"If repetition can be found, even in nature, it is a power which affirms itself against law, which works underneath laws, perhaps superior laws. It puts law into question, it denounces its gener...

"Again and again and again and again. Do it again. Do it again.

Again and again and again and again. Do it again, again and again."

&n...

"Storytelling is always the art of repeating stories, and this art is lost when the stories are no longer retained. It is lost because there is no more weaving and spinning to go on whil...

"To an ever-increasing degree, the work [of art] reproduced becomes the reproduction of a work designed for reproducibility. From a photographic plate, for example, one can make any numb...

“Under existing dominant society, which produces the miserable pseudo-games of non-participation, a true artistic activity … appears in the form of scanda...

"Recording the voice proposes an ontological risk: the recorded utterance is the stolen sound that returns to the self as the schizophonic, hallucinatory, presence of another. But today,...

"It is impossible to understand social and cultural changes without a knowledge of the workings of me...

“The privileged role played by the manual construction of images in digital cinema is one example of a larger trend: the return of pre-cinematic moving images techniques. Marginali...

"We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, n...

"What is meant by 'reality'? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable—now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now in a daff...

hitRECord creates its fair share of what might be deemed “environmental art”: from RECords of trees, birds, and sunsets to the “creation myth” and “RE: Citi...

The hitRECord Manifesto: just a mantra for making hearts beat a little harder. What is a mantra? Just some patterns and prayers which, according to Sanskrit records, promise creative tra...

 “The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.” Marshall McLuhan wrote this bit some nine years i...

"Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into it and sustains it inwardly, and with it forms a sys...

regularJOE calls himself the “director” of hitRECord, but it would be equally apt to title him its “curator.” From the Latin curatus, suggesting “c...

"All of visible nature appears unable to attain settledness and seems to transmute tirelessly in a circle. ... The ancient saying is appropriate regarding this: quaerit se natura, no...

“One cannot ignore the fact that the wandering stars, planetes asteres, derive their name from the verb planao, which means ‘to lead astray, to seduce&rsquo...

“The major obstacle for amateurs is their sense of inferiority vis-à-vis professional productions. The very classification ‘amateur’ has an apologetic ring. But ...

“Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it—when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc.&...

"You can never play a record the same way for the same crowd.

That's why remixes happen."

Paul D. Miller, a....

Collaborating on hitRECord means attuning onself to what the Japanese call "Ma": the gaps or intervals that lend a RECord its characteristic shape. Expounds one especially attuned RECord...

"This really is my heart right here."

~RegularJOE

“Recordings deal with concepts through which the past is reevaluated, and they concern notions about the future which will ultimately question even the validity of evaluation.&rdqu...

Following leading neuroscientists, contemporary philosopher Catherine Malabou envisions the human brain as a mobile, decentered, and non-hierarchical network that is essentially, and ext...

“To ask ‘what should we do with our brain?’ is to visualize the possibility of saying no to an afflicting economic, political, and mediatic culture tha...

"As the concept of [the] original disappears in the digital world, where can we look for the assurance that what we observe is what it claims to be?"

A RECord is a method of repetition.

"Substantially all ideas are second hand."

Mark Twain, "Letter to Anne Macy," Reprinted in Anne Sullivan Macy, The Story Behind Helen Keller (Garden City, N...

RECords divide like fire, not like pie. The more they are shared, the more there is for all. 

“To each of us, through our own particular history, has been given the potential for participating in a unique series of disclosures: the capacity to bring certain creatures and certain th...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is be...