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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift | CBC.ca2024-03-23T19:44:32+00:00
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7032238
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https://www.ft.com/video/bb65dbf9-cfa7-4723-a412-a88af9285383
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-art-of-living
robertogrecolmsacasas 2024 wendellberry hartmutrosa slow small artleisure leisurearts everyday life living bodies attention embodiment society modernism consumerism consumption commodification capitalism practice limits self-improvement lifehacks self-optimization quantifiedself technique happiness limitations creativity art economics experience information control uncontrollability hereandnow presence place timehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3d31f8bfe200/Is Nostalgia a Dead End?2024-02-07T20:40:17+00:00
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/postwar-nostalgia-equality-progress-unions
robertogrecodustinguastella matthewygesias 2024 history wellbeing via:daniellucas civics society us equality inequality consumption consumerism wealth individualism reaganism politics economics deathsofdespair community progress capitalism socialism civilrightsmovement conservatism liberalism billclinton smartphones cars cities philadelphia safety cohesion 1960s midcentury shaylynromneygarrett donaldtrump peterlindert jeffreywilliamson postwar votingrightsact civilrightsact comity robertputnam rajcjetty yonatanberman economicmobility progressive progressivism 1910s 1965 taxes redistribution berniesanders hillaryclinton maxweber neoliberalism determinismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67aa0aa35e76/The Bizarre World of Celebrity Philanthropy2024-02-06T17:44:56+00:00
https://culturestudypod.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-world-of-celebrity-philanthropy
robertogrecophilanthropy celebrity celebrities charity charitableindustrialcomplex philanthropicindustrialcomplex 2024 ashtonkucher amyschiller via:javierarbona charities annehelenpetersen reputationwashing indulgences bono red billgates consumerism consumption glamour neoliberalism politics signaling identity donors fundraising civics nobility ancientgreece justice socialjustice wealth wealthy taxes taxevasion sextrafficking fame authority invisiblechildren kony 2012 congress governance government perfectvictims praise attention praiseseeking victimhood heroism exploitation stature technology techbrain disruption saviorism absolution objectification conspicuousconsumption autism perfectvictimhood pity power sacrifice sentimentality neurodivergence children silentauctions thegildedage beneficence collectivism alexandragrant keanureeves transparency grantlove kony2012 disasterrelief redcross friction effectivealtruism algorithms criticalthinking productivity productivityculture petersinger local donorschoose libraries parhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:878f080516bf/Self-Checkout - by Damon Krukowski - Dada Drummer Almanach2024-01-30T23:00:27+00:00
https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/self-checkout
robertogrecoBy volume, Pitchfork has the highest daily site visitors of any of our titles; their higher consuming segments generate more unique page views by volume than any title. This despite scant resourcing, esp from corporate. Well-placed in a post-scale era (or was)
— Claire Willett (@clairedwillett) on Twitter, January 17, 2024 [the account has since been deleted]
If not Pitchfork, with more daily visitors than Vogue or Vanity Fair or the New Yorker - or GQ – then who in music journalism can possibly thrive in this economic environment. And if no one can… then all we’ll have left are streaming platforms, their algorithms, and the atomized consumer behavior they push on us. A self-checkout counter for music, with a scanner going beep – beep – beep –"
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https://slate.com/technology/2024/01/stanley-cup-tumbler-reusable-water-bottle-target.html
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https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/choosing-consideration-not-consumption
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https://www.honest-broker.com/p/i-ask-seven-heretical-questions-about
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https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/you-need-to-be-cringemaxxing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdL85EP7s5M
robertogrecoamazon shopping waste shipping returns adamconover 2023 capitalism zappos chile atacamadesert disposability fashion fastfashion psychology landfills consumption us apparel shoes pandemic lululemon jeffbezos amazonprime childlabor labor exploitationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa9c9fb29333/Luxury Fashion Is For Broke People - YouTube2023-12-12T22:43:25+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGDB22dpmwk
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https://syllabusproject.org/again-again/
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https://damaged.bleu255.com/Appropriate_Technology/
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https://twitter.com/petrogustavo/status/1713621633812791383
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https://blog.ayjay.org/the-mondragon-moment/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Er49jHQvI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz68ILyuWtA
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https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/children-and-technology
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https://www.wired.com/story/doug-rushkoff-survival-of-the-richest/
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https://reallifemag.com/colonial-cartography/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXBacEH0qo
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https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/
