{"id":129,"date":"2017-11-01T17:37:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/?page_id=129"},"modified":"2017-11-01T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:38:00","slug":"cats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Cat Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6119\/2017\/11\/seriousacademic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6119\/2017\/11\/seriousacademic.jpg 546w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6119\/2017\/11\/seriousacademic-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6119\/2017\/11\/seriousacademic-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m developing new work on a theory of internet cats\u2014and, more recently, doggos. The real theory is only available in a partial form right now, through a narrated Powerpoint, but will be written up and sent off to a journal soon. I do have some precursors in print already.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary theory:<\/p>\n<p>20<sup>th<\/sup> International Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology: SPT2017: The Grammar of Things, July 2017, Technische Universit\u00e4t Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/oduwebb9r8i8plq\/FoLCatsREVISIONnewnarration.pptx?dl=0\">Teh Intarwebs: Maed of Cats, Akshully<\/a>.\u201d By peer-reviewed proposal. [Narrated Powerpoint Presentation.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Precursors in print:<\/p>\n<p>Wittkower, D.E. (2015). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4sonline.org\/blog\/post\/taking_care_of_business_cat\">Taking care of Business Cat<\/a>. <em>Backchannels<\/em>, a publication of the Society for Social Studies of Science, 1(1): n.p. By invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Wittkower, D.E. (2012). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/288256\/_On_the_Origins_of_the_Cute_as_a_Dominant_Aesthetic_Category_in_Digital_Culture_in_Putting_Knowledge_to_Work_and_Letting_Information_Play_\">On the origins of the cute as a dominant aesthetic category in digital culture<\/a>. In T. Luke &amp; J. Hunsinger (Eds.), <em>Putting knowledge to work and letting information play<\/em> (pp. 212\u2013221). Transdisciplinary Studies v.4. Boston: Sense Publishers (Springer). By invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Wittkower, D.E. (2012). <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/imr\/2012\/09\/21\/cats-flushing-toilets-bic-her-and-lolcat-bible-collective-expression-and-play-outside-ipr\">Cats flushing toilets, Bic for Her, and the Lolcat Bible: Collective expression and play outside of IPR<\/a>,\u00a0<em>in media res<\/em>: n.p.. By invitation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/cats\/\">return to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/\">home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m developing new work on a theory of internet cats\u2014and, more recently, doggos. The real theory is only available in a partial form right now, through a narrated Powerpoint, but will be written up and sent off to a journal soon. I do have some precursors in print already. Preliminary theory: 20th International Conference of&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/cats\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7594,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/dwittkow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}