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  The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

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  Jonathan Senchyne Cornell University

  May 31, 2010

  5 comments

  least, dates to the seventeenth century.  Currently, however, paper doesn't often have positive ...
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  Re: The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

  Reborn vs Remade

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  Timothy Carmody University of Pennsylvania

  Monday, May 31, 2010 — 8:29 pm

  papermaker, at least, you don't want readers and buyers to think about the cloth that went into your ...
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  Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!

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  Cathleen A. Baker University of Michigan Library

  June 02, 2010

  5 comments

  Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad! papermaking machine-made paper handmade paper brittle books Curator's Note Title slide: Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad! Slide 2: Until 1817 when the first paper machi ...
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  Re: Nineteenth-Century American Paper: It's Not All Bad!

  Better living through chemistry

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  Timothy Carmody University of Pennsylvania

  Thursday, June 3, 2010 — 12:35 am

  least a little bit into 19th-century chemistry. Again, grinding up trees into cheap pulp is easy; ...
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  Dan Smoot, Arid Pundit

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  Heather Hendershot City University of New York, Queens College

  June 10, 2010

  4 comments

  historical moment when the sanctity of the Constitution—or a certain idea of the Constitution, at least ...
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  Re: Lessons from Buckley: Race and the American Right

  one other correction

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  Jeffrey P. Jones Old Dominion University

  Thursday, June 10, 2010 — 3:13 pm

   I guess I should have said, at least Buckley is willing to "engage" the other in ... a public space--to at least let the other person have his or her say.  That is certainly something that is ...
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  Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional

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  Anne Helen Petersen Whitman College

  June 14, 2010

  8 comments

  Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional Lainey Gossip gossip fandom celebrity Curator's Note Over the last decade, Elaine "Lainey" Lui has risen through the ranks of the professional gossip world.  Initially, she emailed her celeb ...
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  Re: Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional

  Waiting for a grey goose cocktail...

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  Louisa Stein Middlebury College

  Monday, June 14, 2010 — 11:24 pm

  expect to be private or at least locally interpersonal. In response to your closing question, then, ... professional. And it's that that makes it so uncomfortable to watch! (for me, at least...) ...
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  'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance

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  Lindsay H. Garrison University of Wisconsin, Madison

  June 15, 2010

  10 comments

  'Crying for Justin Bieber' and Negotiating Affective Fan Performance Justin Bieber fannish engagement fandom children celebrity Curator's Note The clip on the left features 3-year-old Cody, known for tearfully explaining her love for tween ...
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  Re: Lainey Gossip: Celebrity Fandom Goes Professional

   Really glad you point to the

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  Anne Helen Petersen Whitman College

  Tuesday, June 15, 2010 — 1:30 pm

  I wholeheartedly agree that there's something slightly uncanny, or at the very least awkward, about this clip. ...

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