And we shall play a game of chess

This remix essay by Darren Tofts is in response to Mark Amerika's remixthebook. Tofts describes his essay as such: "The punctum of Duchamp playing a game of chess quickly found me. Through a process of association I was reminded of a line from The Waste Land in which Eliot pla(y)giarizes the game of chess in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women. Reading through the source material I was given I was struck by how much of it was a kind of dialogue among the various personae populated under the rubric of Mark Amerika. I chose to retain this call and response vibe but to synthesize the genre of philosophical dialectic with the agon of a chess match." [For more theoretical, video, art, sound, and code remixes of remixthebook, go to remixthebook.com]