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Reading: 10-16 March 2013

March 12, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Reading 10-16 March 2013 (ZiR) Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 12 March 2013 On the subway ride home from the company that rented me equipment for my weekend film shoot I started reading Martin Scorsese’s introduction to Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture. Scorsese decided to publish books on film, paying homage to the books that affected him as a youth. He writes: Although film is primarily […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: books, film, Google, Martin Scorsese, privacy

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Reading: 3-9 March, 2013 (ZiR)

March 3, 2013 by William Eaton

Reading 3-9 March 2013 (ZiR) William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 March 2013 A reader on vacation—shouldn’t he be on vacation from reading, too? Before I headed off on my most recent not-quite-vacation, with half a dozen “serious” books and a Kindle, I read a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. It concerned “the insidious impact of new communication technologies on living and learning in another […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alfred Kinsey, American Revolution, cellphones, Facebook, reading, vacation

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Reading: 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR)

February 28, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 24 February-2 March 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 27 February 2013 Sugata Mitra has just won the prize for the best TED talk of 2012. I must say that his talk on student-driven education is probably the most inspiring and affirming (of my views on education) video I’ve ever seen. Some quotes from his interview in the New York Times today are as follows: But […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, education, feminists, Marxism, New York City, TED Talks

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Nasty pleasures: 17-23 February 2013 (ZiR)

February 17, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Reading: 17-23 February 2013 From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor 17 February 2013 Yes. Everybody’s doing it now. The “Harlem Shake” has spread around the world like fire, reminding us that the clear-cut boundaries that separate one culture from another are actually hard to distinguish. Everybody dances, and everybody dances the same way. Some would say our tech-driven society suffers a nervous breakdown. But this wouldn’t be the first time. Dance crazes have been popular since the early 1900s. Lewis A. Erenberg analyzed […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: drones, Museum of Modern Art, New York Times, Octavio Paz

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Reading: 3-9 February 2013

February 3, 2013 by William Eaton

From Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor 3 February 2013 February is African American History Month. You may or may not know that it was established by historian and journalist Carter G. Woodson, first as Negro History Week, which coincided with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He is known as the godfather of Black history. Woodson’s most famous work is, perhaps, The Mis-Education of the Negro, published in 1933, a text in which Woodson argues the importance of the study […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Frederick Douglass, Jacob Lawrence, James Baldwin, Malcolm X

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Reading: 27 January-2 February 2013

January 28, 2013 by William Eaton

From Tyler Peckio, Zeteo Contributor 28 January 2013 Hollywood loses the plot Every Thursday for the past month myself, and a few friends from my undergraduate studies, meet up and discuss an agreed upon book. We always make an effort, no matter how abstract the content is, to establish connections between the material and our current lives (whether in an existential, political, economical, or societal way). Philosophical material should be read as a living, breathing, constantly evolving thing—not as something existing in […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Adorno, critical theory, culture, film, guns, Jorge Luis Borges, literature, media, psychology

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The Destruction of a Presidency

January 21, 2013 by William Eaton

The Destruction of a Presidency By Alan Stein Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson (Basic Books, 2012) In his new book, James T. Patterson, a Bancroft Award-winning historian, promotes the idea that the Sixties actually began in 1965. This is not a new idea. As the author points out in his introduction, numerous writers have described 1965 as a “hinge” or turning point for America. Patterson states: “After 1965 for better and […]

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Reading: 20-26 January 2013

January 20, 2013 by William Eaton

From Maribí Henriquez, Zeteo Contributor 20 January 2013 My Sundays are dedicated to entertaining reads, and in my case, that means catching up with my list of fictional must-reads. I love stories of women, and Junot Diaz has an interesting way of empowering the Dominican woman through his cultural stories of love. I finally caught up to reading his latest book of short stories This Is How You Lose Her and am fighting the urge to compare it to his […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Junot Diaz, women

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Reading: 13-20 January 2013 (ZiR)

January 14, 2013 by fritztucker

Reading 13-19 January 2013 (ZiR) Fritz Tucker, Zeteo Assistant Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 13 January 2013 As a (possibly) soon-to-be adjunct professor, I have been keeping an eye out for any sociological critiques of pop-culture to lure my unsuspecting (hypothetical) students into criticizing about the world around them. I came across this article about The Berenstain Bears in The New York Observer‘s Scooter Magazine. It turned out to be […]

Categories: Fritz Tucker, ZiR • Tags: Orwell, school

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