{"product_id":"i-know-you-are-but-cait-mckinney-9781517918286","title":"I Know You Are, But What Am I?: On Pee-Wee Herman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Pee-wee and his playhouse help us reimagine our relationships to technology\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Know You Are, but What Am I?\u003c\/i\u003e explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of \u003ci\u003ePee-wee's Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e. This children's show--that was also for adults--ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies. \u003cp\u003e Cait McKinney shows how three defining scenes from the show inform, and even foretell and challenge, our present moment: the playhouse as an alternative precursor to networked smart homes that foregrounds caring and ethical relationships between humans and technologies; a reparative retelling of Reubens's career-wrecking 1991 arrest for indecent exposure inside a Florida adult film theater as part of an AIDS-phobic, antigay sting operation; and worn-out, Talking Pee-wee dolls and their broken afterlives on eBay and YouTube. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e McKinney looks at how queer people who were children in the 1980s remember and relate to Pee-wee now, showing that the moral panic about sexuality, gender, and children from the past can help us refute anti-trans and anti-queer political movements organized today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cait McKinney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517918286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517918286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Cait McKinney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45981038870783,"sku":"9781517918286","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a24ccc3-ea12-430d-8482-82c9bf94f554.jpg?v=1722417562","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/i-know-you-are-but-cait-mckinney-9781517918286","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}