Each of the 30 never-before-published conversations within this collection presents a different facet of Warhol's ever-evolving personality and explores his emergence as socialite, scene-maker, and trendsetter.
Each of the 30 never-before-published conversations within this collection presents a different facet of Warhol's ever-evolving personality and explor...
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In "Against Expression, "editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments.
Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as "poetry pregnant with thought." "Against Expression, "the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents...
In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily tr...
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to...
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive p...
-I used to be an artist; then I became a poet; then a writer. Now when asked, I simply refer to myself as a word processor, - Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) writes in Theory. The acclaimed conceptual poet, who is the founder and editor of UbuWeb, a professor of Uncreative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania and the former host of a weekly radio show at WFMU, was also appointed MoMA's very first Poet Laureate in 2013. Goldsmith may be a word processor, but he has also proven to be a highly influential literary figure over the past two decades. His latest publication, Theory,...
-I used to be an artist; then I became a poet; then a writer. Now when asked, I simply refer to myself as a word processor, - Kenneth Goldsmith (born ...
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith s thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, "Capital" is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis. It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin s...
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith s thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an u...
Against Translation is a text by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) published in eight volumes--English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. The author discusses the impasses and shortcomings of translation and the virtures of an unapologetic linguistic -displacement.- -Translation is the ultimate humanist gesture, - he states. -Polite and reasonable, it is an overly cautious bridge builder ... in the end, it always fails, for the discourse it sets forth is inevitably off-register.- Displacement, by contrast, never explains itself. Goldsmith cites...
Against Translation is a text by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) published in eight volumes--English, French, Spanish, German, Chin...
