Kenneth Goldsmith teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. His books include Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia, 2011); Capital: New York, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015); and Wasting Time on the Internet (2016).

• Introduction: The Back DoorPart I: PolemicsPart II: Pragmatics1. Folk Law2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the WorldPart III: Poetics5. Dirty Concrete6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate7. People Like Us8. Aspen: A “Multimedia Magazine in a Box”9. Street Poets and Visionaries10. An Anthology of AnthologiesCoda: The Ghost in the AlgorithmAppendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don’t Know About but Should NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020

Kenneth Goldsmith teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. His books include Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia, 2011); Capital: New York, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015); and Wasting Time on the Internet (2016).

• Introduction: The Back DoorPart I: PolemicsPart II: Pragmatics1. Folk Law2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the WorldPart III: Poetics5. Dirty Concrete6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate7. People Like Us8. Aspen: A “Multimedia Magazine in a Box”9. Street Poets and Visionaries10. An Anthology of AnthologiesCoda: The Ghost in the AlgorithmAppendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don’t Know About but Should NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020

Kenneth Goldsmith teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. His books include Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia, 2011); Capital: New York, Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015); and Wasting Time on the Internet (2016).

• Introduction: The Back DoorPart I: PolemicsPart II: Pragmatics1. Folk Law2. From Panorama to Postage Stamp: Avant-Garde Cinema and the Internet3. The Work of Video Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction4. Shadow Libraries and Preserving the Memory of the WorldPart III: Poetics5. Dirty Concrete6. From Ursonate to Re-Sonate7. People Like Us8. Aspen: A “Multimedia Magazine in a Box”9. Street Poets and Visionaries10. An Anthology of AnthologiesCoda: The Ghost in the AlgorithmAppendix: 101 Things on UbuWeb That You Don’t Know About but Should NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

Named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020