Matt Cornell

PhD CandidateAmsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

m.cornell@uva.nl

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What Kind of Animal is the ISIS Cat?

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Matt Cornell Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

April 08, 2016
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What Kind of Animal is the ISIS Cat? twitter terrorism selfies portraiture memes ISIS cats Curator's Note The images that you are looking at are screenshots taken from a now-suspended Twitter account called @isilcats or Islamic State of Cat. From Jun ...

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Re: What Kind of Animal is the ISIS Cat?

Brussels lockdown

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Matt Cornell Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

Saturday, April 9, 2016 — 3:40 pm
Thank you for reading! It's funny that you mention the Brussels Lockdown, because many of the same images used by Belgians for that meme were of cats also used by ISIS supporters in #catsofjihad and other memes. I think that ISIS cat memes are actual ...