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For this issue, five new articles offer methods for interpreting the artificial world beyond aesthetic veneers.
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What do infrastructures promise? Who are they intended to serve? Who participates in their cycles of development and redevelopment?
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The Action Office II was a transitional object meant to alleviate the confusion of work within the changing structure of corporations...
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The objects migrants abandon throughout their journey to the United States inform us of the choices and agency of the migrants themselves...
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As much as elections are socially constructed, they are materially sustained and reproduced by objects that are carefully chosen...
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Conference Review: New_ Public Festival, January 12–14, 2021