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Memory Stor(i)es

October 9, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Memory Stor(i)es By Stuart Johnson Stories of actual real-world controversies over the nature of memory, with actual real-world consequences, sometimes life and death. But by the end, memory remains remarkably elusive—as elusive as le temps perdu. A review of Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (University of Chicago Press, 2012) Image is of “Cairn” by the ceramicist Eric Knoche. Used with the permission of the artist.   One might expect that a book entitled Memory: Fragments of a Modern […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Eric Knoche, law, memory

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Books with Greatness in Them

October 1, 2012 by William Eaton

Take 1: October 2012 (1) In September of this year, the University of Minnesota Press sent me, at my request, a copy of a translation of the French philosopher Michel Serres’s Biogée, which the Press was distributing for a smaller publishing company, Univocal. As is my wont, I began reading the book to get an idea what it was like, whether it was indeed worth reviewing, and who among Zeteo’s ever-expanding corps of reviewers I should ask to review it. […]

Categories: Books with Greatness in Them, Review • Tags: animals, maps, Michel Serres

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Into the Vegetable Garden

September 30, 2012 by William Eaton

Into the Vegetable Garden Bloch-Dano’s collection of lectures can be like a first stroll in a garden, lingering briefly by each vegetable. By Stephanie Tsank A review of Vegetables: A Biography, by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (The University of Chicago Press, 2012) Excerpt Bloch-Dano is not simply prodding the private lives and histories of vegetables; she is also prodding our own private lives and histories, and in the process, promoting a very specific lifestyle that is literally rooted […]

Categories: Review • Tags: garden, vegetables

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Seeking Creatural Diversity

July 30, 2012 by Walter Cummins

A review of Polymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers, by Juliana Schiesari (University of California Press, 2012) By Walter Cummins   My friend, the poet Renée Ashley, a consummate dog lover, displays a sticker on the back of her car with a canine paw print and the words, “Who Saved Who?” It should be “Whom,” but no matter. The message might have served as an epigram for Juliana Schiesari’s study, which challenges the hierarchical assumptions of […]

Categories: Review • Tags: animals, cats, Colette, D.H. Lawrence, dogs, Hemingway, Juliana Schiesari

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For Want of Wonder

July 27, 2012 by William Eaton

For Want of Wonder By Jeffrey M. Barnes A review of Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp (The University of Chicago Press, 2012) [One] continually finds [one]self shimmering between wondering at (the marvels of nature) and wondering whether (any of this could possibly be true). And it’s that very shimmer, the capacity for such delicious confusion . . . that may constitute the most blessedly wonderful thing about being human. So wrote Lawrence Wechsler in […]

Categories: Review • Tags: ambergris, perfume, whales

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The Congo and Hammarskjöld

June 10, 2012 by William Eaton

The Price of Uranium: the Congo and Hammarsköld By Paul Kelly There is a common theme in Congolese history: the same exploitative impulse which defined King Léopold’s Congo, carried on in spite of independence, and has continued unbroken to this day. The biggest losers throughout have been the Congolese people; the biggest winners, the multinational mining companies. A review of Who Killed Hammarskjold? The UN, The Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa, by Susan Williams (Columbia University Press, 2012) […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Congo, Hammarskjold, neo-colonialism, United Nations

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Sutra as Power Play

May 10, 2012 by William Eaton

Sutra as Power Play By William Eaton A review of The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript translated by Philip B. Yampolsky and Readings of the Platform Sutra, edited by Morten Schlutter and Stephen F. Teiser (both from Columbia University Press, 2012) {click for pdf} As a result of the Platform Sutra, Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch (638-713 CE), has come to be regarded as one the founders of the school of Chinese Chan Buddhism, […]

Categories: Review • Tags: class warfare, sutra, Zen

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Image from The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012); images used courtesy of the Wellcome Trust

Medicine and Art

May 2, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Surface and Depth, Medicine and Art By Stuart Johnson A review of The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, by Julie Anderson, Emma Barnes, and Emma Shackleton (The University of Chicago Press, 2012)   The title of this volume signals a useful ambiguity. Medicine is a science, or a scientific practice, but it is also an art in the sense that the application of scientific medical principles to individual cases requires judgment and imagination. In that […]

Categories: Review • Tags: art, medicine, the body

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James Watt & Intellectual Property

April 30, 2012 by William Eaton

James Watt Did Not Want Information to Be Free By Clifford D. Conner What was that most powerful idea that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution? The idea of latent heat? Thermodynamics? Steam power? No, it was the idea that an inventor’s innovations could be considered property deserving the protection of law that provided the incentive—the “fuel of interest”—for inventors to invent, and which thereby set into motion the “miracle of sustainable innovation” that began with the Industrial Revolution and […]

Categories: Review • Tags: England, Industrial Revolution, intellectual property, invention

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