robertogrecowendellberry rural education local slow small unschooling deschooling centralization decentralization 2011 farming democracy community communities power storytelling professionalization professionals standardization standards extractivism extraction exploitation elitism culture society urban urbanization suburbs suburbia homogenization entertainment distraction belonging purpose environment land soil memory enrichment knowledge highered highereducation academia canon insurance corporations corporatism corporatization mutualaid sales advertising economics consumerism consumption gdp sustainability pollution degradation money poverty generations parenting media television tv classics bible shakespeare williamwordsworth kinship institutions institutionalization schools schooling publicschools indocrtrination children careerism professionalism careers place placebasededucation home meritocracy conservation environmentalism green ecology landscape garbage methods agesegregation government salaries income love memohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46a2ab19fd3d/The social ideology of the motorcar, by André Gorz (1973) - Uneven Earth2023-01-15T22:50:58+00:00
https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/
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https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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https://infinitemiledetroit.com/Bougie_Crap_Art,_Design_and_Gentrification.html
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/
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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/
robertogrecoanarchism 2022 alanjacobs ursulaleguin davidgraeber waltermosley society civilization primitivism cooperativism anarcho-syndicalism anarcho-communism marxism capitalism economics praxis practice politics philosophy mutualaid behavior action calvinism cooperation freedom greed vanity vainglory morality chaos murraybookchin pierre-josephproudhon marshallsahlins thedispossessed socialorder human humans decentralization thomashobbes selfishness pride peterkropotkin reciprocity competition dominance power politicalphilosophy nikilsaval sigfriedgiedion nietzsche us marginalization humannature utopia orthodoxy sciencefiction scifi discomfort hunter-gatherers socialdevelopment arthurcclarke loreneiseleyinequality injustice efficiency productivity exploitation solidarity possession dispossession ownership governance order hierarchy rule complexity corruption evil authority obstructionism anthropology originalsin centralization standards canons enough structure expectation tradition traditions expectations conventionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d75c8407de79/The Ezra Klein Show: Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions on Apple Podcasts2022-12-05T03:10:14+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-ruth-ozekis-enchanted-relationship-to-minds/id1548604447?i=1000571550798
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvw3qM5zCy0
robertogrecodavidharvey 2022 labor emancipation consumers consumer consumerism organizing money finance capital marx liberation mutualaid markets banking dailylife needs choice coercion regulation pedagogy mortgages scams usury collective collectivism rent exploitation household moneymanagement insurance marketing change neoliberalism consumption capitalism anticapitalism understanding society thinking howwethink scale small democracy organization local politics neighborhoods community communities waysofthinking readinggroups thinkinggroups conversation discourse strikes unions rentcontrol education learning howwelearn left progressive progressivism openstudioproject lcproject housing collectiveactionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2de76f1a8a98/Beyond Horology Podcast: Why We Collect Watches with guest psychiatrist Erik Nilzèn 🇸🇪 on Apple Podcasts2022-11-20T00:28:12+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-horology-podcast/id1549388407?i=1000538216849
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https://www.ablogtowatch.com/ariels-thoughts-the-four-styles-of-luxury-watch-buying/
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https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/critical-cooking-show/358121/the-avocado-toast/
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https://wornandwound.com/opinion-watch-enthusiast-or-collector-a-distinction-worth-making/
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https://www.ablogtowatch.com/thoughts-on-how-to-interpret-sustainability-and-environmental-friendliness-claims-from-watch-brands/
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https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/magazine/earn-it-first
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlNPVhmS7Yw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNjUFEuW18
robertogrecohermès 2022 luxury markets fashion brands branding rationality irrationality gucci louisvuitton balenciaga versace ronyburch coach moncler exclusivity marketing supply manipulation yvessaintlaurent ysl highfashion sneakers handbags clothing lvmh kering flexing licensing endorsement wholesale resale sponsorship genz millennials consumerism consumption shopping trends sales retail brandambassadors media socialmedia handmade efficiency scale slow craft craftsmanship assemblylines lessismore change elusiveness worthiness loyalty brandloyality france speed technology automation profits business manufacturing geny generationz zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7dd0412387b7/Episode 56: The Stopwatch of Doom: How the Cult of Productivity Torpedoes Sustainability and Equity - Post Carbon Institute2022-06-06T01:46:26+00:00
https://www.postcarbon.org/crazytown/episode-56/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM
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https://twitter.com/AShihipar/status/1479534469325406211
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/living-in-expectation-of-the-unexpected
robertogrecoFor some people at least, the idea seems to be that when we are freed from these mundane and tedious activities, we will be free to finally tap the real potential of our humanity. It’s as if there were some abstract plane of human existence that no one had yet achieved because we were fettered by our need to be directly engaged with the material world. I suppose that makes this a kind of gnostic fantasy. When we no longer have to tend to the world, we can focus on … what exactly?
