<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Where have all the Women gone?</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Why are there no great women artists?</B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>or</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Lamentations on lack<SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> . . .</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></B></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>5.45pm</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Tap, tap, tap –</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> drift –</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> I work in an open plan office – all women bar three (out of 28)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> – there are lots of women here … curators of new media, moving image, exhibitions – they commune and communicate with technology everyday and several of them have their names on this mailing list…..</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>6pm</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Mindless search on google: ‘Where have all the women gone?’</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><B>Entry 1 (11 July, 2006):</B><B><O:P></O:P></B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><B>It appears women are leaving the American IT workforce faster than male executives can say, ‘Go fetch me a beer, Darlin.’</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><A href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3519526"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/career/article.php/3519526</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> don’t blame them!</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> why have I hosted these messages (passively/often unopened/benignly sitting there) in my inbox for some months now? Why have I failed to engage? Why have I allowed the debate to go on under my nose and failed to articulate a voice? </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Feels:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> like failure – must think of something to say ….. duh!<SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Silence</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Looks: </B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">at Charlie’s <SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>entry/up-to-date CV of 4th of July <SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="">(we’re all on first name terms due the intimacy of your mails arriving in the sanctity of my inbox on a daily basis)</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><B>Wonders:</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""> is this a pick up joint? (not being mean Charlie - my mother would definitely approve!)</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><B>Wonders:</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""> does someone have funding for a flight to a far-flung destination up their sleeve for a rather snazzy conference on mobile telephony, Web 2.0 and some good drinking?<SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks (desperately):</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> of something clever to say about mobile technologies..<SPAN style=""><B></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN style=""><B>Reflects on:</B></SPAN><SPAN style=""> Trebor’s response to Amanda’s question on participation '<SPAN lang="EN-US" style="">A quick look showed me that women contributed 16% of iDC posts in June. On the other hand, there are currently roughly 300 women and 450 men subscribed to this list.' 08/07/2006, at 6:35 PM<SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><B></B></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText2"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN style=""><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><B>Reflects:</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""> so, I’m not the only one.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> So, women are listening (or ignoring) and men are talking and (possibly) listening, engaging and responding. </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> is observing a form of participation? </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>6.15pm</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Idle search on google: ‘Where have all the women gone?’</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Entry 2 (11 July, 2006):<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><B>As war dominates the headlines, journalists, scholars and others interested in public policy have noticed a growing silence: the absence of women's voices in the nation's elite media</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><A href="http://www.alternet.org/story/15677/">http://www.alternet.org/story/15677/</A></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> hmmmm – are ‘journalists, scholars and others interested in public policy’ all men then? </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> about the topics that have been discussed through this emailing list over the last few weeks – the rehearsal of major debates around ownership, power, virtual/real political agendas, surveillance, theory, narrative, inclusion and exclusion, participation. </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> why I was only prepared to flex my fingers in response ‘where have the women gone?’ – rehearsal of another tired debate on structures, networks and the articulation of power.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Feel validated:</B> <SPAN lang="EN-US" style="">Something’s wrong with the discussion not with me – it must be down to sex!<SPAN lang="EN-US"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B></B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><SPAN lang="EN-US"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Phew </B></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B>Smugness</B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders: </B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">how does Trebor know how many people on the mailing list are women? Names? Is ethnicity visible in this list….?</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>6.30pm</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Drifting on google, feel urge to check: ‘Where have all the women gone?’</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Entry 3 (11 July, 2006):</B></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><B>Baroness Susan Greenfield has been appointed to develop a strategy to improve women's involvement in the sciences.</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><A href="http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/1470/where_have_all_the_women_gone"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial">http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/1470/where_have_all_the_women_gone</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> It needs a baroness to do these things!</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> What sort of strategy of participation did she develop?</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> if it worked?</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> about the word participation and why it’s so horribly off-putting? </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> the notion of increasing participation suggests that someone, previously under-represented within a defined framework (so possibly a little uncomfortable with the framework) and possibly previously excluded from that community (so possibly a little defensive about their voice within that community), is positively invited (on condition of behaving themselves properly) to join in (i.e. take a part in something without changing the whole). In which case, they need to learn the etiquette, the manners, the form and the style to ensure that their engagement with community, within the framework, is not distinguished as different, strange or unwelcome. Successful participation can be defined as invisible assimilation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><B>Mulls it over whilst opening next link on google: ‘Where have all the women gone?’</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Entry 4 (11 July, 2006):</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Time to turn the clock forward, argues Anne Summers</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> <A href="http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/118.html">http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/118.html</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> What, <I>the,</I></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> Anne Summers? The one who sells sexy knickers?</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Looks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> to see if can find out whether this is the real Anne Summers … not sure….</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="EN-US" style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> about post-feminism and whether wearing sexy underwear is relevant here …. Decides not.</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> whether to delete last wondering</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> whether has mis-understood post-feminism</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> whether, and if they do, how the 82% male majority contributing to this discussion will respond to my posting.<FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><B>Shudders at the thought</B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Wonders:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> what the 16% of women will think – post-feminism has nothing to do with pants</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">. . . I apologise for bringing the tone so low – </FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">hope I haven’t ‘let the side down’. Also, sorry – I didn’t mention Deleuze once.</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>Thinks (desperately)</B>: </SPAN><SPAN style="">Of something thoughtful and intelligent to say that subtly references Deleuze</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>Resists (with dignity)</B></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText3"><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><B>Considers:</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">That there are lots of ways of communicating</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">When we speak we imagine our audience</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">We speak to them</FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The way we speak confirms our allegiances, reveals our expectations (in others and reciprocally, the expectations we imagine they have of us) </FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B>Thinks:</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> about the work that I do and that my team do – based on the principle, not of participation but of collaboration: </FONT></SPAN><DIV><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The f</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">irst discussion with collaborators is always – what are you getting out of this? </FONT></SPAN><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 11 Jul 2006, at 20:38, <A href="mailto:trebor@thing.net">trebor@thing.net</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The various list threads on gender inclusion, theory, and the politics of the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">networked public sphere all integrate well with the intentions for the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">symposium in October. Much of this is mysteriously missing from the general</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">debate about locative technologies and the city so far.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Theory has its place. However, the danger is what I call *oak panel theory* that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is build on professionally safe, and well-established nodes. Oak panel theory</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">can’t be bothered with the “plebeian” references that make up the daily</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">realities of readers. The problem with examples of online initiatives is that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">they are frequently ephemeral (now you see them, now you don't), which may also</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">lead to a love for generalizations removed from actual projects.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Participants in new media discourse often complain about the isolation of the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">dissing and cursing of this discourse from the rest of the world. Academia, for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">instance, reinforces its own paradigms. Who needs to be surprised about the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">exclusivity of theory? 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