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  Re: Queerness Meets Disability in Shortbus

  Severin's "Correspondence of Forms"

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  Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke The University of Queensland; Independent Colleges Dublin

  Saturday, February 5, 2011 — 3:41 am

  towards one’s own “form” elsewhere in order to open oneself up to the possibility of a whole new series of ...
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  Re: Learning to Stand

  Autonomy and Interdependence

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  Cynthia Barounis University of Illinois at Chicago

  Saturday, February 5, 2011 — 7:14 pm

  reminds me that there may be a different lens for considering cripqueer possibility in these films, one ... replaced by a more crip ethics of interdependence and mutual care. I’m not sure where this leaves Lady Grey ...
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  Hide Your Kids! Hide Your Wife! Hide Your Husband!

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  James Hannaham Pratt Institute

  February 09, 2011

  4 comments

  possible for him to move his family out of the evidently dangerous area in which the incident occurred. ...
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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

  1 comment

  culture. The 36-minute mix begins with a South Asian woman’s voice narrating lines from a Julian Assange ... swimming in an insurgent stream of privacy-unprotected data. “I’m not talking about getting it for free,” ... violent rounding-up of light-skinned red-heads into prison camps; “I’m talking about making it freer.” ...
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  erotics and repression in stranger chat sites

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  David J. Phillips U. Toronto, Faculty of Information

  February 18, 2011

  erotics chatroulette Curator's Note I’m taken with the erotics of “random stranger” websites – omegle ... McGrath, in “Loving Big Brother,” writes about the erotic possibilities of these new topographies, of the ...
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  The Noodle Master

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  Michelle Wildgen Tin House Magazine

  March 01, 2011

  6 comments

  The Noodle Master Tampopo noodles Japan foodies Food and Media, Curator's Note For years I've meant to watch Tampopo. The 1986 Japanese movie Tampopo depicts the efforts of the titular noodle shop owner to develop from mediocre to master. She’s ...
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  Re: The Noodle Master

  Maximing Your Noodle Pleasure

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Tuesday, March 1, 2011 — 2:43 pm

  and not just to myself.  I’m teaching a course on food writing, so my students are often forced to ...
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  "'Baby's Lunch' Provides Food for Thought"

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  Rachel Adams Columbia University

  March 02, 2011

  5 comments

  "'Baby's Lunch' Provides Food for Thought" Lumiere Brothers food and media film eating Baby's Lunch, Curator's Note Why is the sight of a baby eating so captivating?   For as long as the technology has existed, we’ve wan ...
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  Re: "'Baby's Lunch' Provides Food for Thought"

  Choreography of Consumption

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  Ian Peters University of North Georgia

  Wednesday, March 2, 2011 — 3:36 pm

  possibly the most famous example of the intersection between the two.  I am intrigued by this notion of ...
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  Eyeball, Anyone?

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  Carolyn Korsmeyer Philosophy Department, University at Buffalo

  March 03, 2011

  7 comments

  Eyeball, Anyone? food and media disgust Curator's Note Disgust is often considered a basic response that evolved to protect the human organism from contact with foul or contaminated substances. Yet we eat only a small percentage of nature’s edibles, ...

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