11/1: words

This morning I finished Marjorie Perloff's Unoriginal Genius, which concluded with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic.  Right after I finished, Chris played me some of an ongoing AI conversation competition, and that seemed somehow perfect after reading about Goldsmith's transcription of traffic radio broadcasts.  Throughout the day we popped in to hear more of the AI conversation, and this evening I Zoomed in to listen to an Ontario-based reading series with six writers.  I especially enjoyed Angela Rawling's Anthropocento, composed from words and phrases (in multiple languages) she heard at an international environmental conference.