Kenneth Goldsmith Uncreative Writing

Kenneth Goldsmith
>>>>>>>uncreative writing
Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics
and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Pioneer aspects of visual poetry, sound poetry, the list
poem, and digital poetics. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqNbdxfhbGY
works:
sports
> > > > > > > > > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/Goldsmith_Sports.pdf
traffic
> > > > > > > > > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/Goldsmith_Traffic.pdf
the weather
> > > > > > > > > > http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/goldsmith_winter.html
head citations > > > > > > > > > >
soliloquy
> > > > > > > > > > http://www.epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/soliloquy/02/02_04.html
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/soliloquy_book.pdf
fidget
> > > > > > > > > > http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/fidget/10-00.html
No. 111.2.7.93-10.20.96
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6799
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73 Poems
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Gertrude Stein on Punctuation
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No. 109 2.7.93-12.15.93
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the world is full of objects, more or less

interesting; i do not wish to add any more.
(Douglas Huebler)
the world is full of texts, more

or less interesting; i do not
wish to add any more.
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hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, aar, ah, are, baa,

bah, bar, blah, blur, boar, Boer,
bore, bra, brrrrrrrrrrr, bur, burr,
car, char, chore, core, corps, cur,
czar, dor, da, door, duh, er, err, fa,
far, fir, floor, for, fore, frore, fur,
gore, grrrr, ha, her, hoar, huh, ja,
Jah, jar, la, L oire, lor, lore, ma,
mar, more, myrrh, nor, oer, oar,
or, ore, pa, paar, par, per, pore,
pour, purr, Ra, roar, scar, score,
Shah, shore, sir, slur, snore, soar,
sore, spa, spar, spur, st ar, st i r,
store, swore, ta, ta, taa, tar, Thor,
tor, tore, uh, Vuh, wah, war, were,
whir, whore, wore, ya, yeah, yore;
A bba, A da, adore, afore, aga, ah
ha, Allah, ama, ardor, arna, aura,
awa, bana, bata, ben wa, boner,
Brahma, Buddha, Caaba, cancer,
casa, chutzpuh, citta, cold war,
cold sore, crica, cyber, Dada, daffa,
danta, data, De L a, dhamma, Dia,
di va, dogma, drama, dukkha,
fatwa, flasher, gaga, gama, gamma,
gata, glaga, Glamour, glamour,
grama, grammer, grandma, guillar,
guitar, gummer, haaaardcore, hair
wars, H eathers, hookah, hoopla,
hunger, H ust l er, huzza, i cker,
Jaffa, jama, Jephtha, Jorma, kala,
K ama, kana, karma, K hmer,
K wanza, L ayl a, l l ama, L ycra,
M adza, mana, mat er, M aya,
mayor, M ecca, M ensa, met er,
metre, M eyer, moolah, M ullah,
nada, Naga, NaNa, NASA, ocker,
pater, pleather, poppers, prajna,
prana, rajah, rajar, rana, Rasta,
rat a, raw war, reef er, rhumba,
rocker, saga, sangha, Santa, schlepper, schmata, schnorrer, see ya,
sexer, shama, shiksa, shocker, sila,
Slacker, slaughter, Sleeper, so far,
sofa, sniffer, snuffer, Sparta, Star
W ars, Stouffers, streaker, stuffer,
suffer, Sugar, sukha, sutra, Tama,
tana, Tantra, tawa, thana, Thriller,
T orah, T osca, trishna, T yra, uhhuh, Vanna, voila, wallah, wanker,
W eimar, wire, X-tra, Ya-Ya, Yafa,

yakkha, yoga, zenga; Acura, ahimsa, A da, A l Fat ah, A l f al f a,
alzheimer, angina, Ann L anders,
Attica, Bar M itzvah, Big Brother,
Binaca, Black Panther, blah blah
blah, blood and gore, boastbusters,
Bob Barker, bong water, boy wonder, bra- burner, breast cancer,
Budwei ser, burn rubber, bush
bumper, canned laughter, Cha Cha
Cha, chopped liver, clam chowder,
cockt easer, Cop K i l l er, D A R,
D ubl i ners, D ust bust er, eart h
mama, Either/Or, Elijah, erector,
Esquire, Fa-c-la, formica, Frank
Stella, Frank Zappa, Franz Kafka,
gay basher, gazungas, Gen Xer,
glass slipper, glue sniffer, goatsucker, Goodfellas, Grand Puba, granola, Green Acres, Guernica, gunfodder, gym manners, H aggadah,
hai rf armer, headbanger, H ei l
H itler, hiphugger, hosanna, H ot
T una, H ugh H efner, I smell ya,
I kea, Jane Fonda, Jehovah, Joan
Rivers, Judge W apner, Kabbala,
ki bi t zer, L a Scal a, L a St rada,
L ambada, lap dancer, L aToya, less
i s more, L i f e Savers, L uci f er,
L uf t waf f e, M adonna, maf i a,
M asada, M atsuda, M ax Factor,
M edea, M essiah, mezuzah, M ick
Jagger, mi nut i ae, nai l bi t er,
Naropa, Nausea, nausea, Nirvana,
ni rvana, N i vea, no f ut ure,
nosepicker, one less car, pain killer,
Paul y Shore, peach mel ba,
Petrouchka, Phil Spector, pooge
tower, pudenda, que pasa?, Rated
R, Raw Power, red snapper, Rhett
But l er, Ri ngo St arr, Rush
L i mbaugh, scumsucker, Sean
L anders, soap opera, soul brother,
Spamburger,
St ai rM ast er,
Starfucker, stiff pecker, Stigmata,
strip poker, Superstar, swastika,
T ed T urner, T he Fi gures, T he
Player, The Slider, The Swimmer,
the Other, thighmaster, tongue
twi ster, T ra- L a- L a, T rebli nka,
TriBeCa, Trump Tower, vibrator,
W eight W atchers, youth culture;
aci d- dropper, A dol ph H i t l er,

