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Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith

• List of Goldsmith works: https://monoskop.org/Kenneth_Goldsmith
• Book: Uncreative Writing https://monoskop.org/log/?p=10009
• Documentary: Sucking on Words http://www.ubu.com/film/goldsmith_sucking.html

faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours.

Far from this “uncreative” literature being a nihilistic, begrudging acceptance—or even an outright rejection—of a presumed “technological enslavement,” it is a writing imbued with celebration […] The wonderful rhythms of repetition, the spectacle of the mundane reframed as literature, a reorientation to the poetics of time, and fresh perspectives on readerliness

Goldsmith, Kenneth. 2011. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press.

Uncreative writing practices also provide a windows to the ways in which we write and are written in the current technological context. Examples of works that explore this aspect:

• James Bridel The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs
• Traumawien American Psycho PDF
• More experimental publishing projects on Wikipedia (courtesy of P-DPA)

twitter bots

• Twitter Bot Encyclopedia http://p-dpa.net/work/twitter-bot-encyclopedia/ PDF
  • Art Assignment bot (p.21) What is the tweet structure?
• How Pro-Trump Twitter Bots Spread Fake News

• ProustTweet https://twitter.com/ProustTweet

wikipedia bots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots

Write a twitter bot

Create twitter app

Create a twitter app using your twitter account https://apps.twitter.com/ and get your

• consumer_key
• consumer_secret
• access_token
• access_token_secret

python

install tweepy Python library

sudo pip install tweepy

if you dont have pip (python package manager) install it:

• (debian/ubuntu)

  sudo aptitude install python-pip

• (mac)

  brew install python-pip

git clone scripts repository

git clone https://git.pzimediadesign.nl/repos/t4pp_03_twitter.git

Twitter and Python tutorials

git clone https://git.pzimediadesign.nl/repos/t4pp_03_twitter.git