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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCan gratitude save humanity? - UnHerd2024-03-25T21:26:42+00:00
https://unherd.com/2023/01/can-gratitude-save-humanity/
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https://www.thefitzwilliam.com/p/turning-back-the-economic-clock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXgkpu7pkg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZQNUuvIyk
robertogrecofilm documentary history 1965 historyofthenegropeople ossiedavis basildavidson africa johnhenryclarke civilization ancientafrica egypt ethiopia mali songhai ashanti ife benin timbuktuhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d2b7e6fdb2bb/Yanis Varoufakis ACCUSES Europe of Creating the Crises in Israel-Gaza - YouTube2023-11-25T21:42:31+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxZRmglvZI
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https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2023/11/modernity-is-a-dirty-diaper/
robertogreco2023 andrewskabelund toilets technology electricity josephstieglitz robertgordon tylercowen zygmuntbauman modernity paulkingsnorth plumbing society civilization internet wendellberry paulwheaton josephjenkin sewage environment diapers waste water toxicity ecology health children pottytraining parenting rogerekirchcare caring alloparents dependence sanitation meredithsmall gusli self-reliance sleep progress selfreliancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0cd1743ea17a/A Practical Appraisal of Palestinian Violence - Steve Salaita2023-10-22T00:37:49+00:00
https://stevesalaita.com/a-practical-appraisal-of-palestinian-violence/
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https://unherd.com/2023/09/burning-man-is-a-capitalist-lie/
robertogreco2023 maryharrington burningman capitalism economics gifteconomy liberalism individualism techelite siliconvalley generosity survivalism blackrockcity hardship scarcity us civilization society inequality incomeinequality marieantoinettehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c864336dc2c/How Can the Left Solve the Climate Crisis? - YouTube2023-07-16T20:23:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuseHXkMjmM
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-being-animal-could-help-us-be-better-humans/id1548604447?i=1000618460588
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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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https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/why-do-we-watch-videos-of-people-stealing-watches
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https://areomagazine.com/2022/06/17/olufemi-taiwos-against-decolonisation/
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https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-primitive-communism-is-as-seductive-as-it-is-wrong
robertogreco2022 anthropology development evolution primitivism primitivecommunism communism manvirsingh karlmarx friedrichengels daskapital property ownership privateproperty adamsmith economics society civilization agriculture farming history humans humanity lewishenrymorgan jung-kyoochoi rutgerbregman christopherryan kimhill paraguay aché indigeneity indigenous culture hiwi venezuela control relationships patriarchy hunting foraging richardlee kalahari!kung mbuti shoshone paiute colinturnbull ainu yaghan reallocation orphans selfishness hunter-gatherershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f78ba51b267/Becoming Savage2022-04-25T06:07:00+00:00
https://futuress.org/magazine/becoming-savage/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usv9o2I_y9o
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-dawn-of-everything-w-david-wengrow/
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https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/thats-what-the-money-is-for
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https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXIOBIOTCE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTfXPG2J0M
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http://www.dannydorling.org/books/SLOWDOWN/
robertogrecoslow slowdown dannydorling 1970s degrowth data civilization change progress humanity economics growthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5930b34591ab/Sarah Fathallah on Twitter: “A few weeks ago @kellyanagram recommended that I read “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. So I did. And fantastic it really was. Thread for highlights! https://t.co/a61kW2020-05-26T13:52:04+00:00
https://twitter.com/SFath/status/1257159589448962048
robertogrecosarahfatgallah 2020 lindatuhiwaismith decolonization methodology research indigenous indigeneity imperialism colonialism globalization knowledge culture extraction appropriation civilization modernity enlightenment discovery maori meratamita observation assessment unschooling deschooling palestine edwardsaid orientalism superiority positionality power ngugiwathiong’o collecting territory stealing resources ethnography anthropology jamesclifford literature art primitivism haunani-kaytrask taking designresearch design datastorage accountability ownership responsibility dissemination ethics legal law control guidance property resiprocity relationships respect multidisciplinary rights injustice justice history storytelling oralhistory oral survivance assimilation geraldvizenor connecting connectedness environment criticalconscience paulofreire envisioning gregcajete ngũgĩwathiong’o ngugi ngũgĩ Māorihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f1463df0d0f/In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how - The Correspondent2020-01-10T23:31:21+00:00
https://thecorrespondent.com/214/in-2030-we-ended-the-climate-emergency-heres-how/28330740746-6b15af77
robertogreco2020s 2020 2030 ericholthaus climatechange speculativefiction sciencefiction hope future climatecrisis environment policy climatejustice socialism capitalism latecapitalism commodification interconnectedness interdependence freedom efficiency life living slow productivity humanrights canon civilization societyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:988e16bd4b61/The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism | Life and style | The Guardian2020-01-03T16:51:53+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/03/empty-promises-marie-kondo-craze-for-minimalism