Afrikaner, Al and T ipper, Alfred
Adler, Alice Cooper, Alka-Seltzer,
A l l ah
A kbar,
al t acocker,
A merikkka, A my Fisher, anklebiter, A rabella, A rchie Bunker,
A rts & L eisure, A unt Jemimah,
author author!, Ayatollah, ba-ruh
a- t ah, Baby Boomer, back t o
nat ure, bad behavi or, Barbara
Kruger, Beaver Cleaver, bedroom
caper, belladonna, Benihana, beta
t est er, Bet s n T i f f ah, Bet t er
Cheddars, Black September, bodhi sat t va, bot t omf eeder, bubbabrot her, bul i mi a, But t hol e
Surfers, Cat Scratch Fever, Charlie
Parker, Che Guevara, chlamydia,
Chgyam T rungpa, Chri st i an
Dior, Christian L aCroix, Christian
Sl at er, Coca- Col a, Col onel
Sanders, cool heh-heh-heh, cowabunga, cul t ure vul t ure, D yer
M aker, Dalai L ama, David Tudor,
D ear John letter, deepseepeeper,
D ennis H opper, D iane Sawyer,
di arrhea, D ocument a, D onna
Summer, D oogi e H owser, D r.
Pepper, D rew Barrymore, duck
and cover, dyslexia, Eddie Vedder,
eeyore eeyore, eggscumuddher,
Eldridge Cleaver, endless summer,
Est e L auder, et hni c cl eanser,
eut hanasi a, EZ W i der, Fel i x
Unger, Ferris Bueller, fetch the
paper, f i rst t ri mest er, Frank
OH ara, Freddy Kruger, Fucking
A da, Gary Gli tter, Gelsomi na,
gender bender, Gift of nature?,
G i mme Shel t er, G l enn or
Glenda?, Go Speed Racer, gonorrhea, gorgonzola, grease releaser,
green- eyed monst er, H appy
Easter, H arley Krishna, hate each
ot her, H ead and Shoul ders,
H einrich H immler, H elen Keller,
hell for leather, H elp M e H onda,
H elter Skelter, H iroshima, H ooch
and T urner, H undred Flowers, I
hate Brenda, Ike and Tina, in hot
wat er, i nsi de t rader, i nsomni a,
I nstant Karma, I ntifada, I zvestia,
Jacques D errida, Jake L a M otta,
Jeffrey D ahmer, Jenny H olzer,

Jewi sh M ot her, Ji mmy Cart er,
Jimmy H offa, Joan L a Barbara,
Jodie Foster, Joe M ontana, John
L ee H ooker, John T ravol t a,
Johnnie W alker, Juliana, Kama
Sut ra, K evi n Cost ner, ki l l al l
l awyers, K i m Basi nger, L .A .
Rai ders, L ana T urner, l arge
inhaler, L arry Kramer, L awrence
W ei ner, L ech W alesa, less i s a
bore, lets play doctor, L ong Dong
Silver, long hot summer, L ord &
T ayl or, L oret t as scars, L ot t e
L enya, M .C. H ammer, M ack the
Fi nger, mama mi a, mari juana,
M artin Buber, meat is murder,
meshuggener, M etallica, M ichelle
Pfeiffer, M ira! M ira!, mirror mirror, M ister M ister, M ister Twister,
M m! M m! Pycha!, M ona L i sa,
motherfucker, multiculture, M y
Sharonna, N acirema, name your
pl easure,
N essun
D orma,
N eutrogena, N ew W orld Order,
nuclear winter, number cruncher,
Oh Calcutta!, On Kawara, one hit
wonder, out of order, paranoia,
Paul a Cooper, peanut but t er,
Pepsi - Col a,
pept i c
ul cer,
Perestroika, polyester, psychedelia,
psycho killer, pull my finger, Pussy
Power, Q ueen L at i f ah, Road
W arri or, Robert Chambers,
Robert G ober, Rocky H orror,
Rot o- Root er,
sal moni l l a,
Sandinista!, Sgt. Pepper, Sigmar
Polke, silver liver, sinsemilla, sled
dog manner, Smooth Character,
Space I nvaders, spelli ng error,
Steven Tyler, Stevie W onder, suburbi a, Sugar Sugar, sweet and
sour, T .V. dinner, T axi D river,
ten-year tenure, T erminator, T he
L ast Supper, t hrough t he back
door, T i ny D ancer, T o M y
Readers:, t oi l et paper, t ort ure
chamber, tranquilizer, treading
water, T ristan T zara, Uri Geller,
W e T ry H arder, W hat a l i ar!,
W ho shot J.R.?, W illiam Kunstler,
W i l l y W onka, W onderama,
Yannick Noah, Zooma Zooma; a
me anything you like but dont call

me late for dinner; eight students
were arrested and a police officer
broke a finger, I am he as you are
he as you are me and we are all
together, I like living in a corrupt
country - I feel like a fish in water,
its beginning to be hinted that we
are a nat i on of amat eurs, i t s
changing the private lives of men
and women across America, most
of us at least once in our lives suffer an attack of glamnesia, T he
Buddha is master of ethics - ethics
do not master the Buddha, they
smile in your face all the time they
wanna take your place the backstabbers; a stunning picture of a
black womans coming of age in
A merica, all animals are created
equal but some are more equal
than others, A merican attitudes
and A meri can i deals extend i ts
power, Benzo W ani Yea Benzo
Bero T sani Yea H um H um Phat
Phat Phat Svaha!, blackvaginafinda
Im the motherfucker fucking sombodi ez daught er, I s t hat Sean
Penn? H es the dude that had sexual i ntercourse wi th M adonna,
medical researchers warn women
about danger at the beauty parlor,
mitigating factor: impedes inhalation of particulate matter, the laboratory of daily life can almost seem
like a torture chamber; crimson
and clover over and over crimson
and cl over over and over,
D ianetics: a milestone for man
comparable to his discovery of fire,
every time that I look in the mirror
all these lines on my face getting
clearer, half of what I say is meaningless but I say it just to reach you
Julia, its like a jungle sometimes it
makes me wonder how I keep from
going under, I ve had it with all
t hose obvi ous l i nes and I not
falling for it anymore, people seeking guns for personal combat want
rel i abl e st oppi ng power 5; i t

would be argument for a week
laughter for a month and a good
jest forever; Anna bana bo-bana
banana- bana bo- bana fee fi momana Anna6, awash in turbulent
gui tars and slow burni ng mi nd
blowing soul searching hysteria,
Polonius: D o you know me my
lord? H amlet: Excellent well you
are a fishmonger; D ear Jay and
Kenny - Real friends are so hard to
find. Thanx for being in my life!
Always Gretta, it has been a murderous day with people demanding
that foreigners be handed over,
promotional considerations and
f ees pai d f or by Beverl y H i l l s
Century Plaza, the other side of
divorce: coping with your mother
as an object of sexual desire; O the
moon shone bright on M rs. Porter
/ A nd on her daught er / T hey
wash their feet in soda water; he
added that many women insist on
using Saran W rap when he goes
down to taste the tuna, I dont care
to belong to any social organization which would accept me as a
member; and doctors recommend
Advil for menstrual cramps more
than any other non- prescription
pain reliever, I enjoy fucking my
wife. She lets me do it any way I
want. No W omens L iberation for
her, those stubborn stains you try
scrubbing them out you try soaking
them out and you still get ring
around the collar; W hen hundreds of skeletons suddenly washed
up they unearthed long-repressed
memories of Stalinist terror, W hy
was my self-image suddenly devastated just because I didnt own a
black Aprica stroller?, women still
comprise anywhere from 70 to 90
percent of all plastic surgery consumers; L o-L ee-Ta: the tip of the
tongue taking a trip of three steps
down the palate to tap at three on
5 The last two lines carry the same point as H ui-kos interview with Bodhidharma.
6L ets do M arsha! M arsha M arsha bo-barsha banana-bana bo barsha fee fi mo-marsha M arsha.
(A littletrick with Nick...)
the teeth. L o. L ee. T a.; W hy

