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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoPedagogies of Care2024-01-19T20:16:29+00:00
https://museum.care/events/pedagogies-of-care-2/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-A0W29J3zQ
robertogrecocoreyrobin writing howwewrite chatgpt ai artificialintelligence communication howwethink tiktok dialogue debate conversation iteration process learning howwelearn video podcasting education highered highereducation assessment schools schooling cursive briahnajoygray theses slow deliberation thinking composition grades grading performance cheating competition argument lawschool method reflection scripts scriptwriting bertholdbrecht form teaching pedagogy howweteach literacy legibility attention effectiveness audience time anxiety respect labor procrastination discussion socraticmethod seminar literature automation computing journalism colleges universities bias meaning meaningmaking dissonancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb97cbba0286/Beautiful Losers | Commonweal Magazine2020-03-20T22:58:31+00:00
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/beautiful-losers
robertogreco[It] takes courage to tell the truth about oneself, about one’s own defeat. Many of the persecuted lose their capacity for seeing their own mistakes. It seems to them that the persecution itself is the greatest injustice. The persecutors are wicked simply because they persecute; the persecuted suffer because of their goodness. But this goodness has been beaten, defeated, suppressed; it was therefore a weak goodness, a bad, indefensible, unreliable goodness. For it will not do to grant that goodness must be weak as rain must be wet. It takes courage to say that the good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak.
I often find myself rereading these words in moments of defeat, to ward off the comforts of melancholy. The Sanders campaign has been premised, in part, on the idea of a righteous struggle: against the callous forces of profit and their political enablers. Our cause is righteous. But we should remember that righteousness is not enough to win. And that if we fail, our righteousness will be no consolation at all. The Bernie campaign is good, but if we are losing—to Joe Biden!—then the form of its goodness is “bad, indefensible, unreliable.”
Often it seems everything wrong with Bernie’s campaign can be attributed to something he’s doing right, but for which he’s being punished by Democratic elites or the corporate media (“the persecuted suffer because of their goodness”). Bernie doesn’t win Black voters because they’re too conservative and loyal to the establishment; his supporters are accused of online abuse because they’re particularly enthusiastic and economically desperate; he has fewer endorsements because he’s an outsider and other elected officials are afraid to buck the bosses; he receives little earned media because the media hates him for refusing to flatter the pundit class and their expertise. These things may all be true, but they’re also explanations which preclude solutions; they absolve us, attest to our innocence, and prefigure an alibi for our inevitable downfall.
We can do more than blame the formidable forces arrayed against us. We can be open to good-faith criticism, to new strategies, and to new allies (including those who have no interest in our righteousness or our struggle but who merely want to beat Donald Trump). Rigorous self-criticism is a left-wing value as well, after all. I don’t have all the answers. The way forward for Bernie may require a change in posture, from outsider resentment to magnanimous inclusivity; from hostility to the Democratic establishment to narrating how our program fulfills the highest hopes of the Democratic Party’s egalitarian tradition. Bernie needs to grow his coalition. He can’t do that by naming enemies alone. We must also seek out and embrace new friends. When you’re losing, it can feel good to huddle with the righteous few already on your side. But a willingness to face our present weakness may be a prerequisite for the strength we need to win.
It could be over soon. Some of the projections for the next round of primaries are grim. But the world is in crisis. Everything can change in an instant. And despair is not an option. As organizer Mariame Kaba has said, hope is a discipline; it must be practiced.
Too many times I’ve seen the left preemptively settle for virtuous defeat—accepting that we, like those before us, will be vanquished and remembered fondly for our attempt. But the waters are rising. We can’t wait to see whether ours is the generation that will fulfill the hopes of the radicals who fell before us. Whether or not history has caught up with us, ecology has us in its grasp. In this, I agree with my friend, the author and organizer Jonathan Smucker, who writes, “I take no solace in the prospect of history listing me among the righteous few who denounced the captain of a ship that sank.” We must set our aspirations higher. If we want to save the ship, “we must conspire to take the helm.”"]]>socialism politics 2020 elections us berniesanders left defeat learning howwelearn media elizabethwarren samadler-bell progressive movements organizing nostalgia belatedness memory mourning radicalism spanishcivilawar chile salvadorallende marxism rosaluxemburg power idealism coup istory radiomagallanes 1973 pessimism accountability labor joehill enzotraverso melancholy redemtion melancholia bertholdbrecht affect intimacy alienation discomfort reality richardeder absolution weakness goodness democrats criticism self-criticism establishment egalitarianism mariamekaba discipline hope optimism radicals canon golpemilitarhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3444699a11bf/Questions From a Worker Who Reads, Bertolt Brecht 19352010-11-15T05:10:16+00:00
http://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/brecht/index.htm
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/15/football-socialism-crack-cocaine-people?CMP=twt_gu
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