Description
Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmithโs 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 โwastedโ time differently. Unlike old media, the Internet demands active engagementโand itโs 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 โWasting Time on the Internetโ, 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. Goldsmithโs ideas struck a nerve, because they are brilliantly subversiveโand endlessly shareable.
In Wasting Time on the Internet, Goldsmith expands upon his provocative insights, contending that our digital lives are remaking human experience. When weโre โwasting time,โ weโre actually creating a culture of collaboration. Weโre reading and writing moreโand quite differently. And weโre 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, unpredictableโlike the Internet itselfโWasting Time on the Internet is the manifesto you didnโt know you needed. ISBN:9780062416476
