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Michael Marcinkowski
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Currently Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Director of Education Digital Futures Institute. Formerly Bristol, Ambient Literature, poetryfoundation.org. LIVES OF THE SAINTS available from Broken Sleep Books michaelmarcinkowski.org
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VI
WAS DECIDED
II.
As to gauge against the true democratic question of how many times an election may be run until an answer's decided as the grandeur of democracy is that it is able to be changed from one moment to the next as the belief that any particular event may not preclude any future occurrence as democracy is weighted by its expedience to change both as a benefit to and its mandate that if nothing can be done in the span before the next vote then it is not a thing to be done as there is no lasting decision possible in a democracy or whatever except the [uhh] continuing stranglehold of the state.
VII
for Harold Garfinkel
Dependence on the already established.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5xyzlcufspgtygqkzapdqmk6/bafkreifo6riomzinhph6dwvheojwawsp2hqcdpxwfgyhc7mihh6n75cwmy)
