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Cuteness, I have argued, often rests on a double mimesis . It's not that the child is dressed as an animal so much as that the child is...

Q. Is there an entire Tumblr devoted to animals dressed as other animals? A. Of course there is.

There's an uncanny (yeah, I went there) degree of consonance between my research and teaching lately. I'm currently working on an ar...

Better (than this ): cuteness is a moment in the uncanny, the heimlich moment subject to reversal. The uncanny has a diachronic dimension ...

Noted: 1. The uncanny is the original minor aesthetic category. 2. Cuteness is a special (heimlich) case of the uncanny. Freud, Sigmun...

In the q&a after Sianne Ngai's recent talk here on zaniness (which was fantastic), I pulled a classic if annoying move and asked abo...