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John Coltrane, "Wise One" score

Mechanical Reproduction, “Wise One,” Aura, Politics

April 6, 2018 by Walter Cummins

By Walter Cummins Distraction and concentration form polar opposites which may be stated as follows: A man who concentrates before a work of art is absorbed by it. … In contrast, the distracted mass absorbs the work of art. — Walter Benjamin, as translated by Harry Zohn   The other day when I asked Alexa on an Amazon Echo to play John Coltrane’s “Wise One” and, a split second later, when McCoy Tyner’s piano chords filled the room, two references […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: Beethoven, cultural criticism, Donald Trump, jazz, Jean Baudrillard, John Coltrane, movies, televison, Walter Benjamin

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Downton Abbey and the End of a Way of Life

February 8, 2016 by Walter Cummins

Downton Abbey, now in its sixth and final season, has been a TV phenomenon, with audiences in more than 200 countries, including 160 million viewers in China. In the US it is the most popular PBS program ever, and, during the 2014-15 viewing year, it came out twentieth in popularity among all network and cable programming, just behind Monday Night Football. Why has it had such broad appeal? It’s difficult—perhaps impossible—to generalize for the planet, for viewers in places as […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: Downton Abbey, economic crisis, labor, televison, United Kingdom, work, working class

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Trow Television Love No Context

November 10, 2015 by William Eaton

(1) One week this past October, The New Yorker’s television critic, Emily Nussbaum, wrote a piece which began by dissing—as making “little sense”; “élitism in the guise of hipness”—one of the great works of American cultural criticism, previous New Yorker writer George W.S. Trow’s “Within the Context of No Context.”[1] The week after Nussbaum’s piece appeared, another New Yorker writer dissed Henry David Thoreau’s writing as “Pond Scum.” Thus I might write about Americans’ struggle not to be held, or […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: advertising, cultural criticism, Edward VIII, gay lives, George W.S. Trow, love, New Yorker, postmodernism, televison

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The return of Poldark

October 10, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] The British Broadcasting Corporation is currently remaking Poldark, an immensely successful television drama first broadcast in 1975-77. The drama is based on a series of novels by Winston Graham. The video version of Poldark has outsold every other costume drama except the 1995 version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The new series will be screened by the BBC in the UK in 2015. For the United States, PBS Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton has announced that the new series will […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: literature, televison

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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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