chimpanzees – The Cultural Gutter

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Pet Cinematary on Projects X and Nim

By Guttersnipe on July 18, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Our friends at Pet Cinematary discuss Project X (1987) and Project Nim (2011).

Nothing Ape Is Strange To Me

By Carol on July 19, 2012 • ( 4 Comments )

I am Ape. Nothing Ape is strange to me.–Publius Terentius Afer (sort of) For what is there beautiful in man,-what, I pray you, worthy of admiration, or comely–unless that which, some poet has maintained, he possesses in common with the ape? –Arnobius I’m surrounded by a stack of […]

Terror of Monkeys vs. Robots

By Carol on December 8, 2011 • ( 3 Comments )

Manipulated by mad scientists, humiliated for humanity’s pleasure, will robots and apes tire of making our cars, vacuuming our floors, fighting our wars, washing our cats and smoking our cigarettes? Who will break first as humankind continually fails to distinguish androids from robots, apes from monkeys? We return […]

A Matter of Evolution: Monkeys vs. Robots

By Carol on September 17, 2009 • ( 2 Comments )

They’ve been brought together before in James Kolchalka’s Monkey vs. Robot books, by Mecha Kong in King Kong Escapes and Mojo Jojo’s mech-suited machinations in The Powerpuff Girls. Primates and robots each imitate and mock humanity in their own way. When the postapocalyptic future finally overtakes us, will […]