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The Wander Year

November 6, 2014 by William Eaton

The Wander Year is Mike McIntyre’s memoir of his and longtime girlfriend, Andrea Boyles’ year of travel. In 2000, McIntyre, then 42, and Boyles, 40, covered 22 countries on 6 continents. They crossed the equator 6 times, took 45 flights and slept in 169 beds “plus one sand dune.” The trip cost $51,470. We’ve penciled in an itinerary, but we’re carrying a big eraser. If we sound a bit aimless, it’s because we pretty much are. There is no grand purpose or […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: travel

Distancing / Awareness

November 4, 2014 by William Eaton

How scholarly work could be more informative and integrated, and what a challenge this is! By William Eaton {Note: The following text was prepared to be delivered at the 2014 annual conference of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, the theme of which was “Revolutions: Past, Present, and Future.” It has been revised for print publication. It is also one in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders.} The Personal, The Political, and The Intellectual Zeteo takes a […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, homosexuality, Jean-Luc Godard, male gaze, movies, revolution, science, sexuality

Nun Fun

November 4, 2014 by Ana Maria Caballero

There are a few ways to tell that you’ve “made it” as a poet. One of these is getting a piece published in The New Yorker. For Los Angeles-based poet Suzanne Lumis, however, getting published in the most recent edition of the magazine is simply one more confirmation of having unequivocally “made it.” Lumis is a highly respected, veteran writer, educator and champion of the arts in the L.A. region. She works with kids, with college students, and with her community at […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: literature, poetry, reading, writing

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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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Foreign stories in blue tiles

November 3, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

A day off is a day in French and Portuguese Please excuse me as I “take a break” from reading about how we look at children. Here, an excerpt and accompanying images from an illustrated book I was recently given. The book is called “Le Chat Bleu du Palais Fronteira/O Gato Azul do Palácio Fronteira,” and it is written in French and Portugese. So please excuse me again as I post in a non-English language. In French: Elle accompagnait ses parents. […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children

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Learning to read again (Mrs Dalloway)

November 2, 2014 by William Eaton

Evelyn was a good deal out of sorts, said Hugh, intimating by a kind of pout or swell of his very well-covered, manly, extremely handsome, perfectly upholstered body (he was almost too well dressed always, but presumably had to be, with his little job at Court) that his wife had some internal ailment, nothing serious, which, as an old friend, Clarissa Dalloway would quite understand without requiring him to specify. For many years I had a fairly steady reading habit, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: French, literature, reading, Virginia Woolf, writing

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What does street harassment look like?

November 1, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] An ever fascinating topic for me is that of feminism and social media. When I wrote the draft for this post earlier this week, I found this video, 10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman, buried at the bottom of the BBC website. Three days later it has been lauded and criticized, commented on and parodied, notably by the comedy site Funny or Die, showing 10 hours of walking in NYC as a man, which entails getting job offers and free […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Slate, street harassment

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Rose: Mining and Murder in mid-Victorian England

October 31, 2014 by William Eaton

Have you ever wanted to go down a mine shaft? Like miners do, on an open lift? Plunging a mile down into the bowels of the earth? With highly combustible methane gas and its deadly chemical cousin carbon monoxide a threat at every instant? Me neither. But when I picked up Martin Cruz Smith’s novel Rose, set in the Lancashire coal mining town of Wigan, I couldn’t stop reading. The story chronicles the return to England of the mining engineer […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, literature, women

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Listening to Rebecca Solnit

October 30, 2014 by William Eaton

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 […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR

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