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July 19, 2000
Peter Lunenfeld Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures MIT Press, 1999. 240 pp.; 41 b/w ills. $32.95 (026212226X)
Peter Lunenfeld, ed. The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media MIT Press, 1998. 298 pp.; 0 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (0262122138)
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