The aesthetics and affects of cuteness

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1 The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness
2 The Appeal of the Cute Object: Desire, Domestication, and Agency
3 Cuteness and Control in Portal
4 “This Baby Sloth Will Inspire You to Keep Going”: Capital, Labor, and the Affective Power of Cute Animal Videos
5 “I’ll be Dancin’”: American Soldiers, Cute YouTube Performances, and the Deployment of Soft Power in the War on Terror
6 Live Cuteness 24/7: Performing Boredom on Animal Live Streams
7 When Awe Turns to Awww . . .: Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog and the Cute Sublime
8 Cute Twenty-First-Century Post-Fembots
9 Designing Affection: On the Curious Case of Machine Cuteness
10 Soft and Hard: Accessible Masculinity, Celebrity, and Post-Millennial Cuteness
11 Affective Marketing and the Kuteness of Kiddles
12 Kittens, Farms, and Wild Pandas: The Impact of Cuteness in Adult Gamble-Play Media
13 Under the Yolk of Consumption: Re-Envisioning the Cute as Consumable
14 Ted, Wilfred, and the Guys: Twenty-First-Century Masculinities, Raunch Culture, and the Affective Ambivalences of Cuteness
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