TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liu,Alan
TI  - The laws of cool: knowledge work and the culture of information 
SN  - 9780226487007 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HM851 .L56 2004eb
U1  - 303.48/33 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Information society
KW  - Knowledge workers
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Internet
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - Art and technology
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Work
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Société informatisée
KW  - Travailleurs du savoir
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Finalités
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Médias numériques
KW  - Littérature et technologie
KW  - Art et technologie
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Travail
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Information Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Hoger onderwijs
KW  - gtt
KW  - Informatiemaatschappij
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 495-539) and index; Part I The New Enlightenment Preface? -- Unnice Work?: Knowledge Work and the Academy -- Chapter 1 The Idea of Knowledge Work -- Part II Ice Ages Preface?We Work Here, but We?re Cool? -- Chapter 2 Automating -- Chapter 3 Informating -- Chapter 4 Networking -- Part III The Laws of Cool Preface?What?s Cool?? -- Chapter 5 The Ethos of Information -- Chapter 6 Information Is Style -- Chapter 7 The Feeling of Information -- Chapter 8 Cyber-Politics and Bad Attitude -- Part IV Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge Work Preface?More? -- Chapter 9 The Tribe of Cool -- Chapter 10 Historicizing Cool: Humanities in the Information Age -- Chapter 11 Destructive Creativity: The Arts in the Information Age -- Chapter 12 Speaking of History: Toward an Alliance of New Humanities and New Arts (With a Prolegomenon on the Future Literary) Epilogue Appendixes A. Taxonomy of Knowledge Work B. Chronology of Downsizing (Through the 1990s) C.?Ethical Hacking? and Art
N2  - 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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