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[Note: Mike Widner, “Animal, Vegetable, Topic Model?! Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Algorithm”, at Manuscripts and Machines, 10 Oct 012; Matt Shea, “The Raving Outlaw Biker-Druids And Their 1575-Year-Old King”, at Vice, 10 Oct 012; William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, Gregory Corso, Minutes to Go, and John Olson, “Melted Language”, at Tillalala Chronicles, 10 Oct 012; JBR; Elisa Gabbert, “Mini-reviews: Underwear Perfume”, at The French Exit, 10 Oct 012; David Winter, “More profound advice from me before I go to bed. …”, at Dinu Lipatti’s Bones, 11 Oct 012; Matias Viegener, 2500 Random Things About Me Too, as quoted in Anonymous, “2500 Random Things About Me Too”, at HTMLGIANT, 10 Oct 012; JBR; Joy DeLyria and Sean Michael Robinson, as quoted in Marietta Abrams Brill, “‘The Wire’ Gets Victorian in a Book by Fictional Scholar H.B. Ogden”, at Hyperallergic, 10 Oct 012; JBR; Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?”, as quoted in Graham Harman, “Latour Litany of the Day”, at Object-Oriented Philosophy, 10 Oct 012; JBR (re King Wong – fingers are crossed tight for you); Stacy Doris, as quoted in review of Conference, at Publishers Weekly, 21 Jan 02; Peter Gizzi, “Blue Peter”, at Conjunctions (for Alan Baker); phaneronoemikon, “Voracious for More Midget Santa”, at Jellybean Weirdo With Electric Snake Fang, 10 Oct 012]
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