Laws of Cool Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information

Name: Laws of Cool Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
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ISBN: 9780226486994

ISBN-10: 0226486990

ISBN-13: 9780226486994

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alan Liu

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Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm. But what perspective can the knowledge of humanities & arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what of the role of information technology as both servant of the knowledge economy & medium of a new technological cool?

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 552
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Literature and Creative Destruction



The New EnlightenmentPreface "Unnice Work": Knowledge Work and the Academy



The Idea of Knowledge Work



Ice AgesPreface "We Work Here, but We're Cool"



Automating



Informating



Networking



The Laws of CoolPreface "What's Cool?"



The Ethos of Information



Information Is Style



The Feeling of Information



Cyber-Politics and Bad Attitude



Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge WorkPreface "More"



The Tribe of Cool



Historicizing Cool: Humanities in the Information Age



Destructive Creativity: The Arts in the Information Age



Speaking of History: Toward an Alliance of New Humanities and New Arts (With a Prolegomenon on the Future Literary)


Epilogue


Appendixes



Taxonomy of Knowledge Work



Chronology of Downsizing (Through the 1990s)



"Ethical Hacking" and Art


Notes


Works Cited


Index