<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve just had a paper published in GeoHumanities: <i class="">A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism: Provocation/Intervention, </i>which might be of interest to people on this list.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The paper details my artistic intervention into Google’s linguistic capitalism: a project called <b class="">{poem}.py</b>, in which I feed poetry (and other texts) through the AdWords keyword planner and print them out as receipts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If anyone would like to read it there are 50 free prints available at the following link - hope you enjoy it!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9Nm9BBmHdwdFYRxjqejh/full" class="">https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9Nm9BBmHdwdFYRxjqejh/full</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="sectionInfo abstractSectionHeading"><div class="sectionHeading"><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Abstract: Language
has always been a tool of power over people and places, yet in today’s
world of digital communication and advertising, words flowing through
the proprietary platforms of the Web are used increasingly as vessels
for the creation and circulation of capital. This method of linguistic
capitalism is how Google became one of the most successful and wealthy
companies in the world. This article argues that this neoliberal
commodification of language has both linguistic and political
consequences, affording unprecedented power to Google in the control of
the words it sells, and its consequent influence over the wider
discourse. The article evokes Orwell’s “Newspeak” as a provocation to
critique Google’s hold over digitized language, and introduces a radical
new method and artistic intervention called {poem}.py, which fuses
Google’s AdWords platform with poetry and code to make visible and
subvert the workings and the power of linguistic capitalism.</i></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With best wishes,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pip Thornton</div><div class="">PhD Geopolitics & Cybersecurity</div><div class="">Royal Holloway, University of London</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.linguisticgeographies.com" class="">www.linguisticgeographies.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>