Nina Goodheart

My creative voice, in all stages of development, is my friend.

I used the footnotes like clues in a mystery. You build out from the article, making a web of relationships and then work your way back in. At least that’s how it works for me. When I didn’t understand something, I looked it up. There was a lot I didn’t understand. There is so much I don’t understand.

Now I can’t imagine writing anything without reading a bunch PDFs about it first, to get a sense of the history of the idea and what conversations and discourses I’ll be entering. It feels a bit disrespectful and also irresponsible to do otherwise.

I read things, and if I like them, I want to understand them better. So I go and read articles about it. Then, I look up things I don’t understand, which leads me to other articles, down and down until I find the foundational texts for the thing I want to know, and then I read those, and work my way back up through the development of the idea or th... See more

I love PDFs. I love my huge heap of documents. I have bought a large plastic trifold folder to store them. I dream of rolling around on my PDFs like Scrooge McDuck diving into his vault of gold and swimming around.

“Two people who want the same thing will never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things, or one person who wants into an absence, a void.” Audition by Katie Kitamura

The question is between late-stage millennials, Gen Xers and Boomers, and mid to early stage millennials and Gen Zs. And it is that whole question of, “Am I being fairly paid for this?” What Gen X sees, and again, I’m not representing it fairly probably, but I will represent my generational stance. What Gen X sees is, and is concerned about, is you... See more

Many words in pleasureis amiracle are merged. They make me think of parataxis, the pushing together of distinct ideas in writing. Messinger imagines parataxis as a physical form of adhesion. Words can stick together, and so can everything else. A new ocean to a familiar field. An image burned into a screen.