Digital archivists

When a D.J. brings a laptop full of music samples to a club he doesn't play an instrument, but we don't argue that he isn't doing something creative in mixing those sounds to create his own effect. In the online world the only thing you're the master of is your collection, your archive, and how you use it, how you remix it. We become digital archivists, collecting and cataloging things. I find it exciting.

Kenneth Goldsmith 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/education/edlife/kenneth-goldsmith-on-wasting-time-on-the-internet.html