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Does Feminism Need Beyoncé?

March 8, 2016 by William Eaton

By Emily Tobey   Ever since the word feminism first appeared in public discourse in the late 1800’s, it has stimulated debate and disagreement about its meaning and purpose. The basic definition of feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality with men. The fundamental tenor of this definition frequently gets lost, however, amidst conflicting views, myths and misconceptions. Nonetheless, from the suffrage movement through the fight for equal pay and reproductive […]

Categories: Article • Tags: African-Americans, Beyonce, celebrity, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, feminism, gender, Jay-Z, Ms. Magazine, music, popular music, women

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Drink's, sign in Troncones, Mexico; photo credit: Jonah Warner, February 2016

O que é felicidade (Corcovado, Kalamazoo)

March 7, 2016 by William Eaton

Backfiring, shall we call this?   First bursts. Sue Ellen Christian, one of Zeteo’s long-time contributors, e-mailed us a draft response to one of the random, crazed shootings with which the United States is now plagued. As has been reported, several residents of her town, Kalamazoo, Michigan, were allegedly gunned down by an Uber driver. Random victims, and thus also reminders of how we are all random victims or the random fortunate (and some combination of the two). For example, thanks […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: airships, bossa nova, Dada, First World War, happiness, labor unions, language, poverty, random shooting, Stuart Hall, translation, Uber, work, Zen koan

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Lawrence Goldhuber in straitjacket, photo by Josh Gosfield

Bad Marriage; Spanish Dancer

March 1, 2016 by William Eaton

  A touching story, and likely more common, in one variation or another, than it may at first seem. Among other things, I have in mind lives that come to be defined by one event which casts its spell, be it evil, enlightening, forgiving—over all the other years. The story I am going to tell, or retell, comes from Windmills in Brooklyn, a novel-memoir by a now forgotten Spanish-American writer, Prudencio de Pereda (b. 1912). Before getting to all this, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Brooklyn, Cuban cigars, dancing, life, memoir, New York, novels, Spanish

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Airplanes, environment, capital, giving up!

February 23, 2016 by William Eaton

A.k.a., Littlering   There is a strain of environmental thinking that proposes (with more than a little sense) that we need to learn how to do more with less. Or perhaps we need (yet again?) to discover how less is more. Fewer human beings always seems like a good place to start. There is of course the problem that biggering (as Dr. Seuss called it) has come to seem essential to our economic “growth” and “health,” and to the health […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: airplanes, Bob Dylan, capitalism, climate change, economic crisis, England, environmentalism, global warming, technology

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Dickinson — Sex, Spanish, Stew

February 11, 2016 by William Eaton

Emily, in not so foreign tongues   The first law of American literature: Somewhere, somehow, in God only knows what language, you are always going to come across one more, intriguing—if not indeed great—Emily Dickinson poem. A poem that you have previously overlooked, or not even heard of. And yet, there it is, ready to reward your attention. A rider: The poem might be about sex. Not sex like Henry Miller with his beloved Germaine du Café de l’Éléphant, soaping […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Barcelona, dogs, Emily Dickinson, fairy tales, Henry Miller, poetry, sex, Spanish

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“Independent” analysis; class warfare (think tanks)

February 2, 2016 by William Eaton

A follow-up to a previous discussion of how experts, and the media that aids and abets them, and the class interests that pay these experts’ salaries—they’re in the mask-making business.   A January 26 New York Times story reported that “according to an independent analysis” the proposed trade pact between North American countries, the United States in particular, and Pacific rim nations “would increase incomes, exports and growth in the United States . . . and would not cost overall […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: academia, Barack Obama, capitalism, class warfare, corporations, journalism, New York Times, Paul Krugman, trade pact, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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Susiraja Obesity Selfies Art

January 21, 2016 by William Eaton

Sublime Ugliness — from a Nordic point of view Transgressing orthodox understandings of beauty, Iiu Susiraja is challenging our ideas of what a public portrait might look like.   I have been thinking a lot about ugliness lately. It all started with a visit to an exhibition by the Finnish artist Iiu Susiraja (born 1975).[1] Iiu Susiraja is famous for her self-portraits set in domestic surroundings. In an exhibition by Iiu Susiraja you will encounter large photographs and videos of […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: beauty, Finland, Iiu Susiraja, Norway, portaits, selfies, shame, ugliness

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17th century Schandmask (or shame masks) - a German form of punishment

Inequality, Experts, Krugman, Masks

January 19, 2016 by William Eaton

By William Eaton   . . . the intellectuals of the time . . . went on playing with ideas que no tenían más función que la de mascaras—that served only as masks. Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude)[1]   At a few moments in his recent, fruitful discussion of class warfare (“Challenging the Oligarchy,” New York Review of Books), the economist Paul Krugman presents a vision—not a pretty vision—of the role of academic experts. Krugman’s […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: academia, Brecht, class warfare, climate change, Emerson, global warming, Kant, Paul Krugman, Quaker meeting

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Kalamazoo, Michigan, by race

Coates, Allport, Maynard—Inter-Ethnic Mixing

January 18, 2016 by William Eaton

What happened after Ta-Nehisi Coates visited our city? By Sue Ellen Christian   Everything and nothing, as you would expect. But also, for me, old ideas from the American psychologist Gordon Allport and the journalist Robert Maynard got a new hold on my imagination. The auditorium was packed with 2,500 people and could have held more but word circulated that it would be standing-room only, so many people stayed away, though they didn’t need to, as the upper balconies still […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: Gordon Allport, journalism, Kalamazoo, race relations, Robert Maynard, segregation, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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