CUNY Academic Commons | William Eaton | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/wwarner/activity/ Activity feed for William Eaton. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 e009dd8e4399261f0c9cd1b9e9c3da2e William Eaton joined the group Announcements https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/327682/ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:34:23 -0500 43ac6ada5579915ddd03889efbfc6c57 William Eaton changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/307588/ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:30:02 -0400 b90857ee231e2854cfa38583362482c6 William Eaton's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/307586/ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:28:21 -0400 eda278a8e194df7a35c23d8cbbfc0f72 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site The Professor of Ignorance Condemns the Airplane http://stagedreading.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=4 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:20:35 -0400 ThumbnailCome 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: […]

]]> b736026eb77cc0c0a278e4320052d599 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/06/21/von-trottas-arendt/ Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:19:56 -0400 ThumbnailNotes 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 […]

]]> 02657f5aa4e15248eb79d8287b6f0e90 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/05/01/on-being-the-enemy-2/ Wed, 01 May 2013 15:05:04 -0400 ThumbnailClick here for dowloadable PDF.
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 […]

]]> 7a718b6c57528a3217b5f1bbe7b8dbfd William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/05/01/welcome-to-the-spring-2013-issue/ Wed, 01 May 2013 15:02:47 -0400 ThumbnailZeteo 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 […]

]]> 79cdd3cce9724536a3acd0f186c0e564 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/04/25/reading-25-april-1-may-2013-zir/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:49:27 -0400 ThumbnailWilliam 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 […]

]]> b9b89a43aa27c3e75db4f41cd66d4ea2 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/04/11/james-baldwin-and-the-black-press/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 02:16:46 -0400 Thumbnail“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 […]

]]> f977370ca9f74e45080b5fb1352d3908 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/04/06/meat-eating/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:47:06 -0400 ThumbnailEating 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 […]

]]> 5bf9baa67b716a375cbe00c9ad964a8e William Eaton started the forum topic Current issue of Nature (495: 7442 / 27 March 2013) in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/current-issue-of-nature-495-7442-27-march-2013/ Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:54:03 -0400 Special Issue on Open-Access Publishing and Related Issues. I quote below from the editors’ description of the contents. Focus is on the “hard” sciences, but much of the thinking applies as well to those of […]

]]> d37aed24d2455703ea211ee50d6bbd7d William Eaton commented on the post, Reading 17-23 March 2013, on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/03/17/reading-17-23-march-2013/#comment-38 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:05:30 -0400 Thanks for your kind words, Megan! – Wm. Eaton

]]> 56e725bb521cecf9848e0da6a76bd01d William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/03/21/biogea-environmental-philosophy/ Thu, 21 Mar 2013 23:03:43 -0400 ThumbnailEnvironmental 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 […]

]]> 13bdff21087e3505506bb670cf5c5de5 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/24/whos-happy-now/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:19:27 -0400 ThumbnailWho’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 […]

]]> 8c45c450f6f6d93bd5a1d1272e3340dd William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/03/15/zeteo-review-g-a-cohen/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:14:35 -0400 ThumbnailThe 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 […]

]]> 494e8bd8e350148f808f05f74e2637cc William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/03/03/eatonreading-3-9-march-2013-zir/ Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:54:42 -0500 ThumbnailReading 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 […]

]]> 4c0a58cb6423f3b0253068c5d505fa11 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/09/memory-stories-2/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:31:36 -0500 ThumbnailMemory 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 […]

]]> fa92a807f46742915c6888b53e491911 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2013/01/21/sixties-history-lbjs-demise/ Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:45:19 -0500 ThumbnailThe 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 […]

]]> 250988608526611ae3fb7ee765693f29 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/24/reading-women-reading/ Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:40:18 -0500 ThumbnailReading 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 […]

]]> 16276d1f6f020abe8edcfa25a5eb9e93 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/09/09/a-week-of-reading-4-10-september/ Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:06:30 -0500 ThumbnailFrom William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser
4 September 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of The Hedgehog Review, . . . excellent “conceptual history” of “sustainability” by the issue editor, Joshua J. Yates, and an […]

]]> fd6c1c9c35b8fa1efc005a4903e8c715 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/01/bwg/ Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:51:26 -0500 ThumbnailTake 1: October 2012
(1)
In September of this year, the University of Minnesota Press sent me, at my request, a copy of a translation of the French philosopher Michel Serres’s Biogée, which the Press was […]

