Is Andy Warhol the Philosophical Godfather of the Internet? A Cyber-analysis of POPism

This study aims to show that the philosophical underpinnings of Andy Warhol's visual, cinematic, and literary works foreshadowed the attitudes and behavior of our current Internet obsessed society. Warhol's work is discussed in relation to social media, reality TV, and YouTube. As a display of the efficacy of online tools to contextualize literary passages, sections of Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett's POPism: The Warhol Sixties are analyzed using common Internet inquiry methods.