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Kenneth Goldsmith, CTRL + C, CTRL + V – SCRITTURA NON CREATIVA, 2019

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In this book/manifesto – at times irreverent, but full of historical references. Kenneth Goldsmith tries to rethink the figure of the writer (but also the reader) contemporary. A language programmer, an interconnected thinker who prepares and maintains a complex «writing machine». What if word processing, programming and cryptography reinvented literature? If to give new substance to the creative act were plagiarism, appropriation, theft and then, after all, the non originality?
The lyrics multiply, even our images, our videos and our music are made of letters, and so the language is everywhere.

Faced with this propagation, we must learn to negotiate and manage the enormous amount of text we are subject to.
Starting from the way the visual arts reacted to the advent of photography, Goldsmith tries to rethink creativity from its apparent zeroing, tracing a compelling narrative that crosses, intertwining them, the last hundred years of history of literature and the visual arts: from concrete poetry to the most recent post-internet experiments, from situationism to video art, passing through James Joyce, Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Lethem and Cory Doctorow.

Kenneth Goldsmith – CTRL + C, CTRL + V – Scrittura non creativa
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2019
Translation: Valerio Mannucci
288 pages
Paperback
Italian

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