Dominic Pettman

New School University

http://www.blackjelly.com/pettman

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The Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Some Belated Thoughts on “Barbenheimer”

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Dominic Pettman New School University

October 16, 2023
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Some Belated Thoughts on “Barbenheimer” Streaming Barbie Barbenheimer Oppenheimer reception hypermodulation climate change Curator's Note In the flaming bowels of summer 2023—as half the world seemed to be on fire, and t ...
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Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

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Dominic Pettman New School University

March 07, 2011
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Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face posthumanism and media posthuman hominization face emergence animal Curator's Note This dog wants cupcakes. So says the YouTube title for this home-made video. And yet this same cani ...

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Re: The Alien Wonder of Animal Worlds

canine cameras

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Dominic Pettman New School University

Thursday, March 10, 2011 — 4:17 pm
Yes- a mesmerizing video and absorbing piece. Thanks Ron. It makes me wonder if there's a limit point in McLuhan's notion that the camera is an extension of the eye, in which it becomes fully amputated from its human origins, and thus mutates in ...
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Re: Dog Wants Cupcakes: A Brief Reflection on the Emergence of the Face

Thanks everyone for these wonderful comments!

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Dominic Pettman New School University

Thursday, March 10, 2011 — 3:16 pm
I actually have an extended discussion of "interfaciality" in my book Love and Other Technologies, which does indeed consider the robotic or AI equivalent of Stains (and one can only wonder what Lacan would do with a name like that!). Specifical ...