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Start with my conference proceedings and you get the argument, which is older and stranger than the vocabulary. Seven hundred years before the first stan header, somebody performed a self until it held, in public, where it could be witnessed. Binding is public. It has always been public.
Notice, name, choose. That's the whole method.
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The Binding of Margery Kempe ↗Medieval binding as performance of self. EGSA 2011. Free to read.Sources
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