• "Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail," Representations 32 (Fall 1990): 75-113
• "The Power of Formalism: The New Historicism," ELH 56 (1989): 721-71; rpt. in Italian translation in L'Asino d'Oro 4, no. 8 (Nov. 1993): 78-122; also forthcoming in German and Chinese translations
• "Wordsworth and Subversion: Trying Cultural Criticism," Yale Journal of Criticism 2, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 55-100
• "The New Historicism and the Work of Mourning," Studies in Romanticism 35 (1996): 553-62

"Creative Destruction"

In the Ideology of Corporate "Knowledge Work"

• Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993):
           When someone asks us for a quick definition of business reengineering, we say it means "starting over." It doesn't mean tinkering with what already exists or making incremental changes that leave basic structures intact" (p. 31).

• Herman Bryant Maynard, Jr., and Susan E. Mehrtens, The Fourth Wave: Business in the 21st Century (1993):
          The First Wave of change, the agricultural revolution, has essentially ended and will not be of concern here. The Second Wave, coincidental with industrialization, has covered much of the Earth and continues to spread, while a new, postindustrial Third Wave is gathering force in the modern industrial nations. We see a Fourth Wave following close upon the Third. (pp. 5-6)
  
  

• Peter Drucker, Managing in Turbulent Times (1980):
          Innovation means, first, the systematic sloughing off of yesterday. (p. 60)

In the Ideology of Information Technology

• Michael Dertouzos, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives (1998)
  

• Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, rev. ed. (1996)

The Ethos of "Creative Destruction"

• Business Week, Special Double Issue on "The 21st Century Corporation"
  
  (From lead article on "The Creative Economy," 21-28 Aug. 2000: 76-82):
          Now the Industrial Economy is giving way to the Creative Economy, and corporations are at another crossroads. Attributes that made them ideal for the 20th century could cripple them in the 21st. So they will have to change, dramatically. The Darwinian struggle of daily business will be won by the people—and the organizations—that adapt most successfully to the new world that is unfolding (p. 78)
  
  ( From concluding Editorial, "The 21st Century Corporation": 278):
          Innovation builds profits . . . In an information economy, companies can gain an edge through new ideas and products that increase in value as more people use them. . . . But the emphasis is on "temporary." Knowledge-based products and networks can quickly disappear in a burst of Schumpeterian creative destruction. So corporations must innovate rapidly and continuously.
  

• Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)
         [excerpt from pp. 82-84]
  
  

• Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Community (1996)

  "The 'spirit of informationalism' is the culture of 'creative destruction' accelerated to the speed of the optoelectronic circuits that process its signals. Schumpeter meets Weber in the cyberspace of the network enterprise" (p. 199)

• Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution (1997)
• Gustav Metzger and Auto-Destructive Art
• Joseph Nechvatal
• Critical Arts Ensemble
• Electronic Disturbance Theater
• Jodi
• William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (1992)

• Stephen Greenblatt's "Invisible Bullets" in Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Univ. of California Press, 1988)
• Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight," in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
• Trauma theory (e.g., Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996])
• Holocaust theory and philosophy (e.g., Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1988)

"Cool Site" Archives on the Web

• Cool Site of the Day archives
• Project Cool, Inc. archives

Recent tools for rhetorical analysis of the Web:

• Rockwell, Geoffrey, et al. "Tracking Culture on the Web: An Experiment." Panel on "Digital Culture." 2001 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. New York University. 15 June 2001.
• WayBack Machine. Launched by the Internet Archive on Oct. 24th, 2001; a massive archive providing access to Web pages as they existed in the past. Searching for a site returns dated versions starting circa fall 1996. (e.g., http://humanitas.ucsb.edu)
  

Analysis of "Producerism" vs. Consumerism

Rhetorical and interpretive analysis

• The ethos, aesthetic, affect, and politics of information cool
• Bad Attitude: The "Processed World" Anthology, ed. Chris Carlsson, with Mark Leger, (Verso, 1990)