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How fictional is history?
How much is methodology a product of research goals, and how much are research goals constructed post facto to justify the unexpected results of methodology?
To what extent are academics libratory agents of change, and to what extent are we oppressive agents of state control?
Although I find Dodge's concern with "the opacity of language," (p.358) ironic given the difficulty of her prose, I am also concerned that this Web exploration is no more easily navigated. How useful/interesting/confusing has this slightly shifted medium been for your thinking and learning experience?
What are the effects of the the 'immersiveness' of choice and ambiguity in hypertext as compared to those of the tactility of archives, about which Hitchcock and Dodge have written about so eloquently?
What new distortions have I introduced in preparing this work in a less linear fashion than is the case in ordinary papers?
When it comes to the construction of our own subjectivities through historical texts, how relevant is reality?
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