T i na Rod Cl apt on t he D ead
Si mon M cCart ney M i ck K ei t h
Bonnie A retha T ownshend and
Aerosmith Still L ight Our Fire; I
have lived some thirty years on this
planet and I have yet to hear the
fi rst syllable of valuable advi ce
from my seniors; todays children
who have grown up in the information age appear to process information much more quickly than
their predecessors; I used to say to
people that I only had two fears either I d grow up to be like my
mother or I d grow up to be like
my father; T here was a young
Jewess named H annah / W ho
sucked off her lovers banana / She
swore that the cream that shot out
in a stream / T asted better than
Biblical manna; W hat anthem did
Bloom chant partially in anticipation of that multiple ethnically
irreductible consummation? Kolod
balejwaw pnimah Nefesch jehudi
homijah; Quan lo rossinhols escria
/ Ab sa / Par la nueg el dia / Yeu
soy ab ma bell amia / Jos la flor
tro la gaita / De la tor Escria /:
Druth al levar! Quieo vey lalba
/El jorn clar; W ith? Sinbad the
Sailor and T inbad the Tailor and
Ji n b ad
t h e Jai l er
an d
W h i n bad t he W hal er and
Ninbad
the
Nailer
and
Finbad
the Failer
and
Bi ndad t he
Bai l er
and
Pinbad the Pailer
and
Mindbad the M ailer
and
H enbad
the
H ailer
and Rinbad
the
Railer
and
Dinbad ha
the
Kailer
and
Vinbad
t he
Q uai l er
ha
and
ha
L inbad
the
Yailer
Xinbad
ha
ha
and
(H er ?)
ha
Phtailer.
ha
ha
the
(hmph hmph)
ha
(H uh?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(M e?)
ha
ha
ha
(Ah ha! )
ha
ha
ha
(hmmm)
ha
(Wher e?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Wai t! )
(sni ffle)
ha
ha
ha
(Why?)
ha
ha
(i tch i tch)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(cough cough)
ha
ha
ha
(You talki ng to me?)
(H i m?)
ha
ha
(I would never ! )
ha
ha
(Them?)
ha
ha
(swallow)
(H mmmm...)
ha
(panti ng)
ha
ha
ha
(gi ve me a br eak)
ha
ha
ha
(To hi mself)
(yeah, sur e...)

ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Ar e you sur e????)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(She?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(totally outr ageous! )
ha
ha
(clear i ng the thr oat)
(un-fucki ng r eal)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Scr eams)
ha
ha
ha
(Together ???)
ha
(I cant beli eve i t! )

(To hi mself)
ha
ha
(Ohhhh shi t! )
ha
(poi nti ng)
ha
(choki ng)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(loudly )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(flai li ng wi ldly)
ha
ha
ha ha
(a par anoi d glance over the shoulder )
(gaggi ng)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(gr r r ummm r r r r )
ha
(you wi sh)
ha
ha
(i n an anxi ous whi sper )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(scr atch scr atch)
ha
ha
(star es i n di sbeli ef)
ha
(H ow?)
ha
ha ha
(qui etly)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(r econci li ator y)
ha
(noddi ng)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(r ubbi ng hi s chi n)
ha
ha
(Ar e you posi ti ve?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(thi nki ng i t over )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Tr uly?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(I never looked at i t that way...)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Well see...)
ha
(teeth gnashi ng)
ha
ha
ha
(panti ng)
ha
ha
(gr adual enli ghtenment)
ha
(ki cki ng)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Them?)
ha
ha
(Ar e you shi tti ng me??)
ha
(mmmmmm...)
ha
ha
ha
(muffled scr eams)
ha
ha
ha
(two men hold hi m down)
ha
ha
(When?)
ha
ha
(H i m?)
ha
ha
(M e? Jealous??)
ha
ha
(fur i ously shaki ng hi s head)
(I m gonna be si ck! )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(cmon...)
ha
(Oh God! )
ha
ha
(losi ng i t)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Them?)
(H mmmm...)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(sni ffle)
ha
(N o fucki ng way! )
ha
(H ell, no! )
ha
(M e?)
ha
ha
(wheeze wheeze)
(I di d what???)
ha
ha
(I m fr eaki ng out! )
(H e?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(cough cough)
ha
ha
(That bi tch?)
(M y mi nd i s bei ng blown as we speak! )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(cough sni ffle cough)
(Really?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(softly)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(i n a tone of appeasement)
ha
(You thi nk so?)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(let me thi nk i t over )
ha
ha
(holdi ng back the tear s)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(beauti ful)
ha
ha
(I can beli eve i t! )
ha
ha
ha
ha
(slowly fadi ng)
ha
(Thou?)
ha
(bli ssfully)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(li ghts out)
ha
ha
ha
ha
(si gh)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(end her e)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(all i s qui et)
ha
ha
(gently)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(peacefully)
(i nhale exhale i nhale exhale)
ha
ha
ha
(easy, now...)
(sweetly)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Ah ha! )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(bi ti ng hi s lower li p)
ha
(dr eami ly)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Didnt I tell you that it would all work out in the end?)
ha
ha
(sni ffle)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(i n hushed tones)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(Slowly, slowly! )
(ki ndly)
ha
(br eathi ng deeply)
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(I t i s tr ue! )
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
ha
(O.K.)
ha
ha
ha
(dr aws a long deep br eath)
ha
ha
ha
(I feel much better )
ha
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SOLILOQUY
Kenneth Goldsm i th
G r ana ry Bo ok s N ew Yor k Cit y 2001
Good morning, how ya doin? Yep. Wait a second, I have my