]]> 9b967143ae4e0f1e3c71a940a573eb15 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/27/reading-23-29-december-2012-zir/ Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:36:49 -0500 Reading 23-29 December 2012 (ZiR)
A Week of Reading in the Life of William Eaton

[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 […]

]]> 313fb273b008e488581204fd850bd59f William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/21/he-looms-up-bigger-and-bigger/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:01:54 -0500 ThumbnailThoreau Looms Up Bigger and Bigger
By William Eaton
Review of Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, […]

]]> 316182c45820e0db090d95ab5228fea2 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2010/06/10/philosophy-and-death/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:25:46 -0500 ThumbnailPhilosophy and Death; Philosophy as Divertissement (Continuing to Learn from the Phaedo and Pascal)
By William Eaton
Published in The Conversation, the CUNY Liberal Studies program journal that evolved into […]

]]> 5fa9f6b375050558bf1a018e2e13ddba William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/04/thoreau-in-his-own-time-zir/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:33:11 -0500 Thumbnail
Reading 16-22 December 2012 (ZiR)

A Week of Reading in the Life of William Eaton

[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 […]

]]> 589e1dc2ee2253d8ba1cef359a6d0fec William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/the-meaning-of-lana-del-rey/ Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:17:14 -0500 ThumbnailThe Meaning of Lana Del Rey
Pop culture, post-feminism and the choices facing young women today
By Catherine Vigier
This essay will argue that Lana Del Rey’s music gives some expression to the lived experience […]

]]> 9489c5ed750a17064a865808b890def1 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/thoreau-mourning-turtle-doves/ Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:10:08 -0500 ThumbnailThoreau: Mourning Turtle Doves
An amble from Concord on out
By Edward F. Mooney
I propose an amble with Thoreau, keeping him usually in sight (not reined in), and letting him be sometimes conjured, rather than […]

]]> 13b3fe1d3c8f94452926cd97d21c616a William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/21/18-241112-zir/ Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:50:42 -0500 ThumbnailReading: 18-24 November 2012 (ZiR)
A Week of Reading in the Life of William Eaton

[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 […]

]]> 1330998a1fa9d50aa9fcec2fe4559c45 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/10/19/adorno-was-right-2/ Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:08:26 -0500 ThumbnailAdorno Was Right?

By William Eaton
Zeteo: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing

 

Adorno Was Right?

By William Eaton

 

Review of Daniel Horowitz, Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and […]

]]> fb5935d9d27ec20dfd07529222d995bc William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/14/nothing-to-sniff-at/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:06:23 -0500 ThumbnailNothing to Sniff At
By Jeffrey M. Barnes
Review of “The Art of Scent,” an exhibit at The Museum of Arts & Design, Columbus Circle, New York City, November 20, 2012 to February 24, 2013.

 

The Museum of […]

]]> 1e760773416ecd3b2884f3dc47ffea34 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/no-wonder-i-am-suffering/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:05:32 -0500 Thumbnail
“Yes, yes, it’s no wonder I am suffering”
Exploring our hopes for a cure, with help from The King’s Speech
By William Eaton
Shortly after seeing the movie The King’s Speech, I had the thought that it might […]

]]> 924b30539ebff899f1dd71b5b8eff47e William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/jana-andolan/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:05:14 -0500 ThumbnailJana Andolan
The People’s Movement in Nepal
By Fritz Tucker
Every day, hundreds of European, American, Australian, and Israeli tourists walk the streets of Thamel, downtown Kathmandu. Nearby is the Narayanhiti […]

]]> d98ba3417293c18dc45332245d973e96 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/rethinking-rape/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:04:54 -0500 ThumbnailRethinking Rape
Moving Beyond the Social vs. Biological
By Caterina Gironda
This paper explores the pitfalls of two views of rape:

The social constructionist position that rape is not an act driven by […]

]]> 662f52e24c9409b1e040d73313b9b803 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/for-love-of-portnoy/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:04:38 -0500 ThumbnailFor Love of Portnoy

Developing a Jewish identity in Philip Roth’s America
By Daniel Taub
Much of the essay is devoted to investigating the role Roth’s novel played in the conflict between American Jews who […]

]]> 9af964198e8e1276a643c15dad80dc78 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/15/welcome/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:04:21 -0500 ThumbnailDear Readers,
Welcome to Zeteo’s Fall 2012 issue. In a United States election year we began with the idea of choice. We challenged writers to speak about the choices human beings make not only in politics, but […]

