-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19/08/14 08:57 AM, Joel Weishaus wrote: > Liu was the Chair of The University of California Santa Barbara's > English Department when I was a Visiting Scholar there.Thus, I know > that his vision is more complex than it seems on the book's > surface.
To anyone who's put off by the title of "Laws of Cool", please don't be: it treats management literature as *literature* and tears apart the history and self-image of corporate managerialism. He looks at the history of scientific management and knowledge work in detail, and has some very interesting things to say about labour relations, affect and identity in corporate settings influenced by American high-tech office environments. > Although I don't agree with much that he has to say, I think it's > important know what he is saying, especially when it comes to the > digital humanities. My immediate reaction to his 2012 "Where is Cultural Criticism in the Digital Humanities?" was "thankfully absent for now" (I find the digital humanities' current formalism to be a feature, not a bug) but on re-reading that was unfair and yes his vision is more interesting than the calls to order that are often presented as critiques of the digital humanities. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT89byAAoJECciMUAZd2dZ5VcH/1nEXv/c+bdvdZCpnj+SAvJT oWQwDgwuI70x/QYOGeBWL/pnb3xY28Az8+bA9C/xN480q8ItKzT/LzSN7lj5h4ec rRvLp7rCHDjFx7Ldza7CyJHMmV9wHFufSsFUPk2MIHfKVLXafJ0YbTPA/kCSLLa3 yXYVns3q95tb2vyLKpPTTwLxjVWXCwf7EbAZGCfRqn3JuExbDV8Y5aJl+ZIA/5uO Ec057ockb6m0ybk7pgYwDbWeefp+sure0/qdHLSrYBP42jGQZryHJj8sZ3CTtZO8 L2YKK6CFvS7f3X/hNWQquT4K6W4FYYznuHDghzonkCD0AIYW32D9KGC1iM541Lo= =q3mg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
