There was a cat video festival in Minneapolis, and it was glorious / Sarah Schultz. The nine lives of cat videos / Jillian Steinhauer -- Sparrow the cat / Alexis Madrigal -- The internet is a cat video library / Ander Monson -- East of intention: cat, camera, music / Carl Wilson -- Walls divide humans and their cats from other humans, but cat videos are our digital cat doors, peepholes into a great cross-species love / Matthea Harvey -- Jeoffrey / Elena Passarello -- Cats and the internet: a love story / Will Braden -- The no sleeping cat rule / Kevin Nguyen -- Feline darlings & the anti-cute / Sasha Archibald -- Finding half cat / Joanne McNeil -- Cats / David Carr -- Prolegomena to any future poetics of the cat video / Stephen Burt -- There was a cat video festival in Minneapolis, and it was glorious / Sarah Schultz.
Summary:
"Takes the opportunity to examine a seemingly irrelevant subject from new perspectives--from 'the line is between reality/self on the internet' to 'how cat videos demonstrate either that nothing matters, or that any art matters if anyone thinks it does.' Thus, it's an earnest attempt to uncover more about human nature--especially in today's internet-driven world."--Cool Hunting. Fifteen writers, all addressing not just our fascination with cat videos, but also how we decide what is good or bad art, or art at all; how taste develops, how that can change, and why we love or hate something. It's about people and technology and just what it is about cats that makes them the internet's cutest despots. Contributors include: Sasha Archibald, Will Braden, Stephen Burt, Maria Bustillos, David Carr, Matthea Harvey, Alexis Madrigal, Joanne McNeil, Ander Monson, Kevin Nguyen, Elena Passarello, Jillian Steinhauer, Sarah Schultz, and Carl Wilson"-- Provided by publisher.
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