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Alan Liu - The Laws of Cool - 9780226486994 - V9780226486994
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The Laws of Cool

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Description for The Laws of Cool Paperback. Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm. But what perspective can the knowledge of humanities and 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 and medium of a new technological cool? Num Pages: 552 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 774.
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. Liu first explores the nature of postindustrial corporate culture, studies the rise of digital technologies, and charts their dramatic effect on business. He then shows how such technologies have given rise to a new high-tech culture of cool. At the core of this book are an assessment of this new cool and a measured consideration of its potential and limitations as a popular new humanism. According to Liu, cool at once mimics and resists the postindustrial credo of innovation and creative destruction, which holds that the old must perpetually give way to the new. Information, he maintains, is no longer used by the cool just

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Number of Pages
552
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226486994
SKU
V9780226486994
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99-50

About Alan Liu
Alan Liu is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Wordsworth: The Sense of History and the developer of The Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu), one of the earliest and most active humanities portals on the Web. His major online initiatives also include Romantic Chronology and Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation - Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured World.

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