In his book Back to Sanity, the psychologist Steve Taylor recalls watching tourists at the British Museum in London who weren’t really looking at the Rosetta Stone, the ancient Egyptian artifact on display in front of them, so much as preparing to look at it later, by recording images and videos of it on their phones. So intently were they focused

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seeming has become more important than doing.

Am I losing my mind? What the fuck does this have to do with “the moment?” I feel just as narrativized as I ever was, those experiences were still experiences, so they had packed into them this feeling of recollection, like always. I was imagining what it would be like to recount that moment, what it would be like to remember it and be haunted by i

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The lesson here,” the artist Joshua Citarella once wrote, “is that we often don't know what the important work is while we’re making it…you may look back a decade from now and realize that the real work was actually what you were putting online.”