ISBN:
9783839430927
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies ; v.12
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies v.12
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Popular culture--United States
;
Popular culture ; United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 -- C.ool S.exy I.ntelligent: CSI's Scientist-Detectives -- The Spectacle of Science -- Lab Work: Cool and the Aporia of Information -- Recapitulating the Lab -- Geek Cool and the Comedy of Science in The Big Bang Theory -- "It All Started With A Big Bang": The Comedy of Science in The Big Bang Theory -- Laughing At Science or Laughing With Science? Some Preliminary Remarks on the Subversive Potential of (Situation) Comedy -- "…a working knowledge of the universe and everything it contains": Science, Geek Culture, and the Other -- Geek Cool: Nonconformity and the Revenge of the Nerds.
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