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    Where Randomness and Madness Reign

    by Shivani Radhakrishnan Jul 26, 2017 3 minutes

    Detective fiction and theory have a surprising history, one that I sometimes use to rationalize my childhood love of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. And I’m not alone: , , and were obsessed with popular mysteries. We like whodunits, thought, because our lives are filled with structural problems and social contradictions that aren’t caused by single agents. Crime-solving sleuths, people like Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew, help us put back into place a system that no longer

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