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Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith
 
=Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith=
what is considered literary creation? Is a traffic report a literary creation?
what is considered literary creation? Is a traffic report a literary creation?
* Goldsmith works: https://monoskop.org/Kenneth_Goldsmith
* List of Goldsmith works: https://monoskop.org/Kenneth_Goldsmith
* ''Uncreative Writing'' https://monoskop.org/log/?p=10009
* Book: ''Uncreative Writing'' https://monoskop.org/log/?p=10009
* Documentary: ''Sucking on Words'' http://www.ubu.com/film/goldsmith_sucking.html
* Documentary: ''Sucking on Words'' http://www.ubu.com/film/goldsmith_sucking.html


Filter Bubble
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<blockquote>The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs.
<blockquote>The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs.

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Words Made Flesh Florian Cramer - Chapter 3: Computation and Fragmentation

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Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith

what is considered literary creation? Is a traffic report a literary creation?

Filter Bubble


Image source:http://www.tracyparish.ca/2013/10/the-filter-bubble-eli-pariser-devlearn-sketchnote.html

The 2016 election took place under the spectre of a bubble. Not the subprime mortgage lending bubble that shaped the 2008 election, but the “filter bubble”. Tens of millions of American voters gets their news on Facebook, where highly personalized news feeds dish up a steady stream of content that reinforces users’ pre-existing beliefs.

Wong, Julia Carrie, Sam Levin, and Olivia Solon. 2016. “Bursting the Facebook Bubble: We Asked Voters on the Left and Right to Swap Feeds.” The Guardian, November 16, sec. US news. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/16/facebook-bias-bubble-us-election-conservative-liberal-news-feed.


Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another’s point of view, but instead we’re more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead we’re being offered parallel but separate universes.

Pariser, Eli. 2011. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You. London: The Penguin Press.

As Chris Palmer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation explained to me, “You’re getting a free service, and the cost is information about you. And Google and Facebook translate that pretty directly into money.”

Markov Chains

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python install PyMarkovChain

install PyMarkovChain Python library

sudo pip install PyMarkovChain

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    sudo aptitude install python-pip
  • (mac)
    brew install python-pip

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  • CSS can provide (variable) style
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