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Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives

By Susan Howe

 

Computers as Theater

By Brenda Laurel

 

The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos

By Irmtraud Morgner

 

The Real World of Technology

By Ursula Franklin

 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By Michelle Alexander

 
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