ticket. OK. There you go. Thanks. See you soon. Oh oh oh,
I thought you said have a good weekend. Oh, OK. Have a
good week. See you later. How you doin? Alright, alright.
Two, please. You dont want to save that for four or is it OK?
Do you have any newspapers lying around? Ill just have a
coffee to start. Thanks. OK, babe. OK. How ya doin? Uh
huh. Regular. Ill take regular this time. Did you go all the
way back to the gallery? Youre sweating. Thats good... its
good for you. Oh, thanks. Yeah, of course. Everybody knows
that guy. Hes sort of... sort of famous. I saw a bunch of these
actually on the racks. At a coffee shop. Theyre out and in
the world, which is pretty neat. Thats cool and I like that.
Very Cool. Weve gotta get a poster. I dont know, I dont
know. I was told by people there was a poster there. Yeah, I
know. Thats why you cant take publicity too seriously. Yeah,
maybe other people do... they love publicity. So, have you
been sleeping? No, dont worry... your life will change. Be
assured, your life will change. Sure. Sure. So Im told. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Oh John, do you know what you want? I do. Id like
the uh, pancakes, uh short sounds good. A little more coffee
and some water. Has Karin been out of the house? Thats
right you guys had an opening. Well, I heard it last Sunday.
Its really nice that all the artists came over. Yeah. I thought
that was really cool. I mean, we all came over at the same
time. I thought that was very hip. Good move. That means
you only have to tell the stories once. Bitter? You want some
milk? How was your opening? This is the paintings. And
what is the artists name? And where is she from? Regular.
Thanks. Worse than me? Isro. Sure. Did you see that article
on Mason Reese in the paper? Wasnt that depressing?
Soliloquy
Ohhh. Yeah, I mean its also like the, I mean, its also like the
Danny Partridge, whats his name? The Danny Partridge
story? Yeah, but it was really sad. But the best one was that
little retarded black kid. No, no. The one from, you know,
the one from... he was adopted into that family... the white...
hes really short and he went off to rob dry cleaners. Right,
OK, right. What was the name of that show? Anyways... Yeah,
I mean, it was on in the early 80s and I wasnt watching T.V.
then. Yeah, Willis. Right. Right. And I cant remember the
name, either onstage or off of the short guy. Gary Coleman
and the girl was Kitten? But she robbed a store. At any rate...
Eddie Van Halen? Remember Valerie Bertinelli like when
she was like on T.V. when we were kids and when she first
came on T.V. I had a real crush on her? Something like that.
Yeah, she was very adorable. You know, I think the latest
incarnation is Winona Ryder. Oh well. Phoebe Cates had
plenty of sexuality. Yeah. Yeah. Its the best scene of any
movie, I think. And I love Drew Barrymore. I think shes...
no she was not in that. She was not in that... Naw. No. I dont
know that. Thanks. Who? Oh no. Obviously they censored
that. Was she wearing a bra? Oh, I see. OK. So anyway, we
were gonna yak about some art stuff. Um, Can I get a water?
Thanks, its alright. Well, first off, um, I finished my book
that Ive been working on for 3 years and Im really happy
that its done. Completely. Well, its been seen as some kind
of a weird side project. He wanted to make 3 cases where the
writing has, is the activity. So, I mean its, I I cant define that
book. Sometimes I think its a big book of poetry, sometimes
I think its a reference book, sometimes I think its a conceptual art piece. You know, it never, I havent been able to
pin it yet, really and its, and its flowed in and out of different contexts, like, I believe that the book, when Geoff publishes it will be received by the poetry world, by the writing
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world that Im involved with. You know, like 73 Poems... it

got really juiced in the music world we got major juice. We
got really major juice in the literary world also from a great
top critic. And, of course the art, the way that thing toured
and got, you know, a mountain of press. It seemed to me
that it did well on those 3 fronts as well. So I think that what
Im saying it that I cant, you know, I I cant, like, deny any
aspect of my production which includes you... Maybe youre
right, maybe youre right, but maybe youre right you know
but, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, lets see, um, in
some ways it wasnt that important to me. In some ways the
show was important to you. Was it important to you? Whats
important? Like isnt whats important to one what is important? Yeah, well, youve got a good point there. I wish, in my
heart, that I could live by my words. You know, what I said to
you a minute ago. You know, I get, you know, I certainly, I
certainly, major bouts and fits reacting to and against whatever whatever things. Maybe its the art world, maybe it the
literary world, you know, I really I really wish I could flow
you know you know that I like to talk about. And I think at
that time I kind of I really dont like the context of the show.
I really dont care cause you know its like being it represents everything, um, I really hate about multi multiculturalism you know black artists showing in a black show. You
know, I mean it really reeks of all that stuff that I despise like
like _________. And I also kind of felt that it would, to tell
you the truth also, it wasnt you know a particularly significant piece that I made I thought, you know, it just seemed
like a little drawing you know it didnt I dont know well, it
was several things... Well I I kind of feel like when I was like...
Yeah, O.K., got it got it got it. Now thats thats a good point.
Because, you know, my head also was so into this book for
the last while that there you know there was I was its so
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was something worth doing cause, hey, everyones on the

web, you know, same old same old kind of hoo-ha. Oh yeah,
the web its hot everyones on it. I can do it too. Well, you
cant. Its not... From when? Its only part of the, I mean,
thats right it is because you cant do all sort of things and,
you know, the other thing is, you know, its only its only a
fraction of what the Internet is. Its FTPing, its learning to
set permissions, youve got to make sure everything works,
its, you know, complicated, you know, its very complicated.
Well, no, I mean I learned it by doing the number of websites Ive done. File transfer protocol. Its how you move files
from one computer to another. Anyway, I dont, you know, I
dont want to talk about it right now. How long do I work.
And the other thing is Im a little pissed off, you know,
because, you know, Ive spent all this time learning all this
stuff and getting really good at it and I have yet to really
make any money at it so when Blair kind of calls me on, you
know, begging for my help, Im happy to give her help. Im
not, you know, Ive spent too much time to just give my all
my information away. I need to be paid. Sure would. I told
Blair I dont mind teaching her if it was for her own homepage Id say hey come on over Ill tell you anything you need
to know but its but its a corp she works for a corporation
Im like, no. Sorry. They dont they dont get my advice. You
do youre my friend. Thats what she gonna try to do. Do
that thing. Interep radio, whatever that means. Of course Id
teach you. Yeah, no, of course I would. If I had enough if I
had enough work, if I had too much work man, just like we
already did. Sure, are you kidding? I can fuck the secretary.
Yeah no, we did great, I thought we did great. Even all you
did was even when you just laid that stuff in on PageMill, uh,
we I thought you did, you know, you did a, you know, you
did a tremendous job. Are those yours or mine? No you did-
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nt make any mistakes and then I just went in and enhanced

