Short attention span is the new avant-garde. 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. David Markson feels particularly relevant now. Twitter is the revenge of modernism.
Kenneth GoldsmithIf you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
Kenneth GoldsmithI 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 GoldsmithI never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.
Kenneth GoldsmithAn updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
Kenneth Goldsmith