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Portions of chapters 3 and 6 were previously published in a different form in “Kinemorphic Cursives: Self-Imaging and the Non-Mimetic Source of Photoimaging,” Philosophy of Photography 13 (2022): 35–59, https://doi.org/10.1386/pop_00038_1. Portions of chapter 7 were previously published in a different form in “Camille Flammarion’s Flash-Forward: The Cinematicization of French Thought and Aesthetics (1867–1913),” in 1913: The Year of French Modernism, ed. Effie Rentzou and André Benhaïm (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2020); reproduced with permission of Manchester University Press.
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