it with advanced html commands. But, you know, right. I
aint gonna fuck Blair, Ill tell you that. Blown by the 80 year
old. This house is looking much cleaner, isnt it? She was just
sitting there, you know, like grinding away, you know, thinking that an html document can look exactly like the Quark
document on a Sunday night. Ugh. I wanna get paid for my
knowledge, man. I mean, I dont know everything but I
know a lot and I spent a lot of time learning it and I need to
get paid for for my for this knowledge finally. You know? Im
realizing, you know, Brian McHugh was the same fucking
problem. Brian just thought he could waltz in there and
learn learn html, you know, in a minute. Hey, everyones
doing it. So I gave the guy a lesson just to get him off my
back for, like, 4 hours and he does he still doesnt know what
hes doing. You know, Brians good on the computer its just
you people think its too easy so they, you know, theyre not
gonna put the time in. The fact of the matter is that you its
like its as complicated or more complicated than Quark,
Photoshop, and, you know, all the other ones. Just because
its hot and everybody thinks its fun, you know, everybody
thinks its easy and they all can do it. Did I sound nice at
least? Yeah yeah. God, do you think I should throw this shirt
out? Its not only html. Theres a million little things that are
connected with it like FTPing and blah blah blah, you
know, theres tricks and theres theres theres online editing
and theres zillions of little things, whats gonna work and
whats not and thats whats tough. This is nice this apartments looking a lot neater. NAFT gets 75 dollars an hour
for looking at my computer. I think I should make at least
that much operation, you know? I pay those guys 75 dollars
an hour. Get me to my ass. Yeah. Well I I thats not going to
be the case, you know? If I work Ill get paid. You know and
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Kenneth Goldsmith: TRAFFIC
12:01
[Editions Eclipse online at http://english.utah.edu/eclipse]
Well, in conjunction with the big holiday weekend, we start out with the Hudson
River horror show right now. Big delays in the Holland Tunnel either way with
roadwork, only one lane will be getting by. You're talking about, at least, twenty
to thirty minutes worth of traffic either way, possibly even more than that.
Meanwhile the Lincoln Tunnel, not great back to Jersey but still your best option.
And the GW Bridge your worst possible option. Thirty to forty minute delays, and
that's just going into town. Lower level closed, upper level all you get. Then back
to New Jersey every approach is fouled-up: West Side Highway from the 150's,
the Major Deegan, the Bronx approaches and the Harlem River Drive are all a
disaster, the Harlem River Drive could take you an hour, no direct access to the
GW Bridge with roadwork. And right now across the East River 59th Street
Bridge, you've gotta steer clear of that one. Midtown Tunnel, Triboro Bridge, they
Traffic
remain in better shape. Still very slow on the eastbound Southern State Parkway
here at the area of the, uh, Meadowbrook there's a, uh, stalled car there blocking
a lane and traffic very slow.
12:11
Oh, one of the nastiest nights we've had in a while across the Hudson River.
Holland Tunnel can be up to a half an hour in either direction, it's repairs and
only one lane available. Lincoln Tunnel, which was a good way out is a bad way
Kenneth Goldsmith
out now. Now we've got troubles back to Jersey it looks like, uh, now, mmm,
watching here on the WINS Jam Cam, it's double trouble. The north tube all
traffic's grinding to a halt going back to Jersey, that'll impact the 41st and 40th
Street approaches. The center tube, that's another problem: you got a stuck bus
in the tube. We just got a call from Dennis who, um, a member of our traffic
team, who said that there was only one lane open, the right lane in that tube
back to Jersey, with a, uh, bus stopped there, Port Authority police crews are on
scene. Right now traffic stacking up, Lincoln Tunnel Jersey-bound, GW Bridge can
easily take you thirty to forty minutes to go either way, even worse off the
Harlem River Drive with no direct access to the G. W. Bridge because of repairs
going on and the 59th Street Bridge, still an absolute must to avoid. You've got
roadwork there and delays on both decks either way.
12:21
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Well, we could spend an hour talking about the Hudson River right now because
that could be the delay going back to new Jersey on the Harlem River Drive
approach to the GW Bridge. It's all because of repairs. Bronx approaches are an
absolute sickening ride at this point and, uh, going into New York City the, uh,
GW Bridge with a thirty to forty minute delay. They're doing repairs in each
direction tonight on the lower level. Meanwhile, the Lincoln Tunnel, nobody's
hour back to Jersey and gumming up Manhattan with a stalled bus that's being
coming back to New Jersey. Remember Dennis phoned in, our traffic team
cleared. Holland Tunnel delays are about a half an hour in each direction. Across
member, the last report said there was a stalled bus inside the Lincoln Tunnel?
the East River avoid the Whitestone Bridge to Queens and just flat out avoid the
59th Street Bridge, delays in both directions on both decks.
Well, now they're holding all traffic back on the way back to Jersey so right now
you're at a dead stop. And, uh, and looks like here on the Panasonic Jam Cam
12:31
12:51
Oh right now, you want nothing to do with the GW Bridge, which can take you up
nobody getting through as yet. As you, uh, make your way at the, uh, Holland
to an hour or more to use the GW Bridge into the city. The, uh, problem is the
Tunnel, thirty minute delays either way, that because of repairs. Whitestone
lower level is closed either way, that's why the upper level is completely stacked
Bridge, that's where Bobby phoned in, at least a half an hour delay to Queens
up. And you've got, uh, big time jam-up's right now on 80/95 Express.
with roadwork, stick with the Throgs Neck or the Triboro. Avoid the 59th Street
Meanwhile, back to Jersey, avoid the Harlem River Drive approach, that approach
Bridge either way, use the Midtown Tunnel to avoid repairs there.
can take you about an hour back to Jersey. On the, uh, Harlem River Drive
Unbelievable what's happening out there tonight: midnight gridlock. Where do we
approach all traffic diverts to Amsterdam Avenue, you can't even get to the GW
begin? There is a stalled bus inside the Lincoln Tunnel that is refusing to move,
Bridge directly, and that's why you've got that huge backup, Bronx approaches
blocking all access to New Jersey. That means we're jammed-up deep on the
are not looking good either. Lincoln Tunnel about a twenty minute delay back to
Manhattan side. All approaches to the Lincoln are packed, spilling over into the
Jersey, that's the best we've got. Holland Tunnel, thirty minutes in either
midtown grid: Times Square, Columbus Circle, Eighth Avenue up to the Park,
direction, that because of roadwork. 59th Street Bridge, you want to avoid it
nothing is moving, just a lot of angry drivers at the point. Well, you might think,
completely, use the Midtown Tunnel or the Triboro. Also, steer clear of the
hey, why not head up to the GWB? But nope. That's jam-packed due to repairs.
Whitestone Bridge, which is jammed on the way to Queens. And the BQE is also
We're looking at at least forty-five minutes to an hour up there. And remember
bumper-to-bumper westbound through Atlantic Avenue here in the camera. It's
there's no access off the Harlem River Drive, gumming things up all the way to
roadwork causing more than a one mile delay. Only one lane'll be getting by.
Riverdale, even bumping up to the Tappan Zee. Wow! Now, the Holland Tunnel is
12:41
1:01
Well, the big delays continue across the Hudson River, could take you up to a half
still looking better, but still you're going to hit nearly a half an hour getting in and
an hour to go, uh, at the, uh, Holland Tunnel either way. Lincoln Tunnel will be
out of town. On the East River crossings it's no better with the Whitestone out
better on the way a back to Jersey, delays are winding down a little bit, but still
with, uh, roadwork. And the 59th Street Bridge is mobbed both ways in and out
better than the Holland Tunnel overall. And the GW Bridge is just an absolute,
of town. You'll want to avoid that. We've got a smoother ride into the Midtown
flat out disaster. If you're gonna use it back to Jersey, take the West Side
Tunnel, with scattered ten to fifteen minute delays there, but it might be your
Highway to get there. Harlem River Drive approaches still upwards of a, uh, one
best bet.
hour delay, matter of fact, I'm gonna make that even more. Delays are back to
Well, hard to believe that on a night as a holiday weekend is beginning, you've
the Triboro Bridge now so it's going to take you well over an hour to use the
got one hour delays each way at the GW Bridge, 80/95 Local lanes are, uh, going
Harlem River Drive going up to the GW Bridge. Bronx approaches should be a
to be closed down on the approach to the bridge, so all traffic going to the GW
little bit better, not much, just a little bit. And the GW Bridge at least an hour into
Bridge will be pushed to the upper level. That's why the backup right now is
New York, only the upper level available, lower level closed with repairs. Avoid
solidly all the way back into Teaneck as you, uh, travel right now on 80/95 here
the Whitestone Bridge to Queens, it's jammed with roadwork. Avoid the 59th
on the Panasonic Jam Cam. You've also got big delays on the Harlem River Drive,
Street Bridge no matter which way you go, it's jammed with roadwork. The BQE
especially going back to Jersey, that's about a one hour wait as well. Cross Bronx
is also jammed with roadwork westbound through Atlantic Avenue, one lane gets
approach is also gonna be a mess as you, uh, make your way towards the bridge,
by.
it's about a two mile delay. Lincoln Tunnel still jam-packed with about a half an
1:11
Well, two bridges you want to steer clear of over the East River, the Whitestone
closed. You've got backups on the Harlem River Drive stretching back at least an
hour with traffic. Right now the Lincoln Tunnel still the best way overall to cross
59th Street Bridge, still a mess no matter which way you go, you've got repairs
the Hudson. Across the East River you want to steer clear of the, uh, Whitestone
