Cuteness – Flow

The Cuteness of Tunneling Media
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Texas at Dallas

October 30, 2017 Juan Llamas-Rodriguez / University of Texas at Dallas One comment

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez considers how the use of cuteness to market VPN privacy and security services illustrates the ideological negotiations with which these user-friendly services must engage.

Robots in Popular Culture: Labor Precarity and Machine Cute
Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin

February 27, 2017 Anthony P. McIntyre / University College Dublin 3 comments

Anthony P. McIntyre reflects on cultural representations of robots as cute in recent films and media, relating such constructions to contemporary capitalist labor dynamics and threats.