Duchamp Is My Lawyer - The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Ubuweb

In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation.

List of contents

Introduction: The Back Door
Part I: Polemics
Part II: Pragmatics
1. Folk Law
2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet
3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the World
Part III: Poetics
5. Dirty Concrete
6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate
7. People Like Us
8. Aspen: A "Multimedia Magazine in a Box"
9. Street Poets and Visionaries
10. An Anthology of Anthologies
Coda: The Ghost in the Algorithm
Appendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don't Know About but Should
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Kenneth Goldsmith teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. His books include Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia, 2011); Capital: New York, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015); and Wasting Time on the Internet (2016).

Summary

In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty-first-century avant-garde and experimental literature, film, and music. In Duchamp Is My Lawyer, Goldsmith tells the history of UbuWeb, explaining the motivations behind its creation.

Additional text

Duchamp Is My Lawyer displays Goldsmith fulfilling an ethics of caring about others who care about conserving odd things. Caring is at the heart of this tender homage to eccentric collectors who have put themselves at legal risk to share their obsessions.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth Goldsmith, Goldsmith Kenneth
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780231186957
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18695-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Media Studies, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Film & Video, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 21st Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Library & information services, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Electronic, holographic & video art, Library, archive and information management, Film Theory & Criticism, Digital, video and new media arts, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: from c 2000, art; modern; literary criticism