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https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/paying-for-civilization
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https://reallifemag.com/utopian-overreach/
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https://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/1184057421095940096
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https://gen.medium.com/gen-x-is-having-a-very-gen-x-moment-3782644b92bf
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http://visakanv.com/public/
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https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/civilisation-planet-authors
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK3DJ7Kn6s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agafia_Lykova
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9pat0lrwY
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https://www.freightened.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuxHVD4Srw
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https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/
robertogrecoThe metaphor of grassroots is apt here. Bamboo is a grass, a rhizomatic plant system that easily tends towards becoming an invasive species in its capacity to spread without seed and fruit. Given the new incursions of the global sustainability regime into third world forests to procure a material aestheticized as eco-friendly, what would it take for the state to render this ubiquitous material into a value added and replicable commodity? On one hand, scaffolding offers the site of forming and performing the subjectivity of the unskilled laborer—if not in making the scaffolding, then certainly in using it. Bamboo poles for scaffolding remain raw commodities, without scope for much value addition; a saturated marketplace where it can only be replaced by steel as building projects increase in complexity. On the other hand, bamboo produces both the cottage industry out of a forest-dwelling subject, on the margins of the state, occupying space into which this market can expand.
Bamboo is a material in flux—what it signifies is not transferable from one scale to another, or from one time to another. In that sense, bamboo challenges how we see the history of materials. In addition to its foundational architectural function as scaffolding, it acts as a metaphorical scaffolding as well: it signifies whatever its wielders might want it to, be it tradition, poverty, sustainability, or a new form of eco-chic luxury. Bamboo acts more as a scaffolding for meaning than a material with physical properties of flexibility and strength. Scaffolding, both materially and metaphorically, is a site of politics; a space that opens up and disappears, one that requires much skill in making.
Edgar Pieterse: "Incorporation and Expulsion"
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221603/incorporation-and-expulsion/
However, what is even more important is that these radically localized processes will very quickly demand spatial, planning, and design literacy among urban households and their associations. The public pedagogic work involved in nurturing such literacies, always amidst action, requires a further institutional layer that connects intermediary organizations with grassroots formations. For example, NGOs and applied urban research centers with knowledge from different sites (within a city and across the global South) can provide support to foster these organizational literacies without diminishing the autonomy and leadership of grassroots movements. Intermediary organizations are also well placed to mediate between grassroots associations, public officers, private sector interests, and whoever else impinge on the functioning of a neighborhood. Thinking with the example of Lighthouse suggests that we can think of forms of collective economic practice that connect with the urban imperatives of securing household wellbeing whilst expanding various categories of opportunity. The transformative potential is staggering when one considers the speed with which digital money systems and productive efficiencies have taken off across East Africa during the past five years or so.
There is unprecedented opportunity today to delink the imperatives of just urban planning from conventional tropes about economic modernization that tend to produce acontextual technocracy. We should, therefore, focus our creative energies on defining new forms of collective life, economy, wellbeing, invention, and care. This may even prove a worthwhile approach to re-signify “growth.” Beyond narrow economism there is a vast canvas to populate with alternative meanings: signifiers linked to practices that bring us back to the beauty of discovery, learning, questioning, debate, dissensus, experimentation, strategic consensus, and most importantly, the courage to do and feel things differently.
Ingerid Helsing Almaas: "No app for that"
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221609/no-app-for-that/
Conventionally, urban growth is seen in terms of different geometries of expansion. Recent decades have also focused on making existing cities denser, but even this is thought of as a process of addition, inscribed in the conventional idea of growth as a linear process of investments and profits. But the slow process of becoming and disappearance is also a form of growth. Growth as slow and diverse accretion and shedding, layering, gradual loss or restoration; cyclical rather than linear or expansive. Processes driven by opportunity and vision, but also by irritation, by lack, by disappointment. In a city, you see these cyclical processes of accretion and disruption everywhere. We just haven’t worked out how to make them work for us. Instead, we go on expecting stability and predictability; a city with a final, finished form.
