"I used to be an artist; then I became a poet; then a writer. Now when asked, I simply refer to myself as a word processor," Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) writes in "Theory." The acclaimed conceptual poet, who is the founder and editor of UbuWeb, a professor of Uncreative Writing at the University o[...]
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reco[...]
The follow-up to the critically acclaimed "No. 111, Fidget" ruthlessly documents every movement made by Goldsmith's body on Bloomsday (June 16) 1997 from 10 am to 11 pm. Literary critic Marjorie Perloff compares "Fidget" to 'a Beckett prose text, ' and says many witty and intelligent things about it[...]
What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In "Seven American Deaths and Disasters," Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of pa[...]
The classic text on resolving workplace conflicts, fully revised and updatedResolving Conflicts at Work is a guide for preventing and resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work, including dozens of techniques for revealing how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the w[...]