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Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith

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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

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wikipedia bots

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Create twitter app

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

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python

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sudo pip install tweepy

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(debian/ubuntu)
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(mac)
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brew install python-pip
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+* 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
+<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
+<blockquote>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</blockquote>
+'''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 [http://p-dpa.net/work/iraq-war-wikihistoriography/ The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs]
+* Traumawien [http://traumawien.at/prints/american-psycho/ American Psycho] [http://traumawien.at/prints/american-psycho/american_psycho_content.pdf PDF]
+* [http://p-dpa.net/printing-wikipedia-a-chronology/ More experimental publishing projects on Wikipedia] (courtesy of P-DPA)
+=twitter bots=
 * ''Twitter Bot Encyclopedia'' http://p-dpa.net/work/twitter-bot-encyclopedia/ [https://ia800509.us.archive.org/4/items/twitter_bot_encyclopedia_with_cover/twitter_bot_encyclopedia_with_cover.pdf PDF]
 ** Art Assignment bot (p.21) '''What is the tweet structure?'''

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