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| Introduction | |
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| From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public | |
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| Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Difficulty of Talking with Objects | |
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| Assembling or Disassembling? | |
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| A Palaver at Tutuila Samoa, 1883. Two Photographs by Captain William A.D. Acland | |
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| No Politics Please | |
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| On Small Devices of Thought. Concepts, Etymology and the Problem of Translation | |
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| WAI 262. A Maori "Cultural Property" Claim | |
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| "This Is Not a Facade" | |
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| An Election in Papua New Guinea | |
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| Diplomats without Portfolios. The Question of Contact with Extraterrestrial Civilizations | |
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| Which Cosmos for Which Cosmopolitics? | |
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| Divisionem sententiae postulare. Self-laceration | |
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| Good and Bad Government: Siena and Venice | |
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| Sky, Heaven and the Seat of Power | |
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| The Pantheon of Brains | |
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| Transforming Things. Art and Politics on the Northwest Coast | |
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| "Our Government as Nation". Sir Benjamin Stone's Parliamentary Pictures | |
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| Excerpt: John Dewey on the Pragmatist Good Government | |
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| The Problem of Composition | |
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| Composing the Body Politic. Composite Images and Political Representation, 1651-2004 | |
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| Seeing Double. How to Make Up a Phantom Body Politic | |
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| JJ | |
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| Reflections on a Table | |
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| Excerpt: William Shakespeare on the Parable of the Members and the Belly | |
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| Issues Spark a Public into Being. A Key But Often Forgotten Point of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate | |
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| Mission Impossible. Giving Flesh to the Phantom Public | |
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| InterSections/ZKM. A Project | |
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| Freedom for Music! Intuition and the Rule | |
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| Classes, Masses, Crowds. Representing the Collective Body and the Myth of Direct Knowledge | |
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| Excerpt: Thomas Hobbes on Leviathan | |
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| From Objects to Things | |
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| Of Althings! | |
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| Thing Site, Tie, Ting Place. Venues for the Administration of Law | |
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| Heidegger on Objects and Things | |
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| Excerpt: Martin Heidegger on the Etymology of "Thing" | |
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| Heidegger and the Atomic Bomb | |
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| 100 Suns. Military Photography Collected by Michael Light | |
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| Things as Res publicae. Making Things Public | |
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| Things Chinese: On wu | |
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| Dewey's Transactions. From Sense to Common Sense | |
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| From Laboratory to Public Proofs | |
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| Public Experiments | |
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| Disabled Persons of All Countries, Unite! | |
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| Public Evaluation and New Rules for "Human Parks" | |
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| Circulations. A Virtual Laboratory and Its Elements | |
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| Things under Water. E.J. Marey's Aquarium Laboratory and Cinema's Assembly | |
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| Wall of Science | |
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| Making Electrons Public | |
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| "Actions of Interest" in Surgical Simulators | |
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| Making Collaboration Networks Visible | |
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| Making Science and Technology Results Public. A Sociology of Demos | |
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| "The Great Pan Is Dead!" | |
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| Viva la Republica Cosmica! or The Children of Humboldt and Coca-Cola | |
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| Excerpt: Karl Polanyi on Dogs Eat Dogs or the Fable of Sociobiology | |
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| "Sheep Do Have Opinions" | |
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| Wolves in the Valley. On Making a Controversy Public | |
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| About Pigs | |
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| Chicken for Shock and Awe: War on Words | |
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| What Is It Like to Be Face to Face with a Great Ape? | |
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| The Obelisks of Stockholm | |
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| Coastal Environment Made Public. Notes from the Field | |
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| Reshuffling Religious Assemblies | |
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| Reforming the Assembly | |
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| Arguing with Heretics? Colloquiums, Disputations and Councils in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Dominican Constitutions | |
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| Interfaith Celebrations, a New Rite? | |
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| An Assembly of Humans, Shells and Gods | |
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| The Parliaments of Nature | |
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| Galileo's Traveling Circus of Science | |
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| Rhine Streaming | |
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| River Sentinels. Finding a Mouth for the Lot River | |
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| Water Parliaments: Some Examples | |
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| River Landscaping in Second Modernity | |
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| The Lottery of the Sea. A Film in Progress | |
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| The Path of Milk | |
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| Milky Way | |
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| Excerpt: Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar | |
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| Which Assembly for Those Assemblages? | |
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| The Detroit Industry Murals. Diego Rivera (1886-1957) | |
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| The Politics of Water. A Dutch Thing to Keep the Water Out or Not | |
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| A Building Is a "Multiverse" | |
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| The Architectural Thing. The Making of "Making Things Public" | |
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| The Glory of Tournai | |
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| Who Is Minding the Bridges? (A Personal Inquiry) | |
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| Follow the Paper-Trails | |
