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Modernism: Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film
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Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in French Thought and Culture
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Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary
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643:âNumbers It Is: The Musemathematics of Modernismâ, in
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