Laws of Cool
Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2009
586 pages
978-0-226-48700-7 (ISBN)
Description
Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of information technology as both the servant of the knowledge economy and the medium of a new technological cool? In The Laws of Cool, Alan Liu reflects on these questions as he considers the emergence of new information technologies and their profound influence on the forms and practices of knowledge.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Literature and Creative Destruction
- Part I The New Enlightenment
- Preface "Unnice Work": Knowledge Work and the Academy
- 1 The Idea of Knowledge Work
- Part II Ice Ages
- Preface "We Work Here, but We're Cool"
- 2 Automating
- 3 Informating
- 4 Networking
- Part III The Laws of Cool
- Preface "What's Cool?"
- 5 The Ethos of Information
- 6 Information Is Style
- 7 The Feeling of Information
- 8 Cyber-Politics and Bad Attitude
- Part IV Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge Work
- Preface "More"
- 9 The Tribe of Cool
- 10 Historicizing Cool: Humanities in the Information Age
- 11 Destructive Creativity: The Arts in the Information Age
- 12 Speaking of History: Toward an Alliance of New Humanities and New Arts
- Epilogue
- Appendixes
- A. Taxonomy of Knowledge Work
- B. Chronology of Downsizing (Through the 1990s)
- C. "Ethical Hacking" and Art
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
