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When I began work on this chapter I was struck by the question of just what were the stories of the Deakin past that I have told myself and perhaps bored others with over time? What are the stories I have forgotten, edited out of easy recall orsuppressed? And, then, perhaps more importantly, what is the framing device, the Sensibili ty I now bring to a past however patchily recalled? I put these considerations “up front” as it were and wonder if I am not writing what Bruno Latour(2000) calls a scientifiction, ‘using the tools of fiction to probe a scientific or a technological domain deeper than it can itself do with its own talk of efficiency and profitability’ (p.78).
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Bigum, C. (2011). Enactments, Networks and Quasi-Objects: A Stranger in A Strange Land. In: Tinning, R., Tinning, R., Sirna, K. (eds) Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 76. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-639-7_2
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