It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
I’ve been noting of late that much of the “smart” infrastructure that is increasingly colonizing the home under the guise of convenience and automation tends to aim at something altogether banal: automated, which is to say thoughtless, rote consumption. This is evident, for example, in the app that inspired Gilliard’s comments.
From one perspective we might say that modern society in its consumerist mode offered the proliferation of choices and options as its summum bonum, its ultimate good. That is until the proliferation of choices and options became counterproductive, overwhelming would-be consumers with choices, inducing decision paralysis, and yielding diminishing returns. Now freedom as choice gives way to freedom from choice, but with no clearer sense of what freedom is for.
I know it is passé or worse in certain circles to cite the late David Foster Wallace, perhaps especially his Kenyon College address, but indulge me in recalling these lines:
And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the centre of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving…. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
Make what you will of Wallace and his art, this seems to me right and wise.
In the Prologue to The Human Condition, with the promise that automation would empty the factories, Hannah Arendt worried that “it is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaninfgul activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.” “What we are confronted with,” she added, “is the prospect of a society of laborers without labor, that is, without the only activity left to them. Surely, nothing could be worse.”
I’m tempted to say of the promise of a future world of automated consumption that we are confronted with the prospect of a society of consumers without consumption. Surely, nothing could be worse.
While Arendt’s mid-twentieth century fears about automation have not yet played out as she, and many others at the time, feared, her claim that modern society no longer knows of the higher activities for the sake of which freedom deserved to be won is still worth pondering.
If we grant that Arendt is on to something, I’d suggest that it is precisely in the absence of such activities or goods that technique takes on its compulsive, colonizing nature. Optimization becomes an end in itself. I may not know where I am going or why, but I can take some comfort in knowing that I can travel faster and more efficiently. Frenetic activity or compulsive distraction substitute for a clear sense of purpose and commitment. Substantive goals may elude me, but I can take refuge in tracking and optimizing an increasing range of activities and bodily functions.
I’m writing this installment with the themes of the last—exhaustion, burnout, tiredness, rest—still in mind. There are so many reasons why any of us might feel exhausted and depleted, but just now I find myself wondering how much of it is the result of aimless labors that serve only the operations of a techno-economic system designed to offer us everything but satisfaction, schooling us only in various forms of envy, addiction, and dependence.
I recently revisited Lewis Mumford’s 1951 lectures collected in Art and Technics, and I happened upon the following paragraph:
My basic assumption is that our life has increasingly split up into unrelated compartments, whose only form of order and interrelationship comes through fitting into the automatic organizations and mechanisms that in fact govern our daily existence. We have lost the essential capacity of self-governing persons—the freedom to make decisions, to say Yes or No in terms of our own purposes—so that, though we have vastly augmented our powers, through the high development of technics, we have not developed the capacity to control those powers in any proportionate degree. As a result, our very remedies are only further symptoms of the disease itself.
