Animals, Animacy, and the Moving Image

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Animals attract moving images. They always have. Animals flapped and galloped around the zootropes, bioscopes, phenakistoscopes, and other proto-cinematic toys of the mid-nineteenth century. They left ghostly traces on Jules Étienne-Marey’s chronophotographs and strode across the grids of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies.

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Afterword: So-Called Nature
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Jussi Parikka
The use of certain key minerals enables the miniaturization of the computational worlds; they become mobile, ubiquitous, pervasive, and embedded into the natural environment. Parikka's book calls for a further materialization of media not only as media but as the geophysical elements that give us digital culture. 
The Dogs Who Saved Hollywood: Strongheart and Rin Tin Tin
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Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Jeremy Groskopf
Historical studies of filmic dogs can help us to understand the changing perception of dogs in Western culture. Silent-era dog heroes show film’s first steps toward humanizing dogs, for better or worse, through stories of heroism, gracing them with complex intellectual faculties and courage.

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