Peter Buchanan: "Reweaving Webs of Relationships"
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221630/reweaving-webs-of-relationships/
Helena Mattsson and Catharina Gabrielsson: "Pockets and Folds"
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221607/pockets-and-folds/
Moments of deregulations are moments when an ideology of incessant growth takes over all sectors of life and politics. Returning to those moments allows us to inquire into other ways of organizing life and architecture while remaining within the sphere of the possible. Through acts of remembrance, we have the opportunity to rewrite the present through the past whereby the pockets and folds of non-markets established in the earlier welfare state come into view as worlds of a new becoming. These pockets carry the potential for new political imaginaries where ideas of degrowth reorganize the very essence of the architectural assemblage and its social impacts. These landscapes of possibilities are constructed through desires of collective spending—dépense—rather than through the grotesque ideas of the wooden brain.
Angelos Varvarousis and Penny Koutrolikou: "Degrowth and the City"
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/overgrowth/221623/degrowth-and-the-city/
The idea of city of degrowth does not attempt to homogenize, but rather focus on inclusiveness. Heterogeneity and plurality are not contrary to the values of equity, living together and effective sharing of the resources. Difference and plurality are inherent and essential for cities and therefore diverse spatial and social articulations are intrinsic in the production of a city of degrowth. They are also vital for the way such an idea of a city could be governed; possibly through local institutions and assemblies that try to combine forms of direct and delegative democracy.
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https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/untitled-6
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https://hyperallergic.com/439735/donna-haraway-documentary-philosopher-storyteller/
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https://www.fs.blog/2018/03/dacher-keltner-power/
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2201473X.2016.1199826
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https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/2017-civilisation-has-been-corrupted-would-you-like-to-open-a-new-file-96a5f3c3ee28
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway#.djJ7JJ04B
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https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/11/22/16649038/civilization-progress-humanity-history-technology
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http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/153900/microscopic-colonialism/
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http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/columns/you-are-brilliant-and-the-earth-is-hiring
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization
robertogrecoWhen the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.
The world has indeed got richer, but any such shift in morals and values is hard to detect. Money and the value system around its acquisition are fully intact. Greed is still good.
The study of hunter-gatherers, who live for the day and do not accumulate surpluses, shows that humanity can live more or less as Keynes suggests. It’s just that we’re choosing not to. A key to that lost or forsworn ability, Suzman suggests, lies in the ferocious egalitarianism of hunter-gatherers. For example, the most valuable thing a hunter can do is come back with meat. Unlike gathered plants, whose proceeds are “not subject to any strict conventions on sharing,” hunted meat is very carefully distributed according to protocol, and the people who eat the meat that is given to them go to great trouble to be rude about it. This ritual is called “insulting the meat,” and it is designed to make sure the hunter doesn’t get above himself and start thinking that he’s better than anyone else. “When a young man kills much meat,” a Bushman told the anthropologist Richard B. Lee, “he comes to think of himself as a chief or a big man, and he thinks of the rest of us as his servants or inferiors. . . . We can’t accept this.” The insults are designed to “cool his heart and make him gentle.” For these hunter-gatherers, Suzman writes, “the sum of individual self-interest and the jealousy that policed it was a fiercely egalitarian society where profitable exchange, hierarchy, and significant material inequality were not tolerated.”
This egalitarian impulse, Suzman suggests, is central to the hunter-gatherer’s ability to live a life that is, on its own terms, affluent, but without abundance, without excess, and without competitive acquisition. The secret ingredient seems to be the positive harnessing of the general human impulse to envy. As he says, “If this kind of egalitarianism is a precondition for us to embrace a post-labor world, then I suspect it may prove a very hard nut to crack.” There’s a lot that we could learn from the oldest extant branch of humanity, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to put the knowledge into effect. A socially positive use of envy—now, that would be a technology almost as useful as fire."]]>jamescscott fire technology hunter-gatherers 2017 anthropology johnlanchester anthropocene sedentism agriculture nomads nomadism archaeology writing legibility illegibility state civilization affluence abundance jamessuzman bushmen kalahari namibia khoisan mesopotamia egalitarianism humans self-interest jealousy greed inequality accumulation motivation society happiness moneyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c0c027c6da86/SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE – Solarpunks – Medium2017-10-13T22:30:33+00:00
https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/25/15998002/capitalism-socialism-peter-thiel-wall-street-eric-weinstein
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https://www.modernghana.com/news/756213/parable-of-the-sower-not-1984-is-the-dystopia-for-our-a.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/california-today-kevin-starr.html
robertogrecoSouthern California has used technology to materialize an imagined society of garden cities and suburbs. Now and then, it must pay a price for its reordering of the environment.
