ZETEO

ZETEO

Zeteo (ζητέω): to challenge, question, dispute, explore the forgotten and ignored

Main menu

Skip to content
  • About
  • How to submit & what
  • Help us pioneer the short scholarly comment
  • Contact Zeteo

Monthly Archives: October 2014

Show Grid Show List

Post navigation

← Older posts

Rose: Mining and Murder in mid-Victorian England

October 31, 2014 by William Eaton

Have you ever wanted to go down a mine shaft? Like miners do, on an open lift? Plunging a mile down into the bowels of the earth? With highly combustible methane gas and its deadly chemical cousin carbon monoxide a threat at every instant? Me neither. But when I picked up Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Rose, set in the Lancashire coal mining town of Wigan, I couldn’t stop reading. The story chronicles the return to England of the mining engineer […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, literature, women

Leave a comment

Listening to Rebecca Solnit

October 30, 2014 by William Eaton

  Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me is now in its third printing. To celebrate its success, the publisher (TomDispatch.com) recently reprinted the 2008 essay from the book:  The Archipelago of Arrogance. In the essay Solnit, the author of many books, describes being asked by an imposing, wealthy man at a party what her books were about. She mentioned one on Eadweard Muybridge. The man cut her off to tell her about a very important book that had just been […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR

Leave a comment

Mixed Feelings

October 28, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

As an emotion, “mixed-feelings” catches a bad rap.  But having mixed-feelings about a poem is actually a valid, and valuable, emotional response. It means something in the poem worked for you, but, at the same time, something else didn’t. There is a grey area, imprecision, ambiguity even. All spaces in which poetry thrives. The following poem, written by poet Kevin Young, leaves me with such mixed-feelings. I know the poem has merit, but at the same time, it bothers me. There […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, horses, literature, poetry, reading, writing

1

Is Nothing But (Barthes & La Rochefoucauld)

October 26, 2014 by William Eaton

« Quelque bien qu’on nous dise de nous, on ne nous apprend rien de nouveau. » Compliments can’t teach us anything we don’t know already. — François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld. « Il y a de bons mariages, mais il n’y en a point de délicieux. » There are good marriages, but there aren’t any delicious ones. A summary of a gloss of several of Roland Barthes’s observations regarding La Rochefoucauld and his maximes : The author of the maximes is not a […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: La Rochefoucauld, maxims, Roland Barthes

Leave a comment

Pinkwashing: Consumerism and Breast Cancer Awareness

October 25, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link]        [email_link] Before Pinktober comes to an end, we should all squeeze in a conversation about “Pinkwashing,” the corporate trend of slapping pink ribbons on every variety of product imaginable in the name of breast cancer awareness. It turns out there is no regulation on the pink ribbon (although the Susan G. Komen Foundation has patented the phrase “for the cure”) so companies draping their products in pink are not obliged to donate even a penny of proceeds […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: breast cancer, consumerism

Leave a comment

All That Is – life, love and the pursuit of happiness

October 24, 2014 by William Eaton

James Salter’s novel All That Is was a national bestseller in the US last year. A translation is now on the bestseller list in France. I was drawn to it by the taut, tense opening lines describing the experience of Americans in the Pacific during World War Two: All night in darkness the water sped past. In tier on tier of iron bunks below deck, silent, six deep, lay hundreds of men, many faceup with their eyes still open though […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: literature, love, travel

2

Wayne Thiebaud at 94

October 23, 2014 by William Eaton

There are times when old age produces not eternal youth but a sovereign freedom, a pure necessity in which one enjoys a moment of grace between life and death, and in which all the parts of the machine come together to send into the future a feature that cuts across all ages: Titian, Turner, Monet.  Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari There is reason to celebrate artist Wayne Thiebaud, now in his 94th year and in the 7th decade of his painting […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR • Tags: art

Leave a comment

The Future of Communication

October 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Visual Humanities and the Future of Communication By Maggie Sattler Review of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production by Johanna Drucker (Harvard University Press, 2014) [print_link] [email_link]   In “How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities,” a July 2014 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Naomi S. Baron, a professor of linguistics whose research interests include writing and technology, contends that when her students read on digital devices, their attention spans and abilities to retain information shrink. This […]

Categories: Review • Tags: education, reading, technology

Leave a comment
poetry, writing, lit, literature

A Pot of Bones

October 21, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

Natasha Trethewey is one of those rare poets that everybody seems to like, despite her massive commercial success. Massive, that is, in terms of poetic commercial success, which is timid at best. Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Native Guard (2006), written about an all-black regiment that fought in the Civil War. She was later named U.S. Poet Laureate, twice. Her work deals principally with race in America. Trethewey’s parents were a mixed-race couple living in Mississippi in […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: books, literature, poem, poet, poetry, reading, work

Leave a comment

Post navigation

← Older posts

Archives

  • January 2022
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • October 2019
  • May 2019
  • February 2019
  • December 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • September 2017
  • July 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • June 2010

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
Powered by WordPress.com.
ZETEO
Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • ZETEO
    • Join 68 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • ZETEO
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...