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	Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 by Henriette Huldisch (Editor), Emily Watlington (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Edith Decker-Phillips (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art by Henriette Huldisch, Eugenie Brinkema (Contributor), Johanna Burton (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fables and Forensics (Critic's Essay Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Relative Intimacies: Intersubjectivity, Volume 3 by Lou Cantor (Editor), Emily Watlington (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Fictional Selves

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The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket

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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

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