American - Author | July 22, 1956 -
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
David Shields
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Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.
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In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.
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When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.
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I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.
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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.
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Take Jonathan Franzen's work: it's just old wine in new bottles. They say he's the Tolstoy of the digital age, but there can only be a Tolstoy of the Tolstoyan age.
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I believe in copyright, within limited precincts. But I also believe in fair use, public domain, and especially transformation.
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I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.
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In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.
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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
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The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.
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