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  Re: Eyeball, Anyone?

  Eating with my Eyes

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  Eric LeMay Ohio University

  Thursday, March 3, 2011 — 3:19 pm

  which not only lets them avoid sensation, but also doubles as a flash of aggression.  I’m struck how the ...
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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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  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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  "'Baby's Lunch' Provides Food for Thought"

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  Rachel Adams Columbia University

  March 02, 2011

  5 comments

  on the baby, framed by an attentive parent on either side.   His clumsy attempts to take food from ...
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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 ... endure my noodling.  And yet: I also think this sort of silliness occurs on the far side of an aesthetic ...
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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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  Packaging Politics: The Criterion Collection and The Battle of Algiers

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  Brianna E. Hyslop University of Texas at Austin

  February 25, 2011

  4 comments

  fairly even-handedly, depicting the brutalities committed by both sides of the conflict.  In this way the ... scenes of Algerian women dressed in western-style clothing and carrying bombs are set side-by-side with ...
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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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  Re: "... Or Other Visual Media"

  Music and Pacing

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  Sunday, February 13, 2011 — 4:30 pm

  experience but where it is still helpful to hear sound effects (such as in a racing game). As a side note, ...
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  Free and Freer: WikiLeaks and ViCKi LEEKX

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  Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University

  February 11, 2011

  1 comment

  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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