Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture/goldsmith

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Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubuweb, provides an analysis of "textual context," i.e., the ways in which media is "clothed." Using a New York Times article about Tony Curtis as an example, Goldsmith shows what "nude media" looks like in contrast to its clothed versions. He makes this example with respect to his thesis that media wants to be free, much like his "radical distribution" of poetry and other materials on Ubuweb. Alas, Goldsmith's idea of "nudeness" owes much to his digital recontextualization of others' works of art, and does not hold up as a strong descriptive category in contrast to "traditional" media.