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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

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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

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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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Henri le Chat: à la Mode Retro

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Carolyn Kane Hunter College, CUNY

August 20, 2013

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Henri le Chat: à la Mode Retro New Wave I Can Haz Webcam cats Curator's Note Will Braden's, Henri 2, Paw de Deux (2012), last's year's winner at the Walker Arts Center's Cat Video Film Festival, mixes a cat’s self-project aura of ...

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Re: Henri le Chat: à la Mode Retro

Ennui shadow side of angst/anxiety

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SusanZSwan UMUC-Asia

Tuesday, August 20, 2013 — 3:17 am

Perhaps the ennui of Henri represents the shadow side of the angst and anxiety life today seems to ... other once-humorous-now-frustrating commentator on the darker side of life, GrumpyCat, who was also ...

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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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Looking at People Looking at Animals

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Randy Malamud Georgia State University

August 19, 2013

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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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