ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the new forms of appropriating, (re)framing, and sharing meaning in the contemporary world can be explored and described through a cross-disciplinary approach, implemented in both remix studies and digital humanities. The Bakhtinian concept of architectonics can illuminate the analysis of contemporary aesthetic practices that characterize new literacies, especially the analysis of sampling/remix and principle of selectivity. In effect, Homo sampler can be distinguished through its development of new literacies, skills, and capacities aimed at the selection, interruption, and restructuring of rhythmic fluxes, creating and recreating new spatiotemporal correlations and values, which can be an object of interest to both digital humanities and remix studies. In Bakhtinian aesthetics studies, architectonics designates the process through which an author forges a kind of wholeness out of the relation of parts, or how entities relate to each other into a (possible) consummated whole.
