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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." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

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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." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

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

Kenneth Goldsmith Poet

Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.

Kenneth Goldsmith Poet

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Kenneth Goldsmith Poet

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Kenneth Goldsmith Poet

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.