there as well. Now, across the Hudson River, you gotta head to the Lincoln
Bridge to Queens with roadwork. 59th Street Bridge try to avoid the upper level
Tunnel. While the Lincoln Tunnel is not great, it's a whole lot better than the
either way. Bruckner Expressway going north you have only one lane open by
thirty minute delay either way that awaits you at the Holland Tunnel or the GW
White Plains Road. That's the scene of an accident. And in New Jersey on the
Bridge, which is just an absolute nightmare, uh, about one hour or more going
Turnpike, truck lanes, you have a wreck just north of Exit 11, a couple of trucks
into New York for the GW Bridge, lower level closed, 80/95 Express lanes are
involved car lanes going north on the Turnpike. They will wind up being a better
backed up almost to Teaneck and, uh, right now you've also got big delays back
ride.
1:41
Oh we still have a lot of traffic on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Westbound
to the GW Bridge. That's going to be at least an hour to ninety minutes worth of
side still hung up with roadwork down through Atlantic Avenue where you've got
traffic. Again, all traffic diverts off on Amsterdam Avenue, you can't even get to
only one lane getting by. At least if you're gonna be, uh, heading right now to
the GW Bridge that way. Stay with the West Side as your better alternate. And in
the, uh, Hudson River at least you've got the Lincoln Tunnel to use. The Holland
New Jersey we're just getting reports of a crash, uh, on the New Jersey Turnpike
Tunnel, there's still delays either way with repairs. GW Bridge is still a mess
truck lanes just after Exit 11 going northbound.
because of repairs but now no more than thirty to forty minutes on the way into
We are still getting hit real hard over the Hudson as we switch, uh, the cameras
New York, we're actually seeing an improvement for that GW Bridge upper level.
over the Harlem River Drive approach, backed up well over an hour to an hour
The bottom line is you still want to use the Lincoln Tunnel either way and avoid
and a half trying to get over to the GW Bridge. You've got, uh, all access to the
the Harlem River Drive back to Jersey. It's an absolute mess, no direct access to
GW Bridge knocked out, you get pushed to Amsterdam Avenue instead. Right
the GW Bridge, you'll be pushed off to Amsterdam Avenue. As you, uh, make
now the West Side, worlds better than the East Side going north and it looks like,
your way across the East River, Whitestone Bridge there's only one lane open to
eh, GW Bridge into the city still bucking the one hour mark on the way into town,
Queens. 59th Street Bridge, there's upper level repairs either way. No incidents
depending on your approach. Now, if you sneak in via Route 46 to Route 4, you
reported in Queens on the LIE, the Grand Central. Westchester County main
can really knock that delay down a lot. As you, uh, travel the Lincoln Tunnel still
arteries 287, 87, 95 reportedly in good shape.
your best way across the Hudson River. And across the East River avoid the
1:31
Bridge still jammed to Queens with roadwork and only one lane available and the
to Jersey. The Harlem River Drive is backed up almost to the Triboro heading up
1:21
1:51
Well the good news finally is delays are dropping a bit at the GW Bridge going
Throgs Neck Bridge to Queens with roadwork, avoid the 59th Street Bridge that's
into New York. It's still gonna be about twenty minutes but, uh, the good news is
still very slow on the outer roadway exiting into Queens on the lower roadway.
the upper level is thinning a bit and, uh, looks like the 46 and Route 4
Lower roadway, though, inbou... in the, uh, inside the lower roadway is getting
approaches will knock that down even further and as you, uh, make your way to
better in either direction so that can help you out. And right now the BQE still a
the Lincoln Tunnel, that's still your best way across the Hudson. Big backups at
mess down through Atlantic Avenue due to roadwork, just one lane there will be
the Holland Tunnel either way and that's because of repairs. Across the East
getting by. No repairs tonight on Long Island's North Shore. LIE repairs are
River the, uh, right now the Whitestone Bridge is only one lane available in either
finished with.
direction with roadwork. And the 59th Street Bridge upper level, looks like
Oh, as we're waiting for a little good news at the GW Bridge. It looks like that
they've, uh, closed that down going over to Queens, I don't see anybody coming
delay now going into the city is about thirty to forty-five minutes. A lot of folks
over. Right now all traffic diverts to the lower level and it is jam-packed right now
are getting the hint: don't use the GW Bridge. Big delays not only into New York
on the, uh, lower level going to Queens as we see live on the Panasonic Jam
with the lower level closed, but huge delays back to Jersey with the lower level
Cam.
Brooklyn-Queens
Expressway
equally
packed
bumper-to-bumper
head to Nassau County, eastbound Northern State Parkway in through Glen Cove
looking good over to the Tappan Zee Bridge. Tappan Zee Bridge, GW Bridge,
Road that's Exit 31 in Westbury. Heavy traffic starting to build there. Apparently
Lincoln Tunnel all OK. It's the Holland Tunnel, though, where there's still some
some debris on the roadway. They're working on clearing that now. Now, not
traffic going back to Jersey. Now, across the East River, it looks like, uh, the
affecting the westbound side of the roadway, at least not right now, but looks like
Whitestone Bridge is slow to the Bronx, you've got roadwork there. Also expect
a big cleanup job. Word from the Long Island Railroad, normal schedule in effect
some company on the Brooklyn Bridge. And the, uh, BQE you've got, uh, right
for today but still running about ten to fifteen minutes scattered delays in
now delays exiting to the Long Island Expressway. The, uh, Long Island
through Penn Station. Been that way, uh, pretty much all day. Broken rail in
Expressway has been an absolute horror show, you've got delays now forming
Greenlawn that's affecting the Port Jefferson branch, no word's as to when that
back at the BQE again. This delay goes bumper-to-bumper straight through to
will be cleared up. Uh, also Metro North running a normal schedule today. Here's
the Fairgrounds area. There may be something along the way past Queens
what you need to know about the bridges and tunnels: right now Holland, Lincoln
Boulevard. Grand Central there was an accident being cleared over by the BQE
Tunnels, George Washington Bridge into and out of the city doing just fine. Over
on the westbound side of the Grand Central.
on the Whitestone Bridge now headed to the Bronx, lane down for ongoing deck
2:41
Kevin, a member of our traffic team now, we've got heavy traffic over on the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, all lanes are being reopened. But the LIE,
59th Street Bridge, both levels, outbound appears to be in good shape, looks like
something's going on through Queens Boulevard, because it is much slower than
just volume there.
normal, jam-packed from the BQE heading over toward Woodhaven and toward
Street cleaning rules suspended today and will be until the end of this holiday
Queens Boulevard, that we see on the WINS Jam Cam. Now the BQE is getting
weekend. Meter rolls... uh... rules still apply, which means you still have to feed
better going up toward the Kosciuszko Bridge. And in the Bronx things are
the meters. As we check out now in Suffolk County, Sagtikos coming in through
getting a lot better on the Cross Bronx west to the GW Bridge. Only hot spot
Exit S3 southbound side accident cleared, traffic easing out there. Um, also on
across the Hudson, the Holland Tunnel there's still delays back to Jersey. If you
the eastbound side of the Northern State Parkway, uh, we've still got delays in
use the Whitestone Bridge, be prepared for a little bit of traffic on the way to the
through Glen Cove Road, traffic, uh, heavy there because debris is still being
Bronx. You've got roadwork in place. The, uh, Throgs Neck Bridge very good out
cleared up from all over the roadway in that area. Here's what you need to know
of Queens into the Bronx. And, uh, be aware on the Saw Mill still in Westchester,
about the bridges and tunnels: right now Holland and Lincoln, George
southbound side of the Saw Mill Parkway right by 287 in Elmsford, there's an
Washington Bridge, into and out of the city not bad at all. Over at the, uh,
overturned car. Emergency crews still remain on scene.
Whitestone Bridge headed to the Bronx, a lane down for deck replacement work
there. We do have some heavy delays and a little bit slow on the way to Queens
2:31
Well, looks like as you, uh, make your trip right now, uh, in Queens, the Grand
Central's gonna start getting better. They're clearing that accident over by the
replacement work. Queens-bound side is heavy as well. Also, uh, word from
2:21
2:51
Let the rush begin and let's see now what the roads are looking like in and
around the city. And it's not so good over on the Tappan Zee heading into
as well. Throgs Neck Bridge looks good in both directions and over at the 59th
Rockland as I see it on the Panasonic Jam Cam, suddenly getting very slow. Not
Street Bridge we've got heavy traffic inbound on both levels. Outbound side
bad on the GW Bridge inbound on the upper and lower level. Lincoln Tunnel,
appears to be OK right now. And, uh, no problems to report at the Manhattan or
you've got delays of maybe five minutes leaving town. The Holland Tunnel looks
Williamsburg Bridges as of now.
to be so far in, uh, pretty decent shape in, uh, both directions. In and out of
Well, still having troubles in Westchester County on the Saw Mill, southbound
Staten Island it's been rough. The Goethals going to Jersey, a stalled car. The
side of the Saw Mill Parkway at the Thruway. And in Elmsford there's an accident
Outerbridge is slow heading out back to Staten Island. Between Brooklyn and
with a flipped-over car, emergency crews still on scene. And it looks like at least
Manhattan, it's building to a jam on the upper level of the Manhattan Bridge to
one lane is at least still out of service. As you, uh, make your way on 287, that's
Manhattan as I watch it on the Panasonic Jam Cam. The Brooklyn Bridge is bad
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nam june paik: magnet TV, 1965
(dekonstrukcija pojma televizije,

