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Cross-posted to the course blog for my junior seminar Modernism and Childhood. ----- Another one for the "government and cuteness...

I forgot to mention in my previous post one of my favorite things about Moonrise Kingdom , which was the liberal use of Benjamin Britten...

In Electric Animal , Akira Mizuta Lippit identifies the animal cry as the limit point beyond speech: The animal cry signals the moment of c...

Linnaeus, the founder of modern scientific taxonomy, had a weakness for apes. —Giorgio Agamben, The Open , trans. Kevin Attell, 2004 Ma...

The lemur-student can see    that an aye-aye is not an angwan-tíbo, potto, or loris. —Marianne Moore, "Four Quartz-Crystal Clocks,...

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...

You may laugh at an animal, but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression.     —Henri Bergson, On Laughter

“And what a quantity of animal beings there are in the being of a man!”      — Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space My essay " Sent...

Important fact: in addition to the Animals Dressed as Other Animals Tumblr, there is an Animals with Stuffed Animals Tumblr. The former is...

A wise friend of mine once explained the rule to me: adults can swear, and children can swear, but they can't swear in front of each oth...

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...

Just a quick post on some upcoming events. Reflections on MSA to follow shortly, I hope. First of all, a number of events associated with ...

In Nest , Mei-mei Berssenbrugge invokes the horrors of cuteness in a poem titled "Dressing Up Our Pets," a poem that, as I posted ...

I've been meaning to put it out there that I've been doing some reading around in animal studies recently. I feel very ambivalent ab...