Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me is now in its third printing. To celebrate its success, the publisher (TomDispatch.com) recently reprinted the 2008 essay from the book:  The Archipelago of Arrogance. In the essay Solnit, the author of many books, describes being asked by an imposing, wealthy man at a party what her books were about. She mentioned one on Eadweard Muybridge. The man cut her off to tell her about a very important book that had just been […]

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This post is a variation on Zeteo is Reading. Here, Zeteo is Looking. On the first Saturday of each month, the Brooklyn Museum is free from 5 to 11pm. Viva Brooklyn! was the theme for October’s First Saturday with thirteen free events throughout the museum from panel discussions, gallery talks, to hands-on art making for all ages. On the program were three different Latino music groups that alternated in the 1st floor Pavilion and three bicycle art projects outside the […]

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With Drew Whitcup on vacation, Zeteo Associate Gayle Rodda Kurtz is reading Montaigne— When did the celebrated notion of our individualism slip into a form of isolation? We are familiar with the sight of those around us in public spaces hunched over their electronic devices and addicted to mindless electronic games and time-wasting media activities. Thinking that we were in our own private worlds, we now know that we are caught up in complex systems of surveillance technologies. This toxic […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR