The Track ID / the inclusion in a mix being the total symbolic death and rebirth of the Song; the appropriation and recontextualization breathing new life while also fixing the meaning of ‘It’ within a sequence at the hands external 11:52PM thoughts as I think about how I grow tired of listening to some tracks but love when they are used in new environments — the crisis of authorship, The mix is trust
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[McLuhan] Everybody has become porous. The light and the message go right through us. At this moment, we are on the air. We do not have any physical body. When you’re on the telephone or on radio or on T.V., you don’t have a physical body – you’re just an image on the air. When you don’t have a physical body, you’re a discarnate being. You have a very different relation to the world around you.

[McManus ] So that’s what this is doing to me?

[McLuhan] Yes. Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It’s called being mass man. By the way, one of the big parts of the loss of identity is nostalgia. So there are revivals in every phase of life today. Revivals of clothing, of dances, of music, of shows, of everything. We live by the revival. It tells us who we are or were.