LANGUAGE Inc. - Triple Canopy

LANGUAGE Inc.
Katie Kitamura & Hari Kunzru

A digital project, part of The Long Tomorrow

Katie Kitamura is the author of the novels Intimacies (2021), which was on the long list for the National Book Award and named one of the top ten books of the year by the New York Times; A Separation (2017), which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori, and The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2013), which were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Kitamura is the recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University. Her previous contributions to Triple Canopy include “LANGUAGE Inc.,” a leaked document that reveals the corporate privatization of public speech, and “Les Fleurs du terminal,” a reflection on Headless, the Goldin+Senneby murder-mystery.

Hari Kunzru is a British writer living in New York. He is the author of five novels, most recently Red Pill (2020) and White Tears (2017). His stories, articles, and essays have appeared in publications such as Wired, the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Times of India, and the New Statesman. His novels have been translated into twenty-one languages. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy in Berlin.

“LANGUAGE Inc.” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Immaterial Literature project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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