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  Looking at People Looking at Animals

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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  August 19, 2013

  9 comments

  Looking at People Looking at Animals power I Can Haz Webcam gaze aquariums animals Curator's Note Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about NSA surveillance confirm that we live in an age of panopticonic fantasy. We want to see everything, and we exp ...
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  Re: Tom Cruise: Out and Proud Scientologist

  I'M NEVER COMING OUT!

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  Erin Meyers Oakland University

  Thursday, August 15, 2013 — 1:49 pm

  So glad you used this clip, Alice! Such a great episode of South Park, particularly in it's critique of Cruise and his absolute refusal to deal with any critiques. To me, it's not the level at which he tries to deny the rumors that only continue ...
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  Cruise Control: The Battle Over the Celebrity Image

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  Erin Meyers Oakland University

  August 12, 2013

  5 comments

  coverage of his private image. I’m not suggesting either one of these is the “true” Tom Cruise, but rather ...
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  Re: Created by Warren Robinett

  Time Capsules

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  Friday, August 9, 2013 — 9:17 pm

  couldn't be something more like a historical long game at work in this latter group-- is it possible that ... anachronistic wishful thinking, but the possibility suggests a really rich instance of media archaeology-- ...
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  Re: The Errant Pixel

  war/economy/errancy

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  Matthew Stoddard University of Minnesota

  Friday, August 9, 2013 — 2:11 pm

  parallels, and expands on, some of what Paul Benzon's post indicates about possible intersections ...
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  Created by Warren Robinett

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  Zach Whalen University of Mary Washington

  August 09, 2013

  3 comments

  Created by Warren Robinett video game text media archaeology easter egg atari Curator's Note In 1978, Warren Robinett programmed the Atari game "Adventure," and in protest of Atari's policy of excluding programmer's names, Robinet ...
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  The Errant Pixel

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  Genevieve Yue Eugene Lang College, The New School

  August 08, 2013

  3 comments

  The Errant Pixel television poor image pixel Palestine media archaeology Israel home movies Hito Steyerl Digital Media compression Basma Alsharif Curator's Note We have become accustomed to the glitches that appear when we stream media online or watc ...
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  Kitsch Historiography: Barbara Stanwyck in the Jungle

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  Catherine Russell Concordia University, Montreal

  August 07, 2013

  2 comments

  something deeply contradictory, but replete with unrealized possibility, about the film’s memory of a very ...
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  Burn, Baby, Burn

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  Paul Benzon Skidmore College

  August 05, 2013

  4 comments

  materiality of the records exploded that night, and it’s those fragments that I’m most intrigued by here. In ... the possibility of a politics of media archeology by way of extreme specificity—an archeology not of ...
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  Halo 4 Pro Gamers Compete Against Real American Soldiers

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  John Gaudiosi Gamerhub.tv

  July 09, 2013

  real-life type of situation, where I can’t.  I’m not going to go fight a guy throwing a grenade when I have ...

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