Kenneth Goldsmith Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Wish, Different

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

• All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Media, Different, Our Words

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Communication, Mold, Stories

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 2011.

• The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Meaningful, Strong, Giving Up

  Source: www.believermag.com

• You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Emotion, Language, Show Me

  Source: www.believermag.com

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