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    No. 47
    2019
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    May 01 2019

    Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music (Slight Return)

    Stefan Helmreich,
    Stefan Helmreich
    STEFAN HELMREICH is Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (University of California Press, 2009) and, most recently, of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2016). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, and The Wire.
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    Stefan Helmreich
    STEFAN HELMREICH is Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (University of California Press, 2009) and, most recently, of Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton University Press, 2016). His essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, and The Wire.
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    Online Issn: 2572-7338
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    Thresholds (2019) (47): 181–190.
    https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00686
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    Stefan Helmreich, Walker Downey; Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music (Slight Return). Thresholds 2019; (47): 181–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/thld_a_00686

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