Making liberal objects

Cultural Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 570-590

  Otter, Chris ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agency; Engineering; Government; Liberalism; Subjectivity; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347257821     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502380701278962     Document Type: Article

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