On diversity (San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 10, 2000):
Is there any people on the planet, any language, any religion not represented in California this very morning? ... This diversity, then, is the persistent DNA code of California.
On California’s rising Latino population (New York Times, March 31, 2001):
The Anglo hegemony was only an intermittent phase in California’s arc of identity, extending from the arrival of the Spanish.
On the Central Valley (“Coast of Dreams,” 2004):
Mesopotamia, the rice fields of China, the Po Valley: the Central Valley stood in a long line of irrigation cultures which had, in turn, given birth to civilization itself.
On California at the millennium (“California: A History,” 2005):
California had long since become one of the prisms through which the American people, for better and for worse, could glimpse their future.
On the drought (The New York Times, April 4, 2005):
Mother Nature didn’t intend for 40 million people to live here.
On the Golden Gate Bridge (“Golden Gate,” 2010):
Like the Parthenon, the Golden Gate Bridge seems Platonic in its perfection, as if the harmonies and resolutions of creation as understood by mathematics and abstract thought have been effortlessly materialized through engineering design.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIEKI-MWQ94
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https://twitter.com/A_Daneshzadeh/status/809433755807055872
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http://bb9.berlinbiennale.de/all-problems-can-be-illuminated-not-all-problems-can-be-solved/
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http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/
robertogrecoIf children learn to normalize dominance and non-consent within the context of education, then non-consent becomes a normalized part of the ‘tool kit’ of those who have and wield power… This is unthinkable within Nishnaabeg intelligence.
Interestingly, the most brilliant artists and scientists in Euro-western societies tell us exactly the same thing: that it is precisely this state of open attention, curiosity, freedom, collaboration, consent, that is necessary for all true learning, discovery, creation."
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"We no longer frame people as either “civilized”or “savage,” but as “educated” or “uneducated,” “developed” or “developing” (our modern terms for the same thing). But we retain the paternalistic attitudes of our forebears, toward our children and toward the “childlike” adults we find all over the world — a paternalism in which the veneer of benevolence is underpinned by the constant threat of violent force.
Control is always so seductive, at least to the "developed" ("civilized") mind. It seems so satisfying, so efficient, so effective, so potent. In the short run, in some ways, it is. But it creates a thousand kinds of blowback, from depressed rebellious children to storms surging over our coastlines to guns and bombs exploding in cities around the world."]]>education unschooling children childhood carolblack attention culture society learning wildness wild wilderness thoreau ellwoodcubberley williamtorreyharris schooling schools johntaylorgatto outdoors natureanxiety depression psychology wellness adhd mindfulness suzannegaskins openattention miniaodlafreeman paulejeune wilfredpeltier leannebetasamosakesimpson consent animals zoos nature johannhari brucealexander mammals indigenous johnholt petergray work play howwelearn tobyrollo chastisement civilization control kosmos colonization colonialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69f840250e75/Jose's interview - URUGUAY - #HUMAN - YouTube2016-05-04T00:49:15+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GX6a2WEA1Q
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http://kottke.org/16/01/the-invention-of-farming
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-lightning-before-death-a-tribute-to-clive-james
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http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/04/birth-of-thanaticism/
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http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/
robertogrecoThe paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its students the ability to think clearly and independently, and the ability to live confidently, courageously, and hopefully.
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Let us take a moment to compare these texts. The first thing to observe about the older one is that it is a sentence. It expresses an idea by placing concepts in relation to one another within the kind of structure that we call a syntax. It is, moreover, highly wrought: a parallel structure underscored by repetition, five adverbs balanced two against three.
A spatial structure, the sentence also suggests a temporal sequence. Thinking clearly, it wants us to recognize, leads to thinking independently. Thinking independently leads to living confidently. Living confidently leads to living courageously. Living courageously leads to living hopefully. And the entire chain begins with a college that recognizes it has an obligation to its students, an obligation to develop their abilities to think and live.
Finally, the sentence is attributed to an individual. It expresses her convictions and ideals. It announces that she is prepared to hold herself accountable for certain responsibilities.
The second text is not a sentence. It is four words floating in space, unconnected to one another or to any other concept. Four words — four slogans, really — whose meaning and function are left undefined, open to whatever interpretation the reader cares to project on them.
