Wasting Time on the Internet

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>When Goldsmith a renowned conceptual artist and poet introduced a class at the University of Pennsylvania called Wasting Time on the Internet he nearly <em>broke</em> the internet. The <em>New Yorker</em> the <em>Atlantic</em> the <em>Washington Post</em> Slate Vice <em>Time</em> CNN the <em>Telegraph</em> 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.</p><p>In <em>Wasting Time on the Internet</em> 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.</p><p>Wide-ranging counterintuitive engrossing unpredictable--like the internet itself--<em>Wasting Time on the Internet </em>is the manifesto you didn't know you needed.</p>