on the rise, it is difficult to say, but they do seem to be more frequently in the news<\/em>: 1) absurd fixations on narrative preservation\/continuation, and 2) a bandying among television networks over how adequately a clip represents, synecdochically, the situation within which it arose. Samplers all, we cannot avoid the negation of context, can we?, so perhaps the best we can hope for is some rhetorico-ethical insight into why (and how) this happens, and, after that, some relief in laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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