The freedom to say Yes or No in terms of our own purposes—it would seem that the first step in the direction is to clarify for ourselves what exactly our own purpose are or should be. To do this, it seems to me that we need to play the role of Socrates to ourselves, questioning our motives and desires, asking ourselves why we do what we do, seeking to radically, that is to the roots, weed out the various ways we’ve accepted uncritically the default settings of our techno-economic order.
I’m not inclined to give advice, particularly since so much of it takes the shape of technique, glibly packaged. I’ve been reading Tolkien again, and recently read that “elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” This seems right. But if I may venture the risk, let me at least allow you to overhear some of what I am saying to myself.
Do not mistake planning for purpose, or activity for action.
Attend to the ordinary and the mundane with care and with gratitude.
Consider that rest is not a time set aside, but a spirit brought to every time.
Refuse the ever-present temptation to control and manage the thing we call life for their is no surer way to miss it.
Finally, it will surprise no one if I bring this installment, and thus the year of writing, to a close by recalling Ivan Illich, or at least a striking summary of Illich’s thought written by his friend and biographer David Cayley. In Cayley’s words, Illich believed that one of the great temptations we must resist was the temptation “to bring what must begin and end as surprise under administration.”
So, I will do my best to enter the new year in a spirit of expectation, refusing the burden of administering and controlling what, if it is to be experienced at all, can only be experienced in its fullness as a surprise, an unexpected gift.
May the new year find you all healthy and well."]]>lmsacasas 2021 ivanillich notion sophiehaigney tools technology jacquesellul canon robinberjon chrisgilliard convenience efficiency automation humanity humanism life living mundane everyday slow small howweread howwewrite thinking howwethink reading writing davidfosterwallace hannaharendt society unschooling deschooling labor work freedom liberation purpose consumerism capitalism consumption optimization activity distraction schooling lewismumford jrrtolkein temptation control time administration technocracy refusal resistance luddism luddites davidcayley management lists economics behavior socrates materialism thewhy why culturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:501c5a8231de/Counterpoint: In Praise of the One-Watch Collection2021-12-26T22:40:30+00:00
https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a575808/in-praise-of-the-one-watch-collection/
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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blue-jeans-articles-of-interest-5/
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https://timeandtidewatches.com/opinion-the-second-hand-watch-boom-and-the-elephant-in-the-room/
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-human-built-world-is-not-built
robertogrecoI know a Mexican village through which not more than a dozen cars drive each day. A Mexican was playing dominoes on the new hard-surface road in front of his house — where he had probably played and sat since his youth. A car sped through and killed him. The tourist who reported the event to me was deeply upset, and yet he said: “The man had it coming to him.”
The assumption in the tourist’s statement is clear and brutal: it is the responsibility of humans to adapt to their technical milieu. For the sake of a development he likely neither needed or desired, this man’s environment was transformed so as to render it hostile to him, but it is somehow his fault for failing to promptly adapt himself to the new reality. As Illich notes, there’s not even an air of the tragic in the tourist’s claim. One can imagine some not-too-distant future when a cyclist is struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle and an observer declares, “Well, she wasn’t even wearing her beacon, so she had it coming to her.”
As I thought about Illich’s anecdote, my own parental anxiety to convey to my children the importance of minding the cars around them at all times appeared in a new light. When one remembers that it has not always been necessary to carefully train a child, with ritualistic precision, just so that they can walk about without fear of mortal injury, then the whole thing takes on a rather absurd and malicious character.
Once you see this dynamic in one set of circumstances, you start to see it again and again. In innumerable ways we bend ourselves to fit the pattern of a techno-economic order that exists for its own sake and not for ours. As another example, consider Illich’s observations in 2000 about what is required of those who would pursue a successful career:
Modern citizens who want to pursue a successful career face a situation that is without clear boundaries or limits, and this prevents them from recognizing an alternative to their self-directed ‘lifelong learning and decision-making.’ Their comings and goings, their progress and well-being, their flourishing and ruination depend on their adaptation to diverse systems. In particular, they have to learn to function and compete in symbiosis with current economic conditions. A tolerant acceptance of these conditions is no longer enough. One has to learn to identify with them. In the mills of the new economy, where positioning is all, the grit is supposed to grind itself so fine that it becomes grease for the gears.
