Lisa Uddin
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eyes
Is it the dog's overall facial expression that is so riveting here, or, more specifically I think, the eyes? Ice-blue, fixated on cupcakes, made creepier by a minor key soundtack... those eyes seem to be the locus of the horror. The horrors of homini ... -
elephant love
Great clip and commentary, Susan. What a loving trunk! I particularly like how mother elephant's love appears alongside other displays of maternal animal love (so natural that it can be done sleeping!) I can see how film fans would be drawn to this s ... -
Christopher, there is indeed
Christopher, there is indeed not much that is "natural" about the maternal love depicted here. But I see lots of naturalizing of maternal love via the multispecies sequence of mommy/baby bondings-- that is, if we understand circus animals as som ... -
tensions and alliances
Thanks for this call, Candice. The footage of PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk in close proximity to feminist protesters is a vivid staging of the tensions you’re discussing. I agree that animal rights especially is an underdeveloped project in cultural studies. But ... -
dismantling
The dismantling of the subject/object dyad might be understood as a political project or something that happens anyways, leaving us with the job of making sense and change out of it. As a project, an alliance built on dismantling is one that would take di ... -
Susan, I’m curious about
Susan, I'm curious about Mumford's intentions too, which might be gleaned from a closer look at his other work and his 'Baghdad Journal': http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/baghdadjournal.asp I'm also curious about other resp ...