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Janet [[strikethrough]] raved [[/strikethrough]] spoke about "The Golden Spike" and telecommunications infancy
Transcontinental infrastructure allows circuses to expand like never before.
Rodney: "You don't have to go to the circus to see it."
Popular musicians incorporated circus arts also schools - circus arts extracurricular
Burning man
Dominique: Diffusion of circus arts does not equal circus
Janet: "Ring defines the circus." Audience
Historically, people of color marginalized in the big top so, sideshows for them. Ragtime, jazz.
To Rodney, Circus Ring is a "sacred space" to be respected - axis mundi.
Animal welfare + the changing climate. 
Dominique: Circus is heir to pagan celebration; celebration of survival
Dominique believes that remaining trained animals from circus acts separates people from wild animals. 
Janet spoke about the history of the philosophical conflict RE: captivity of animals.
Jack London Club
ASPCA
The group spoke about the effect of the Internet on the participation + attendance of circuses
-advertising
-app
-distraction/attention span/competing spectacle
-memes