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Revelations in the Cubicle: White-collar Computing in the Early 1990s Revelations in the Cubicle: White-collar Computing in the Early 1990s
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From “Information Superhighway” to “Cyberspace” and the Habitus of Knowledge Workers From “Information Superhighway” to “Cyberspace” and the Habitus of Knowledge Workers
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Tropes from the Counterculture: “They Just Don’t Get It” Tropes from the Counterculture: “They Just Don’t Get It”
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The Moment of Mosaic: The Pleasure of Anticipation The Moment of Mosaic: The Pleasure of Anticipation
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The Genesis of Irrational Exuberance: Romanticizing the Market The Genesis of Irrational Exuberance: Romanticizing the Market
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The Role of Romanticism in the Internet Surprise The Role of Romanticism in the Internet Surprise
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The Internet and the Revival of Neoliberalism The Internet and the Revival of Neoliberalism
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Abstract
This chapter looks at the structure of feeling created in the early 1990s as knowledge workers began to discover the pleasures of online communication and elites groped for an organizational framework under the umbrella of the “information superhighway.” Web browsing articulated itself with a structure of desire centered around an endless “what's next?” and spread in a context in which middle ranks knew things that their superiors did not, adding to that articulation a romantic sense of rebellion; one could in theory rebel, express oneself, and get rich all at once. Taken together, this fusion of romantic subjectivity and market enthusiasms, exemplified and enabled in the early Wired magazine, created the conditions that fueled both the rapid triumph of the internet as the network of networks and the dotcom stock bubble.
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