The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
by Alan Liu
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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 show more technologies and their profound influence on the forms and practices of knowledge. show lessTags
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Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Wordsworth: The Sense of History, and two books published by the University of Chicago Press, The Laws of CooL: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern show more Historicism and the Database. show less
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- 303.48 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change
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- HM851 .L56 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology Social change
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