[iDC] re-situating the situated bibliography?
mollybh at netspace.net.au
mollybh at netspace.net.au
Tue Sep 5 01:01:40 EDT 2006
hi -
i'm responding to a few recent posts-i'm finding myself quite at home on
this list - i think when i delurked i introduced myself all too quickly as a
phd student - and i want to clarify that i'm writing my dissertation on cities
and mobile communications, but as a history of technologies and technology
based cities, with an eye to gaps in current kinds of approaches , and not as
as part of architecture course, but as part of the media and
communications discipline, but that my background is as an architect and
student thereof, with strong interest in urbanism, my doctorate will be
received from creative industries, queensland university of technology - i
noticed a few others from there on this list - my artistic practice has
involved investigations of and history of utopian thought as it is made into
cities and forms, with much personal, political interest in the meda critical
Situationists = because they used film - and the work of Debord, with obvious
interest in New Babylon, as well, and in Archigram (though I don't believe
they were particularly utopian, but also used film technology as architects ) -
i wanted to add a few titles to the reading list,
after mark burdett's selections and links,
i want to second the suggestion of:
Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums' - a most superbly researched account of global
urban poverty thus a moral roadblock for many conceptions of the cities of the
future.
also,
Mark Wigley - "Constant's New Babylon; The Hyper Architecture of Desire",
Witte de Witte, Rotterdam (from the exhibition of Constant's drawings,
excellent color plates of the project throughout)
and this intriguing, yet surprisingly little known, argumentation against what
he calls = "global cities discourse"
Michael Peter Smith's "Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization" -
Blackwell, 2001
Smith, an urban historian from UC Davis, gives some very convincing and
articulate reasons to suspect the proponents of the global cities trend. he
writes of cities as comprised of threads of diverse communications which are
the life, wealth of cities which become lost to the dominance of the "global
cities" that espoused by David Harvey, in particular, and to some extent by
Saskia Sassen, and others. He is one of the few theorists I've read who dares
to challenge the dominance of the "global cities discourse" but who instead,
offers up cities as comprised of dynamic communication (such as transnational
networked correspondence and flows) not objects stuck in frameworks of
capital accumulation (only) and competition for global recognition - which
serve the purposes of these economic orders...
and these =
Simon Marvin, Stephen Graham "Splintered Urbanism"
and Simon Marvin also headed up a very interesting symposium at University of
Salford, with papers on line, called "Urban Vulnerability and Network Failure."
Also, Stephen Graham's anthology "The Cybercities Reader" Routledge.
Marvin and Graham represent a particularly critical and imaginative strain of
UK urban theory, very good reading, very interesting take on technology from
outside of the techno-determinist mindset, looking, for one example, at the
amount in tons of copper wire which is actually stolen from supplies of
communication cable stored in vast lots, per year, melted down and turned into
money on the black market
thanks for all the book titles - i look forward to finding a few of them -
particularly those on the social histories of technology
thanks to mark shepard = i believe- for the inf on the ubicomp city
forthcoming in south korea, that had somehow escaped me, but does not surprise
me that this would be happening = curiously, and this may or may not be a
separate issue, but just occured to me - one difficulty that IT companies have
when moving their headquarters to the third world,(as reported of about a
compound introduced to New Dehli,?? in NY Times about 6 months ago) is not
enough infrastructure in place, including water and electricity to be able to
handle their new, futuristic structures. Curiously, graham and marvin also
write about this kind of phenomenon, that many village dwelling people end up
having to buy water or to cart it, at the very least, from farther away after
enormous new water pipes are laid for urban centers - splintered urbanism is
rife with this sort of scenario
molly
san francisco, ca = home of many countercultures
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> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:55:26 +0100
> From: "Gere, Charlie" <c.gere at lancaster.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: [iDC] reading list
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> I have been doing some fairly intense reading over the Summer, though more in
> the area of theology and theologically-inflected philosophy, which has
> extremely interesting and pertinent connections to questions of media,
> language etc... This reading will almost certainly contribute to whatever I
> present in New York in October. Among the books, chapters and essays I have
> been reading or are about to read are the following
>
> Reading List
>
> Religion and Media, edited by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber; especially the
> introduction, “Deconstructing Christianity” by Jean-Luc Nancy, “Above All, No
> Journalists!” by Jacques Derrida, “Religion, Repetition, Media” by Samuel
> Weber, and “Luther with McLuhan” by Manfred Schneider
>
> Acts of Religion by Jacques Derrida, edited by Gil Andjar; especially “Faith
> and Knowledge”, “Force of Law” and “Les Tours de Babel”
>
> The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida
>
> After Writing by Catherine Pickstock
>
> Paul by Alain Badiou
>
> The chapter on Pascal from Alain Badiou’s Being and Event
>
> Belief and After Christianity by Gianni Vattimo
>
> I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard
>
> Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida and Deconstruction by Andrew McKenna
>
> Cities of God by Graham Ward
>
> Barth, Derrida and the Language of Philosophy by Graham Ward
>
> The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy by Lee Palmer
> Wandel
>
> God without Being, Being Given, and In Excess by Jean-Luc Marion
>
> The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
>
>
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:32:09 -0700
> From: eduardo at navasse.net
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> Hello,
>
> Interesting list. Given that you include Zizek, I also suggest his 2003
> book which is a follow up to the Fragile Absolute, titled
> The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity (MIT).
