May | 2014 | ZETEO

The (Counter-) Power of Deejays

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Racialized Other Moves Still The (Counter-)Power of Dance, Dance Floors, and Deejays By Ghaida Moussa Click here for PDF version. My entry into the practice of deejaying stems from my deep-rooted relationship with music. I know firsthand the power of good soundtracks to pivotal moments in life. I think about a good drive after a break-up, with a best friend picking the best tunes to sing our hearts out to or the way family members who do not […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: music, postcolonialism, queer theory, race, racism

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Doing and Nothing

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

An exploration of Song Dong’s Doing Nothing Garden and the possibility of renewing ourselves and our environment through not doing By Vanessa Badagliacca Click here for PDF Version. I grew up hearing the recurring expression that if you—a general you—didn’t catch “the train” passing right at that moment you would miss it. You would lose your chance to do something, to meet someone, to experience something, to get something, to take the chance of a lifetime. Reflecting on […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: art, environmental philosophy, environmentalism, garden, Giorgio Agamben, landscape, LaoZi, philosophy

Parenting: Infinite Responsibility

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Steps toward a larger, if alien view of what parenting involves By William Eaton Click here for PDF version (1) Few parents, and only occasionally, allow themselves to think, It is because of me that my child must suffer. Rather we sometimes think of all the many others and other things—rapists, wars, car accidents, bad teachers, infections—that (though we hope not!) may be our children’s lot. We wish we could save our children from some one pain and from all […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: birth, children, Freud, innocence, life, parenting, parents

James Baldwin Today

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Notes of a Year of James Baldwin By Rachel Corbman Review of the opening session of the Year of Baldwin, New York Live Arts, April 2014. Click here for PDF version. The definitive James Baldwin documentary, The Price of the Ticket (1989), memorably opens with archival footage from a British television interview that aired shortly before the novelist and essayist’s early death in 1987. “Now, when you were starting out as a writer,” the interviewer queried, “You were black, impoverished, [and] homosexual. You […]

Categories: Review, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: documentaries, gay lives, homosexuality, James Baldwin, LGBT, race

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A Simple Poem

May 20, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

I confess that today is an abnormally busy day for me, so I have a very quick poem to share. It is from Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, and it’s called “I am happy living simply.” She was writing between 1892 and 1941, which for me adds even more value to the poem below: I am happy living simply: like a clock, or a calendar. Worldly pilgrim, thin, wise—as any creature. To know the spirit is my beloved. To come to […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry

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Scary pair of floating, pale green pants

May 19, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

(with nobody inside) I know of a legal representation agency that has been fond of playing Universal Pictures’ movie The Lorax (2012) over and over again for their younger clients in the foster system as they sit in the waiting room. While the movie seems disastrous to me, it has nonetheless got me thinking about the role that Dr. Seuss’s books have played (or that adults think they have played) in children’s lives. In Coping With Stress: Effective People and Processess (Oxford University Press, New York: 2001) […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, children's books, Dr. Seuss, poetry

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Courtney Trouble (with camera), Wolf Hudson (lying down), Zahra Stardust and James Darling in Toronto

Is there such a thing as Feminist Pornography?

May 17, 2014 by William Eaton

Today I offer you an interesting read passed on to me from my grandmother this week. In the piece In Toronto with the world’s feminist pornographers, Daniel Nasaw from the BBC Magazine gives us a behind the scenes look at the global community that shoots, directs, stars in, and theorizes about how pornography would look when (and if) it were feminist. In recent years, feminist porn producers and performers have settled on a rough agreement on how to shoot pornography that […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: BBC, feminism, pornography

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Content is King?

May 16, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I have had several discussions this week about the elements of filmmaking and what makes a film work. Of course it is subjective and each person I spoke with had a different point of view – but Gil Bettman in the opening chapter of his book basically nailed it for me. The first time director must understand and take to heart the fundamental truth that if the audience is transported into the drama of the film, they will sit there […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film

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“That’s the trouble with losing your mind…” Part I of II

May 15, 2014 by William Eaton

This is the first of two reviews of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods. This review is about Bryson’s use of humor, the second about his concern for the ecology surrounding the Appalachian Trail “That’s the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it’s gone, it’s too late to get it back,” said Bill Bryson in A Walk in the Woods, Bryson’s narrative of his and pal Stephen Katz’s hike on the Appalachian Trail (AT). Bryson was in a “state of […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Monthly Archives: May 2014

The (Counter-) Power of Deejays

Doing and Nothing

Parenting: Infinite Responsibility

James Baldwin Today

A Simple Poem

Scary pair of floating, pale green pants

Is there such a thing as Feminist Pornography?

Content is King?

“That’s the trouble with losing your mind…” Part I of II