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351: 356: 27: 303:, p. 27, Proctor writes that "My hope for devising a new term was to suggest...the historicity and artifactuality of non-knowing and the non-known - and the potential fruitfulness of studying such things. In 1992 I posed this challenge to Iain Boal, and it was he who came up with the term in the spring of that year" 231:" in 1992 to describe the intentional production of ignorance or doubt, often for commercial gain. Originally conceived to explain the behavior of tobacco companies, it has gained more recent currency in the context of commercially motivated 208:(Notting Hill Editions, out of print). Since 2005 or earlier, he has also been working on a book manuscript about "The Long Theft: Episodes in the History of Enclosure." As of 2022, he was working on an edited volume 393: 442: 327: 432: 55: 35: 422: 417: 386: 128: 379: 447: 437: 109: 193: 81: 427: 197: 59: 51: 300: 88: 331: 40: 44: 95: 412: 205: 232: 77: 161: 264: 177: 157: 244: 313: 224: 220: 66: 350: 363: 149: 102: 406: 355: 362:
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Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information City
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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
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Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
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