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Kamel Daoud, Algerian novelist and journalist

Names & Naming—Identity, Self-Determination, Power

August 30, 2016 by Steven A. Burr

Well just look at all the other Musas in this dive, one by one, and imagine—as I do—how they could have survived a shot fired in bright sunlight or how they managed never to cross paths with that writer of yours or, in a word, how they’ve managed to not be dead yet. — The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud (translated by John Cullen) The question is not whether Lincoln [in the Gettysburg Address] truly meant “government of the people” but […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baltimore unrest, Camus, colonialism, Franz Fanon, identity, L’Étranger, memory, Nietzsche, racism, self-determination

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Idiotic Holiday

March 29, 2015 by Ed Mooney

Well, it’s Spring Break, or Spring Break is just over, and if it’s over, then Florida beaches may return to normal for this time of year. A friend, in a stroke of genius, remembered an apt line from Nietzsche. If not “found-art,” then in a relevant sense, “found-philosophy.” Here it is, from Morgenröte (The Break of Day or Dawn): The only thing that cannot be refused to these poor beasts of burden is their “holidays”—such is the name they give to […]

Categories: Ed Mooney, ZiR • Tags: Hilary Putnam, holidays, Marx, Nietzsche, spring break, Thoreau, vacation

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Ditch the term pathogen

January 11, 2015 by William Eaton

A short comment, published in the 11 December 2014 issue of Nature and entitled “Ditch the term pathogen,” is the most interesting, thought-provoking piece that I have ever read in that distinguished science magazine, and, over the years, I have read quite a few. The argument of the authors, Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski, is that the idea that diseases are caused by external agents—pathogens, bad microbes—is incorrect and part of an oversimplistic paradigm. This paradigm, which can be associated […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: bacteria, Charlie Hebdo, FBI, Freud, history of science, medicine, Nietzsche, poetry, politics, science

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Reading First Sentences

September 15, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . William Eaton, Zeteo Executive Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading. This one was first posted 15-21 September 2013.] 15 September 2013: K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality As this is a season for reading manuscripts that are being submitted for Zeteo’s Fall 2013 issue [see current Call for Papers], I have become interested in first sentences and what one can learn from them. So I want […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: American Revolution, Ancient Greece, bees, dreams, Eichmann, Freud, Gatsby, Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, sexuality

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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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