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William Patrick Roberts, 1895-1980; A Reading of Poetry (Woman Reading)

Proust, playthings, reading, solitude

September 19, 2017 by William Eaton

 . . . la lecture, . . . ce miracle fécond d’une communication au sein de la solitude, . . . (reading, this fertile miracle of communication in the midst of solitude) — Marcel Proust, Pastiches et mélanges   This year Gallimard published, in French, an amalgam of some of Proust’s writing on reading. Herewith my gloss of a passage that speaks across the span of a century since Proust wrote it: An idleness or frivolity prevents some people from […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Abraham Lincoln, denial, depression, Facebook, free will, GPS, Pascal, Proust, reading, solitude

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Facebook Critical Distance Reading

December 31, 2015 by William Eaton

Happiness courts us in her best array? An old friend, 70, after a perfectly successful career as a curator of nineteenth-century sculpture, has been reborn as a Facebook post-er. So many good posts, often several in a day, sometimes featuring photos she has taken, sometimes bits from the news, the Web. She is French, lives in Paris, and while in past decades I have, from New York, listened to French radio and read Le monde, now, for the first time, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous, critical distance, Facebook, Frederic Jameson, Holocaust, lightning, postmodernism, Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare

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How Humans Relate: Can a Taco and Beer Beat a Bucket of Ice?

August 23, 2014 by William Eaton

Social media has always confounded me for the immeasurable ways that it has so suddenly yet drastically altered our social interactions. Everything that we do and say was built on the foundation of our physical interactions and relationships with other people. In order to survive, we had to be in the same space as other people, and thus we have learned every single physical movement, gesture, facial expression, and not to mention language and voice intonation, in the reflection of ourselves through […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Facebook, humans, social media

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Online Legacy: A world of images they haven’t asked for

July 14, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

About a week ago I landed, not entirely accidentally, right in front of an article I had long been waiting to discover. Its advertising line warned: “Children born to the Facebook generation will grow up to find a huge number of photos of themselves available online.” That is, they will find a huge online legacy about themselves even if they don’t want it. The article, written by Hannah Webster, Communications Manager at Independent Association of Prep Schools in the UK, […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Facebook, identity, Internet surveilance

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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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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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