Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Works on Paper: Exactly Wrong

"This volume's focus is on 'Capital', 'Wasting Time on the Internet', 'Against Translation', and 'Theory', all published after Goldsmith's controversial reading of a poem based on the Michael Brown autopsy report at Brown University in March 2015. These four books address issues of historiography, translation, pedagogy, authorship, and celebrity culture. Each book serves a retrospective function for an author who is, mid-career, taking stock of his considerable impact on U.S. (and world) poetics at the very moment when critics are challenging the ethics of his aesthetic judgement in the wake of the controversy surrounding 'The Body of Michael Brown'"--