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The impossibility of linearity: I admit, part of the poor organization of this work is my fault. But much of it is because neither Vaneigem nor I subscribe to the sort of linearity that conventional writing prescribes. Ideally this text would have a dozen or so chapters, all read in concert, and all relying on each other for understanding. It'd be some sort of self-referential matrix. Since I've been too busy writing the thesis to write the software to properly write the thesis, you'll just have to wait. Sorry.

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I have no delusions about quality. The majority of the text was born in a one-week period in El Salvador, without the aid or desire for a spell-checker. It stills bear those birthmarks. This is clearly not the best one could do with the material available. However, it is the best I cared to do – for me the thesis writing process was a personal odyssey, and I got the point long before it became important to spell things correctly, cite the correct sources, and apply the correct degree of analytical rigor. As I understood more about what I was writing, I became increasingly concerned with living as opposed to editing.

I will say this: I hope that the few people who read (and grade) the following, the majority of whom will remark to themselves on finishing, "hmm, that's bad writing", do also think a while, reflect, and amend their original thought to, "hmm, that's bad writing, but at least it's inspired."

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