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"Here-and-Now" the Time-Life is Recorded / Played Back: Kenneth Goldsmith Performs Living through Writing

KOTÁSEK, M.

Originální název

"Here-and-Now" the Time-Life is Recorded / Played Back: Kenneth Goldsmith Performs Living through Writing

Anglický název

"Here-and-Now" the Time-Life is Recorded / Played Back: Kenneth Goldsmith Performs Living through Writing

Druh

Článek WoS

Originální abstrakt

The article inquires into the place and function of autobiography in today's "hypermnesic" (Hayles) social, medial, and cultural situation. It discusses Kenneth Goldsmith's Soliloquy, Day, Fidget, and The Ideal Lecture, which hardly anyone reads as autobiographical texts. In a self-reflective and quasi-theoretical manner Goldsmith opens the question of a "life record," pointing at the medium of language and its performance, and at the media in a technological sense. In an attempt to theorize the way digitization changes the possibilities of subjectivizing the lived, experienced presence and human memory, this study relies on the concept of "tertiary retention" (Stiegler) and problematizes the notion of memory and "archive." It also points at "ideality" or "utopia," as used in Goldsmith's The Ideal Lecture, in light of the problem of language as a memory device and the inherently temporal narrative structure we are used to give to our lives.

Anglický abstrakt

The article inquires into the place and function of autobiography in today's "hypermnesic" (Hayles) social, medial, and cultural situation. It discusses Kenneth Goldsmith's Soliloquy, Day, Fidget, and The Ideal Lecture, which hardly anyone reads as autobiographical texts. In a self-reflective and quasi-theoretical manner Goldsmith opens the question of a "life record," pointing at the medium of language and its performance, and at the media in a technological sense. In an attempt to theorize the way digitization changes the possibilities of subjectivizing the lived, experienced presence and human memory, this study relies on the concept of "tertiary retention" (Stiegler) and problematizes the notion of memory and "archive." It also points at "ideality" or "utopia," as used in Goldsmith's The Ideal Lecture, in light of the problem of language as a memory device and the inherently temporal narrative structure we are used to give to our lives.

Klíčová slova

conceptualism; computer poetry; Kenneth Goldsmith; language processing

Klíčová slova v angličtině

conceptualism; computer poetry; Kenneth Goldsmith; language processing

Autoři

KOTÁSEK, M.

Vydáno

20.06.2025

Nakladatel

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS

Místo

BALTIMORE

ISSN

1936-9247

Periodikum

Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas

Svazek

23

Číslo

2

Stát

Stát Izrael

Strany od

331

Strany do

350

Strany počet

20

URL

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961661

BibTex

@article{BUT198697,
  author="Miroslav {Kotásek}",
  title="{"}Here-and-Now{"} the Time-Life is Recorded / Played Back: Kenneth Goldsmith Performs Living through Writing",
  journal="Partial Answers-Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas",
  year="2025",
  volume="23",
  number="2",
  pages="331--350",
  doi="10.1353/pan.2025.a961661",
  issn="1565-3668",
  url="https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961661"
}