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132
  
“I was their experiment”:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aint-cools-harry-knowles-cash-430734,
July 23, 2015.

133
  
“a contemporary brain”: Lynda Roscoe Hartigan.
Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay Eterniday
. London: Thames and Hudson, 2003, 25.

135
  
“ultimate work of appropriation art”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/design/04marclay.html?_r=0,
April 11, 2016

136
  
“if you make something good”:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/03/12/the-hours-daniel-zalewski,
April 11, 2016

138
  
“a commons to which all humanity is entitled”: Jonathan Crary.
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
. iBooks.

139
  
“light from other days”: Hartigan.
Joseph Cornell
, 2003, 148.

CHAPTER 6: I SHOOT THEREFORE I AM

145
  
“in the case of Instagram”:
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/23/instagram-hits-400-million-users-beating-twitter.html,
January 19, 2016.

149
  
“perhaps part of the beauty”: E-mail to author, October 12, 2015.

151
  
“we protest against”:
http://www.notbored.org/generic.jpg,
October 11, 2015.

154
  
“given its cultural significance”:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/13/photoshop-first-image-jennifer-in-paradise-photography-artefact-knoll-dullaart,
August 10, 2015.

154
  
“the world was young”:
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/5/letter-jennifer-knoll/,
August 10, 2015.

154
  
“a fake painting”: Susan Sontag,
On Photography
. New York: RosettaBooks, 1973/2005, 66.

155
  
“a writer could not do that”: Mel Gussow.
Conversations with Beckett
. New York: Grove Press, 2001, 47.

156
  
“Jennifer in Photoshop”:
http://jennifer.ps/,
October 29, 2015.

156
  
“the beauty of the Internet”:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2014/jun/13/photoshop-first-image-jennifer-in-paradise-photography-artefact-knoll-dullaart,
August 10, 2015.

158
  
“what Prince is doing”:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/27/richard-prince-instagram_n_7452634.html,
September 19, 2015.

158
  
“once you have shared User Content”: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388, October 29, 2015.

162
  
“the two propositions”: Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Philosophy and Language
. London: Routledge, 1972, 304.

162
  
“
Google, Volume 1
”:
http://www.jean-boite.fr/box/google-volume-1,
April 11, 2016.

163
  
“I'm Google”
:
http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/,
January 5, 2016.

163
  
“results visually in a colorful grid”:
http://dinakelberman.tumblr.com/,
December 31, 2015.

166
  
“a history which the museum”: Fred Wilson (med.). “Services: Working-Group Discussions.”
October
80 (Spring 1997): 117–48.

166
  
“not for sex”:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007–02–13/art/critiqueus-interruptus/,
viewed November 15, 2011.

CHAPTER 7: LOSSY AND JAGGY

170
  
“5 percent”:
http://www.wired.com/2012/02/why-neil-young-hates-mp3-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/,
October 11, 2015.

170
  
“we live in the digital age”: Ibid.

172
  
“The Ghost in the MP3”:
http://theghostinthemp3.com/,
April 11, 2016

173
  
“MP3s' sizzle”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/the-sizzling-sound-of-music.html,
July 14, 2015.

173
  
“iPhone actually won out”:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/02/02/neil-youngs-400-pono-hi-def-music-player-loses-to-apples-iphone-in-blind-audio-test,
July 14, 2015.

174
  
“streaming has ended for me”: https://
www.facebook.com/NeilYoung/posts/10155765667375317:0,
August 8, 2015.

175
  
“discarded 35 mm movie film” Lev Manovich.
The Language of New Media
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, 47.

177
  
“twenty-three million animated GIFs”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/technology/gifs-go-beyond-emoji-to-express-thoughts-without-words.html?_r=0,
October 11, 2015.

177
  
“five million animations”: Ibid.

179
  
“due to its high compression rates”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_video, January 17, 2016.

179
  
“In the class society of imagery”: Hito Steyerl. “In Defense of the Poor Image” in
The Wretched of the Screen
. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2012, 33.

180
  
“The poor image is a rag or a rip”: Ibid., 32.

180
  
“perfect cinema—technically and artistically”:
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html,
July 18, 2015.

181
  
“this is precisely why”: Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” 42.

181
  
“Whereas before, a chosen few produced images”:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-weak-universalism/,
July 18, 2015.

182
  
“worst possible quality JPEGS”:
http://www.foto8.com/live/thomas-ruff-interview/,
July 19, 2015.

183
  
“How much visual information”:
http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/1840/thomas-ruff,
July 19, 2015.

CHAPTER 8: THE WRITER AS MEME MACHINE

192
  
“This ethos is evident”:
http://thejogging.tumblr.com/,
September 9, 2015.

200
  
“commit to making every message”:
http://five.sentences/,
August 3, 2015.

201
  
“We holler these trysts”:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem-alone/241332?iframe=true,
January 20, 2016.

208
  
“Responding to a call at night”: Félix Fénéon.
Novels in Three Lines
. New York: New York Review of Books, 2007.

209
  
“It's stupid to write one hundred pages”: F. T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, and Bruno Corra. “The Futurist Synthetic Theatre”: in
Manifesto, ISMs
. Ed. Mary Ann Caws. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001, 695.

209
  
“For sale: baby shoes”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn, November 30, 2015.

210
  
“Currently working on my novel”:
http://www.vice.com/read/working-on-my-novel-cory-arcangel-interview-124,
November 30, 2015.

211
  
“Part of the fun”:
http://www.bookforum.com/review/13895,
November 30, 2015.

211
  
“People rarely look the way you expect them”:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/black-box-2,
November 30, 2015.

KENNETH GOLDSMITH
is a conceptual artist, and the first poet laureate of the Museum of Modern Art. He is the author of
Seven American Deaths and Disasters
and the book of essays
Uncreative Writing
, breaking down the art form he pioneered. Goldsmith teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the controversial Wasting Time on the Internet class that inspired this book. He lives in New York with artist Cheryl Donegan and their two sons.

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“For decades, Kenneth Goldsmith has forced us to question what constitutes and what does not constitute art. In
Wasting Time on the Internet
, he performs a crucial intellectual act, demonstrating persuasively and precisely the myriad ways in which the web undergirds contemporary art and ambitious contemporary art engages seriously with the implications of the web.”

—David Shields, author of
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“The Internet made the world an intelligence and vastly increased my own. I got my theory from Hawthorne's
House of the Seven Gables
, Wells's
World Brain
, and McLuhan, but now I have the Internet instruction book:
Wasting Time on the Internet
. It's also a pretty good history of the future.”

—Glenn O'Brien, author of
The Style Guy and How to Be a Man

“Face it: You already know how to waste time on the Internet. But Kenneth Goldsmith reveals a completely different mode of thinking about what we're all going to do anyway. Deeply versed in avant-garde and surreal modes of seeing and playing in the so-called ‘real world,' he proves a brilliant guide to the worlds we describe as digital or virtual. And insights aside, it's pure pleasure to browse and surf and swipe and poke at contemporary tech culture in his company.”

—Rob Walker, coeditor
Significant Objects

“I have been a fan of Kenneth Goldsmith ever since I read his mind-boggling
Soliloquy
over a decade ago. Respected and reviled for doing the ‘wrong thing at the wrong time,' he returns here with a rebuke to the popular notion that we're losing something important—intellectually, socially, and, as readers and thinkers—in this age of too much, too fast. I read it feeling offended, anxious, liberated, and gleeful.”

—Sheila Heti, author of
How Should a Person Be?

Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century

Seven American Deaths and Disasters

Uncreative Writing

Cover design by Milan Bozic

Cover photograph © Benjamin Simeneta/Getty Images

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