Alan Liu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3826521 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Liu |
| PRENOMES | Alan |
| SOBRENOME | Liu |
| ASSINATURA | LIU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8884-6662 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 146 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University
What Everyone Says
Using computational means to understand patterns in how the humanities are mentioned in U.S. journalism, the WhatEvery1Says project brings into focus challenging problems in the perception of the humanities. This essay reports on the project's findings and some of the further questions that emerged from them. For example, how does the “humanities crisis” appear among the many crises of our time? Why do the humanities figure so often in connection…
Friending the Past
Is Digital Humanities a Field? An Answer from the Point of View of Language
This article reflects on the way apparently low-level linguistic variances in the way scholars write about the “digital humanities” point to overarching conceptual issues relating to the “DH” field. Is digital humanities a disciplinary field? Is it unified enough to be one? Should it be? These are some of the questions related to discipline formation and professionalization that digital humanists have recently asked. The unstable mix of grammatic…
Between Humanities and the Digital
Scholars from a range of disciplines offer an expansive vision of the intersections between new information technologies and the humanities. Between Humanities and the Digital offers an expansive vision of how the humanities engage with digital and information technology, providing a range of perspectives on a quickly evolving, contested, and exciting field. It documents the multiplicity of ways that humanities scholars have turned increasingly t…
Imagining the New Media Encounter
There are more and less capable imaginations of the new media encounter moment. New media encounters are a proxy wrestle for the soul of the person and the civilization. At once descriptive and interpretive, speculative and wary, proselytizing and critical, and visionary and regulatory, narratives of new media encounter are the elementary form of media theory – the place from which all meta-discourse about media starts. The overview of how cultur…
Friending the Past
Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the "sense of history" that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing-social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.-have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of ni…
Digital Humanities and Academic Change
Research Article| March 01 2009 Digital Humanities and Academic Change Alan Liu Alan Liu University of California, Santa Barbara [email protected] Alan Liu is professor and chair in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the fields of digital humanities, British Romantic literature and art, and literary theory. He has published three books: Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford Univers…
Local Transcendence
Destructive Creativity
The rationale of contemporary knowledge work is “creative destruction,” with the emphasis on “creative” and almost no serious reflection on “destruction.” The question of a future aesthetics is the question of the general legitimation of art in such an age of creative destruction. What is the function of the creative arts in a world of perpetually “innovative” information and knowledge work? The special potential of the arts in the age of knowled…
The Ethos of Information
Networking
Since about 1982, networking has taken the lead in setting the agenda of information technology. In terms of information architectures, the networking paradigm arose through a twofold rhythm of convergence in underlying technologies and divergence in understanding what might be called the “philosophy” of those technologies. The technological convergence occurred when computing and communications fused together in three overlapping stages: the pre…
Automating
To understand the fate of alienation in the first half of the twentieth century, it is useful to review the “Estranged Labour” fragment of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, where he defined alienation. Drawing on a Romantic metaphysics of identity, Marx first characterized alienation as the estrangement of object from subject: “The object which labour produces—labour's product—confronts it as something alien, as a power in…
Epilogue
This Epilogue reflects on how the author of this book found a strange yet utterly familiar thing that he came to call the “ethos of the unknown” from which this book grew. The author wanted to believe that an individual could match the world of corporate knowledge work—at least enough to criticize it. The Epilogue criticizes post-industrialism from inside because—here and now, in this place and time—there is no transcendental outside. One must th…
Preface “What's Cool?”
