Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

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.

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.

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.