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Soccer as a Reason

January 6, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

A close friend of mine (a fantastic soccer dribbler and mathematician) insisted on sharing Franklin Foer’s How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010). I am not much of a sports reader. But real soccer being in hiatus during the winter, reading about it seemed like an appealing substitute. Luckily for me, the book turned out to offer an analysis of the culture of soccer as it intersects with migration, globalization, identity, corruption, and power. I’ll […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Brazil, capitalism, globalization, reading, soccer

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Welcome to the Fall 2013 Issue

November 19, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Zeteo has always attempted to capture the loving, passionate interests of its writers, opening a space for those who seek to question, reveal, connect, and, above all, explore. This time, however, the engagement seems more visceral—and more collaborative. This fall, our writers see meaning as something jointly constructed rather than found or asserted by a single individual. They are proposing that true understanding must be achieved through conversation, disagreement, mutual elaboration. How does this work out in practice, in prose? In […]

Categories: Fall 2013 Issue, Issue Welcomes

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The dark side of childhood: 3-9 Nov 2013 (ZiR)

November 6, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

A week of reading about childhood: 3-9 November 2013 By Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 November 2013 I think the Metropolitan Museum of Art missed an opportunity to challenge modern constructions of childhood by naming its solo exhibition on Balthus Cats and Girls: Paintings and Provocations. Cats were, indeed, a big part of the painter’s persona. But I would never say that Balthus’s works are deep and […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, Balthus, childhood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, parenting, poetry, reading, sexuality

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Cultural meltdown: 18-24 August 2013 (ZiR)

August 20, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 18 August 2013 I’ve recently heard my friends speak about seemingly “new” neighborhoods. They talk about SoHa and SoBro—which really mean South Harlem and South Bronx. . .the revitalized self in them. I guess they call them that way to avoid negative stereotypes. How would people judge them if they were to speak of the slummy Bronx, or untamed Harlem? I bet they’d […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, death, Henry James, poetry, Wallace Stevens, Whitney Museum

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Big x-pectations: 2-8 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 4, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 2 June 2013 Smart people think that reading great works of literature helps us become moral experts and that becoming moral experts helps us prepare for the decisions we will make in the future. Gregory Currie, however, finds such statement at least uncomfortable. Why should we rely on expertise? he seems to ask; expertise equals complexity, and complexity is useless. I will not go […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Herman Melville, Moby Dick, New York Times, superheroes, technology, Titian

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Kaufmann, Melville, Suntory time: 7-13 April (ZiR)

April 7, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 07 April 2013 I finally had the time to read The New York Times op-ed article from last Tuesday. In “Diagnosis: Human,” Harvard professor Ted Gup takes from his own loss to reflect on the lessons we miss from life, death, grief, and our (im)perfect way of coping with them through medication: Ours is an age in which the airwaves and media […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Melville, Moby Dick, movies, New York Times, Nietzsche

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Nasty pleasures: 17-23 February 2013 (ZiR)

February 17, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Reading: 17-23 February 2013 From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor 17 February 2013 Yes. Everybody’s doing it now. The “Harlem Shake” has spread around the world like fire, reminding us that the clear-cut boundaries that separate one culture from another are actually hard to distinguish. Everybody dances, and everybody dances the same way. Some would say our tech-driven society suffers a nervous breakdown. But this wouldn’t be the first time. Dance crazes have been popular since the early 1900s. Lewis A. Erenberg analyzed […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: drones, Museum of Modern Art, New York Times, Octavio Paz

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Fairy tales and beggars: 30 Dec-5 Jan 2013 (ZiR)

December 31, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

Fairy tales and beggars: 30 DEC – 5 Jan 2013 (ZiR) Alexia Raynal [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 30 December 2012 Fairy tales remind us our primitive selves. Perhaps this is why I cannot stop reading the stories in Calla’s edition of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a wonderfully illustrated and thick volume I got as a holiday a present. These are the first lines I read in “Jorinda and Joringel”: There was once […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: fairy tales, Shakespeare, The Guardian

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On American Education: 25 Nov-01 Dec (ZIR)

November 26, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

A week of reading about American education By Alexia Raynal [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 25 November – Tenure in a “Free” Society? Steven M. Cahn’s introduction to the debate on academic tenure tackles a remarkable suspicion: if tenure is the promise of continuous employment (regardless of i.e. political affiliations), why does a supposedly “open” and “free” society such as […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: digital publishing, education, open access, peer review

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