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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift | CBC.ca2024-03-23T19:44:32+00:00
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robertogrecoastrataylor 2023 insecurity crisis crises housing mentalhealth socialorder police policing beauty inequality climatecrisis climatechange authoritarianism security risk randomness stoics existentialism power control life living worry covid-19 coronavirus pandemic empathy solidarity appearance intelligence health age discrimination apprehension self-aggrandizement coping online internet energy freedom hustle hustleculture self-care survival hierarchy hierarchies history ancientgreece buddhism zenbuddhism liberalism capitalism latecapitalism needs consumerism consumption discontent manufactureddisconsent manufacturedinsecurity myths myth exploitation profit profits culture democracy debtcollective debt socialsafetynet expectation deprivation wealth wealthdistribution economics emotions shame suffering competition haves havenots indigence opulence commonalities illness depression anxiety addiction drugs drugabuse status stress billionaires ecology environment sustainability socialjustice justice progresshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ec37e8e69ff5/Where You Are Is Where You Are - by Hadden Turner2024-02-20T19:22:14+00:00
https://overthefield.substack.com/p/where-you-are-is-where-you-are
robertogreco“A couple who make a good marriage, and raise a healthy, morally competent children, are serving the world's future more directly and surely than any political leader, though they never utter a public word. A good farmer who is dealing with the problem of soil erosion on an acre of ground as a sound grasp of that problem and cares more about it and is probably doing more to solve it than any bureaucrat who is talking about it in general. A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.”15"]]>haddenturner 2024 via:daniellucas democracy technocracy wendellberry local national global globalization centralization decentralization scale zoominginandout fulfillment governance government place placemaking community responsibility slow small burden individualism collectivism neighbors neighborliness environment politics distraction farms farming land bureaucracyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c0ce9b2b8f2e/“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash2024-02-06T18:17:17+00:00
https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/
robertogrecoanildash advertising web online internet rss podcasts centralization decentralization control infrastructure romanmars openwebhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:90a5b9c92cd5/Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker2024-01-19T16:34:50+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet
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https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/new-internet/
robertogrecobryanlehrer 2023 internet web online technology venturecapital values newinternet bigtech centralization decentralization markets community capitalism professionalization blockchain crypto cryptocurrencies bitcoin learninggardens punk are.na commonplace slow ambient socialmediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:85af31376098/Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization | Verso Books2024-01-15T01:48:50+00:00
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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-how-big-tech-went-to-shh
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https://reallifemag.com/colonial-cartography/
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https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/longest-sentence-karl-marx-capital-watches
robertogrecoFormerly the individual work of a Nuremberg artificer, the watch has been transformed into the social product of an immense number of detail labourers, such as mainspring makers, dial makers, spiral spring makers, jewelled hole makers, ruby lever makers, hand makers, case makers, screw makers, gilders, with numerous subdivisions, such as wheel makers (brass and steel separate), pin makers, movement makers, acheveur de pignon (fixes the wheels on the axles, polishes the facets, &c.), pivot makers, planteur de finissage (puts the wheels and springs in the works), finisseur de barillet (cuts teeth in the wheels, makes the holes of the right size, &c.), escapement makers, cylinder makers for cylinder escapements, escapement wheel makers, balance wheel makers, raquette makers (apparatus for regulating the watch), the planteur d’échappement (escapement maker proper); then the repasseur de barillet (finishes the box for the spring, &c.), steel polishers, wheel polishers, screw polishers, figure painters, dial enamelers (melt the enamel on the copper), fabricant de pendants (makes the ring by which the case is hung), finisseur de charnière (puts the brass hinge in the cover, &c.), faiseur de secret (puts in the springs that open the case), graveur, ciseleur, polisseur de boîte, &c., &c., and last of all the repasseur, who fits together the whole watch and hands it over in a going state.
Now this is obviously not what we think of when we think of "traditional" Swiss watchmaking – remember, each of those tasks enumerated was actually an entirely separate job, done by individuals doing that job but no other, and generally at home. It is certainly a manual-craft way of doing things but it's not the "one craftsman at the bench" of fantasy. In fact, this distributed system was characteristic of English watchmaking as well – in 1747, Campbell's The London Tradesman (an account of all the different trades in London at the time) related:
At the first appearance of Watches they were but rude to what they are now; the were began and ended by one Man, who was called a Watch-Maker; but of late Years the Watch-Maker, properly so called, scarce makes any thing belonging to a Watch; he only employs the different Tradesmen among whom the Art is divided ... the Springs are made by a Tradesman, who does nothing else, and the (fusée) chains by another: These last are frequently made by Women, in the Country about London, and sold to the Watch-Maker by the dozen ... When the Watch-Maker has got home all the Movements of the Watch, and the other different Parts of which it consists, he gives the whole to a Finisher, who puts the whole Machine together ... The Watch-Maker puts his Name upon the Plate, and is esteemed the Maker, though has not made in his Shop the smallest Wheel belonging to it.
This decentralized method was a great fit for both Swiss and English watchmaking, for various reasons – in Switzerland, it meant that you could be an établisseur (the word is derived from the French for a watchmaker's bench, un établi) without a great deal of investment and many watch factories in the Jura had only a few people working in them, with most of the work being done in private homes. These home-workers enjoyed a degree of independence and in many cases, ownership of the means of production; the system was so ingrained in Swiss rural society that, as Jonathan Steinberg writes, in Why Switzerland, the number of factory workers in the watch industry did not exceed the number of those working at home until (almost unbelievably) 1910, according to a Swiss federal census. Nonetheless, centralization of movement manufacturing in actual manufactures continued to advance in the early-to-mid-20th centuries, and was indeed essential to the survival of the industry.
