Thus, the pop up links and intertext of this essay each mimic the sampling process. When mixed down and placed in juxtaposition with one another,
they create a new argument regarding composition studies. My experiment borrows from previous work which poses the juxtaposition of appropriated material as a critical practice. Those writers who have challenged writing to consider the role juxtaposition plays in discourse include William S. Burroughs, Walter Benjamin, and Greg Ulmer. Following the lead of these writers, I understand appropriation as a contemporary critical practice, one which makes use of various discourses simultaneously and out of original context in order to create new meaning. In my project, sampled moments enter into an alternative conversation with one another and challenge our understanding of how temporality can lead to alternative argumentation (much in the way Benjamin's juxtapositions challenged a dominant view of Parisian history).
My choice of research material, therefore, is motivated by the date 1979, but what makes its way into my mix follows the path of "found art." That is, I "find" various moments within the four areas of academic discourse I mix as well as within other areas. The juxtaposition of these moments leads to an alternative insight. I ask readers to generalize from this example, to not consider it the limitation of what is possible in sampling as writing, but what may be possible once sampling is explored more freely in our classrooms.