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Keeping it Professional, Even in the Nude

June 21, 2014 by William Eaton

I was just introduced to the long standing controversy regarding fashion photographer Terry Richardson’s “unprofessional” behavior in the studio, through this Jezebel article Meet Terry Richardson, The World’s Most F-ked up Fashion Photographer, by Jenna Sauers. While in many ways I didn’t want to humor the attention that he is getting of late, I do think there is an interesting debate buried somewhere deep in all of this, regarding the sexualized work that occurs in nude modeling and pornography, that […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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Death and Coincidence

June 20, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Daniel D’Arezzo left a comment in regard to my reading last week that mentioned Horacio Quiroga, a famous Uruguayan author. Daniel mentioned Quiroga among others (providing a counterpoint to the association of artists and suicide) but this is the one that caught my attention because he wrote a short story called Drifting which a colleague of mine at school is using as the basis for his thesis film which I am producing. Of course it is not really fortuitous that Quiroga […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR

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Struggling to reach 87th country

June 19, 2014 by William Eaton

Zeteo is Reading Contributor Tucker Cox is currently traveling. He is expected to return next Thursday with his next post about great travel writing. He has a lifetime goal of visiting 100 countries on 7 continents. It might be said that he is now 87 percent of the way there. The photograph, of professional backpacker Andrew Skurka, appeared on a National Geographic website about “Today’s Ultimate Adventurers.” Tucker — though not featured on the site, and though (or because) he does more with […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Poetry Plath

Suicide off Egg Rock

June 17, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

I dislike mentioning suicide when speaking about Sylvia Plath. But, today, it’s truly inevitable because the poem I chose for this week is in fact about suicide. Not hers, however. The suffering soul here is a nameless man who is disgusted by life, its sounds and waste, “that landscape / Of imperfections his bowels were part of.” Surrounded by the cacophony and filth of living, the man views death as a legitimate and desirable way out. Nor does he glamorize death. It […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, Sylvia Plath, writing

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All Hail Child Savior!

June 16, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Children are usually seen as adults in the making. Because they are “unfinished,” children represent hope. While this is often a valid source of inspiration for many, it is also the misfortune of others. Children’s potential to become something makes people (adults) believe that through them change is possible. This couldn’t be more visible today than in the news coverage about the impact of Juan Carlos’s resignation as king of Spain. An article from AFP (Madrid) explains that for 8-year-old Leonor de Borbón y […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children

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Esthéthique de l’éjaculation

June 15, 2014 by William Eaton

  A trip down memory lane, we could call this post. On an impulse-buy counter in a French bookstore I see a little yellow book with this title in neon pink letters: Esthéthique de l’éjaculation (the aesthetics of ejaculation). Fifty pages, used copy, on sale for less than four euros, hard to resist (though some might say of a book with such a title, Better not to buy secondhand). It turned out to be quite a good book, by one Antonio […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: advertising, Aquinas, Catholic Church, masturbation, Middle Ages, pornography, sexuality, sin

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“Into” + “Feeling: Jamison Explains Empathy

June 14, 2014 by William Eaton

I’ve gone the past week without internet as I was relocating into my new southern home and lifestyle, and taking regular dips in the public pool became more important than calling Time Warner to schedule an appointment. Alas, we have caved and are returning to “normalcy”, but in the mean time all I have been reading are Durham new-resident-guides and one phenomenal collection of essays that may not overtly seem connected to sexuality, but certainly harps on an interpersonal quality that […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: empathy, gender, medicine

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Suicide and Fame

June 13, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Read an article this morning in the Hollywood Reporter on the suicide of director Malik Bendjelloul (Oscar winner for the documentary Searching for Sugarman). I found Searching for Sugarman inspiring as a film (simple footage incredibly edited and animated to create a compelling story that explored art and commerce and popular culture through the story of musician Sixto Rodriguez) and was shocked to learn of the death of it’s young director. The article, written by Scott Johnson, opens with a […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice” – part III of III

June 12, 2014 by William Eaton

Part 3 of 3 of Mark Twain’s memoir of his 134-day European  and Holy Land cruise in 1867, the biggest selling book in his lifetime. Every great travelogue imprints memories of sights, experiences and perspectives. The Innocents Abroad or, The New Pilgrims’ Progress has too many to mention. For example, there is the “true cross… found in every church we go into… and as much as a keg of nails that held it together.” Imprints of Twain’s views, especially of the U.S., do not leave us : Just […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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