This work has enjoyed many iterations over the last several years, and we'd like to thank early viewers for good-naturedly enduring our many requests for feedback. Specifically, though, we'd like to thank . . .

 

• Aurora Wolfgang, for acting as muse, critic, and model;
• Mack McCoy and Sophie Alexander, for constant reminders of the beauties and intricacies of family;
• Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe, for their enthusiastic and unwavering support of this project and others;
• Our anonymous reviewers at Computers & Composition Digital Press, for their incisive, thoughtful, and gracious commentary on Techne;
• Bonny Graham, the editing virtuoso, for her precision, care, and expertise;
• JP Whatford, whose exacting eye and general enthusiasm made editing earlier versions of Techne much easier;
• Elizabeth Catchings, whose help with compiling sources and bibliographic materials was only exceeded by her remarkable insights into writing about affect;
• John Rhodes, for providing the bass track for the video trailers;
• Many colleagues and friends, for viewing and commenting on this work in progress: Brian Bailie, Mary Boland, Andrew Castillo, Daniel Gross, Freddie Harris-Ramsby, Les Hutchinson, Renée Pigeon, and Karen Yescavage;
• Erica Rosenfeld, for long conversations that made writing parts of this work possible;
• The audience at the 2014 Computers & Writing Conference, where we produced the first (installation) version of Techne;
• Trixie Smith and her fall 2012 graduate rhetoric seminar at Michigan State University, for commenting on an earlier version of the "Rhizomes" chapter;
• Susan Jarratt, who encouraged the "Genealogies" explored in that chapter; and
• The folks at Augie's Coffee in Redlands, as well as the anonymous graffiti artists who enliven the alleyway there.