Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
Kenneth GoldsmithLanguage is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
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 Goldsmith