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  Cinema and the Architecture of Invisibility

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  September 04, 2013

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  Cinema and the Architecture of Invisibility vision Sunshine cinematic architecture Curator's Note Recent scholarship has dealt repeatedly with the connections between media and architecture. But what makes for a particularly cinematic architecture? A ...
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  Re: Tsai Ming-liang's Precarious City

  Interstices

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  Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece Northwestern University

  Tuesday, September 3, 2013 — 7:20 pm

  does film itself. In light of Jonathan Crary's new work on the radical possibilities of sleep, ...
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  Tsai Ming-liang's Precarious City

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  Rosalind Galt King's College London

  September 02, 2013

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  Tsai Ming-liang's Precarious City urban space Tsai Ming-liang precarity cities cinematic architecture Curator's Note Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006) maps transnational capital through Kuala Lumpur’s urban built environment. ...
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  New Adventures in Hi-Fi: Studying Popular Music Fandom in the Digital Age

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  Lucy Bennett School of Journalism, Media & Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

  August 30, 2013

  connection. For instance, Twitter has offered fans the possibility to not only connect with each other and ... may possibly infiltrate and disrupt experiences for some of those who are in attendance. Conversely, ...
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  Talking at the Movies

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  Racquel Gates College of Staten Island, CUNY

  August 27, 2013

  1 comment

  crises that they inspire. Moreover, I’m excited to hear all of the ways that these scholars choose to ...
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  Gallows Humor and Academic Life

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  August 26, 2013

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  as an academic. I know that I’m lucky to have an academic job. Even so, this doesn’t mean that it’s ...
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  Animals on the Loose, in the News!

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  August 23, 2013

  3 comments

  anthropomorphism that entertains the possibility that animals are like humans (or adroit thieves of human ... identities, e.g. the “I’m in ur…” meme), videos of animals on the loose bespeak a fascination with the ...
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  Re: Ape Cam: Zoo Pets and Surveillance Culture

  Has anyone hacked a zoo cam?

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  Sarah O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology

  Thursday, August 22, 2013 — 5:50 pm

  possible to further appropriate zoo cams as a mode of speaking up for/defending animals? Does anyone know ...
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  Ape Cam: Zoo Pets and Surveillance Culture

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  Susan Nance University of Guelph

  August 21, 2013

  4 comments

  Ape Cam: Zoo Pets and Surveillance Culture zoos wild animals surveillance privacy pets Parents internet video children apes Curator's Note This past week a Texas couple reported that the baby monitor in their toddler’s bedroom was “hacked” by a virtu ...
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  Re: Looking at People Looking at Animals

  RESPONSE

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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  Monday, August 19, 2013 — 9:15 pm

  circuses have a well-oiled public relation apparatus in place that anticipates and/or defuses any possible ...

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