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| The Common Place of Law. Transforming Matters of Concern into the Objects of Everyday Life | |
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| Public International Indigenes | |
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| The People of Karlsruhe. Jochen Gerz's Constitutional Rights Square | |
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| The Notebook: A Paper-Technology | |
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| Removing Knowledge | |
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| Blocking Things Public | |
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| The Image, between Res privata and Res communis | |
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| What's Political in Political Economy? | |
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| An Artificial Being | |
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| The Stock Ticker | |
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| Listening to the Spread Plot | |
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| This Announcement Appears as a Matter of Record Only! Notes on The New Germany Found Inc / Universalia Non Realia Sed Nomina | |
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| Releasing Market Statistics | |
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| Capitalism Cartograms and World Government | |
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| Publicizing Goldilocks' Choice at the Supermarket. The Political Work of Shopping Packs, Carts and Talk | |
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| The Creators of the Shopping Worlds | |
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| Cuddly / We Are the Children | |
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| The Parliament of Fashion | |
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| Questions of Taste | |
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| The Political Aesthetic of Reason | |
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| Hard Facts | |
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| Paint/Print/Public | |
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| The Evidence of Phryne, or Phryne Stripped Bare by Rhetoric Even | |
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| Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye | |
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| Democratic Socialism, Cybernetic Socialism. Making the Chilean Economy Public | |
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| Science in the Age of Sensibility | |
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| Political Aesthetics. Image and Form in Contemporary Dutch Spatial Politics | |
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| Public Experiments. On Several Productions of Bertolt Brecht's "The Life of Galileo" | |
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| Parliamentary Technologies | |
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| Re: Public | |
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| The Circle of Discussion and the Semicircle of Criticism | |
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| Excerpt: Abbe Sieyes on the Infinite Parliament | |
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| Stranded Bodies of Democracy. Cases from the Indian Himalayas | |
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| How to Make a Still Picture Speak and Walk. The Fabulous Destiny of a Gandhi Follower | |
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| Parliamentary Public | |
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| Designing the Agon. Questions on Architecture, Space, Democracy and "the Political" | |
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| Some Reflections on an Agonistic Approach to the Public | |
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| Centers Don't Have to Be Points. Politics beyond State Boundaries | |
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| Voting Machinery, Counting and Public Proofs in the 2000 US Presidential Election | |
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| Dark Source. Public Trust and the Secret at the Heart of the New Voting Machines | |
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| Spin. A Documentary on Political Media | |
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| Turning Public Discourse into an Authentic Artifact: Shorthand Transcription in the French National Assembly | |
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| The Power of Representation: Parliaments of North Africa and the Middle East | |
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| Legible Mob | |
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| A Search for Eloquence | |
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| Excerpt: Jean de La Fontaine on the Power of Fables | |
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| Managing Evidence | |
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| Excerpt: Jonathan Swift on the Tricky Art of Conversation | |
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| Pindices | |
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| Communiculture | |
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| BEcomING COLLECTIVE. The Constitution of Audience as an Interactional Process | |
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| Excerpt: Bertolt Brecht on How Dictators Learn Their Rhetoric from Shakespeare | |
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| The Chorus in Opera. Concocting Common Sense | |
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| Getting Together in Cinema | |
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| Narrative Device IV | |
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| Borderdevice(s) | |
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| What Is a Body / a Person? Topography of the Possible | |
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| Fair Assembly | |
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| Blogs. The New Public Forum - Private Matters, Political Issues, Corporate Interests | |
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| Recipe for Tracing the Fate of Issues and Their Publics on the Web | |
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| The Chronofile-Society | |
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| New Political Passions? | |
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| Atmospheric Politics | |
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| Instant Democracy: The Pneumatic Parliament | |
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| I Am a Revolutionary, 2001 / Everything You've Heard Is Wrong | |
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| Lungs: Slave Labour | |
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| Allegories of the Political | |
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| MapHub: HEARD and MapMover | |
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| Agonistics: A Language Game | |
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| The Fate of Art in the Age of Terror | |
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| The Trials of the World - a Fiction | |
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| Still Life | |
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| The Tragedy of Minamata. Sit-in and Face-to-Face Discussion | |
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| The Cosmopolitical Proposal | |
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| Excerpt: Herman Melville on Bartleby and the Limit of All Politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Art and Democracy | |
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| Inserts | |
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| Elisabeth Bronfen: The Birth of the Glamourous Star as an Optical Illusion. Busby Berkeley's Dames | |
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| CYKLOOP: The World's First Mobile Virtual-Reality Center | |
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| Sebastian Fischer, Lasse Scherffig, Hans H. Diebner: EyeVisionBot | |
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| Yoann Le Claire: Fabien Lerat, Theatre | |
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| Jenny Marketou: Flying Spy Potatoes: Mission 21st Street, NYC | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Works in the Exhibition | |
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| Biographies of the Authors | |
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| Index | |