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Inner Conflicts

What should I do? What is the right thing to do? What do I do when I don’t know what to do? The difficulty in answering these questions does not come from a lack of knowledge ...

Gray Media: A Psychopolitics of Deception

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In the era of artificial intelligence, how can we tell we are being tricked? Indeed, is deception an anomaly or rather a defining force in contemporary media, culture, and politics? In Gray Media: A Psychopolitics ...

Walls: Multidimensional Essays

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M.H. Bowker’s Walls is a contemplative essay that is sometimes playful and sometimes grave. At first blush, its subject matter would appear simple. Walls considers (1) the psychic meaning of walls and (2) the meaning ...

Echo Otherwise: A Poetics of Sound and Loss in Ancient and Contemporary Poetry

At the heart of this book is a story about reading, about reading and pedagogy, about pedagogy’s readers, about readers who listen, listening while reading, about poems and their sonic materials, about the demands that ...

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