Or consider Shannon Mattern’s observation that “our phones seem to be contrived for circadian contradiction.” A reminder that our own technologically induced patterns of restlessness can be profoundly unhealthy. Our phones, after all, function as an interface between us and a vast network of communication and commerce: in practice, do they principally serve our interests or those of the network?
As the ways that we are schooled for life in a system that in significant ways runs counter to our own interests and well-being become more apparent, then Illich’s more radical claims begin to sound plausible if not altogether sensible.
In Tools for Conviviality, for example, we encounter this stark summation of Illich’s view of industrial society:
Increasing manipulation of man becomes necessary to overcome the resistance of his vital equilibrium to the dynamic of growing industries; it takes the form of educational, medical, and administrative therapies. Education turns out competitive consumers; medicine keeps them alive in the engineered environment they have come to require; bureaucracy reflects the necessity of exercising social control over people to do meaningless work. The parallel increase in the cost of the defense of new levels of privilege through military, police, and insurance measures reflects the fact that in a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Maybe this comes off as rather extreme. After all, Illich is arguing that the modern world, circa 1974 at least, is fundamentally hostile to human well-being and that some of its most vaunted institutions were basically coping and conditioning mechanisms.
Jacques Ellul, with passing reference to learning how to navigate street traffic, argues similarly:
“At the same time, one should not forget the fact that human beings are themselves already modified by the technical phenomenon […] Their whole education is oriented toward adaptation to the conditions of technique (learning how to cross streets at traffic lights) and their instruction is destined to prepare them for entrance into some technical employment. Human beings are psychologically modified by consumption, by technical work, by news, by television, by leisure activities (currently, the proliferation of computer games), etc., all of which are techniques. In other words, it must not be forgotten that it is this very humanity which has been pre-adapted to and modified by technique that is supposed to master and reorient technique. It is obvious that this will not be able to be done with any independence.”
But this is why I read writers like Illich and Ellul, and why I encourage others to do the same: for the sake of a thoroughgoing critique that will make me think more deeply, and uncomfortably, about our situation and my own acquiescence and complicity. I find that my vision tends to be too narrowly focused on surface-level symptoms. And it is too easy to take refuge in the thought that a few tweaks here and a little regulation there will make all things well, or at least significantly better. Meanwhile, nothing quite changes. Then along comes someone like Illich or Ellul claiming that maybe the whole modern techno-social order, whatever its relative merits, is broken and malignant. That the roots of our problems run much deeper than we had assumed. That we are, in truth, doing it all wrong and should revisit some of our most fundamental assumptions. You may not, in the end, agree with their conclusions, but seriously considering their perspectives should at least help us to ask better, more fundamental questions about the human-built world, or, perhaps more importantly, about the beliefs, values, and interests that shape it.
What Illich and Ellul would have us consider is that the human-built world is not, in fact, built for humans. And, of course, this is to say nothing of what the human-built world has meant for the non-human world. What’s more, it may be paradoxically the case that the human-built world will prove finally inhospitable to human beings precisely to the degree that it was built for humans without regard for humanity’s continuity with the other animals and the world we inhabit together.”]]>lmsacasas ivalillich shannonmattern jacquesellul consumerism consumption capitalism regulation technology human humans humanism posthumanism morethanhuman multispecies 2021 deschooling unschooling technosolutionism nature conviviality education slow small modernism industrialization cars autonomousvehicles smartphones sleep well-being work labor bullshitjobs life living qualityoflife society restlessness health leisurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a9cfc0b664a/Low-Impact Watchmaking For A Changing World - HODINKEE Magazine2021-11-10T18:24:36+00:00
https://www.hodinkee.com/magazine/low-impact-watchmaking-for-a-changing-world
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https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-50-andreas-malm-and-ecological
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhnlj2F6RLk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jks2UFhvQqc
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-swedish-model-social-democracy-the-imperialist-world-system-with-torkil-lauesen
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https://newrepublic.com/article/163735/myth-regenerative-ranching
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https://www.publicbooks.org/thoreau-in-good-faith/
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking
robertogreco“The conditions for survival are necessary but not sufficient to ensure justice; people can survive in prison. The conditions for the just distribution of industrial outputs are necessary, but not sufficient to promote convivial production. People can be equally enslaved by their tools … A postindustrial society must and can be so constructed that no one person’s ability to express him- or herself in work will require as a condition the enforced labor or the enforced learning or the enforced consumption of another.”
