Kenneth Goldsmith Quotes - Page 2

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• I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Troll

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Opinion, Wonderful, Propaganda

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me. Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Anything Goes, Care, Economy

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was writing those books. Those books were written during the age of the blog, with its big verbiage. The landscape has completely changed today.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Artist, Want, Firsts

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for me anymore, but technology does that for me on a daily basis.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Simplicity, Sculpture, Way

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.

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  Roots, Complaining, Use

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Character, Tools, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Tweet, Form, Written

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Bait, Troll, Discourse

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Novelists, Lines

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  New York, Artist, Media

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than the product.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by our own subjectivity.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Writing, Technology, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, Inspire, Way

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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