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The
Huffington Post By Natalie Tipping
Students
at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to study "wasting time on
the internet" as a degree level course from 2015 onwards.
For many
years, the internet has been a fountain of all the procrastination material
students could ever need, but now, for the first time, some students will be able
to study the power of the internet in terms of wasting time.
The
course is being offered by the University's Department of English to students
with an English or Creative Writing major, and is being run by Professor
Kenneth Goldsmith. Prof. Goldsmith is perhaps best known for his attempt to
print off the entirety of the internet.
Students
enrolled on the course will have a three-hour seminar each week where they will
be sat in front of a computer, unable to converse with each other in a verbal
form, restricted to doing everything over the internet - on social media and
chat rooms. The raw materials collected from their in-class interactions over
the internet will be collected together to create 'substantial works of
literature'.
They will
also be required to read texts from Raymond Williams, John Cage, and Betty
Friedan, amongst others, about the history of wasting time.
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