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TO.REMEMBER. Text from Pzwart wiki: 'Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age' Kenneth Goldsmith started his book altering Douglas Humbler's quote “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more” by changing objects to texts. [Goldsmith] establishes the term of uncreative writing, underlying that nowadays texts differs from each other in their ‘technical’ aspects, the way author ‘conceptualised and executed his writing machine’ to rephrase and reorganise other’s words. [...]. In his book Goldsmith cites as an example a poem that consists from shopping mall store list rewritten in poetic form or the work that put together status updates in social networks with names of deceased writers, or Flarf, the new movement in writing that accumulates the worst of Google search result. So, in fact the text I wrote so far is a shortened and rephrased version of Kennet Goldsmith text, borrowed from others he mentions in his book. Nevertheless the new gender has its charm and evokes emotions and connotations as the reaction on writing process itself. Further development of technology became a catalyst for a new era of literature and art in complex. Contemporary artworks put to the end traditional understanding of originality and replication and brought new conception of creativity. During his classes of “Uncreative Writing” in the University of Pensylvania Goldsmith penalised students who tried to be creative and original. “Instead, they are rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patch-writing, sampling, plundering, and stealing. Not surprisingly, they thrive. Suddenly, what they’ve surreptitiously become expert at is brought out into the open and explored in a safe environment, reframed in terms of responsibility instead of recklessness.” He found creativity not in their texts but in the way they choose what and how to reframe, proving that “the suppression of self-expression is impossible”. So the concept of ‘creativity’ haven’t become obsolete, but transformed in compliance of new realities. In other words, creativity goes not with the object but with method, the way the object was created. In era of Internet and computers “even if literature is reducible to mere code—an intriguing idea—the smartest minds behind them will be considered our greatest authors.” [Anon] [note- Goldsmith also wrote Wasting Time on the Internet] Small text

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