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Chapter 1 was previously published in Social Text 99 (Summer 2009): 1–23; copyright 2009, Duke University Press; reprinted by permission. An earlier and partial version of chapter 2 was published in American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific, ed. Donald Pease and Yuan Shu, University Press of New England, 2015: 64–83; copyright 2015, Dartmouth College Press; reprinted by permission. A portion of chapter 5 was published as “Permanent Crisis and Technosociality in Bruce Sterling’s Distraction” (with Thomas Foster), Journal of American Studies, special issue on “Fictions of Speculation,” ed. Hamilton Carroll and Annie McClanahan, vol. 49 (2015): 1–19; copyright 2015, Cambridge University Press; reprinted by permission. A version of chapter 6 was published in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, special issue on “Corporate Personhood,” ed. Purnima Bose and Laura Lyons, vol. 37, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 279–299; copyright 2014 University of Hawai’i Press for the Biographical Research Center; reprinted by permission.
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