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The genealogies of the supercut, which extend well past YouTube compilations, back to the 1920s and beyond, reveal it not as an aesthetic that trickled from avant-garde experimentation into mass entertainment, but rather the material expression of a newly-ascendant mode of knowledge and power: the database episteme.
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