Jessica Zu
@jessicaxzu.bsky.social
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scholar of Buddhist studies, jogger, writer, sci-fi fan, meditator
check out Joy Brennan's careful and critical review of my book here,
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Brennan on Zu, 'Just Awakening: YogÄcÄra Social Philosophy in Modern China' | H-Net
Zu, Jessica X.. Just Awakening: YogÄcÄra Social Philosophy in Modern China. : Columbia University Press, 2025. 288 pp. $37.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231216043. Reviewed by Joy Brennan (Kenyon College) Publ...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20150118/brennan-zu-just-awakening-yogacara-social-philosophy-modern-china
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Ok, check this out,
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Schedule for "Process Philosophy in Underexplored Traditions" | H-Net
Process Philosophy in under-explored Traditions in Philosophical History May 11-13, 2026 please see the attached files for the detailed program. This conference does not have an official webpage. zoom...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20149285/schedule-process-philosophy-underexplored-traditions
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Healing starts with knowing, we need more professors like this one, Prof. Michael Dunn
www.chronicle.com/article/hist...
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Defying His Stateâs Restrictions, a Retired Professor Teaches About Racism: âHistory Has to Be Feltâ
As censorship laws spread, FIUâs Michael Dunn has pitched a lone battle to fight back.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/history-has-to-be-felt?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_17878550_nl_Afternoon-Update_date_20260427
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24 days ago
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I'm posting my Goodreads review of Zizek's Christian Atheism here, since it must have triggered some Zizek's fans to report my review as against their community rules. you be the judge.
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for Octavia Butler's fans, do you know that when you read her Sci-Fi you are also doing philosophy, here's why,
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Shape God: Mystical Atheism and Buddhish Womanist Subjectivity in Octavia Butlerâs Parable Series - Topoi
This study takes seriously Octavia Butlerâs Parable series as an unfinished treatise of processual social philosophy. My analysis highlights Butlerâs skillful weaving of a wide range of processual tra...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-026-10410-9
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Iâm excited to share this interview with Sirus Libeiro on his translation of Gautamiputra Kambleâs amazing, mind-bending Sci-Fi short stories, The Seekers (parivrajak)
newbooksnetwork.com/gautamiputra...
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Gautamiputra Kamble, "The Seekers" (Blaft Publication, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/gautamiputra-kamble-the-seekers-blaft-publication-2025#
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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hereâs my book chat with Joy Brennan and Brook Ziporyn, moderated by my colleague David Albertson!
youtu.be/6D2TQSGUkW0?...
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Levan Book ChatâJessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
YouTube video by USC Levan Institute for the Humanities
https://youtu.be/6D2TQSGUkW0?si=kOKhERv4PWbi7Z4z
about 1 month ago
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Eyes on ICE: Train-the-Trainer - Immigrants' Rights · No Kings
Abusive immigration enforcement poses a threat to us all but places non-citizens at particular risk. This session will equip participants to train others on core Know Your Rights topics such as the right to remain silent, the right to refuse to consent to searches, and the right to record ICE and other law enforcement officials. We will also cover best practices for reducing risks when exercising rights. â By registering for this event, you agree: (1) that Indivisible and ACLU can contact you about No Kings and other ways to take action or support their organizations and otherwise use any data collected from or about you on this form according to the applicable privacy policy: Indivisible Privacy Policy (https://indivisible.org/privacy-policy) and ACLU's Privacy Statement (https://www.aclu.org/about/privacy/statement); and (2) subject to its privacy policy, Indivisible may also share the information you provide to other No Kings partner organizations, which may also contact you.
https://mobilize.us/s/zc1pdp
about 1 month ago
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cheers, my article on Octavia Butler's processual social philosophy is now published, open access (courtesy of USC),
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Shape God: Mystical Atheism and Buddhish Womanist Subjectivity in Octavia Butlerâs Parable Series
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rdcu.be/fbHUs__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!o3A-_i1wAel0RczYlGYARdUHwdsVP_P7OAIRLRXaSncH1we2yaiQAv-SbukGCZhclI1pfE-cczWfnja3pgVu1u1Cyu5c3w$
about 1 month ago
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I invited my colleague Luke Kemp to talk with my students about his new book Goliathâs Curse, itâs online, hereâs the registration link. come join us! March 11, 2-3:20pm PT
usc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Author Luke Kemp will share part of his findings in Goliath's Curse âIn the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harariâs Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrowâs The ...
https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5wp3BWE9QAmUdoALZnhVVg#/registration
3 months ago
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this is amazing!
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The Impact of African Americans in the Catholic Church | EWTN News In Depth February 24, 2023
YouTube video by EWTN
https://youtu.be/HN-PGvFQSFg?si=haL8rVkVTcTn34NU
3 months ago
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come join my bookchat with Joy Brennan and Brook Ziporyn, Friday, Feb 6, 1pm PT.