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9914
>
> Both books are focused on the notion of faith and its relation to
> Hegelianism. Something I thought about when first introduced to the
> philosophy of history, and its flip by Marx in his writings.
>
> Best,
>
> Eduardo
>
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RE: [iDC] reading list
> > From: "Gere, Charlie" <c.gere at lancaster.ac.uk>
> > Date: Mon, September 04, 2006 10:55 am
> > To: "idc" <idc at bbs.thing.net>
> >
> > I have been doing some fairly intense reading over the Summer, though more
> in the area of theology and theologically-inflected philosophy, which has
> extremely interesting and pertinent connections to questions of media,
> language etc... This reading will almost certainly contribute to whatever I
> present in New York in October. Among the books, chapters and essays I have
> been reading or are about to read are the following
> >
> > Reading List
> >
> > Religion and Media, edited by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber; especially
> the introduction, “Deconstructing Christianity” by Jean-Luc Nancy, “Above
> All, No Journalists!” by Jacques Derrida, “Religion, Repetition, Media” by
> Samuel Weber, and “Luther with McLuhan” by Manfred Schneider
> >
> > Acts of Religion by Jacques Derrida, edited by Gil Andjar; especially
> “Faith and Knowledge”, “Force of Law” and “Les Tours de Babel”
> >
> > The Gift of Death by Jacques Derrida
> >
> > After Writing by Catherine Pickstock
> >
> > Paul by Alain Badiou
> >
> > The chapter on Pascal from Alain Badiou’s Being and Event
> >
> > Belief and After Christianity by Gianni Vattimo
> >
> > I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard
> >
> > Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida and Deconstruction by Andrew
> McKenna
> >
> > Cities of God by Graham Ward
> >
> > Barth, Derrida and the Language of Philosophy by Graham Ward
> >
> > The Eucharist in the Reformation: Incarnation and Liturgy by Lee Palmer
> Wandel
> >
> > God without Being, Being Given, and In Excess by Jean-Luc Marion
> >
> > The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:08:14 +0200
> From: "Karmen Franinovic" <k.franinovic at gmail.com>
> Subject: [iDC] Intro - Karmen
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> Hello everyone!
>
> My name is Karmen Franinovic, and I will be speaking at the
> Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium. Trebor invited me to
> introduce myself and my work to the list. The issues tackled in
> discussions on the iDC list and the upcoming symposium are very close
> to my own concerns, which have grown out from my background in
> architecture, communication studies and interaction design.
>
> In last ten years my research/practice has moved from exploring
> digital architecture and theories (+ designing public buildings in
> arch. studios), to more tangible and interactive urban installations.
> The latter have aimed at providing contexts for the emergence of new
> social and sensorial ecologies in the city, and challenging our
> established everyday routines and behaviours. For example, the
> Recycled Soundscapes project questions the ways in which we listen to
> urban soundscapes and how we produce them; Kontakt offers the
> possibility/excuse to touch others and to collaboratively generate
> sound-light atmospheres. (To check out this and other work you may
> visit Zero-Th Association which I co-founded together with Yon Visell
> : www.zero-th.org )
>
> These projects, I believe, fit Usman's ideas about architecture, which
> include the immaterial, social, sensorial and affective flows and
> relations, rather then material structure alone: "It is about
> developing ways to make people themselves more engaged with, and
> ultimately responsible for, the spaces that they inhabit. It is about
> investing the production of architecture with the poetries of its
> inhabitants." Can these poetries and architectures break routine
> patterns and raise awareness about our behaviours in public space? Can
> we, as artists/designers/architects activate tensions hidden in the
> urban space in order to question assumptions and beliefs?
>
> ... just a few thoughts.
