- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Literature and Creative Destruction
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PART I The New Enlightenment - Preface “Unnice Work” Knowledge Work and the Academy
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Chapter 1 The Idea of Knowledge Work -
Part II Ice Ages - Preface “We Work Here, but We're Cool”
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Chapter 2 Automating -
Chapter 3 Informating -
Chapter 4 Networking -
PART III The Laws of Cool - Preface “What's Cool?”
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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”
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Chapter 9 The Tribe of Cool -
Chapter 10 Historicizing Cool -
Chapter 11 Destructive Creativity -
Chapter 12 Speaking of History - Epilogue
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Appendix A Taxonomy of Knowledge Work -
Appendix B Chronology of Downsizing (Throught the 1990s) -
Appendix C “Ethical Hacking” and Art - Works Cited
- Index
Preface “More”
Preface “More”
- Chapter:
- (p.286) Preface “More”
- Source:
- The Laws of Cool
- Author(s):
Alan Liu
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
There is much “more,” as mentioned in the introduction of this book. If we were to press the phantom “more” or “next” button at this point in this book's argument, we would come to additional topics in the study of knowledge work and information culture. Clearly, this book has not dealt in depth with the effect of information culture on any particular aspect of the group identities discussed earlier. Perhaps most important, this book has focused on the United States and thus does not give due attention to the “world” even while making the “World Wide Web” a case study in post-industrial cool. It is now time to offer up the anthropology of cool in order to start upon the book's concluding topic. That topic is the cultural education of the cool and, correlatively, the future of the humanities and arts in the information age.
Keywords: knowledge work, information culture, cool, World Wide Web, anthropology, cultural education, humanities, arts, information age
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Literature and Creative Destruction
-
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 -
Chapter 11 Destructive Creativity -
Chapter 12 Speaking of History - Epilogue
-
Appendix A Taxonomy of Knowledge Work -
Appendix B Chronology of Downsizing (Throught the 1990s) -
Appendix C “Ethical Hacking” and Art - Works Cited
- Index
