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The “P” word: Mediated Pornography (III)

February 10, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Words matter. My recent readings, including Dylan Farrow’s letter to the New York Times, an article published by The Atlantic, and Margaret Grebowiczs’ book Why Internet Porn Matters, have made me more aware of the ways in which the names we give things redefine our experiences. Dylan Farrow’s letter to the New York Times two weeks ago rekindled public conversations about sex abuse, human rights, and privacy. But people seem as skeptical about the “truth” as they were before. The idea that […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: language, New York Times, philosophy, pornography, sex abuse, sexuality, words

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Our hidden search for homogeneity

January 13, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

I often avoid talking about race, class, and migration in public. People seem to take these topics as an opportunity to strengthen their beliefs, rather than to enter a discussion. (see “Breaking up the Echo” quoted in my first week of reading). A recent article in the New York Times opinion pages has taken my conviction a step further. In Does Immigration mean ‘France is Over’? Justin E. H. Smith suggests that people not only seek homogeneity in their own lives; they […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: beliefs, culture, diversity, immigration, migration, New York Times, racism, reading

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Reading: 14-20 October 2013 (ZiR)

October 15, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . Rachael Benavidez, Zeteo Associate Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 14 October 2013 On Loss Yesterday marked the loss of Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for his 1989 novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Hijuelos wrote about the assimilation experience of immigrants to the United States. From a 2011 article in The New York Times: Despite the […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: banned books, fiction, literature, New York Times, obituary, Ralph Ellison

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Reading: 28 July-3 August 2013

July 29, 2013 by Ana Maria Caballero

Ana Maria Caballero, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 29 July 2013 I bought The Good Thief by Marie Howe because it was the only poetry book I found for sale at the Miami International Airport’s outpost of Books & Books, South Florida’s beloved independent bookseller. In part, I also bought it because of the very pretty reproduction of Rothko’s “Light, Earth and Blue” on its cover, and I have a weakness for […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: George Saunders, New York Times

Reading: 16-22 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 17, 2013 by William Eaton

Patrick Rea, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 16 June 2013 Laertes’ advice from his father Polonius (Shakepeare, “Hamlet”) as it appears in The Art of Manliness: Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay’d for. There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Middle Ages, New York Public Library, New York Times, Shakespeare

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Big x-pectations: 2-8 June 2013 (ZiR)

June 4, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 2 June 2013 Smart people think that reading great works of literature helps us become moral experts and that becoming moral experts helps us prepare for the decisions we will make in the future. Gregory Currie, however, finds such statement at least uncomfortable. Why should we rely on expertise? he seems to ask; expertise equals complexity, and complexity is useless. I will not go […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Herman Melville, Moby Dick, New York Times, superheroes, technology, Titian

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Kaufmann, Melville, Suntory time: 7-13 April (ZiR)

April 7, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 07 April 2013 I finally had the time to read The New York Times op-ed article from last Tuesday. In “Diagnosis: Human,” Harvard professor Ted Gup takes from his own loss to reflect on the lessons we miss from life, death, grief, and our (im)perfect way of coping with them through medication: Ours is an age in which the airwaves and media […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Melville, Moby Dick, movies, New York Times, Nietzsche

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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 16-22 December 2012 (ZIR)

December 16, 2012 by William Eaton

Reading 16-22 December 2012 A Week of Reading in the Life of Rachael Benavidez [N.B.: This is not part of the Fall issue of Zeteo, but one in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 16 December 2012 Reading a page from the New York Times: “It’s the End of the World,” which contains six poems on endings. LEAVE A MESSAGE When the wind died, there was a moment of silence for the wind. When the maple […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: New York Times, Wallace Shawn

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The “P” word: Mediated Pornography (III)

Our hidden search for homogeneity

Reading: 14-20 October 2013 (ZiR)

Reading: 28 July-3 August 2013

Reading: 16-22 June 2013 (ZiR)

Big x-pectations: 2-8 June 2013 (ZiR)

Kaufmann, Melville, Suntory time: 7-13 April (ZiR)

Nasty pleasures: 17-23 February 2013 (ZiR)

Reading 16-22 December 2012 (ZIR)