kent or kenny?
illuminated meat (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Kenny Goldsmith ? Kent Johnson ? Monday night at Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC--a signed copy of Day by Kenneth Goldsmith : in this photo: Kenny Goldsmith and Rod Smith
Kenny Goldsmith
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perpetuating myths of originality (Goldsmith responds)
Al Filreis (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kenny Goldsmith responds to my blog entry of October 12, entitled "5-page paper on Stevens, yours for just $59.75." Here's what Kenny writes: A few weeks ago, you blogged about the conundrum of finding a paper mill selling an interpretation of Steven's poem "Mozart, 1935," which might have incorporated your own work on this subject into it, a remix of your own...
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Going to School with Kenny G
The Perpetual Bird (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If you've ever wondered what goes on in one of Kenny Goldsmith's classes, here's a glimpse. This is what passes for profundity among the avant-garde, and evidently Goldsmith is successfully conning his students into his quasi-mystical faith in "the artistic significance and process of transcription." I see the attraction. Transcription is so much less demanding than creation....
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The Malady of Modernism
LEMON HOUND (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It's true, you put stuff out there and you get lovely surprises. Some of them good. This from Kenny Goldsmith: The Malady of Writing: Modernism You Can Dance To (MP3) In collaboration with MACBA in Barcelona, UbuWeb is pleased to present a podcast accompanying their new exhibition entitled The Malady of Writing, a project imagines a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism....
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The invention of content delivery, pt 2
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Kenny Goldsmith writes that with the rise of the web, writing has met its photography but really, writing “met its photography” 500 years ago; it was called print. Virtually everything that photography did to painting — to the entire field of visual culture — print did to writing. After print, writing was reproducible, mechanized, lost/regained...
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The invention of content delivery, pt 1
Snarkmarket (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
A while back, the conceptual writer Kenny Goldsmith wrote something really high-concept: with the rise of the web, writing has met its photography I actually can’t find the original 2007 blog post where Kenny wrote this — the link above takes you to . But luckily, he reformulated it in July in a comment on Ron Silliman’s [...]
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Conceptual writing, translation, exhaustion, 1960s
Exoskeleton (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I just re-read John Barth's "The Literature of Exhaustion," and found this peculiar passage about Borges, "Day" by Kent Johnson and Kenny Goldsmith, and, most interestingly from my perspective, translation (the article was originally published in Atlantic in 1967): "... Now, this is an interesting idea, of considerable intellectual validity. I mentioned earlier...
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Smackdown? Not exactly...
The Perpetual Bird (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Kenny Goldsmith takes on Al Filreis here. No contest. Note that Goldsmith makes each of his students buy a paper from a term paper mill and "present it as their final project as if they wrote it themselves." Is that post-avant, avant—or just stupid? In the end, Al throws the match and praises Goldsmith for "rigorous uncreativity." Now there's desperation....
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Hammering out a Definition of "Queer Voice"
vazambam (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
--for Kenny Goldsmith Don't throw a fit , egghead If the hammer doesn’t fit, Take everything down And fit it all on the head Of a roiling pinhead. (My thanks to Joseph Hutchison for providing the initial impetus here . )