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Kenneth Goldsmith and some like-witted pals are inviting us all to join in “the first-ever attempt to print out the entire internet.“
Of course, that’s not his goal. His goal is self-promotion and a quasi-scientific interest in seeing how many suckers will respond.
“What you decide to print out is up to you,” Goldsmith says (with, I imagine, a sly grin); “as long as it exists somewhere online, it’s in.” In the next breath, of course, he imposes his conceptualist restrictions: “We’re not looking for creative interpretations of the project. We don’t want objects. We just want shitloads of paper.”
Does “shitloads” count as a Freudian slip? Maybe. At the very least it speaks to Goldsmith and Co.’s preference for their own academe-nurtured “concepts” over the well-being of the earth.
Of course, there won’t be much of a response. People like Goldsmith only think the world is full of idiots. And the cost of shipping shitloads of anything to Mexico will certainly deter all but the most well-heeled conceptualists.
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I first saw somethinga couple of days ago, somewhere online, about the "project" (or whatever it is) to print out (supposedly) everything on the internet. It reminded me of a short story I read once by the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, called (if I remember correctly) "The Nine Billion Names of God."<br /><br />Clarke's story was based on a notion in some
Anybody who would use the line “He gu-rew” in any article—let alone one about Cid—should be flailed with a cat-o’-nine-tails.<br /><br />
Just read "Five Years of Death." Gad! What a self-indulgent, whining, craven, little-minded piece of dreck. This guy wants it both ways, doesn't he? The mosquito feeding on the famous guy's wrist—the famous guy who "loved" him. This kind of crap makes me grateful for my almost total anonymity. The Syrian poet Adonis says somewhere:<br /><br /> I'm grateful
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