magnet + tv = cut\paste + text)
having to manually retype or hand copy entire book on a
typewriter;
cut/paste entire book with three keystrokes - select all/
copy/paste
digital media has set the stage

for a literary revolution.
teorija:
new condition in writing today - internet - velika kolicina tekstahow i ma n a g e i t , h o w i o r g a n i ze and distribute it - is what distinguishes my writing from yours.
marjorie perloff - term unoriginal genious - zbog novih tehnologija i interneta, romanticna ideja genija isolated
figure - is outdated.
term moving information - pushing language around from one place to another, writer resembles a programmer
construction or conception of a text is as important as what the text says or does.the context is new content.
Walter Benjamin - The arcades project
Oulipo group
Raymond Queneau-Hundred thousand bilion poems
new ways of writing: word processing, databasing, recycling, appropriation, intentional plagiarism, identity
ciphering, intense programming..
prihvacanje nove tehnologije and future, new gramatical, structural and philosophical possibilities: rhythms of
repetition, spectacle of everyday reframed as literature, reorientation of poetics of time, fresh perspective of
readerliness
2007. Jonathan Lethem essay: The extasy of influence:a plagiarism (patchwriting - nearly every word and idea
was borrowed from somewhere else)
Marcel duchamp (readymades), francis picabia, w. benjamin the work of art in the age of mecanical reproduction
art, video, music - ideas to new levels, exeption of writing
in the art world, since impressionism, the avant-garde has been the mainstream. But literature has remained
on two parallel tracks, the mainstream and the avant-garde, bez susretanja. Digital culture have unexpectedly
forced a collision - suddenly, all of the writing world finds itself with same new questions concerning
authorship, originality, and the way meaning is forged.
OULIPO
A major contribution occurred in 1960 with the founding of Oulipo, a French group of writers, poets, and mathematicians
1.
replace every noun in a text with the word that falls 7 places ahead of it
in the dictionary.
2.
exclude letters with legs ( b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, y)
3. A mtro poem
Walter Benjamin
The Arcades Project
writing is stuck
books on creative writing missed the boat
>>>cliched notions of what it means to be creative a creative writer is an explorer, a ground breaker. chart
your own course and boldly go where no one has gone before. liberate yourself from the constraints of everyday
life. prioritize the theatrical over the mundane as the basis for writings.
Duchamp and composer Erik Satie both had the desire to live vithout memory so that they can be present to the
wonders of everyday. yet it seems every book on creative writing insists that memory is the primary source of
imaginative experience.
using the first-person point of view, explain how a 55-year old man feels on his wedding day. it is his first marriage.
gertrude stein: tender buttons (she experimented with everything in trying to describe.
kenneth goldsmith :uncreative writing
students are penalized for showing any shred of originality and creativity;
rewarded for plagiarism, identity theft, repurposing papers, patchwriting, sampling, stealing
>>>>>responsibility instead of recklessness
retype document
transribe audio clip
make small changes to wikipedia pages
change a to an
insert extra space between words
steal a final paper from internet and sign your name to it,
and than present the paper to the class as if you wrote it
the suppression of self-expression is impossible
what becomes important is what you - the author - decides to choose. knowing what to include and more important what to leave out.
Gertrude Stein
If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ
TENDER BUTTONS
Gertrude Stein
OBJECTS
A FRIGHTFUL RELEASE.
A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found.
The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not
exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was
mismanaged.
OBJECTS.
Within, within the cut and slender joint alone, with sudden equals and
no more than three, two in the centre make two one side.
If the elbow is long and it is filled so then the best example is all
together.
and it does more to that ministering counting. It does, it does change