Speaking of History
Historicizing Cool
This chapter speculates about the future of humanities education and the future of aesthetics. What will be the future role of humanities education in the age of knowledge work? What will be the role of such education now that the older, universalist mode of humanistic inquiry has been inflected toward difference, flexibility, and contingency by those movements that are the uniquely academic version of post-industrialism: post-structuralism and c…
Informating
We can best approach the issue of informating by visiting two work locales of the early 1980s depicted in Shoshana Zuboff's In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988). The book provides a sketch of one work site paradigmatic of a new mode of blue-collar work and a matching description of the new white-collar office of the time. Mainframe computing inaugurated not only sweeping changes in infrastructure and work routine, but also the possibility of a …
Preface “We Work Here, but We're Cool”
Information Is Style
The Tribe of Cool
In his 1974 book Society against the State, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres argues that there are societies without politics. Most Indian tribes of the Americas, Clastres says, “are headed by leaders and chiefs,” but “none of these caciques possesses any power.” The tribe of the cubicle, like the tribe of the forest, inhabits a sociality of mandatory disempowerment. The laws of this sociality—the post-industrial sociality of “neocorpora…
Cyber-Politics and Bad Attitude
Most users of online media are likely to have encountered—and in practice at least minimally endorsed—“politics for the really cool.” One does not need to be overtly political, after all, to feel a vicarious thrill of revolution while downloading copyrighted music at work or viewing previously restricted satellite images on the World Wide Web. Even purely fictional representations of digital information technology, such as the 1990s films The Net…
The Idea of Knowledge Work
To understand knowledge work from the perspective of the humanities, this chapter reviews three explanations of the concept that arose independently and largely in ignorance of each other: subject work, New Class work, and teamwork. The first two are academic approaches characteristic of the humanities in their now prevailing cultural critical personality. The third is the neo-corporate business thesis that seems destined to buy out the others. W…
Preface “Unnice Work” Knowledge Work and the Academy
The Feeling of Information
Cool style at the beginning of the twenty-first century completes the severe revision the twentieth century had already initiated in old traditions of affiliation between artistic styles and modalities of feeling. Cool may not be exactly a “Fordized face” of no emotion, then, but as the alter-face of the interface of information, it is just as constrained. The heart of the problem lies in determining whether the cool “feeling of paradox” is in fa…
The Laws of Cool
The Power of Formalism
The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism Author(s): Alan Liu Source: ELH, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 721-771 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2873158 . Accessed: 13/07/2014 01:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that help…
Local Transcendence
Research Article| October 01 1990 Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail Alan Liu Alan Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 32: 75-113. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928796 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Transcendental Data
Is Digital Humanities a Field? An Answer from the Point of View of Language
This article reflects on the way apparently low-level linguistic variances in the way scholars write about the “digital humanities” point to overarching conceptual issues relating to the “DH” field. Is digital humanities a disciplinary field? Is it unified enough to be one? Should it be? These are some of the questions related to discipline formation and professionalization that digital humanists have recently asked. The unstable mix of grammatic…
Friending the Past
Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the "sense of history" that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing-social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.-have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of ni…
Wordsworth
I was, at that very moment, in possession of what had, for many years, been the principal object of my ambition and wishes: indifference, which from the usual infirmity of human nature follows ... complete enjoyment, had taken place of it. The marsh, and the fountains, upon comparison with the rise of many of our rivers, became now a trifling object in my sight. I remembered that magnificent scene in my own native country, where the Tweed, Clyde,…
"Christopher Smart's "Uncommunicated Letters
To read Smart's work, not just the best-known poems but also the translations and magazine writings, is to become aware of a disparate poetic spirit: humble, vainglorious, scholarly, and humorous. The disturbing discrepancy between humility and vainglory is my immediate, delimited concern-one I will take up by exploring the double morality of translation theory in Smart's Jubilate Agno (c. 1759-63) and Preface to the verse Horace (1767). Tradutto…
The Power of Formalism
The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism Author(s): Alan Liu Source: ELH, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 1989), pp. 721-771 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2873158 . Accessed: 13/07/2014 01:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that help…
