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Acknowledgments In the most profound and elemental sense, this book was collaboratively produced. Since beginning the project, we have spoken both formally and casually with dozens of people about its central ideas, propositions, and provocations. We asked our editor, Dan Waterman—easily one of the savviest academic press editors working today—if we could use a tiny typeface and include everyone’s names on the spine, but he suggested that wouldn’t be practical. We then toyed with the idea of inventing a name, some kind of witty collective appellation that would signify all of our esteemed collaborators . Unfortunately, we could only come up with names that even a minimal understanding of the black arts of marketing indicated would only enervate the book’s sales (e.g.,“Sigasmando Malatesta Nickletibbs Bopp”).And so we were left with the conventional solution—namely,to identify as many people as we could think of who had helped us with the project (and that would fit on our allotted pages).Thus: Many, many thanks to all the faculty, staff, students, and administrators who helped us at our respective institutions to complete this book. In particular , we are grateful for the support of Toni Alexander, Damian Baca, Maha Baddar, Adele Barker, Patti Bellew, Laura Berry, David Bresler, Pat Brooks, Mark Bryant, Ellen Burgess, Lourdes Canto,Theresa Darras, Diane Davis, Phil Davis, Alison Deming, Lyn Durán, Richard Edmiston,Theresa Enos, Deg Farrelly, Carla Fisher, Anita Furtner, Cynthia Gaffney, Mary Jo Galvez, Diane Gruber, Anne-Marie Hall, Mary Beth Haralovich, Jerry Hogle, Sandy Holm, Sara Howe, Jeff Kassing, Tom Keil, Karen Kellen, Doug Kelley, Chris Kiesel, Amy Kimme Hea, Jan Lacey, Marvin Landis, Elizabeth Langland, Justin LeBreck, Linda Lederman, Adela Licona, Jun Liu, Mary Lopez, Jim Martin, Meg McConnaughy, Lindsey Meân, Sharonne Meyerson , Alison Miller, Kerstin Miller, Tom Miller, Carol Mueller, Majia Nadesan , Vance Neill, Jill Newby, Debra Olson, Stephanie Pearmain, Ramsey Eric Ramsey, Suresh Raval, Lorenia Romero, Kevin Sandler, Kris Sansbury, viii Acknowledgments Charles Watkins Scruggs III, Bev Seckinger, Barbara Selznick, Ian Shaw, Bill Silcock, Debbie Spargur, Angela Swift, Hale Thomas-Hilburn, Bonnie Travers,Michael Vereshchatsky,Vince Waldron,John Warnock,Linda Waugh, Jeremiah Webb, Susan White, Peter Wild, Mary Wildner-Bassett, Greg Wise, Leisy Wyman, and Josh Zimmerman. Thanks also to all of our national and international colleagues for their intellectual support of and contributions to the ideas in this book, especially Suellen Adams, Tim Anderson, Ari Berk, Stefan Böehme, Ian Bogost, Joe Chaney, Andrew Chen, Steve Conway, Chris Crawford, Caren Deming, Daphne Desser, Jennifer deWinter, Leslie Donovan, Ken Dvorak, Rafael Fajardo, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Harrison Gish, Conrad Gleber, Jonathan Gray, Daniel Griffin, Tom Hapgood, Phil Heldridge, Damien Huffer, Damla Isak, James Johnson, David Jolliffe, Ryan Kaufman, Jamie Lee, Eileen Meehan, Kevin Moberly, Ryan Moeller, Devin Monnens, Brian Moriarty, Mike Moshell , Aki Nakamura, Randy Nichols, Rolf Nohr, Marcel O’Gorman, Marc Ouellette, Darin Payne, Matt Payne, Bryan Pearce, Jeffrey Reed, Patrick Roddy, Stacy Rogers, Jeff Rutenbeck, Sally Sanchez, Avi Santo, Ron Scott, James Smith, Jim Sosnoski, Jason Thompson, Phil Villareal, Nick White, Serjoscha Wiemer, Diane Wiener, and Michael Thornton Wyman. And of course we are deeply appreciative of all the support and encouragement our family and friends have given to us. They are the ones with whom we play, and in our play our energy to work is restored.Thanks, then, to Stephanie Battle, Greg Colburn, the Coleman family, Gwen Downey, Nick Dunford, John and Karin Hardin, the Hendrickson family, the Johnsons ,JonathanMadog,BarbaraKienzle,PaulaKlein,Maxine,GideonMyles, the Paige/James family,the Pearce family,the Poster/Goethals family,Amiee Reggin, Lee Renda, Gil and Barb Richardson, the Richter/Zahn family, Rocco’s Little Chicago, the Ruggill family, Joel Francis Rutkowski, the Salz family, the Sanders family, SARA, Dan Shindell, Simon, Sky, Rachel Srubas (Ken’s TLA) and the Srubas and Srubas-Giammanco families, the Wagenheim family, the Wiens family, Yrgl, Gina Hernandez, and the Zamudio family. Finally, we want to acknowledge a few people whose impact on this book is immeasurable. Ken S. McAllister Acknowledgments ix As far back as I can remember, my mother, Susan Reggin, instilled, nurtured , and sharpened in me a sense of indiscriminate curiosity that has now become one of my defining qualities as a scholar, teacher, and friend. No matter what captured my imagination—geology, magic, electronics, poetry, programming—her response was always, “That’s amazing! What else?” And her father, J. Stuart Reid, took some calculated risks with his curious grandson over the years, supporting him at times...

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