Twitter bot
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
steps
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