The movement of language

Aspects of "non-creative writing"

Abstract

We argue in this article that the copy and paste practice, present in productions called “non-creative writing” (NCW) (GOLDSMITH, 2015), has as its landmark the notion of collaboration developed from 1968 onwards and consolidated with the diffusion of the internet caused by the creation of the World Wide Web (www), in 1989. We will discuss that such characteristics insert 21st century appropriationism in a logic that dialogues with the technological changes of our time based on the manipulation of existing materials, as we routinely do in the transfer of different digital files from one place to another, altering them. how, when and how much we want; or when adding, modifying or deleting lines in open source files such as Linux or Wikipedia-like files. Just as users and programmers manipulate data that are available and use them, moving language from place to place under collaborative aspects, artists can feel comfortable using similar procedures in the production of literary works, turning to interventions, grafts, quotations and intentional plagiarism. Our objective is to discuss copying as a procedure based on these questions, using theorists such as Nathalie Heinich (2014), Reinaldo Laddaga (2012), Teixeira Coelho (2019) and Pedro Dolabela Chagas (2018). We will try to contextualize the ENC from our premise, commenting on works such as Traffic, by Kenneth Goldsmith (2007), Ensaio sobre os mestres, by Pedro Eiras (2017) and Sessão, by Roy David Frankel (2017).