>
> Best,
> Karmen
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 16:47:09 -0400
> From: Mark Shepard <mshepard at andinc.org>
> Subject: [iDC] Architecture and Situated Technologies - September
> Overture
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> Since the 1980s, computer scientists and engineers have been
> researching ways of embedding computational intelligence into the
> built environment. Researchers at Xerox PARC began to look beyond the
> model of personal computing, which placed the computer in the
> foreground of our attention, to one of “ubiquitous” computing that
> takes into account the contingencies of human environments and allows
> computers themselves to vanish into the background. As embedded
> microprocessors, GPS modules, RFID tags, environmental sensors, and
> material actuators are becoming available in ever smaller packages,
> this research agenda is fast becoming an implementable reality.
>
> From the NYPD using E-Z Pass records to track suspects on the run,
> to companies like Levi Strauss, Gillette, and Tesco pursuing item-
> level RFID tagging of their products, to New Songdo in South Korea -
> the $25 billion dollar ubicomp city being constructed 40 kilometers
> south of Seoul, the applications of embedded, networked computation
> are by now nothing new.
>
> So what do we make of it? How might our discussions over the past two
> months around Responsive Architecture, Locative Media, and
> Participation in the Networked Public Sphere help "situate" our
> thinking about these emerging conditions?
>
> With the dawn of the age of an "Internet of things", new challenges
> emerge for how we both design and inhabit the built environment. In a
> near-future world where everyday objects and spaces are networked
> with computational intelligence, where the “users” of the Internet
> are projected to number in the billions and where humans quite
> possibly become a minority as generators and receivers of
> information, where "things" (be they products, automobiles, building
> facades, or cities) become imbued with agency, identifying the
> opportunities and dilemmas for design in this speculative future is
> more important than ever.
>
> To the extent that corporations and federal agencies are responsible
> for developing these new technologies, we can expect to see new forms
> of consumption and control gain momentum. The current power struggle
> over file-sharing, copy-protection and regulation of the wireless
> spectrum highlights the dilemma. To what degree will people be
> empowered to share, participate and create using these technologies?
> To what degree will their power be limited to consumption? What new
> forms of control are enabled?
>
> Of course, this future could also turn out to be simply not that
> interesting. Finding ways to debunk the hype and hysteria associated
> with these coming techno-socio-material assemblages is as important
> as projecting alternate future possibilities. If anything, as Eric
> Paulos has suggested elsewhere, perhaps most tragic would be that
> this future turns out to be quite boring. Who really needs a more
> optimal, efficient life? Who needs yet another confectionary spectacle?
>
> As we enter the third and final month of the Architecture and
> Situated Technologies discussion, I propose mapping out a near-future
> design agenda for a world of networked objects and spaces. How do we
> avoid the traps of a utopic futurology? Taking up Bruce Sterling's
> call for a "Metahistory" with an expiry date, and recalling Usman's
> charge that the architect's ability to think meta-systemically is
> "both a bug and a feature", what new sites of practice, research
> vectors, and working methods can we stake out for the confluence of
> Architecture and Situated Technologies?
>
> Building on the past two months of discussion, one way to start might
> be to dig deeper into the threads on:
>
> + Responsive Architecture, the current status of the material object,
> forms of embodied interaction, and the role of second-order
> cybernetic theory as a means to engage both the environment and the
> occupant as participants in the design and production of the built
> environment,
>
> + Locative Media and its focus on mobility and play in urban
> environments, on collaborative authoring and its relation to an
> archaeological understanding of place and context, and on engaging a
> "mass" audience by working with consumer technologies and redirecting
> their power,
>
> + Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere, how certain
> participatory structures can either enhance or inhibit how people
> connect, share and engage through network technologies, how is this
> networked sociality is different for wired and wireless modes of access.
>
> By mining the claims, aspirations, successes and failures of these
> related practices, how might we distill some of the salient fault
> lines and lines of flight into a not-to-distant future reality?
>
>
> +
> mark shepard
> +
> http://www.andinc.org
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:14:33 -0400
> From: Martin Lucas <mlucas at igc.org>
> Subject: Re: [iDC] Situated Bibliography and some film.
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> This list is inspirational. Here are some offerings including:
>
>
> The Social Construction of Technological Systems
> New directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
> Ed. Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch
> MIT Press, Cambridge, London 1987.
> Many good articles including Hughes on The Evolution of Larger
> Technological Systems and Missile Acccuracy: A Case Study in the
> Social Processes of Technological Change. Donald MacKenzie.
