Zeteo is Reading / 14 November 2012 Rachael Benavidez [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.] 14 November 2012 Prize-winning poet Jack Gilbert died Tuesday at the age of 87. His straightforward style make his touching poems easy to understand. He will be missed. Tear It Down We find out the heart only by dismantling what the heart knows. By redefining […]
Dear Readers, Welcome to the Zeteo Fall Issue 2012. In a United States election year we began with the idea of choice. We challenged writers to speak about the choices human beings make not only in politics, but also as consumers, spectators and thinkers. We proposed that choice might be an illusion—our “choices” channeled by economic regimes, education, custom, biology, family dynamics. Zeteo is an interdisciplinary but not undisciplined journal. In this issue you will find pieces that speak directly about our choices. Catherine […]
Categories: Fall 2012 Issue, Issue Welcomes • Tags: Nepal, psychotherapy, rape, Thoreau
Pop culture, post-feminism and the choices facing young women today By Catherine Vigier The criticism leveled against pop singer Lana Del Rey on the Internet and in the mainstream press raises a number of questions about young women choosing to conform to the image required of them by the corporate media in order to achieve success, and about the conditions under which success can be achieved in the culture industries and elsewhere. This raises further questions: about the power […]
Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Adorno, feminism, popular music, women
Rethinking Rape Moving Beyond the Social vs. Biological By Caterina Gironda This paper explores the pitfalls of two views of rape: The social constructionist position that rape is not an act driven by sexual desire but rather purely an act of violence, a tool to control and dominate women, and A counter argument by evolutionary psychologists which says that the drive to rape is in some sense natural, a product of human evolution. Through an examination of Elizabeth Grosz’s reading […]
Categories: Article, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Darwin, Elizabeth Grosz, evolutionary psychology, rape
Exploring our hopes for a cure, with help from The King’s Speech By William Eaton {Click for pdf} Shortly after seeing the movie The King’s Speech, I had the thought that it might provide a platform for exploring some ideas about psychotherapy. It seemed that this was really what the movie was about: psychotherapy and the relationship between patient and psychotherapist. Rewatching the movie I was impressed by how directly it presented its approach to psychotherapy. One of the lead characters, […]
Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Freud, Ian Craib, psychotherapy
Zeteo is Reading / 13 November 2012 Rachael Benavidez [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.] 13 November 2012 Reading an interview with Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz about This is How You Lose Her: “As an artist, you’re trying to do something really new. Usually you find the new where people have gotten tired of looking. Most of us confuse the overabundance […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: Junot Diaz, men
Zeteo is Reading / 12 November 2012 Rachael Benavidez N.B.: This is one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading. 12 November 2012 Thinking about a quote from Pablo Picasso: In my opinion to search means nothing in painting. To find is the thing. . . . The one who finds something…, even if his intention were not to search for it, at least arouses our curiosity, if not our admiration…. When I paint, […]
Reading 4-10 November 2012 (ZiR) Texts William Eaton has been pleased to spend time with this week [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 4 November 2012: An hour with Thoreau Reading in Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. The editor dwells on, among other things, Thoreau the patient observer […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: California, capitalism, GMOs, Mark Twain, Thoreau
From Impractical to Irreplaceable By Bruce D. Rhodewalt The book covers a generous range of mathematics, including information theory, chaos theory, economics, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Although the average Instagram addict may have a vague feeling that math is somehow involved in digital photography, the curious reader will appreciate Stewart’s chapter on the Fourier transform, effortlessly evolving into a clear lesson on data compression, a technology that makes digital photography practical. A technically inclined adolescent might be prodded in any […]
Categories: Review • Tags: mathematics, quantum theory, wave equation
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