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One of the central theses of *Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age* is that the emergence of digital language, and the internet specifically—" the greatest poem ever written" —presents new challenges for contemporary writers, just as the rise of photography in the 20th century forced painters to rethink their craft. Confronted for the first time with a digital environment that puts an unprecedented amount of text at our disposal, along with a series of novel techniques that allow us to intervene and manipulate it, we are compelled to rethink traditional notions of originality , writing, and authorship .

In the essays collected in this volume, Goldsmith maps the practices and texts that have taken on this task, shaping what the author defines as non-creative writing. This tradition borrows many of its strategies from avant-garde art—a period Goldsmith has documented and disseminated as the founder of Ubuweb, the most extensive online library of experimental art—and finds in the new digital landscape the ideal context to unleash its full potential. Novel practices such as using programming or Google search results to create poetry, composing textual collages from cut-and-paste content gathered during idle internet browsing, continue and intensify the radical experiments of Georges Perec, Duchamp's readymades, William S. Burroughs' cut-ups and fold-ins, Benjamin's trance-like drifts, Situationist détournement, and the plagiaristic strategies of Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol, offering new models of aesthetic production in keeping with the development of digital culture.

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Kenneth Goldsmith

Technical specifications
Published by: Black Box
Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-987-1622-41-2

Kenneth Goldsmith

Non-creative writing. Managing language in the digital age

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Description

One of the central theses of *Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age* is that the emergence of digital language, and the internet specifically—" the greatest poem ever written" —presents new challenges for contemporary writers, just as the rise of photography in the 20th century forced painters to rethink their craft. Confronted for the first time with a digital environment that puts an unprecedented amount of text at our disposal, along with a series of novel techniques that allow us to intervene and manipulate it, we are compelled to rethink traditional notions of originality , writing, and authorship .

In the essays collected in this volume, Goldsmith maps the practices and texts that have taken on this task, shaping what the author defines as non-creative writing. This tradition borrows many of its strategies from avant-garde art—a period Goldsmith has documented and disseminated as the founder of Ubuweb, the most extensive online library of experimental art—and finds in the new digital landscape the ideal context to unleash its full potential. Novel practices such as using programming or Google search results to create poetry, composing textual collages from cut-and-paste content gathered during idle internet browsing, continue and intensify the radical experiments of Georges Perec, Duchamp's readymades, William S. Burroughs' cut-ups and fold-ins, Benjamin's trance-like drifts, Situationist détournement, and the plagiaristic strategies of Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol, offering new models of aesthetic production in keeping with the development of digital culture.

Author
Kenneth Goldsmith

Technical specifications
Published by: Black Box
Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-987-1622-41-2

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Kenneth Goldsmith

Non-creative writing. Managing language in the digital age

$39.000

One of the central theses of *Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age* is that the emergence of digital language, and the internet specifically—" the greatest poem ever written" —presents new challenges for contemporary writers, just as the rise of photography in the 20th century forced painters to rethink their craft. Confronted for the first time with a digital environment that puts an unprecedented amount of text at our disposal, along with a series of novel techniques that allow us to intervene and manipulate it, we are compelled to rethink traditional notions of originality , writing, and authorship .

In the essays collected in this volume, Goldsmith maps the practices and texts that have taken on this task, shaping what the author defines as non-creative writing. This tradition borrows many of its strategies from avant-garde art—a period Goldsmith has documented and disseminated as the founder of Ubuweb, the most extensive online library of experimental art—and finds in the new digital landscape the ideal context to unleash its full potential. Novel practices such as using programming or Google search results to create poetry, composing textual collages from cut-and-paste content gathered during idle internet browsing, continue and intensify the radical experiments of Georges Perec, Duchamp's readymades, William S. Burroughs' cut-ups and fold-ins, Benjamin's trance-like drifts, Situationist détournement, and the plagiaristic strategies of Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol, offering new models of aesthetic production in keeping with the development of digital culture.

Author
Kenneth Goldsmith

Technical specifications
Published by: Black Box
Year: 2023
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm
Weight: 300 gr
Spanish
Pages: 336
ISBN: 978-987-1622-41-2

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