Conceptualism

This week’s readings started with “Sentences on Conceptual Writing” by Kenneth Goldsmith and excerpts from other writers. I found the readings interesting to read because as Goldsmith mentioned, “In uncreative writing the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” I personally enjoy poetry writing and thus Goldsmith describes it as being meant to primarily entertain the ears unlike uncreative writing where it is emotionally dry. The excerpts by Catherine Wagner and Goldsmith in particular exemplify this emotional dryness through the simplicity of ideas. These excerpts merely talk about everyday events that occur in our day to day lives or things we observe. Therefore, what exactly is Goldsmith trying to present with the form of uncreative writing? Also, he says the uncreative writing is only good when the idea is good so what constitutes as good ideas?