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 Dianne Stone, Zeteo Assistant Editor 28 October 2012 Reading today Marc Santora’s New York Times article on Hurricane Sandy as I scurry to hole up for the next couple of days in a nice dry spot and load up with fresh water. Santora points out that all over the mid-Atlantic, 50 million or more Americans are in this same predicament as Hurricane Sandy makes its presence known. Santora notes, “[s]andbag joined the Halloween scarecrows,” so I hope everyone in the region is […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: electricity, George Saunders, Halloween, New York Times, The Guardian
From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Assistant Editor 21 October 2012 Reading Tolstoy’s early short novel The Two Hussars. Tolstoy expresses his longing for the previous generation in the story of Count Turbin, who endears himself to the inhabitants of a small provincial town, and his son, also Count Turbin, who appears in the town twenty years later, and unable to live up to the image of his father, makes the opposite impression. Interesting how we long for what was… Also reading the New York […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: Andy Warhol, Ralph Ellison, Tolstoy
From Keyonna Hayes, Zeteo Assistant Editor 14 October 2012 Here is a quote from Kahlil Gibran, one of my favorite authors: I am happy now because I have […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, Asian culture, fairy tales, Italy, knowledge, marine biology, photography, poetry, psychology
From Phillip Rhinehart, Zeteo Assistant Editor 7 October 2012 Editorial spin, an exercise; or how to make bigotry palatable with continual reference to a Chuck Bartels article: Samples from the original: Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative’s assertion that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims. Fuqua, who served in the Arkansas House from 1996 to 1998, wrote in his 2012 book God’s Law that there is “no solution to […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: life, simplicity
From Maryam Moeini-Meybodi, Zeteo Publicity/Outreach Coordinator 30 September 2012 The first thing I saw this morning was the below quote from Marc and Angel Hack Life‘s website. After a long and busy week, this was the first thing I needed to see: It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you aren’t really living at all – you’re merely existing. You cannot always wait for the perfect time; sometimes you must dare to jump. Sometimes all you need […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: courage, dreams, poetry, proverb, Rainer Maria Rilke, spirituality, Thoreau, women
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From Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor 23 September 2012 While reading Tyler Anbinder’s book Five Points for a New York history class, I came across a quote from a Chinese-American, from the 1870′s. My eye was caught by the description of America as “the country of the wizards,” and Americans as wealthy “barbarians.” I was reminded of the year I spent in India and Nepal, where America continues to be viewed by many as the land of opportunity. The people I […]
Categories: ZiR • Tags: immigration, orientalism, trans-nationalism
From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Assistant Editor 16 September 2012 I would like to begin this week of reading by calling attention to one of Kitty Calavita’s most recent books: Invitation to Law and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2010.) There, Calavita argues that legal constructions shape human behavior, and, in turn, human behavior shapes legal constructions. As I was reading her friendly “invitation,” I came to wonder if non-legal citizens can also shape the way that a country creates legal constructions. […]
Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: beliefs, Hispanic, immigration, journalism, law, objectivity, sociology, war
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