the entry on this page was 306 words, out of the 831 total,
so "readers" had to ignore 525 words here, more than half... :+)

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11.07.2007,
12:33
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Readers
of
this
blog
will
probably
find
much
of
interest
in
Sucking
on
Words,
a
new
documentary
on
conceptual
poet
Kenneth
Goldsmith.
Goldsmith,
as
I've
noted
before,
is
the
wizard
behind
the
curtain
at
ubu.com;
this
documentary,
by
Simon
Morris,
focuses
on
his
work
as
a
conceptual
poet.
Like
much
conceptual
art,
Goldsmith's
work
tends
to
make
many
sputteringly
angry;
as
he
himself
readily
admits
in
the
film,
the
idea
of
reading
it
can
be
superior
to
the
act
of
reading
it,
and
the
exploration
of
his
work
in
this
documentary
might
be
the
best
introduction
to
it
that's
available.
A
typical
Goldsmith
piece
is
to
take
all
the
text
of
a
day's
edition
of
The
New
York
Times
–
all
of
it,
from
the
first
ad
to
the
last
–
and
to
put
it
into
a
standard
book
format:
viewed
this
way,
the
daily
paper
has
the
heft
of
a
typical
novel.
It
becomes
apparent
from
this
that
when
we
talk
about
"reading"
a
day's
New
York
Times,
we
really
only
mean
reading
a
tiny
subsection
of
the
actual
text
in
the
paper.
Our
act
of
reading
the
paper
is
as
much
an
act
of
ignoring.
(Nor
is
this
limited
to
print
media;
taking
a
typical
page
on
the
online
Times,
one
notes
that
of
the
963
words
on
the
page,
only
589
are
the
article
proper:
our
reading
of
an
article
online
entails
ignoring
2/5
of
the
words.
This
quick
count
pays
no
attention
to
words
in
images,
which
would
send
the
ignored
quotient
higher.)
Goldsmith
starts
from
the
proposition
that
there's
enough
language
in
the
world
already.
Like
many
in
the
digital
age,
he's
trying
to
find
ways
to
make
sense
of
it
all;
in
a
sense,
he's
creating
visualizations.
Posted
by
dan
visel
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on
November
7,
2007
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