>
> American philosophy of technology : the empirical turn / edited by
> Hans Achterhuis ; translated by Robert P. Crease. Bloomington :
> Indiana University Press, 2001
> This covers half a dozen Americans from Ihde to Winner from the POV
> of half a dozen of their Dutch collegues. I found this a very useful
> text. .
>
> After-Images of the City Ed. Joan Ramon Resina and Dieter
> Ingenschay. Cornell U. Press, Ithaca, London, 2003.
> This book examines how knowledge and public views of the city are
> formed and mediated. Essays by Resina, Harvey, Jürgen Schlaeger and
> others looking at London, Berlin, Tijuana. One of the books referred
> to is:
> Liquid City Marc Atkins and Iain Sinclair which is an intriguing
> collaboration between the photographer and the avante garde
> novelist. ‘Walks for their own sake, furiously enacted, but lacking
> agenda.” Reaktion Books, London 1999.
>
> Situationist City Simon Sadler, MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 1998.
> A look at the relationship between situationist thought, urbanism,
> architectural theory. (My interest was sparked by an exhibit of
> Constant’s drawings at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen.)
>
> London by Patrick Keiller is a film meditation on Thatcherite
> London. That film and a kind of sequel, Robinson in Space are key
> texts for me. Keiller is an architect whose understanding of the
> relationship between the image, the built world, economics and power
> is unique in film. A book version of Robinson in Space is avaiable
> from Reaktion as well.
>
> best,
>
> Marty Lucas
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Trebor Scholz wrote:
>
> > For my students I started a bibliography of new media: it is
> > grouped by
> > topical orientation and books appear alongside related art projects.
> >
> > <http://tinyurl.com/fcny8>
> >
> > A short list of readings:
> >
> > Wenger, E., McDermott, R., Snyder, W. (2002) Cultivating
> > Communities of
> > Practice. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
> >
> > Ellul, J. (1964) The Technological Society. New York: Vintage Books.
> > Ellul's deterministic classic warns of the social implications of
> > technology, in fact arguing that technology's internal logic and
> > efficiency may not meet real human needs.
> >
> > Willinsky, J. (2006) The Access Principle. The Case for Open Access to
> > Research and Scholarship. Cambridge: MIT Press.
> > Willinsky makes the case for open access, arguing that the fruits of
> > scholarship should be shared with a widest possible audience.
> >
> > Standage, T. (1998) The Victorian Internet. The Remarkable Story of
> > the
> > Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's Online Pioneers. New York:
> > Berkley Books.
> > Going beyond the Internet hype, this book examines the way in which
> > people have communicated across distances for centuries.
> >
> > Keeble, L., Loader, B. eds. (2001) Community Informatics. Shaping
> > Computer-Mediated Social Relations. London: Routledge.
> > This book addresses issues such as the rise of networked
> > individualism,
> > computer-mediated self-help, and participation in the information
> > society.
> >
> > Tenner, E. (2003) Our Own Devices. How Technology Remakes Humanity.
> > New
> > York: Vintage Books.
> >> From reclining chairs, keyboards, and eyeglasses to helmets, Tenner
> > investigates the history of invention of everyday objects. He examines
> > our relationship to these objects: the way we are shaped by them
> > and how
> > we, in turn, shape them.
> >
> > Winner, L. (1977) Autonomous Technology. Technics-out-of-Control as a
> > Theme of Political Thought.
> > This book deals with uncontrolled technological development, the
> > relationship between society and technology.
> >
> > Sterling, B. (2005) Shaping Things. Cambridge: MIT Press.
> >
> > Gilmore, D. (2004) We the Media. Grassroots journalism by the people,
> > for the people. Cambridge: O'Reilly.
> > The book on effective citizen journalism.
> >
> > Warschauer, M. (2003) Technology and Social Inclusion. Rethinking the
> > Digital Divide. Cambridge: MIT Press.
> > Mark Warschauer's insightful book outlines the preconditions for
> > participation in Internet cultures, a detailed look at the gap between
> > the information have and have-nots, updating our understanding of the
> > digital divide.
> >
> > Gitelman, L. (1999) Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines.
> > Representing
> > Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
> > This study of machines for writing at the end of the 19th century in
> > America explores the relationship between textuality and technology.
> >
> > Feenberg, A. (2002) Transforming Technology. Oxford: Oxford University
> > Press.
> > Feenberg addresses the question of neutrality of technology and
> > renders
> > the influence that technology has on our daily lives.
> >
> > Ferre, F. (1995) Philosophy of Technology. Athens: The University of
> > Georgia Press.
> >
> > Ihde, D. (1993) Philosophy of Technology. An Introduction. New York:
> > Paragon House.
