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Notes on Listening to Democracy

November 3, 2014 by William Eaton

  Popular Music on the Contemporary Campaign Trail   By Justin Patch   {Editor’s Note: This is the first in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders, one of the borders here being between pop culture and politics. Or do we now best understand our democracy and its political campaigns as a genre of pop culture, a form of entertainment?} [print_link] [email_link]     Musical campaigning in the US dates back to the first post-colonial campaign when George […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, political propaganda, politics, Presidential campaigns, songs

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Foreign stories in blue tiles

November 3, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

A day off is a day in French and Portuguese Please excuse me as I “take a break” from reading about how we look at children. Here, an excerpt and accompanying images from an illustrated book I was recently given. The book is called “Le Chat Bleu du Palais Fronteira/O Gato Azul do Palácio Fronteira,” and it is written in French and Portugese. So please excuse me again as I post in a non-English language. In French: Elle accompagnait ses parents. […]

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

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Learning to read again (Mrs Dalloway)

November 2, 2014 by William Eaton

Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court) that his wife had some internal ailment, nothing serious, which, as an old friend, Clarissa Dalloway would quite understand without requiring him to specify. For many years I had a fairly steady reading habit, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: French, literature, reading, Virginia Woolf, writing

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What does street harassment look like?

November 1, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   An ever fascinating topic for me is that of feminism and social media. When I wrote the draft for this post earlier this week, I found this video, 10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman, buried at the bottom of the BBC website. Three days later it has been lauded and criticized, commented on and parodied, notably by the comedy site Funny or Die, showing 10 hours of walking in NYC as a man, which entails getting job offers and free […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Slate, street harassment

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