title: Self and its Problems; The Blavatsky Lecture for 1919
author: Helene Petrovna Blavatsky
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zlib_text: Acknowledgements
  This book started life as a conference at Keele University on ‘automobility’, in
  September 2002. Thanks are due to Rolland Munro, Director of the Centre for
  Social Theory and Technology at Keele, also to Tracey Wood for her organiza-
  tional support. We would like to thank all the participants in the conference,
  many of whom gave papers which stimulated enormous debate on the occasion.
  In the process of turning the selection of papers delivered at the conference into
  the ﬁnished book and developing the threads that tie it all together, we thank
  ﬁrst of all the authors for their patience and responsiveness to our varying
  demands for revisions and clariﬁcations. Secondly, we thank the many anony-
  mous referees who helped in judgments on the many papers we had to select
  from and in guiding authors in revising their work.
  We do not want to give the impression that there is anything ‘autonomous’
  in this project, in the sense that it might be the result of individual minds or