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Uncreative Writing: Managing Language In The Digital Age (2011)

by Kenneth Goldsmith(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0231149913 (ISBN13: 9780231149914)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Columbia University Press

review 1: Mostly, a finely selected collection and brief critiques of new writing techniques. The thoughts and ideas that try to stitch all together are old and many times repeated, and come mostly from the visual arts. In that sense the book feels uncomplete, failing to provide a maniphest for the new kind of writing being born in the data age; the last chapter is definitely not enough. It is anyway entertaining, interesting, and even sometimes provides hints to deeper ideas that writing so desperately needs today.
review 2: I like this book only because it gives a very quotable voice to postmodern ideas I love to argue against, replete with blatant logical contradictions. It does have a really good amount of examples of modern/postmodern "uncreative" art, so it is a u... moreseful jumping-off point to further research of these artists and art forms. However, I have to agree with many of the other reviewers: the typos are very noticeable. Would Goldsmith care? Probably not. less

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