blog 4

“Read and respond to Richards: In each of these excerpts, what do you think Richards is saying? What parts are you confused about? How might these readings relate to our discussion of Remix thus far?”

The first excerpt is stating the idea that there is no wrong way to use a word. This applies to remixing because it's a process of copying/combining/transforming a piece of literature/art (in this case words) to make a new piece of work. Richards could be arguing that using words in a different way than they normally are is just as good because it's a way of remixing. He believes this is an obvious fact.

The second excerpt was confusing.

"delegated efficacy" means the authority to produce a desired or intended result. Richards says this is the definition of meaning. I think he might be saying that words themselves don't mean anything, they are just the name/label of a meaning. This could be seen as a combination.

The fourth excerpt talks about the meaning of context. It starts with how context is the surrounding text, then includes more information to be context, and takes it to the next level and so on. This can be applied to remix because it seems like all words are a copy, transformation, or combination of how another word affects it.

The fifth excerpt talks about context and delegated efficacy. Context essentially is dependent on delegated efficacy. I didn't really understand the rest of this excerpt.

In the last excerpt he is arguing about the Doctrine of Usage again, and he says that we cannot say there is only one correct way to use a word unless it encompasses " whole how of its successful cooperations with other words, the entire range of the varied powers which, with their aid, it can exert"