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Levan Book ChatâJessica X. Zu, Just Awakening
https://calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-book-chatjessica-x-zu-just-awakening
4 months ago
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check out this interview, poet-monks in medieval china ... how the invisiblized made themselves to the confucian dominant culture for a moment,
newbooksnetwork.com/poet-monks
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Thomas J. Mazanec, "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China" (Cornell UP, 2024) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/poet-monks
4 months ago
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check out this amazing NOTbook about Kabir and the shared consciousness (its relation to the Buddha)
newbooksnetwork.com/the-notbook-...
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Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-notbook-of-kabir
6 months ago
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check out this amazing piece about YogÄcÄra relational metaphysics,
tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/01/f...
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For all intents and purposes (the ecology)
Technology looms large in the contemporary world, and powerful new tools to extract and generate texts using large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have had a major impact across a...
https://tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/01/for-all-intents-and-purposes-the-ecology/comment-page-1/#comment-3893971
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Very proud about this piece, please check it out,
tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/15/k...
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Karmic pyschopolitics: May the friendliest thrive
Life is precarious, more so for those who live in a neoliberal world. Byung-Chul Han names this lifeworld âthe achievement societyâ and this neoliberal form of precarity âpsychopolitics.â As achieveme...
https://tif.ssrc.org/2025/10/15/karmic-pyschopolitics-may-the-friendliest-thrive/
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Please check out this online conference. This is the first time we have scholars on African, Indigenous, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies together
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CFP> Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An online Conference, May 19-21, 2026 | H-Net
There are two dominant streams for talking about reality in the history of metaphysical thought â substance and process. These two streams are noticeable in virtually all traditions but the former see...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127314/call-papers-process-philosophy-under-explored-traditions-philosophical
7 months ago
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8 months ago
the exact right question if you ask me
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www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOEâs Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/judith-butler-letter-uc-berkeley/#
8 months ago
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this talk makes me so hopeful, Audrey Tang on pro-social technologies and how to build up our democracy
youtu.be/aXgne-9F7uU?...
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How Pro-Social Technology Is Saving Democracy from âBig Techâ with Audrey Tang | TGS 169
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
https://youtu.be/aXgne-9F7uU?si=Mhp1Ogi38iSeLlmk
8 months ago
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check out this amazing book talk,
youtu.be/mMbtY4ljEMQ?...
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Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp
YouTube video by Planet: Critical
https://youtu.be/mMbtY4ljEMQ?si=CXOPVjBaPiFghylL
8 months ago
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eco-islam,
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Eco-Islam
When: September 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am â September 28, 2025 @ 6:00 pm Where: Online Course This course will explore environmental stewardship within the Islamic tradition, emphasizing faith-inspi...
https://utsnyc.edu/blog/event/eco-islam/?erid=16665321&trid=9209df20-3473-482e-afab-327fe027ee6b
8 months ago
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the newest post on "karmic historiography"
tif.ssrc.org/2025/09/03/a...
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Actualizing the Buddha ancestors: Buddhist historiography for the multiverse
To speak of âsystemicâ injustice is to acknowledge that large-scale practices and policies may generate inequitable outcomes regardless of the intentions of individuals. This is one rationale behind a...
https://tif.ssrc.org/2025/09/03/actualizing-the-buddha-ancestors-buddhist-historiography-for-the-multiverse/
8 months ago
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"But no-one ever asks us if we wanted to be ruled over, or if we wanted others to make laws which might threaten, fine or imprison us. We didnât vote for this situation, it was just the one we were born into, and its origins reveal this wasn't accidental."
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What Won't Change The World
Why Political Parties & Voting Doesnât Work
https://open.substack.com/pub/peacefulrevolutionary/p/what-wont-change-the-world?r=1r60xr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
9 months ago
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check out my belated interview with Rima Vesely-Flad on her 2022 book,
newbooksnetwork.com/black-buddhi...
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Rima Vesely-Flad, "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation" (NYU Press, 2022) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/black-buddhists-and-the-black-radical-tradition
9 months ago
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Silence is not an option. We are not free until everyone is free.
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About the Project - Genocide Gentry
Educational and cultural institutions have granted prestigious positions to weapons manufacturersâ executives and directors, entrusting them with tremendous influence over how institutions respondâor ...
https://genocidegentry.org/about-the-project/
9 months ago
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American Karma!
