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Michael Jarrett practices an Ulmer-inspired heuretics to write about rap.

Rowan Wilken sets himself the challenge of theorizing the unrepresentable in relation to the architectural model of the diagram.

The Electronic Swarm of City and Self

Jenny Weight reviews William Mitchell's third book, Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City.

Stanley Fish and the Place of Criticism

Christopher Knight on Stanley Fish's Professional Correctness.

Ecotourism: Notes on Con-temporary Travel

Thomas Cohen on ecotourism in Bolivia and discovering the post-humans of the past.

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It’s no surprise, then, that Daniel Reiss claims in his ebr review of Roger Chartier’s Forms and Meanings that the greatest insight afforded by Ong’s scholarship is that altering the forms by which thought is expressed and disseminated alters the process of thought itself.

‐ Lori Emerson

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While Jarrett argues for rap as rhapsody, Rob Wittig presses for a future revival of hip-hop as the art of the troubadour.

‐ Lori Emerson

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Echoing Jarrett’s claim for hip-hop as montage, Marcus Boon’s “Sublime Frequencies’ Ethnopsychedelic Montages” drives home to us that hip hop emerged out of the B-Boys’ taste for African polyrhythms purloined from old vinyl reshaped and engineered on turntables and mixers.

‐ Lori Emerson

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