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The most extensive examination yet of control across disciplines and cultural modes of expression - showing that control is the cultural logic of the 21st centuryStarting from Deleuze's brief but infl

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This book presents the outcomes of the 17th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2018), which was held in Singapore on June 6–8, 2018. The aim of the conference

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