February | 2013

Reading: 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR)

February 28, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 27 February 2013 Sugata Mitra has just won the prize for the best TED talk of 2012. I must say that his talk on student-driven education is probably the most inspiring and affirming (of my views on education) video I’ve ever seen. Some quotes from his interview in the New York Times today are as follows: But […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, education, feminists, Marxism, New York City, TED Talks

Nasty pleasures: 17-23 February 2013 (ZiR)

February 17, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Reading: 17-23 February 2013 From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor 17 February 2013 Yes. Everybody’s doing it now. The “Harlem Shake” has spread around the world like fire, reminding us that the clear-cut boundaries that separate one culture from another are actually hard to distinguish. Everybody dances, and everybody dances the same way. Some would say our tech-driven society suffers a nervous breakdown. But this wouldn’t be the first time. Dance crazes have been popular since the early 1900s. Lewis A. Erenberg analyzed […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: drones, Museum of Modern Art, New York Times, Octavio Paz

Reading: 3-9 February 2013

February 3, 2013 by William Eaton

From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor 3 February 2013 February is African American History Month. You may or may not know that it was established by historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson, first as Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He is known as the godfather of Black history. Woodson’s most famous work is, perhaps, The Mis-Education of the Negro, published in 1933, a text in which Woodson argues the importance of the study […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Frederick Douglass, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Malcolm X

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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Reading: 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR)

Nasty pleasures: 17-23 February 2013 (ZiR)

Reading: 3-9 February 2013