The decentralized nature of Swiss watchmaking in the 1800s, and the inherent independence of those making components in the Jura during that period, made the area a hotbed of radical, if not revolutionary, sentiment. Marx was far from the only figure on the Left who found the area anthropologically and economically interesting; the tolerance of the Swiss federal government (such as it was) tended to invite what most of the European great powers considered troublemakers, to take up residence. Another individual who spent a good deal of time there was the anarchist, Kropotkin (Prince Kropotkin, until his family disowned him). Kropotkin, in The Conquest of Bread, says several interesting things about the Jura (there is a most charming and very sad story about a Spanish anarchist friend of his, who left Le Locle after freezing during the winter when he could only find work as a sign-painter, and expired of tuberculosis in Spain, "raving about a white horse," but I digress). Kropotkin relates that:
This was the milieu in which I spent the winter and summer of 1877, trying to improve our propaganda in La-Chaux-de-Fonds and neighboring Le Locle. I will not say that the enterprise was very successful ... Machine-made American watches were reducing the market for cheap Swiss watches, which had sold in huge numbers previously, especially in America. The best workers barely found work a few days a week ... Destitution hung over the city, indeed over the region as a whole.
It was only the shift towards industrialization, centralization, and verticalization, and away from hand-crafting of watches, that saved the Swiss watch industry – and not for the last time."]]>karlmarx watches watchmaking jura switzerland history capitalism jackforster 2017 peterkropottkin industrialization centralization decentralization labor specialization verticalization manufacturing lelocle la-chaux-de-fondshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a7cf62ab1e0/Wendell Berry: The Work of Local Culture | The Contrary Farmer2023-01-21T22:04:57+00:00
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/
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https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/between-chaos-and-the-man-the-dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/
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robertogrecoMaking a new kind of serious game: Games that are designed as functions with an end result that is a measurable difference in the present state of reality. — Jane McGonigal Erasing the Delta – Games that Accomplish a Specific Task, Games Developer Conference 2007
The delta is the gap between representation and actual change.
And here the keyword is measurement.
The presumption is that social change can be measured in the same way you can measure the calories burned by playing an exercise game.
This obsession with quantification pervades contemporary society.
It’s the basis of the gamification ideology.
And the basis of contemporary capitalism. Late capitalism is less about producing and selling stuff and more about reifying the immaterial sphere (culture, language, relationships, ambitions).
If you can measure something, you can rationalize it, you can optimize it, you can sell it.
If you are in the no profit industrial complex you can get more funding if you demonstrate a measurable impact.
Except the measurement of complex social phenomena is always reductionist and problematic.
We use the Gross Domestic Product to measure the success of a nation disregarding many other indicators.
By using standardized tests to assess the quality of learning we turned our schools into bootcamps for standardized tests.
Here’s another simple proposition:
If you can measure it then that’s not the change I want to see.
It’s a provocation of course, I’m fine with games accomplishing very specific tasks.
The problem is that by focusing on measurable goals we narrow our action.
We favor individual change, versus systemic and long term change.
We target burning calories without addressing food politics and food justice.
We try to impose prepackaged behavior protocols rather than facilitating critical thought.
And I’ll go even further:
If your game or technology really works (in this direct and reductionist way) it freaks me out.
If you actually figure out methods to control people’s behavior.
You can bet they will be adopted by governments and advertisers in no time.
You are working for them."
…
"But one thing I can tell for sure: the act of making games about social issues, has always been a profound transformative experience for me.
I came to the conclusion that there is a greater liberation potential in designing games rather than playing games.
I argue that next step of games for impact doesn’t lie in some technological advancement but rather, in helping people to engage with the practice of game design.
Game design, especially when socially engaged, involves a lot of research and synthesis. What are the actors and the forces governing this system?
What are the internal relationships?
What are the limits of the player’s agency?
This conceptual (and not just technical) tools is what we practitioners can share.
Designing game has a couple of terrific extra outcomes:
First: by designing games you acquire the tools to demystify all games. To play critically.
Second: by democratizing game design you don’t have to look for big funders.
Games are expensive to make but also not. I’ve never spent more than 100 dollars on my games.
There are plenty of digital tools. And non professionals have been making and adapting games (even games for change) since forever.
As Zach Gage said yesterday, every child is a game designer.
Third: by just facilitating the creation of games you don’t incur into typical fallacies of the white savior industrial complex. Like the mis-representation and objectification of others.
This makes me think about another keyword in this industry: empathy.
If you want to convince privileged people to donate you have to make them feel bad.
But empathy is almost inevitably patronizing, it presumes helpless subject who can’t speak for themselves. And privileged subjects i.e. “us” that are somehow separated from them.
Pppression is fractal.
Most of us (the 99% of us), are both oppressed and part of a system of oppression.
Anyway, here’s my last proposition:
WORK TO MAKE YOURSELF OBSOLETE
Which is probably a terrible idea if you want to be a professional in the social change industry.
I want to conclude by mentioning an initiative I’ve been helping to coordinate in the last two years.
It’s not a solution but a small contribution and a possible alternative model. It’s a series of workshops called Imagining better futures through play."]]>games gaming gamification systemsthinking longterm systems behavior 2014 paolopedercini control measurement systemicchange advertising centralization change changemaking seriousgames gamedesign design quantification capitalism gdp janemcgonigal zachgage classideas children making empathy paulofreire oppression saviorcomplex privilege videogames edg srghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9e78e51f22d/March 26, 2014 : The Daily Papert2014-03-26T23:25:17+00:00
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