The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information

By Alan Liu. 2004

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Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience (2018, background): “This marks a digitalized echo of the economic rationale of creative destruction, ‘ with the emphasis on “ creative ” and almost no serious re ﬂ ection on destruction ’ (Liu, 2004, p. 322).”
‘Being yourself ’ in the electronic sweatshop: New forms of normative control (2011, background): “For example, in his discussion of the ‘industrialization of bohemia’ in Silicon Alley dot.com companies, Ross (2004) observed firms actively recruiting employees with counter-cultural and anti-capitalist values (see also Liu, 2004).”
Re-inventing invention: new tendencies in capitalist commodification (2006, background): “Information technology acts as a means of propagation which is also a means of structuring perception (Liu 2004).”