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“Surfing the Internet in Ghana”
“Ellington as Composer: Beyond Category?”
“Fear of Fun: A History of Modernist Design for Children”
“The Zany, the Cute, and the Interesting: On Ngai's "Our Aesthetic Categories"”
“The Thrills of Miscellany: David Foster Wallace, Nicholson Baker, and Supplemental Work”
“What is Hong Kong? On the Archaeology of an Imaginary City”
“The Next Level: Alexander R. Galloway’s “The Interface Effect””

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