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135 acknowledgments I am grateful to a number of individuals who provided feedback, encouragement , and opportunity during the development of this book. For their support, guidance, and inspiration: Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, and Tim Morton. For feedback, helpful conversations, and new directions: Michael Austin, Katherine Behar, Jeffrey Bell, Nathan Brown, Hugh Crawford, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Patricia Clough, Carl DiSalvo, Melanie Doherty, Paul Ennis, Alex Galloway , Peter Gratton, Katherine Hayles, Eleanor Kaufman, Frenchy Lunning, Tod Papageorge, Anne Pollock, Sean Reid, Barbara Stafford , Steven Shaviro, Bart Simon, TL Taylor, Eugene Thacker, Iain Thomson, and Adam Zaretsky. I benefited greatly from the opportunity to present versions of this and related work at conferences and symposia, and I am grateful to the organizers of several such meetings for their invitations, logistics , funding, and publicity: to Stephan Günzel, Michael Leibe, and Dieter Mersch (for the invitation to keynote the 2008 Philosophy of Computer Games conference); to Tanya Krzywinska, Helen Kennedy , and Barry Atkins (for the invitation to keynote the 2009 Digital Games Research Association conference); to Carol Colatrella (for the invitation to keynote the 2009 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference); to Ken Knoespel and Jay Telotte (for making funding available for the first Object Oriented Ontology symposium , April 2010); to Liz Losh (for the invitation to present at the symposium Time Will Tell, but Epistemology Won’t: In Memory of Richard Rorty, May 2010); to Ken Reinhard and Julia Lupton (for [136] Acknowledgments organizing the second Object Oriented Ontology symposium, December 2010); to Roland Faber, Andrew Goffey, and Jeremy Fackenthal (for the invitation to speak at the Whitehead Research Project conference Metaphysics and Things, December 2010); to Katherine Behar (for organizing the two Object Oriented Feminism panels at the 2010 Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference); and to McKenzie Wark (for hosting the third Object-Oriented Ontology symposium, September 2011). ...

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