Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth
Goldsmith's manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not
really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the
experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context.
Kenneth Goldsmith wants you to rethink the internet. Many people
feel guilty after spending hours watching cat videos or clicking
link after link after link. But Goldsmith sees that "wasted" time
differently. Unlike old media, the internet demands active
engagement-and it's actually making us more social, more creative,
even more productive. When Goldsmith, a renowned conceptual artist
and poet, introduced a class at the University of Pennsylvania
called "Wasting Time on the Internet", he nearly broke the
internet. The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Slate,
Vice, Time, CNN, the Telegraph, and many more, ran articles
expressing their shock, dismay, and, ultimately, their curiosity.
Goldsmith's ideas struck a nerve, because they are brilliantly
subversive-and endlessly shareable. In Wasting Time on the
Internet, Goldsmith expands upon his provocative insights,
contending that our digital lives are remaking human experience.
When we're "wasting time," we're actually creating a culture of
collaboration. We're reading and writing more-and quite
differently. And we're turning concepts of authority and
authenticity upside-down. The internet puts us in a state between
deep focus and subconscious flow, a state that Goldsmith argues is
ideal for creativity. Where that creativity takes us will be one of
the stories of the twenty-first century. Wide-ranging,
counterintuitive, engrossing, unpredictable-like the internet
itself-Wasting Time on the Internet is the manifesto you didn't
know you needed.
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