Wasting time on the Internet
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
302.231/GOLDSMITH,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, [2016]
©2016
©2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
247 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780062416476, 0062416472 :, 0062416472 (pbk.), 9780062416476 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: Let's get lost -- The social network -- The walking dead -- Our browser history is the new memoir -- Archiving is the new folk art -- Dream machines and eternidays -- I shoot therefore I am -- Lossy and jaggy -- The writer as meme machine -- Coda: The revolution will be mobilized -- Appendix: 101 ways to waste time on the Internet
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