Pastiche IS NOT by its nature a revolutionary form. The clever aesthete. Not me, that's for sure. The only consumer awakening I see going on is the consumer who gets pissed at the fact that John Zorn is screwing them over. Like Warhol, he's gotten rich from his reiterative postmodernity that supposedly attacks consumer culture.
Recognition is the key.
What matters is who can best navigate the cracks of the collage, instead of what is being elided in or just simply left out of the pop-chunks. I'm sorry if I sound too adversarial here, but I think it's a big problem to write the equation between pop collage and a coherent critique of pop culture. Machinic analysis described by Phoebe Sengers brings to mind cellular automata and self-organizing system theory, but applied at higher levels of abstraction. The active agents are more like processes, hence asubjective as the author states. It would be interesting to develop such thought in mathematical terms.