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Karmic historiography
A lawyer friend explained it to me this way: Since the 1980s, lawyers with specialized expertise and exclusive relationshipsâespecially those involved in high-stakes deals like mergers and acquisition...
https://tif.ssrc.org/2025/08/06/karmic-historiography/
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Check out my NBN interview with Alexus McLeod on his new book on Martial arts and myth-making,
newbooksnetwork.com/myth-and-ide...
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Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/myth-and-identity-in-the-martial-arts
10 months ago
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a juneteenth reading list
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Juneteenth Reading List - AAR
Some Suggested Titles from AAR's Reading Religion Reading Religion is an openly accessible book review website published by the American Academy of Religion. The site provides up-to-date coverage of s...
https://aarweb.org/news/juneteenth-reading-list/
11 months ago
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true wisdom,
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Engaging our Imagination with Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding | Contending Modernities
How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/engaging-imagination-peacebuilding/
11 months ago
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this new story needs courage,
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza | Contending Modernities
Jews must now tell a new story to answer the horrors that a Jewish country has perpetrated, argues Peter Beinart.
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/being-jewish-after-gaza/
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Open House Feedback Session | REI Governance and Membership Proposal
We are seeking feedback from our individual members and groups within the network on the newly floated governance and membership proposal. Read it here. Register for this open session and ask us que...
https://actionnetwork.org/events/openhouse1?source=direct_link&
11 months ago
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check out my interview with Brook Ziporyn on his new book, Mystical Atheism,
newbooksnetwork.com/experiments-...
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Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/experiments-in-mystical-atheism-2
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"Gaza is not an isolated atrocity, it is a mirror. It reflects, with devastating clarity, what the ruling class is willing to inflict on any population deemed disposable."
thanissara.substack.com/p/revolution...
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Revolution in the Wings: Breaking the Spell of Empire
Gaza, Global Capitalism, and the Sacred Duty of Collective Liberation
https://thanissara.substack.com/p/revolution-in-the-wings-breaking?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2478373&post_id=165243264&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1r60xr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
12 months ago
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Keep Showing Up · Mobilize
Weâre taking a stand against this administrationâs cruel, egregious attacks on so much thatâs good and just in our country. We will keeping showing up to build community and defend our democracy, and ...
https://mobilize.us/s/6u7T0a
12 months ago
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cheers, nuns ordain monks! as it should have been!
www.buddhistdoor.net/news/ven-cha...
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Ven. Chao-hwei Leads Historic Ordination in Taiwan, Sparking Debate on Monastic Gender Equality - Buddhistdoor Global
The respected Taiwanese Buddhist monastic Ven. Shih Chao-hwei led a historic ordination in Taiwan when bhikshunis ordained male lay practitioner Deng Rong.
https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/ven-chao-hwei-leads-landmark-ordination-in-taiwan-sparking-debate-on-monastic-gender-equality/
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check out NBN interview about my book!
newbooksnetwork.com/just-awakening
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Jessica X. Zu, "Just Awakening: YogÄcÄra Social Philosophy in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/just-awakening
12 months ago
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so lovely! game plan!
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12 months ago
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it's not corruption. by definition. the god incarnate needs to do whatever is needed to renew the world. you suckers.
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12 months ago
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Dawny B
12 months ago
Xx have a lovely evening
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12 months ago
As we watch the federal regime become increasingly obsessed with retaliating against people who stand against genocide in Gaza, please keep in mind there are people still being harassed by local PDs for simply standing up for Black lives. Fascism has been here for a long time y'all.
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This is one of my favorite not funny memes.
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check this out my friends
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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LUCIP Workshop:
The workshop is organized by Leiden Center for Intercultural Philosophy (LUCIP), with the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/08/lucip-workshop-rereading-and-rewriting-buddhist-genders
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08_Olympics Protests
Olympics Protests Protestas OlĂmpicas 56. Wir Rufen die Jugend der Welt / We Call to the Youth of the World Klaus Staeck, Reproduction of Offset, 1988, Heidelberg, Germany By transforming the Olymp...
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1i9CasT2Iji3hnJoW18msFlHiBJ3CDz4YCk6QGE79bMQ/mobilebasic
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words of wisdom in a difficult time ...
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The Land Is Not Ours: Torah, Justice, and the Illusion of Safety | Behar & Bechukotai
YouTube video by Beyt Tikkun: A Synagogue Without Walls
https://youtu.be/cS3z7ftXpzY?si=pW21ckZLot9YN5Gv
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How to manufacture a murder
This is the first story in our series on Police Impunity in India. Reporters from The News Minute and Newslaundry are travelling across states to bring you stor
https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/how-to-manufacture-a-murder?utm_source=TNM+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f6e456dcf1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_10_06_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-aa4cc817b8-441556902
12 months ago
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just wanna brag about my students' amazing work!
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Guanyin Advocacy
https://guanyin-advocacy.my.canva.site/
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