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Come to Dixon Place in New York on Saturday, 25 October 2014, 7:30 pm, for a staged reading of the first part of this dialogue. Dixon Place is at 161 Chrystie Street in Manhattan. Show will last 45 minutes and is <strong style="color: […]

Notes after seeing Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt (and doing a little reading)
 
Taking clues from Hannah Arendt (2013), directed by Margarethe von Trotta; screenplay by Pam Katz and Margarethe von Trotta […]

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How Does It Feel To Be The Enemy?
An Arab Mother’s Reflections on the Boston Tragedy
By Lama Zuhair Khouri
Lama Zuhair Khouri is a psychotherapist in private practice and a […]

Zeteo believes in the generalist intellectual. S/he may be what Kant called a focus imaginarius, an idea lying outside the bounds of possible experience, but nonetheless helping us organize and extend our […]

William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser
[One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.]

25 April 2013

“If I were to generalize,” the anarchist anthropologist David Graeber said […]

“Next Time, the Fire in Giovanni’s Room”: The Critical Reception of James Baldwin’s Second Novel in the Black Press”
By Rachel Corbman
A close reading of articles printed in a range of black newspapers and […]

Eating Intelligent Beings

 
By Walter Cummins
 

A review of:

Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello […]

Environmental Philosophy and the Question of Origins
By Ashok Karra
Review of Biogea, by Michel Serres. Translated by Randolph Burks (Univocal, 2012). Distributed by University of Minnesota Press.

In […]

Who’s Happy Now?
By Victoria Ludas Orlofsky
What makes people happy, on a large scale? Is happiness determined by what we have or by what we still hope to attain? If the medical, agricultural, and educational […]

The Personal, the Political, and the Intellectual
By William Eaton
Review of Finding Oneself in the Other by G.A. Cohen (Princeton University Press, 2013)


Finding Oneself is a deceptively complex, both […]

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.]

A reader on vacation—shouldn’t he be on vacation from […]

Memory Stor(i)es
By Stuart Johnson

Stories of actual real-world controversies over the nature of memory, with actual real-world consequences, sometimes life and death. But by the end, memory remains remarkably […]

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 […]

Reading Women Reading
By Rachel M. Brownstein

Jack tells two stories, one about women readers and the other about men’s obsession with them. Her major contribution is the valuable point she makes in her […]