Summary
Strong examines Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Literature professor Liu offers thoughtful suggestions about how the humanities can reclaim their cultural authority.
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Ain't It Cool?
The National Endowment for the Arts released a survey in july based on 2002 Census Bureau data that indicates just 56.6 percent of Americans had read a single book of any kind in the year prior. Yet, against a worldwide web of evidence to the contrary, many bookworms refuse to conc...
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