There’s a three-tiered framework here that will have a Janus function at this juncture in the essay. Illich argues that what he calls a convivial society—which we can think of simply as a distinctly Illichian way of speaking about a good society—involves not only equal access to commodities, however broadly we conceive of them, but something more. This “something more,” as we see in the paragraph just quoted, Illich ties very close to work, work that is free, creative, and meaningful. In this regard, Illich recalls Simone Weil, who, though approaching the matter from her own deeply religious perspective, believed that “all the problems of technology and economy should be formulated functionally by conceiving of the best possible condition for the worker.”
It would be worth exploring how Weil and Illich each conceive of work as a condition of human flourishing (that work may already have been done, if so I’m presently unaware of it), but it enough for my purposes here to note that they both understand that a good society would furnish its citizens with more than just a steady stream of endless diversions.”
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“Perhaps another more contemporary example can help clarify Borgmann’s distinctions as I understand them. We can imagine a society, without a great deal of effort, in which the elderly routinely find themselves isolated, lonely, and lacking a sense of purpose—in a word, uprooted in Weil’s sense. This society has developed robots and digital devices to care for the elderly and to keep them company. In a formally just society, all elderly citizens have the right to procure these consumer goods. In a substantively just society, all elderly citizens can afford to procure these goods or else they are supplied by the state.”
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“I’ve assembled the work of these three writers because it seems to me that they are all circling around a similar set of concerns about human needs, work, technology, justice, and the good life. Their reflections make clear that these are interlocking realities, which must be considered together. They direct our attention to a more fundamental level of analysis, which we do well to take up. And they all saw the dangers of ordering society around technologically automated production and consumption and of uprooting human beings to enhance both.
I’ve argued before in this newsletter and elsewhere that one of the salient features of digital culture is the rapid collapse of the ideals of neutrality and disinterested objectivity that have been central to the legitimacy of modern liberal institutions. While this collapse will continue to be attended by varying degrees of turmoil and conflict, it may also provide us with an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.”
]]>ivanillich simoneweil lmsacasas 2020 conviviality needs humanism life living commoditization health healthcare institutions schools schooling unschooling deschooling humans hannaharendt loneliness alienation superfluousness rootedness uprootedness roots neediness economics society amazon amazonring safety technology production consumerism consumption capitalism anarchism convivialsociety albertborgmann slow small interdependence mutualaid specialization professionalization democracy liberalism modernity inequality work justice neutrality objectivity scottremer davidguaspari zacharyloeb matttierney ryancalo daniellcitron automation robhorning learning teaching howwelearn howweteach schoolinesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe259a9b4af9/Ill With Want - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society2021-07-18T01:26:26+00:00
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/ill-with-want
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https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-newsletter-24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2b_8G8EZ-4
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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/12/6/the-dark-side-of-the-nordic-model/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OGYc7cvKo
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https://debate.uvm.edu/asnider/Ivan_Illich/Ivan%20Illich_%20Imprisoned%20Global%20Classroom.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb7FYS2iIXo
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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/05/how-be-hopeful-even-pandemic/611350/
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https://davidharvey.org/2018/11/new-podcast-david-harveys-anti-capitalist-chronicles/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/arts/queer-eye-kondo-makeover.html
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https://mondediplo.com/openpage/traditions-of-the-future
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-FbtHmZhU
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https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuxHVD4Srw
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work
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