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The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation

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Acknowledgments

With gratitude to Lisa Disch (University of Michigan) and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse University) for encouragement and advice, and to Kris Lane (Tulane University) and Kenneth Mills (University of Michigan), whose conference nexus ‘Horror and Enchantment’ (April 2021), was the occasion for this interview.

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Puff, H., Zacka, B. The architectures of waiting: Helmut Puff and Bernardo Zacka in conversation. Contemp Polit Theory 22, 266–283 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00533-6

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