Four words, three of which — “leadership,” “service,” and “creativity” — are the loudest buzzwords in contemporary higher education. (“Integrity” is presumably intended as a synonym for the more familiar “character,” which for colleges at this point means nothing more than not cheating.) The text is not the statement of an individual; it is the emanation of a bureaucracy. In this case, a literally anonymous bureaucracy: no one could tell me when this version of the institution’s mission statement was formulated, or by whom. No one could even tell me who had decided to hang those banners all over campus. The sentence from the founder has also long been mounted on the college walls. The other words had just appeared, as if enunciated by the zeitgeist.
But the most important thing to note about the second text is what it doesn’t talk about: thinking or learning. In what it both does and doesn’t say, it therefore constitutes an apt reflection of the current state of higher education. College is seldom about thinking or learning anymore. Everyone is running around trying to figure out what it is about. So far, they have come up with buzzwords, mainly those three.
This is education in the age of neoliberalism. Call it Reaganism or Thatcherism, economism or market fundamentalism, neoliberalism is an ideology that reduces all values to money values. The worth of a thing is the price of the thing. The worth of a person is the wealth of the person. Neoliberalism tells you that you are valuable exclusively in terms of your activity in the marketplace — in Wordsworth’s phrase, your getting and spending.
The purpose of education in a neoliberal age is to produce producers. I published a book last year that said that, by and large, elite American universities no longer provide their students with a real education, one that addresses them as complete human beings rather than as future specialists — that enables them, as I put it, to build a self or (following Keats) to become a soul. Of all the responses the book aroused, the most dismaying was this: that so many individuals associated with those institutions said not, “Of course we provide our students with a real education,” but rather, “What is this ‘real education’ nonsense, anyway?”"
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"So what’s so bad about leadership, service, and creativity? What’s bad about them is that, as they’re understood on campus and beyond, they are all encased in neoliberal assumptions. Neoliberalism, which dovetails perfectly with meritocracy, has generated a caste system: “winners and losers,” “makers and takers,” “the best and the brightest,” the whole gospel of Ayn Rand and her Übermenschen. That’s what “leadership” is finally about. There are leaders, and then there is everyone else: the led, presumably — the followers, the little people. Leaders get things done; leaders take command. When colleges promise to make their students leaders, they’re telling them they’re going to be in charge.
“Service” is what the winners engage in when they find themselves in a benevolent mood. Call it Clintonism, by analogy with Reaganism. Bill Clinton not only ratified the neoliberal consensus as president, he has extended its logic as a former president. Reaganism means the affluent have all the money, as well as all the power. Clintonism means they use their money and power, or a bit of it, to help the less fortunate — because the less fortunate (i.e., the losers) can’t help themselves. Hence the Clinton Foundation, hence every philanthropic or altruistic endeavor on the part of highly privileged, highly credentialed, highly resourced elites, including all those nonprofits or socially conscious for-profits that college students start or dream of starting.
“Creativity,” meanwhile, is basically a business concept, aligned with the other clichés that have come to us from the management schools by way of Silicon Valley: “disruption,” “innovation,” “transformation.” “Creativity” is not about becoming an artist. No one wants you to become an artist. It’s about devising “innovative” products, services, and techniques — “solutions,” which imply that you already know the problem. “Creativity” means design thinking, in the terms articulated by the writer Amy Whitaker, not art thinking: getting from A to a predetermined B, not engaging in an open-ended exploratory process in the course of which you discover the B.
Leadership, service, and creativity do not seek fundamental change (remember, fundamental change is out in neoliberalism); they seek technological or technocratic change within a static social framework, within a market framework. Which is really too bad, because the biggest challenges we face — climate change, resource depletion, the disappearance of work in the face of automation — will require nothing less than fundamental change, a new organization of society. If there was ever a time that we needed young people to imagine a different world, that time is now.
We have always been, in the United States, what Lionel Trilling called a business civilization. But we have also always had a range of counterbalancing institutions, countercultural institutions, to advance a different set of values: the churches, the arts, the democratic tradition itself. When the pendulum has swung too far in one direction (and it’s always the same direction), new institutions or movements have emerged, or old ones have renewed their mission. Education in general, and higher education in particular, has always been one of those institutions. But now the market has become so powerful that it’s swallowing the very things that are supposed to keep it in check. Artists are becoming “creatives.” Journalism has become “the media.” Government is bought and paid for. The prosperity gospel has arisen as one of the most prominent movements in American Christianity. And colleges and universities are acting like businesses, and in the service of businesses.
