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Re: Re-envisioning Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque through America’s Next Top Model

I’m so glad you used the

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — 3:02 pm

I'm so glad you used the carnivalesque to frame your analysis. I have only seen this last season of ANTM, but this was a concept that surfaced again and again as I watched. What did you make of Tyra's role in the "viral" video episode ...

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Technological#Failure

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Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

January 15, 2012

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technology might also open up the possibility to re-/consider the power of failure. Let us consider the ...

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Re: Technological#Failure

I'm intrigued by "appreciation."

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Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

Monday, January 16, 2012 — 10:21 pm

Paul, I really like what you suggest about appreciation as an element to consider within these contexts, and it may connect with some of the arguments I would make about an Aesthetic of Failure- as both art and point of contact. So, I'm interested in ...

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Appreciation Isn't Only Human

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Paul Boshears Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien (the European Graduate School)

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 — 12:11 am

perhaps never possible because to perfect would be to close off the relational structure and ignore the ...

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Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things

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Kris Coffield Interstitial Journal

January 17, 2012

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Can the Sub-Object Speak?: Siri and the Commodification of Things What Are These Technological Things? siri object-oriented ontology Curator's Note When Apple Inc.'s new intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator, called Siri, was an ...

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