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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoDownpour2024-03-12T07:02:26+00:00
https://downpour.games/
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https://newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/someday-we-will-learn-how-to-live/
robertogrecoThere are rumors that the next Apple Watch (the Series 6) will include “anxiety monitoring”. If you know me, then you’ll know that this rumor has itself made me anxious, and I’m simultaneously optimistic about the opportunity for devices to humanely and compassionately help with mental illness and also terrified about that help coming from a device wherein the Ring copy includes calls to action about CRUSHING IT THE NEXT DAY. Not least of which my belief that Apple Watch’s fitness ring mechanic and streaks can be actively harmful to mental health.
Speaking of streaks, I don’t think I’ve written about this yet, but I heard at this year’s IXDA that Duolingo’s best-selling and most profitable in-app purchase is the one that allows you to have a break and resume a streak...
More on that subject in another one of Dan's recent newsletters, including the key insight: "what you want is consistency, and not a streak."
I always have streaks on the brain, because I am always using technology (including an Apple Watch, with which I have a fractious relationship and which I ocassionally swap out for a purely analog, no-notifications, just-the-time experience).
And because I write and publish and send this newsletter, and have done every week for years and years. Very occasionally I am asked why I write this, and among the answers I could offer perhaps the trust is that it enforces consistency. There's value in showing up, even and especially when no tech company gives you a gold star or a closed ring for it.
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Someday
we will learn how to live. All of us
surviving without violence
never stop dreaming how to cure it.
What changes?
— from What Changes? by Naomi Shihab Nye"]]>2022 danohon consistency streaks apps engagement stacy-marieishmael writing newsletters naomishihabnye poetry poems life living analog notification experience duolingo measurement quantification reading howweread howwewrite applewatch anxiety mentalhealth stresshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5eeeed7cbffd/New app! A compass that points to the centre of the galaxy (Interconnected)2024-02-22T03:51:06+00:00
https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/15/galactic-compass
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https://blog.ayjay.org/against-apps-for-wander-lines/
robertogreco‘indirect’ or ‘errant’ trajectories obeying their own logic. In the technocratically constructed, written, and functionalized space in which the consumers move about, their trajectories form unforeseeable sentences, partly unreadable paths across a space.
The autistic children Deligny worked with are admirable improvisers: pens and paper are for writing words, they serve the purpose of bringing people “inside written language,” but these children made something else of the tools, adapted the instruments to their own needs and desires. (This is what in my “Filth Therapy” essay, following yet another French thinker, the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, I called bricolage: making do, employing what is to-hand, inventing new purposes for old materials.)
It is vital to de Certau’s argument to insist how commonplace such activity is – we fail to see how much we are like those autistic children in the mountains of France, how we too are tacticians:
Many everyday practices (talking, reading, moving about, shopping, cooking, etc.) are tactical in character. And so are, more generally, many “ways of operating”: victories of the “weak” over the “strong” (whether the strength be that of powerful people or the violence of things or of an imposed order, etc.), clever tricks, knowing how to get away with things, “hunter’s cunning,” maneuvers, polymorphic simulations, joyful discoveries, poetic as well as warlike.
But what de Certau, writing nearly fifty years ago, did not foresee is the rise of a Technopoly, an ever-extending regime that unites the old forces of state and corporation into an unprecedentedly extensive endeavor with a Grand Strategy – a strategy I have called metaphysical capitalism. (See the relevant tag to this post.) Technopoly tells us that we own ourselves, and that everything we need to fulfill our own (unchallengeable) desires is available for sale in the marketplace. But of course this is a system that only works if what we desire can in fact be purchased; and since that cannot in advance be guaranteed, the initial imperative of Technopoly is to train our desires, to channel them towards what the system already has for sale.
And the greatest instruments ever devised for such channeling are our internet-connected devices, especially when we connect to the internet through apps. The reason? Because while pens and paper can be used in extraordinarily varied and unpredictable ways, apps can’t: the ways in which we can interact with them are determined with great specificity and no deviation from the designed user-interface paradigm is permitted. You can use a pen to write a poem in elaborate cursive, sketch a tree, play Hangman, or, in moments of desperation, scratch a mosquito bite or skewer a chunk of watermelon. (I am describing, not recommending.) With TikTok, you can … make TikToks. The app is so far the ultimate extension of what Albert Borgmann called the device paradigm.
In short: in relation to the Grand Strategy of Technopoly, the essential purpose of apps is to eliminate the sphere of the tactical. It is to make the kind of improvisation I celebrated in my essay on Albert Murray impossible. It is to transform us all into drones, and then to make us like it – to make us (a) accept a universal strategic imperative as desirable, and (b) promise that our lines never shall wander."]]>micheldecerteau children autism wandering howweread reading internet web online messiness apps fernanddeligny leonhilton maps mapping wanderlines desirelines thefourhundredblows lcproject openstudioproject happiness unhappiness freedom bricolage filth filththerapy everyday technopoly albertmurray capitalism technocracy françoistruffaut alanjacobshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:facbb4e4cc6d/Five apps that help you check your local air quality - The Verge2023-07-20T20:28:16+00:00
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