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    Series Libro 4 - Cognition Switch
    Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New IdeasIssue #4: March 2019Featuring Ideas by: James Q Whitman, Costica Bradatan, Angela Kennedy, Matthew Francis, David Munns, Chris Kempes, Van Savage, Neil Levy, Stefani Engelstein, Walter Vannini, Tom Winterbottom, Lori Miller Kase, Matthew Karp, Philip Goff, and Scott Aaronson ... Leer más

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    Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues

    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
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    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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