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Silenced at Harvard: The Faculty’s Response to Sexual Assault on Campus

November 22, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link]         [email_link] Last week I attended a lecture at Duke’s Women’s Center on Sexual Assault on College Campuses. It featured Dr. Kimberly Theidon, a former Harvard professor who was recently denied tenure and is suing the institution under the premise that her department did a complete u-turn on her viability for tenure after she began to speak out on behalf of students claiming they were sexually assaulted on campus. Theidon’s story brought to light the absence of […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: rape, sexual assault, women

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Home: a refuge or a place to be yourself?

November 21, 2014 by William Eaton

  Where is home? Is it the place you come from, or a refuge that you run to? Is it a real place or an imaginary construct founded on wishful thinking, or both? In Home, Toni Morrison explores these questions through the experiences of two young people who grow up in rural Georgia after the Second World War. Cee is Frank’s younger sister, and when he leaves with his two friends to join the army she too tries to escape. […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR

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The Flâneur

November 20, 2014 by William Eaton

In The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, Edmund White dedicates his memoir to the flâneur — the ambler “who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes where caprice or curiosity directs his or her steps… in search of experience… pure, useless, raw.” Going for a stroll [in Paris]… gave birth to that eminently Parisian compromise between laziness and activity known as flânerie! …More than any other city Paris is still constructed to tempt someone […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

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Real Imagined Science

November 17, 2014 by William Eaton

Real Science Imagined Through Fiction The Development of Terraforming during the Twentieth Century By Pete Schmidt {Note: This is one in Zeteo’s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders.} [print_link] [email_link]   In the 1950s “hard science fiction” authors began to develop ideas and processes for changing other planets into habitable, Earth-like worlds. Named terraforming, the idea reflected the stalwart belief of mid-century American society in the ability to use science and technology to harness and control nature for […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: fiction, science, science fiction, terraforming

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Deportation is also about those who stay

November 17, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

On Saturday, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Diane Guerrero, the Colombian actress who plays Maritza Ramos in “Orange Is the New Black.” It tells the story of how Guerrero lost her parents to deportation when she was barely 14, starting with her worst fears growing up: Throughout my childhood I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys, but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, civil rights, deportation, Diane Guerrero, immigration, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, politics

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Of Dreamlessness

November 16, 2014 by William Eaton

  Zeteo’s staff is a mix of the graduate-student aged and the emeritus aged, and this helps me (on the emeritus side) see more clearly where my generation is ending up. At a meeting the other day, one young staff member, whose great interest is participatory democracy, was expressing his hopes voire belief that electronic tools can facilitate a revival of participatory democracy. My sense is rather that we can already see, and will soon see more clearly, how electronic […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: dreams, education, New York Review of Books, youth

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Regeneration – Voices of protest in World War One

November 14, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] As the European Powers commemorate the Armistice that ended World War One, little attention is paid to those who spoke out against the carnage when it was going on. Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy focuses on the poet and British army officer Siegfried Sassoon, who made a public declaration against the war in July 1917. Sassoon, who had been decorated as a war hero, wanted to be court-martialed in order to publicize his opinions. Convinced by his friend Robert […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: literature

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DON’T HATE ME HATE MY

November 13, 2014 by William Eaton

  This past summer an art exhibit or spectacle at Paris’s official hip museum, le Palais de Tokyo, offered, among many other things, incomplete slogans, handwritten with black markers on cardboard. Among the dozens of these, most of which are in French, I noted and translated these: NOUS SOMMES LES OUBLÉS DE I.E.: WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN OF PAS DE DÉMOCRATIE SANS NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT JE NE VEUX PAS D’AVENIR JE VEUX UN I DON’T WANT A FUTURE I WANT A LE PARTAGE SAUVERA […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, politics, Thomas Hirschorn

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Culture and History Matter

November 13, 2014 by William Eaton

“Culture and history matter, values and traditions endure,” writes David Greene. In his travelogue, Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia, Greene shares a mature understanding and affinity for an enigmatic country. How can Russians accept the harsh reality they live in—a country with low life expectancy, rampant health problems, gaping inequality, and a dwindling population? What is holding people back? Is it fear? Fatigue? Fatalism? Public apathy? An innocent but false belief in country? A […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: Russia, trains, travel

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