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Notes on Listening to Democracy

November 3, 2014 by William Eaton

  Popular Music on the Contemporary Campaign Trail   By Justin Patch   {Editor’s Note: This is the first in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders, one of the borders here being between pop culture and politics. Or do we now best understand our democracy and its political campaigns as a genre of pop culture, a form of entertainment?} [print_link] [email_link]     Musical campaigning in the US dates back to the first post-colonial campaign when George […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, political propaganda, politics, Presidential campaigns, songs

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Welcome to the Spring 2014 Issue

May 21, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

In Zeteo‘s New York home, this year’s spring was delayed by a long, biting winter. Low temperatures forced us to walk through spring, as Joseph Conrad suggested, “with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts.” But earth is finally emerging from under the blankets of hibernation and so too does Zeteo, with a vibrant and warming Spring Issue. Walter Cummins uses S. Lochlain Jain’s critique of the U.S. medical system to explore different narratives about cancer. His personal encounter with malignancy reveals some similarities but also striking differences from Jain’s […]

Categories: Issue Welcomes, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: James Baldwin

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Cancer and Culpability

May 21, 2014 by Walter Cummins

Malignancy in an Imperfect World By Walter Cummins Click here for PDF version.   When the Stanford anthropologist S. Lochlain Jain received a diagnosis of breast cancer in her mid thirties, she did what many educated cancer victims do: she wrote a book, Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (University of California Press, 2013). In Jain’s case, her work was written after medical intervention resulted in apparent remission, when she could consider the experience in retrospect and examine it in the […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: cancer, carcinogens, health, mortality, pharmaceuticals

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The (Counter-) Power of Deejays

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

The Racialized Other Moves Still The (Counter-)Power of Dance, Dance Floors, and Deejays By Ghaida Moussa Click here for PDF version.    My entry into the practice of deejaying stems from my deep-rooted relationship with music. I know firsthand the power of good soundtracks to pivotal moments in life. I think about a good drive after a break-up, with a best friend picking the best tunes to sing our hearts out to or the way family members who do not […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: music, postcolonialism, queer theory, race, racism

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Doing and Nothing

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

An exploration of Song Dong’s Doing Nothing Garden and the possibility of renewing ourselves and our environment through not doing By Vanessa Badagliacca Click here for PDF Version.     I grew up hearing the recurring expression that if you—a general you—didn’t catch “the train” passing right at that moment you would miss it. You would lose your chance to do something, to meet someone, to experience something, to get something, to take the chance of a lifetime. Reflecting on […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: art, environmental philosophy, environmentalism, garden, Giorgio Agamben, landscape, LaoZi, philosophy

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Parenting: Infinite Responsibility

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Steps toward a larger, if alien view of what parenting involves By William Eaton   Click here for PDF version (1) Few parents, and only occasionally, allow themselves to think, It is because of me that my child must suffer. Rather we sometimes think of all the many others and other things—rapists, wars, car accidents, bad teachers, infections—that (though we hope not!) may be our children’s lot. We wish we could save our children from some one pain and from all […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: birth, children, Freud, innocence, life, parenting, parents

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James Baldwin Today

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Notes of a Year of James Baldwin By Rachel Corbman Review of the opening session of the Year of Baldwin, New York Live Arts, April 2014. Click here for PDF version.   The definitive James Baldwin documentary, The Price of the Ticket (1989), memorably opens with archival footage from a British television interview that aired shortly before the novelist and essayist’s early death in 1987. “Now, when you were starting out as a writer,” the interviewer queried, “You were black, impoverished, [and] homosexual. You […]

Categories: Review, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: documentaries, gay lives, homosexuality, James Baldwin, LGBT, race

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Welcome to the Fall 2013 Issue

November 19, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Zeteo has always attempted to capture the loving, passionate interests of its writers, opening a space for those who seek to question, reveal, connect, and, above all, explore. This time, however, the engagement seems more visceral—and more collaborative. This fall, our writers see meaning as something jointly constructed rather than found or asserted by a single individual. They are proposing that true understanding must be achieved through conversation, disagreement, mutual elaboration. How does this work out in practice, in prose? In […]

Categories: Fall 2013 Issue, Issue Welcomes

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Xena and Queer Theory

November 19, 2013 by William Eaton

Click for PDF. Wouldn’t You Like to Know? Reading Queer Theory in Pop TV By Mitch Kellaway   Introduction: Revisiting Xena: Warrior Princess “Are you two . . . lovers?” This question, posed in 2001 in a farcical exposé interview, was directed at the main characters—female fighting duo Xena and Gabrielle—of the long-running action-adventure series Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001).1 Smirking and nudging each other, the pair look back at their inquisitor with “wouldn’t you like to know?” plainly written across […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: bisexual, homosexuality, queer theory, sexual difference, sexuality, Xena: Warrior Princess

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