Mocking Bird Technologies : The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes [1 ed.] 9780823278510, 9780823278480

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Mocking Bird Technologies : The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes [1 ed.]
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