Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Director of Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

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Partially just a couple of links for my benefit; partially stuff I’d like to discuss further at a less-rushed moment:

Wendy Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006).

Robert Frenay, Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things (FSG, 2006).

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