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Kenneth Goldsmith


  • Eighteen Earrers (3'43")
    From Head Citations (The Figures, 2002)
    Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2005

  • The Last Acts of St. Fuck You (8'00")
    Text: Bern Porter
    Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2005

    The Weather (2005, Make Now Press). Complete version [MP3]
    Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, April 2005-May 2005
    1. Winter (duration: 1:21'27, 111.8 mb)
    2. Spring (duration: 1:10'49, 97.2 mb)
    3. Summer (duration: 56'22, 56.21 mb)
    4. Fall (duration: 1:11'57, 98.7 mb)

    Fidget (2000, Coach House Books). Complete Version [MP3]
    Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2004-March 2005
    1. 10:00 (duration: 15'22, 21.1 mb)
    2. 11:00 (duration: 24'13, 33.2 mb)
    3. 12:00 (duration: 23'12, 31.9 mb)
    4. 13:00 (duration: 40'05, 55.0 mb)
    5. 14:00 (duration: 22'24, 30.8 mb)
    6. 15:00 (duration: 11'39, 16.0 mb)
    7. 16:00 (duration: 13'41, 18.8 mb)
    8. 17:00 (duration: 4'00, 5.5 mb)
    9. 18:00 (duration: 2'36, 3.6 mb)
    10. 19:00 (duration: 8'30, 5.8 mb)
    11. 20:00 (duration: 6'49, 4.7 mb)
    12. 21:00 (duration: 11'30, 7.9 mb)
    13. 22:00 (duration: 12'05, 8.3 mb)
    WKCR (New York) interview, March 4, 2005 (30 minutes; MP3)


    Studio 111 inteview and Kelly Writers House reading, April 13, 2004

    A Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith, with host Charles Bernstein and questions from Penn students (1:10:00):
    MP3 , RealAudio Reading at the Kelly Writers House, April 13, 2004:
    Introductions by Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein (6:27): MP3
    Reading of Selected Works (46:38): MP3
    Q & A session (11:59): MP3

    MP3s of individual tracks from reading at the Kelly Writers House, April 13, 2004:
    1.
    from No. 111
    2. from No. 111
    3. from No. 111
    4. excerpt from Year
    5. excerpts from radio show
    6. from Day
    7. excerpt from Head Citations

    A conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith and Jena Osman
    with students in English 88, "Modern & Contemporary American Poetry"
    Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
    hosted by Al Filreis
    December 9, 2004

    on Kenneth Goldsmith's book Soliloquy:
    Our discussion of Goldsmith's work began with this question from a student: "Did your friends and colleagues respond in horror to your writing about them in Soliloquy?" [2:01 MP3] The book seems to be about how we are all "assholes" in the way we talk about others. Was Goldsmith shocked to find himself so effortlessly trashing people? [2:32 MP3]

    on Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets":
    Our discussion of Jena Osman's "Dropping Leaflets" began with this question: "I wonder if in 'Dropping Leafets' you have a clearer sense than Kenny just described for Soliloquy of a politics of language?" It's the poet's job to fight against euphemisms. [4:29 MP3]
    on Kenny Goldsmith's Day and non-interventionist language:
    This part of the discussion began with this question: "Speaking of filters, how did you deal with the New York Times in your book called Day?" [5:36 MP3]
    on Goldsmith's aesthetic as "N+0":
    After a question was posed about computer-generated texts, Nick Montfort joined the conversation and proposed that Goldsmith's mode was a variation of "N+7," a procedure of substitution (with the seventh word found in a dictionary after each original). Goldsmith was merely doing "N+0"--not non-intervention but zero-degree substitution. Osman disagrees, proposing "N/Z." [2:07 MP3]
    on Jackson Mac Low (whose death occurred the day before this gathering):
    Osman speaks first about Mac Low's consistency and change. Goldsmith characterizes Mac Low's purity. This leads to a discussion of ethical modernism [17:11 MP3]

    on actual everyday language:
    We don't think enough about the way we actually speak. "Life is so much more interesting than art. 'Reality TV' is so much more interesting than sitcoms." Fiction is dead. Reality has really replaced fiction. Goldsmith's new project is to retype the contents of the September 11, 2001 issue of the New York Times. [8:19 MP3]


  • Kenneth Goldsmith reads from Fidget at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania September 21, 2000
    1. intro to Fidget
    2. 10:00
    3. 12:00
    4. 5:00
    5. 8:00
    6. 22:00


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