What is to be done? Those very same WASP aristocrats — enough of them, at least, including several presidents of Harvard and Yale — when facing the failure of their own class in the form of the Great Depression, succeeded in superseding themselves and creating a new system, the meritocracy we live with now. But I’m not sure we possess the moral resources to do the same. The WASPs had been taught that leadership meant putting the collective good ahead of your own. But meritocracy means looking out for number one, and neoliberalism doesn’t believe in the collective. As Margaret Thatcher famously said about society, “There’s no such thing. There are individual men and women, and there are families.” As for elite university presidents, they are little more these days than lackeys of the plutocracy, with all the moral stature of the butler in a country house.
Neoliberalism disarms us in another sense as well. For all its rhetoric of freedom and individual initiative, the culture of the market is exceptionally good at inculcating a sense of helplessness. So much of the language around college today, and so much of the negative response to my suggestion that students ought to worry less about pursuing wealth and more about constructing a sense of purpose for themselves, presumes that young people are the passive objects of economic forces. That they have no agency, no options. That they have to do what the market tells them. A Princeton student literally made this argument to me: If the market is incentivizing me to go to Wall Street, he said, then who am I to argue?
I have also had the pleasure, over the past year, of hearing from a lot of people who are pushing back against the dictates of neoliberal education: starting high schools, starting colleges, creating alternatives to high school and college, making documentaries, launching nonprofits, parenting in different ways, conducting their lives in different ways. I welcome these efforts, but none of them address the fundamental problem, which is that we no longer believe in public solutions. We only believe in market solutions, or at least private-sector solutions: one-at-a-time solutions, individual solutions.
The worst thing about “leadership,” the notion that society should be run by highly trained elites, is that it has usurped the place of “citizenship,” the notion that society should be run by everyone together. Not coincidentally, citizenship — the creation of an informed populace for the sake of maintaining a free society, a self-governing society — was long the guiding principle of education in the United States. To escape from neoliberal education, we must escape from neoliberalism. If that sounds impossible, bear in mind that neoliberalism itself would have sounded impossible as recently as the 1970s. As late as 1976, the prospect of a Reagan presidency was played for laughs on network television.
Instead of treating higher education as a commodity, we need to treat it as a right. Instead of seeing it in terms of market purposes, we need to see it once again in terms of intellectual and moral purposes. That means resurrecting one of the great achievements of postwar American society: high-quality, low- or no-cost mass public higher education. An end to the artificial scarcity of educational resources. An end to the idea that students must compete for the privilege of going to a decent college, and that they then must pay for it.
Already, improbably, we have begun to make that move: in the president’s call in January for free community college, in the plan introduced in April by a group of Democratic senators and representatives to enable students to graduate from college without debt, in a proposal put forth by Senator Bernie Sanders for a tax on Wall Street transactions that would make four-year public institutions free for all. Over the past several years, the minimum wage has been placed near the top of the nation’s agenda, already with some notable successes. Now the same is happening with college costs and college access.
But it isn’t happening by itself. Young people, it turns out, are not helpless in the face of the market, especially not if they act together. Nor are they necessarily content to accept the place that neoliberalism has assigned them. We appear to have entered a renewed era of student activism, driven, as genuine political engagement always is, not by upper-class “concern” but by felt, concrete needs: for economic opportunity, for racial justice, for a habitable future. Educational institutions — reactive, defensive, often all but rudderless — are not offering much assistance with this project, and I don’t believe that students have much hope that they will. The real sense of helplessness, it seems, belongs to colleges and universities themselves."]]>williamderesiewicz education highereducation neoliberalism capitalism learning purpose stevenpinker 2015 individualism economics leadership missionstatements courage confidence hope criticalthinking independence autonomy liberalarts wealth inequality citizenship civics society highered publicpurpose business ronaldreagan billclinton margaretthatcher government media lioneltrilling socialgood creativity innovation amywhitaker service servicelearning change fundamentalchange systemsthinking us civilization transformation money power aynrand meritocracy plutocracy college colleges universities schools markets wallstreet helplessness elitism berniesanders communitycolleges aristocracy reaganism clintonism politics entrepreneurship volunteerism rickscott corporatization modernity joshuarothman greatbooks 1960s stem steam commercialization davidbrookshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ebdccbcb6690/