Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

by Kenneth Goldsmith

Book Overview

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 reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149913
• ISBN13: 9780231149914
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher