Comments on: Kittens, Kittens, and the Online-Cultural Crisis of Propriety http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/ (dot com) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Denise http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/comment-page-1/#comment-5948 Denise Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:01:09 +0000 http://www.juliandibbell.com/?p=142#comment-5948 Whoever you are (and I've read your extensive Wikipedia entry), this was pretty brilliant. I will pass it on to my small cohort of academic friends who still have a sense of humor, an admittedly dwindling but still vibrant species that can be spotted on the rare occasions when their guard is down. I hear in this work echoes of Jim Stafford's also lovely "Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon" in McSweeney's some years back. I look forward to your treatment of Mugumogu's YouTube oeuvre starring Maru, an intrepid and photogenic Scottish Fold, which spans the last year or so ("Big Box and Maru," etc.). Whoever you are (and I’ve read your extensive Wikipedia entry), this was pretty brilliant. I will pass it on to my small cohort of academic friends who still have a sense of humor, an admittedly dwindling but still vibrant species that can be spotted on the rare occasions when their guard is down. I hear in this work echoes of Jim Stafford’s also lovely “Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon” in McSweeney’s some years back. I look forward to your treatment of Mugumogu’s YouTube oeuvre starring Maru, an intrepid and photogenic Scottish Fold, which spans the last year or so (“Big Box and Maru,” etc.).

]]> By: Lara Thurman http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Lara Thurman Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:52:04 +0000 http://www.juliandibbell.com/?p=142#comment-52 Just noting that the small test audience may indeed not be a norm ;). My kids giggled and laughed the entire video. They begged me to watch it over and over. And I suspect when their other two siblings come home, they will tell them to watch it as well. Otherwise a very fun read Just noting that the small test audience may indeed not be a norm ;) . My kids giggled and laughed the entire video. They begged me to watch it over and over. And I suspect when their other two siblings come home, they will tell them to watch it as well.

Otherwise a very fun read

]]> By: David Sahlin http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/comment-page-1/#comment-42 David Sahlin Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:54:23 +0000 http://www.juliandibbell.com/?p=142#comment-42 Brilliant! I'd probably have more to say but this post-epiphany buzz has my brain dancing. Brilliant! I’d probably have more to say but this post-epiphany buzz has my brain dancing.

]]> By: Matthew Battles http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Matthew Battles Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:38:45 +0000 http://www.juliandibbell.com/?p=142#comment-41 Your discussion of proprius and taboo is especially compelling to me here. I want to say there's been an inflation of amour-propre in the Rousseavian sense, leading to a bit of derangement when we ponder the abyss between the properties of the civilized self and the unhinged creativity of the memetic world online. Maybe it's time to re-enchant the meme--to give it back its otherworldliness, and even its otherness. At one time memes were spirits, after all, with which we had liberty of congress rather than the responsibilities of property. Your discussion of proprius and taboo is especially compelling to me here. I want to say there’s been an inflation of amour-propre in the Rousseavian sense, leading to a bit of derangement when we ponder the abyss between the properties of the civilized self and the unhinged creativity of the memetic world online. Maybe it’s time to re-enchant the meme–to give it back its otherworldliness, and even its otherness. At one time memes were spirits, after all, with which we had liberty of congress rather than the responsibilities of property.

]]> By: Steven Shaviro http://www.juliandibbell.com/2009/03/01/kittens-kittens-and-the-online-cultural-crisis-of-propriety/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Steven Shaviro Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:00:38 +0000 http://www.juliandibbell.com/?p=142#comment-39 A very interesting analysis, which I will not dispute. I can only say, enlarging on what I told you originally, that my kids played it over and over again (I bookmarked it for them, at their request), as well as playing many of the response videos on youtube over and over again, as well as trying to do their own versions of it (Adah even asked me to video her doing this, which I couldn't do since the iPhone doesn't do video). A very interesting analysis, which I will not dispute. I can only say, enlarging on what I told you originally, that my kids played it over and over again (I bookmarked it for them, at their request), as well as playing many of the response videos on youtube over and over again, as well as trying to do their own versions of it (Adah even asked me to video her doing this, which I couldn’t do since the iPhone doesn’t do video).

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