]]> 7fc46751937bfcd0c365e6bf5b2cc756 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/11/beneath-and-beyond-stuffing-and-cutting/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:38:32 -0500 ThumbnailWe Are Also What We Eat With


By Claire Stewart

A review of Consider the Fork: A History of How we Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson (Basic Books, 2012)


Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork is more than […]

]]> acc54671118b1b7d065bd304dcbea752 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/09/the-past-is-always-fictional/ Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:49:54 -0500 Thumbnail
“The past is always fictional”
Crypto-Jews and the Search for Identity in El Iluminado


By Daniel Taub
A review of El Iluminado: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin (Basic Books, 2012)

<span style="color: […]

]]> 87367890bf08a63b923e1e27bc5b5df4 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/12/03/the-worlds-of-the-ordinary/ Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:56:36 -0500 ThumbnailThe Worlds of the Ordinary
By Walter Cummins

Chris Arthur, in this new collection, does not seek insights into himself or words that convey the essential drama of his life. Instead, the knowledge he pursues is […]

]]> 9e28b63160da39302dbd6c0c892e3d81 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteojournal.com/2012/11/07/from-impractical-to-irreplaceable/ Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:48:45 -0500 ThumbnailFrom Impractical to Irreplaceable
By Bruce D. Rhodewalt

The book covers a generous range of technical topics, including information theory, chaos theory, economics, quantum mechanics, and relativity. Although […]

]]> 8e6b6624dd654f61d25e43bedff63e1c William Eaton changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/101049/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:15:25 -0500 d7415b1320cb495c93fe21255f968940 William Eaton changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/101048/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:14:31 -0500 3b5755c2929352c9d348d452c30bb0d1 William Eaton replied to the forum topic New issue of OA journal Zeteo & panel+party at the GC in the group Open Access Publishing Network @ CUNY (OaPN @ CUNY) http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/oapn/forum/topic/new-issue-of-oa-journal-zeteo-panelparty-at-the-gc/?topic_page=1#post-11527 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:12:50 -0500 Thanks Jill, and thanks for connecting me to the Open Access Group. Best, Wm.

]]> 72a2174625a2416bd4ba6335f823f57d William Eaton joined the group Open at CUNY https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/101046/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:11:49 -0500 8c2d18cf92347e44d52da52c1d8081e8 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/08/11/finding-ourselves-in-oedipus-again/ Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:40:45 -0400 Finding Ourselves in Oedipus Again and Again: Ten views of human agency
By William Eaton

The first alternative (no surprise): Oedipus’s life was dictated by his fate. Perhaps he was able to make superficial […]

]]> bf095a5eacadd2d340dbb0c7dd190b33 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/11/relativity-and-quantum-theory-in-the-waves/ Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:48:08 -0400 Relativity and Quantum Theory in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
In modernist fiction, several novels enfold similarly complex and indeterminate visions of reality. However, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves pushes the […]

]]> 6865f51c8dfb01539c4af68470fcf866 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/08/11/american-artists-in-a-house-divided-2/ Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:29:09 -0400 ThumbnailA Contingent Historical Thing: American Artists in a House Divided
By Keith Muchowski
The second essay is an analysis of Andy Warhol’s Race Riot series (early 1960s). Warhol uses to great effect Charles Moore’s […]

]]> 96c9edf35438c3dc3d601c1d22e3e89e William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/08/10/343/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:00:04 -0400 James Watt Did Not Want Information to Be Free
By Clifford D. Conner
 

]]> 33323f11dffb0d9dae2c138816f23f0f William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/08/10/sutra-as-power-play/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:41:43 -0400 Sutra as Power Play
By William Eaton
The body is the Bodhi tree
The mind is like a clear mirror.
At all times we must strive to polish it,
And must not let the dust collect.

]]> 38a640a141abe6fd210289dcc27a9e3d William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/08/10/american-atomization/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:47:12 -0400 American Atomization: The Atomization of America and its Popular Music Culture

]]> c2b28a0e7055400eda216c32faf4a939 William Eaton wrote a new post on the site Z e t e o http://zeteonq.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/04/11/the-scandal-of-democracy/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:12:06 -0400 The Scandal of Democracy: Chaotic Thoughts on the Occupied Squares
By Pablo Bustinduy
Zeteo asked me to write a piece about the relations between Occupy Wall Street and the 15M, a political movement which […]

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