in more water.
Supposing a single piece is a hair supposing more of them are orderly,
does that show that strength, does that show that joint, does that show
that balloon famously. Does it.
A PAPER.
A courteous occasion makes a paper show no such occasion and this
makes
readiness and eyesight and likeness and a stool.
A DRAWING.
The meaning of this is entirely and best to say the mark, best to say it
best to show sudden places, best to make bitter, best to make the length
tall and nothing broader, anything between the half.
The kind of show is made by squeezing.
WATER RAINING.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
EYE GLASSES.
A color in shaving, a saloon is well placed in the centre of an alley.
COLD CLIMATE.
A season in yellow sold extra strings makes lying places.
CUTLET.
A blind agitation is manly and uttermost.
MALACHITE.
The sudden spoon is the same in no size. The sudden spoon is the wound
in the decision.
CARELESS WATER.
No cup is broken in more places and mended, that is to say a plate is
broken and mending does do that it shows that culture is Japanese. It
shows the whole element of angels and orders. It does more to choosing
AN UMBRELLA.
Coloring high means that the strange reason is in front not more in
front behind. Not more in front in peace of the dot.
za sluanje>>>>>>>><
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=k1FcSGDgU8Q
james joyce
nnegans wake
tekst>>>
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/
joyce/james/j8f/complete.html
What in
water
did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of water, watercarrier, returning to the range, admire?
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean
of Mercators projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacic exceeding 8000 fathoms: the
restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units:
the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its
subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial
signicance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square
leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its
luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most
precious metals: its slow erosions of peninsulas and islands, its persistent formation of homothetic islands, peninsulas and
downwardtending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and
highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramications in continental
lakecontained streams and conuent oceanowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream,
north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies,
freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges,
cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic
or hygrometric instruments and exemplied by the well by the hole in the wall at Ashtown gate, saturation of air, distillation
of dew: the simplicity of its composition, two constituent parts of hydrogen with one constituent part of oxygen: its healing
virtues: its buoyancy in the waters of the Dead Sea: its persevering penetrativeness in runnels, gullies, inadequate dams, leaks
on shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and re, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and
paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms
in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches
and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, iceoes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels,
turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable,
oating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its
submarine fauna and ora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity
as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its efuvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded
owerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.
James Joyce, Ulysses
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><patchwriting an encyclopedia entry on water
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Bernstein/3-28-10/Bernstein-Charles_04_Goldsmith_Lift-Off_Zinc-Bar_NY_3-28-10.mp3
kenneth goldsmith
reads
lift off
charles
bernstein
code posing for a poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2f2LdPFyfM
Shigeru Matsui:
Pure Poems
autorstvo
if you dont want it copied, dont put it online.
if all language can become poetry by mere reframing, how can we judge the quality of those works?
will all texts in the future be authorless and nameless, plagiary, stolen, written by machines
for the machines?
carrers and canons wont be established in traditional ways?
will we still have careers in the same way we used to?
while the author wont die, we might begin to view authorship in a more conceptual way
zbirka zadataka:::::::
OULIPO
1.
replace every noun in a text with the word that falls 7 places ahead of it in
the dictionary.
2.
exclude letters with legs ( b, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, p, q, t, y)
3. A mtro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one. One
must not transcribe when the train is in motion. One must not compose when the
train is stopped. The last verse of the poem is transcribed on the platform of your
last station. If your trip involves one or more changes of subway lines, the poem
will have two or more stanzas.
4.
method in which each line or sentence is a single word, and each successive
word is one letter longer.
5.
For each line, replace it with only one, two, or three words, either from the
end or the beginning of the line. Decide on the number depending on how long
the piece of writings lines are, and stick to that number.
6.
For each word, replace it with a word that sounds like the word
phonetically, syllable for syllable.
7.
Select a passage of text in a language that you dont understand. Going word
by word, translate each word or group of words
Warhols entire oeuvre was based on the idea of uncreativity:

the eff ortless production of mechanical paintings and unwatchable
lms in which literally nothing happens.
sil lewitt I do not advocate a
conceptual form of art for all artists. I have found that it has worked well
for me while other ways have not. It is one way of making art; other ways
suit other artists. Nor do I think all conceptual art merits the viewers attention.
Conceptual art is good only when the idea is good.

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the world is full of objects, more or less

the world is full of texts, more

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, aar, ah, are, baa,

W eimar, wire, X-tra, Ya-Ya, Yafa,

aci d- dropper, A dol ph H i t l er,

Jeffrey D ahmer, Jenny H olzer,

me anything you like but dont call

rel i abl e st oppi ng power 5; i t

the teeth. L o. L ee. T a.; W hy

(yeah, sur e...)

(Ar e you sur e????)

(totally outr ageous! )

(clear i ng the thr oat)

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(poi nti ng)

(a par anoi d glance over the shoulder )

(i n an anxi ous whi sper )

(scr atch scr atch)

(star es i n di sbeli ef)

(Ar e you posi ti ve?)

(thi nki ng i t over )

(I never looked at i t that way...)

(teeth gnashi ng)

(gr adual enli ghtenment)

(ki cki ng)

(Ar e you shi tti ng me??)

(muffled scr eams)

(two men hold hi m down)

(fur i ously shaki ng hi s head)

(M y mi nd i s bei ng blown as we speak! )

(cough sni ffle cough)

(You thi nk so?)

(let me thi nk i t over )

(I can beli eve i t! )

(li ghts out)

(all i s qui et)

(i nhale exhale i nhale exhale)

(dr eami ly)

(br eathi ng deeply)

(dr aws a long deep br eath)

(I feel much better )

(maybe your e r i ght...)

(out loud to all)

G r ana ry Bo ok s N ew Yor k Cit y 2001

Good morning, how ya doin? Yep. Wait a second, I have my

world that Im involved with. You know, like 73 Poems... it

was something worth doing cause, hey, everyones on the

nt make any mistakes and then I just went in and enhanced

Kenneth Goldsmith: TRAFFIC

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Editions Eclipse (SLC /2006)

Kenneth Goldsmith: TRAFFIC

Kenneth Goldsmith: TRAFFIC

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Unbelievable what's happening out there tonight: midnight gridlock. Where do we

We're looking at at least forty-five minutes to an hour up there. And remember

bumper-to-bumper westbound through Atlantic Avenue here in the camera. It's

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Well, hard to believe that on a night as a holiday weekend is beginning, you've

Harlem River Drive going up to the GW Bridge. Bronx approaches should be a

Kenneth Goldsmith: TRAFFIC

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Oh we still have a lot of traffic on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Westbound