Uncreative Writing : : Managing Language in the Digital Age / / Kenneth Goldsmith.

Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 27 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Revenge of the Text
  • 2. Language as Material
  • 3. Anticipating Instability
  • 4. Toward a Poetics of Hyperrealism
  • 5. Why Appropriation?
  • 6. Infallible Processes: What Writing Can Learn from Visual Art
  • 7. Retyping On the Road
  • 8. Parsing the New Illegibility
  • 9. Seeding the Data Cloud
  • 10. The Inventory and the Ambient
  • 11. Uncreative Writing in the Classroom: A Disorientation
  • 12 Provisional Language
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Source Credits
  • Index