(University of Chicago Press, 2004)

Table of Contents

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: 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

Appendices

• A. Taxonomy of Knowledge Work
• B. Chronology of Downsizing (Through the 1990s)
• C. “Ethical Hacking” and Art