RETROMANIA

  One of my favorite things I've written in the last 15 years or so, is this demolition job on what I called "recreativity" -...

 "Modernists all rode the recycling bike. The modernist tradition certainly rejects certain parts of the past, but only certain parts. ...

This book came out several years ago, but the ideas were shopworn years before that Release rationale: 'Art is theft,’ Picasso o...

I saw an early version of the James Lavelle doc at a festival a few years ago and what amazed me, first and foremost, was how many UN...

JC: "I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It’s l...

A New York Times Bookends dialogue: James Parker and Pankaj Mishra ask " Why Do We Keep Resurrecting the Same Literary Literary...

Kenneth Goldsmith on uncreative genius, recreativity , etc etc, in a piece for the New Yorker about the death of the poetic versus a boom ...

" Not wishing to resurrect some ancient notion of creativity ex nihilo, but underlying and unifying all the above, I sense a tendency ...