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This page does not pad the bibliography with adjacent, hoped-for, or merely plausible scholarship. Entries below are included only when they are named by Staging the State, one of its chapter pages, a linked mimicorp research text, or the supplied citation sheet and can be identified as real works. Bibliographic details are kept to working citation level; final submission should verify editions, translators, page ranges, and institutional style.
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Project Texts
- Cronan, Amelia. "Staging the State." mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "The Scene of Authority." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Scripts of Legibility." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "The Audience of the State." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Props, Platforms, and Infrastructure." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "When the Performance Fails." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Counter-Staging and Refusal." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Judgment After Legitimacy." In Staging the State. mimicorp labs, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "On Judgment (after Arendt)." mimicorp labs, April 22, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Sovereignty Substrate: Toward a Theory of Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Digital Age." mimicorp labs research series, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Second Cutting." mimicorp labs media series, 2026.
- Cronan, Amelia. "Field Notes." mimicorp labs, 2026.
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Excluded or Folded In
The supplied Rosanvallon entry was incomplete and was not included. The second Balandier line appeared to duplicate the same translated work in a different edition form, so it was folded into a single working citation.