We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to a….

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never re….

New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. T….

My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song."….

I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins..

I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was writing those books. Those ….

The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and y….

Short attention span is the new avant-garde. Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. ….

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly….

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me. Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a….

I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to b….

If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive..

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound,….

If you don't want something to exist - and there are many reasons to want to keep things private - keep it off the web. But if you put it in digital ….

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a pre….

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories..

For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conver….

And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What….

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination..

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion..

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing..