New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist today feels local and small. Social media feels now.
Kenneth GoldsmithI 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 GoldsmithAn updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
Kenneth GoldsmithEveryone 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.
Kenneth GoldsmithI don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.
Kenneth GoldsmithFor 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.
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