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New Formula For Cool.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American studies (Transcript (Firm))Publication details: transcript Verlag, 2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839430925
  • 9783839430927
  • 9783837630923
  • 3837630927
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: New Formula For Cool : Science, Technology, and the Popular in the American Imagination.DDC classification:
  • 303.483
LOC classification:
  • HM621
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover The New Formula For Cool ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Images of Technoscience in the New Millennium ; Structure and Methodology: A Road Map ; The Conquest of Cool: From American Counterculture to Global Dominance.
"We know it when we see it": The (Nearly) Impossible Task of Defining Cool Made in the USA? Cultural Origins of Cool ; Contemporary Cool: Directions, Trajectories, and Dead Ends ; What is Cool? A Summary.
The Formula for Cool: Technoscience, Information Aesthetics, and the Rise of the Nerds The American Information Society and the Crisis of Scientific Legitimation ; The Knowledge/ Information/ Post-Industrial/ Network Society: A Critical Overview ; Science in the Information Society.
The Crisis of Scientific Legitimation Cool Science: (De- )Legitimating Science in Popular Culture ; Nerd Alert: Science and the Popular ; Cultural Studies of Science ; Scientific Popularization, Popular Science, and Science in Public.
Science and/ in/ as Popular Culture: The Cool Approach Cool Forensics and the Spectacle of Technoscience in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY ; Welcome to Las Vegas/ Miami/ New York: The CSI Formula ; Conservation vs. Innovation: Cool as Strategic Juxtaposition.
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Cover The New Formula For Cool ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Images of Technoscience in the New Millennium ; Structure and Methodology: A Road Map ; The Conquest of Cool: From American Counterculture to Global Dominance.

"We know it when we see it": The (Nearly) Impossible Task of Defining Cool Made in the USA? Cultural Origins of Cool ; Contemporary Cool: Directions, Trajectories, and Dead Ends ; What is Cool? A Summary.

The Formula for Cool: Technoscience, Information Aesthetics, and the Rise of the Nerds The American Information Society and the Crisis of Scientific Legitimation ; The Knowledge/ Information/ Post-Industrial/ Network Society: A Critical Overview ; Science in the Information Society.

The Crisis of Scientific Legitimation Cool Science: (De- )Legitimating Science in Popular Culture ; Nerd Alert: Science and the Popular ; Cultural Studies of Science ; Scientific Popularization, Popular Science, and Science in Public.

Science and/ in/ as Popular Culture: The Cool Approach Cool Forensics and the Spectacle of Technoscience in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY ; Welcome to Las Vegas/ Miami/ New York: The CSI Formula ; Conservation vs. Innovation: Cool as Strategic Juxtaposition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-331) and index.

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