Ebook: Cat is Art Spelled Wrong

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Maria Bustillos: Hope Is the Thing with Fur; Jillian Steinhauer: The Nine Lives of Cat Videos; Alexis Madrigal: Sparrow the Cat; Ander Monson: The Internet Is a Cat Video Library; Carl Wilson: East of Intention: Cat, Camera, Music; Matthea Harvey: Walls Divide Humans and Their Cats from Other Humans, but Cat Videos Are Our Digital Cat Doors, Peepholes into a Great Cross-Species Love; Elena Passarello: Jeoffry; Will Braden: Cats and the Internet: A Love Story; Kevin Nguyen: The No Sleeping Cat Rule.;"Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled WrongCool 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.