March | 2013

Reading: 31 March-6 April 2013 (ZiR)

March 31, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 31 March-6 April 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 31 March 2013 On my recent trip to San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Counties–or what I, as a New Yorker, call upstate San Fran–I came across this funny sign in Point Reyes. From the picture it looks like the NO BARKING is a typo, or a graffiti alteration, particularly in light of the NO PARKING ANY TIME […]

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Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR)

March 27, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR) Patrick Rea, MALS Student, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 25 March 2013 I’ll quote from a person who knew Lincoln: I once heard Mr. Lincoln tell an anecdote on Col. Ethan Allen of Revolutionary notoriety which I have never heard from any one besides him and for your amusement I will try and tell it as well as I can. It appears that shortly after […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Augustine, Brazil, Marxism

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins

March 21, 2013 by William Eaton

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins By Ashok Karra Review of Biogea, by Michel Serres. Translated by Randolph Burks (Univocal, 2012). Distributed by University of Minnesota Press. In Biogea, the French philosopher Michel Serres attempts to find a softer science, one not as destructive or reductive as the “hard” science some say we practice today. The Enlightenment, the historical root of that hard science, can be thought to have provided the ground for industrialization and a host of […]

Categories: Review • Tags: environmental philosophy, Michel Serres

Reading 17-23 March 2013

March 17, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 10-16 March 2013 (ZiR) Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 17 March 2013 Reading an article entitled “A Brief History of Applause” on The Atlantic Monthly website. No one knows exactly when or where applause originated, but what is fascinating about the article is that we have found new methods of “clapping our hands” when our hands cannot be heard. But we’re reinventing applause, too, for a world where […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Atlantic Monthly, Dewey, obesity, technology

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual

March 15, 2013 by William Eaton

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual By William Eaton Review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen (Princeton University Press, 2013) {click for pdf, complete with easier to follow footnotes} [print_link] [email_link] Finding Oneself is an engaging and demoralizing collection of occasional pieces by the late G.A. (Jerry) Cohen, who was a leading Oxford University political philosopher and the author of several more ambitious works, including Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence; Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (a […]

Categories: Review • Tags: conservatism, Marx, Oxford, Wallace Shawn

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Reading: 10-16 March 2013

March 12, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Reading 10-16 March 2013 (ZiR) Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 12 March 2013 On the subway ride home from the company that rented me equipment for my weekend film shoot I started reading Martin Scorsese’s introduction to Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture. Scorsese decided to publish books on film, paying homage to the books that affected him as a youth. He writes: Although film is primarily […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: books, film, Google, Martin Scorsese, privacy

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Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR)

March 3, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 3-9 March 2013 (ZiR) William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 March 2013 A reader on vacation—shouldn’t he be on vacation from reading, too? Before I headed off on my most recent not-quite-vacation, with half a dozen “serious” books and a Kindle, I read a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It concerned “the insidious impact of new communication technologies on living and learning in another […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, American Revolution, cellphones, Facebook, reading, vacation

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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Reading: 31 March-6 April 2013 (ZiR)

Reading 24-30 March 2013 (ZiR)

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins

Reading 17-23 March 2013

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual

Reading: 10-16 March 2013

Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR)