Practising Comparison : Logics, Relations, Collaborations
This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs...
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Mattering Press
2016
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