Local Transcendence
Research Article| October 01 1990 Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail Alan Liu Alan Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 32: 75-113. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928796 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Remembering the Spruce Goose
Research Article| January 01 2003 Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism Alan Liu Alan Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (1): 263–278. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-1-263 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Alan Liu; Remembering the Spruce Goose: Historicism, Postmodernism, Romanticism…
Destructive Creativity
The rationale of contemporary knowledge work is “creative destruction,” with the emphasis on “creative” and almost no serious reflection on “destruction.” The question of a future aesthetics is the question of the general legitimation of art in such an age of creative destruction. What is the function of the creative arts in a world of perpetually “innovative” information and knowledge work? The special potential of the arts in the age of knowled…
The Ethos of Information
Networking
Since about 1982, networking has taken the lead in setting the agenda of information technology. In terms of information architectures, the networking paradigm arose through a twofold rhythm of convergence in underlying technologies and divergence in understanding what might be called the “philosophy” of those technologies. The technological convergence occurred when computing and communications fused together in three overlapping stages: the pre…
Automating
To understand the fate of alienation in the first half of the twentieth century, it is useful to review the “Estranged Labour” fragment of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, where he defined alienation. Drawing on a Romantic metaphysics of identity, Marx first characterized alienation as the estrangement of object from subject: “The object which labour produces—labour's product—confronts it as something alien, as a power in…
Epilogue
This Epilogue reflects on how the author of this book found a strange yet utterly familiar thing that he came to call the “ethos of the unknown” from which this book grew. The author wanted to believe that an individual could match the world of corporate knowledge work—at least enough to criticize it. The Epilogue criticizes post-industrialism from inside because—here and now, in this place and time—there is no transcendental outside. One must th…
Preface “What's Cool?”
Speaking of History
Historicizing Cool
This chapter speculates about the future of humanities education and the future of aesthetics. What will be the future role of humanities education in the age of knowledge work? What will be the role of such education now that the older, universalist mode of humanistic inquiry has been inflected toward difference, flexibility, and contingency by those movements that are the uniquely academic version of post-industrialism: post-structuralism and c…
Informating
We can best approach the issue of informating by visiting two work locales of the early 1980s depicted in Shoshana Zuboff's In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988). The book provides a sketch of one work site paradigmatic of a new mode of blue-collar work and a matching description of the new white-collar office of the time. Mainframe computing inaugurated not only sweeping changes in infrastructure and work routine, but also the possibility of a …
Preface “We Work Here, but We're Cool”
Information Is Style
The Tribe of Cool
In his 1974 book Society against the State, the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres argues that there are societies without politics. Most Indian tribes of the Americas, Clastres says, “are headed by leaders and chiefs,” but “none of these caciques possesses any power.” The tribe of the cubicle, like the tribe of the forest, inhabits a sociality of mandatory disempowerment. The laws of this sociality—the post-industrial sociality of “neocorpora…
Cyber-Politics and Bad Attitude
Most users of online media are likely to have encountered—and in practice at least minimally endorsed—“politics for the really cool.” One does not need to be overtly political, after all, to feel a vicarious thrill of revolution while downloading copyrighted music at work or viewing previously restricted satellite images on the World Wide Web. Even purely fictional representations of digital information technology, such as the 1990s films The Net…
The Idea of Knowledge Work
To understand knowledge work from the perspective of the humanities, this chapter reviews three explanations of the concept that arose independently and largely in ignorance of each other: subject work, New Class work, and teamwork. The first two are academic approaches characteristic of the humanities in their now prevailing cultural critical personality. The third is the neo-corporate business thesis that seems destined to buy out the others. W…
Preface “Unnice Work” Knowledge Work and the Academy
The Feeling of Information
Cool style at the beginning of the twenty-first century completes the severe revision the twentieth century had already initiated in old traditions of affiliation between artistic styles and modalities of feeling. Cool may not be exactly a “Fordized face” of no emotion, then, but as the alter-face of the interface of information, it is just as constrained. The heart of the problem lies in determining whether the cool “feeling of paradox” is in fa…
Preface “More”
The Laws of Cool
Transcendental Data
Local Transcendence
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