Tag: Uncreative Writing

January 13, 2014

Kenneth Goldsmith on Shia LaBoeuf

     “Anyone who has worked with shared and borrowed materials for a long time knows that there is a certain degree of craft involved, something LaBeouf has no clue about. Plagiarizing well is hard to do. Had he done it...

July 24, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Colbert Report

Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, has read at the White House, been the poet laureate at the Museum of Modern Art, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and can now add...

May 16, 2013

James Franco Calls Uncreative Writing "Good"

We were delighted and pleasantly surprised to see that James Franco, the actor, writer, and doctoral candidate (among other things), recently featured a photo of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age by Kenneth Goldsmith on his website. Below...

April 10, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Wild World of Lulu

In the following post, Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, explores the new publishing options open to poets and whether poetry still needs publishers: Poetry is cunning. Eternally broke and without resources, it manages...

March 4, 2013

Columbia University Press Author Events for March

Just 4 days into the month and we’ve already had a great event: the launch of the highly anticipated Sources of Tibetan Tradition with two of the book’s editors, Matthew T. Kapstein and Gray Tuttle. The event took place yesterday...

January 23, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith — Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art

Congratulations to Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, on being named the Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate. In connection with this, Goldsmith will be delivering a special lecture on March 13th. Goldsmith...

October 16, 2012

Award Winner! Uncreative Writing Wins the A.S.A.P. Book Prize!

Congratulations to Kenneth Goldsmith, whose book Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age was recently awarded Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (A.S.A.P) Book Award. Here is the announcement from A.S.A.P. Uncreative Writing was praised...

April 9, 2012

Kenneth Goldsmith Explains Uncreative Writing on To the Best of Our Knowledge

“There’s a whole century of experimentation with language which is completely ignored. There’s many, many ways to construct novels. We actually just tend to construct novels quite similarly. Just a call to open things up. Let’s a get a little...

November 17, 2011

Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Take on Shakespeare

In Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Kenneth Goldsmith argues that language expressed either semantically or as code is behind everything we read, see, and hear online. The ability of writers and artists to manipulate this “language” opens...