> >
> > Brown, J. S., Duguid, P. (2002) The Social Life of Information.
> > Boston:
> > Harvard Business School Press.
> > Examining the social implications of technology, this book is
> > described
> > as an antidote to all digital silliness.
> >
> > Wegner, E. (1998) Communities of Practice. Learning, Meaning, and
> > Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
> > Wegners argues for the term "community of practice" in the context of
> > knowledge production.
> >
> > Hardin, R. (1982) Collective Action. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
> > Press.
> >
> > =
> >
> > There are also links to several readings specific to mobile devices
> > at:
> > <http://del.icio.us/Trebor/Mobile_Devices>
> >
> > Best,
> > Trebor Scholz
> >
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> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:32:26 -0700
> From: mark bartlett <mark at globalpostmark.net>
> Subject: [iDC] re-situating the situated bibliography?
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> I'm new to the list, independent scholar (at the moment) in berkeley,
> ca working on various issues of technoculture, post-critical
> philosophy (see ref below), aesthetics, social thought. I will not be
> going to the upcoming conference, but i hope there is some attention
> paid there to urbanism, poverty, access, and "who" gets "situated"
> and who doesn't, at all, relative to inclusion. the numbers below
> show, i think , that the "over-developed world" represents a very
> narrow bandwidth of humanity, and has _already_ been re-situated by
> the "under-developed world." [quoted terms from Gilroy, see below]
> what is the significance of that to any concept of future directions?
>
> the following could be replaced by any number of other equally
> compelling works, i suggest these as a point of reference for my
> point above.
>
>
> Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, Verso: 2006
>
> At present, 3.2 billion people are congregated in towns and cities.
> Their numbers are expected to grow to 10 billion in the middle of the
> century. [that's near-future]
>
> Mumbai: 10-12 million squatters and tenements; Mexico City, Dhaka -
> 9/10 million each; Lagos, Cairo, Karachi, Kinshasa-Brazzaville, Sao
> Paolo, Shanghai, Dehli - 7 million each; 4 million each, Cuidad
> Nezahualcoyotl, Chalco, Iztaplapa; 2 million in Caracas; 1.5 million
> in Baghdad; 1.3 in Gaza; 160 million in India; 190 million in China;
> 70 percent of the urban populations live in slums in Nigeria,
> Pakistan, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sudan.
>
> [numbers from Davis, quoted in "Slumland" review, Jan Breman, in
> current issue of New Left Review - see below]
>
> for comparative net- growth, see:
> http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/census.html
> particularly
> http://www.conceptualdevices.com/ENG/Human%20World/
> Internet_Users_Animation.html
>
> and for a potential model of resistance via the net see:
> http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/index.html
>
>
> action:
> Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself, Fordham UP, 2005
> addresses moral philosophy in terms of "acting, doing, within a
> contemporary social frame."
>
> contexts:
> Paul Gilroy, Between camps : nations, cultures and the allure of
> race / Routledge, 2004
> Paul Gilroy, Against race : imagining political culture beyond the
> color line: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000
> titles are sufficient: posses problems of the "situated" in terms of
> the long standing debates between essentialism, social construction;
> opposes spivak's concept of "strategic essentialism" and poses
> instead a "strategic universalism."
>
> New Left Review, 40, July/August 2006
> particularly cohesive issue, well worth reading in its entirety for
> the resonances between articles, but in particular, Gadi Algazi,
> "Offshore Zionism," R. Taggart Murphy, "East Asia's Dollars," and
> Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Curve of US Power."
> begins to re-situate the situation of globalism and power discourse,
> addresses, indirectly, many of the issues saskia sassen raised at
> ISEA for those of you heard her speak: the importance of "global
> finance" and its immense "creative" capacity
>
>
> methods:
> David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Prickly
> Paradigm Press, 2005 {downloadable at: http://www.prickly-
> paradigm.com/catalog.html}
> important and imaginative contribution to viability of anarchism as
> political strategy based on direct action network model, advocates,
> not surprisingly, completely dumping the situation of centralized
> state, acting not against but elsewhere, _causing_ it to wither away.
>
> David Hoy, Critical Resistance: From poststructuralism to post-
> critique, MIT, 2005
> brings crystalline clarity to the ethical pros and cons of key
> figures: Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu, Zizek, Leclaou/Mouffe, Butler,
> etc, makes case for ethical efficacity of genealogical
> deconstruction (Derrida's term from Aporias). It's a superb primer/
> teaching tool as well as contribution to this discourse.
>
>
>
>
>
> mark bartlett, phd
> berkeley, ca 94705
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