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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoLiving as Stateless Palestinians in Jordan – SAPIENS2024-03-25T21:06:43+00:00
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/palestinian-refugees-exile-displacement-jordan/
robertogrecopalestine israel jordan refugees 2023 history 1948 displacement dispossession citizenship michaelvicentepérez exile 2024https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:228f07927188/Israel’s Trojan Horse - The Chris Hedges Report2024-03-22T00:47:49+00:00
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-trojan-horse
robertogrecochrishedges 2024 gaza palestine israel exile antonyblinken joebidenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c9160bfc0e7/GENERATION EXILE: THE LIVES I LEAVE BEHIND - Arte Publico Press2024-03-08T05:48:38+00:00
https://artepublicopress.com/product/generation-exile-the-lives-i-leave-behind/
robertogreco2023 rodrigodorfman exile chile latinamerica memory resistance time home belonging historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81f76b17691e/Editor's Choice Ep. 6: Generation Exile with Rodrigo Dorfman - YouTube2024-03-08T05:44:26+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskpkUQvQ5U
robertogrecorodrigodorfman exile latinamerica chile film documentary arieldorfman tomáscrowder-taraborrelli time history memory home belonging resistance adhd latinamericanperspectives alexanderscott revolution imagination identity schooling argentina france migrants bilingualism 1973 1970s children language patricioguzmán dreams limbo writing books filmmaking howwewrite culture culturaltransmission music ethnography tension collectivememory rupture return loss capitalism chicagoboys neoliberalism patricioaylwin memoirs transmission interruption deathandthemaiden fascism fascistchic culturecreation society internet memes aesthetics democracy class communism marxism us josémartí activism solidarity bellybeast greed margins privilege latinos latinamerican postcolonialism diaspora 1990 migration place curses destiny sensemaking meaning meaningmaking changehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:74fcb751d861/Rabbi speaks on why he contests Zionism | The Chris Hedges Report - YouTube2024-02-23T20:32:02+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkzAuU2NG-Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUjdDYoTZG0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTGlZnVV8E
robertogrecoisrael palestine nakba gaza egypt 2023 abdelfattahel-sisi rafah abdelkouddous displacement ethniccleansing refugees occupation settlement colonialism colonization benjaminnetanyahu exile dispossessionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:03f03526e192/Resistance in the Arts — The New Atlantis2023-08-23T20:58:43+00:00
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/resistance-in-the-arts
robertogrecoalanjacobs 2023 resistance art arts music creativity publishing friction frictionlessness substack bandcamp patreon thebeatles frankgehry guggenheimbilbao shakespeare willkempe collaboration collaborative joywilliams maxwellperkins thomaswolfe gordonlish raymondcarver film cinema photography small slow nietzsche chinuaachebe milesdavis bladerunner stanleykubrick douglastrumbull terrencemalick nfts technology wu-tangclan tonimorrison kafka iamcdonald georgemartin silence michaelacoel violence attention disappearance disintermediation mediation exile cunning freedom stephendedalus farmtotable books writing howwewrite creation scarcityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f06a763adf06/El Sonido: Ana Tijoux: Revolución on Apple Podcasts2023-07-07T15:07:40+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ana-tijoux-revoluci%C3%B3n/id1677011949?i=1000619763915
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUT1hVCfcvE
robertogrecofranciscoyañez 2023 books language chile illustration words distance exile travel refugees creativity conviviality saudade migration immigration immigrants absence bilingualism howwethink howwerite storytelling translation art stories drawing text howweread howwewrite spanish portuguese españolhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:64fa91a38625/El Sonido: Trueno: Hecho de barrio on Apple Podcasts2023-06-25T22:40:25+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trueno-hecho-de-barrio/id1677011949?i=1000617237375
robertogrecoelsonido trueno argentina hiphop music latinamerica nyc bronx laboca buenosaires músicalatina caribbean spanish español albinacabrera mateopalacios héctorgermánoesterheld rap gabrielteodros larrymizelljr jennifermota pedropeligro peligro mcpedropeligro yamandúpalacios tupacshakur biggiesmalls uruguay surcapitalclika comuna4 héctorelí politics dictatorship 1970s 1980s conosur makiza exile gardeldeoro charobogarín guayraré franciscobogarín panchobogarín quechua eleternauta anatijoux chile pinochet reggaeton cypresshill brazil brasil planethemp marceld2 cuba colombia venezuela us tirodegracia perú rapperschool trescoronas controlmachete daddyyankee puertorico vicoc calle13 emmanuelhorvilleur dantespinetta ilykuryakiandthevalderramas nelly 50cent luisalbertospinetta drdre grandmasterflash nwa xzbit ludacris fifly lilsupa eminem snoopdog mexico alemán jid salsa charlygarcia julianacorazzina anti-authoritarianism resistance guatemala rebecalane lapozzelatina panterasnegras sanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3855e917a1e/JOSEF KOUDELKA ¿El mejor fotógrafo del mundo? - YouTube2023-03-29T21:51:37+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zZjOKIJuE
robertogrecooscarcolorado josefkoudelka 2021 photography margins exile documentation theater prague roma exiles ussr sovietunion romani czechoslovakia landscapehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa9412e73e09/Etel Adnan on lightning-strike paintings and words as gestures · SFMOMA2021-11-28T19:16:41+00:00
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/etel-adnan-lightning-strike-paintings-and-words-gestures/
robertogrecoeteladnan art poetry anno'hanlon dominicancollege philosophy aesthetics painting timing readiness howwelearn learning tools howwework language writing howwewrite drawing color mounttamalpais creativity abstraction inspiration exile life living relationships morethanhuman sanfrancisco mysticism happiness sfmoma paradisehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40829b2f9cdf/Language Is Migrant - South Magazine Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3] - documenta 142019-03-21T00:42:55+00:00
https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/904_language_is_migrant
robertogrecoa heart in pain,
changing the heart of the earth.
The word “immigrant” says, “grant me life.”
“Grant” means “to allow, to have,” and is related to an ancient Proto-Indo-European root: dhe, the mother of “deed” and “law.” So too, sacerdos, performer of sacred rites.
What is the rite performed by millions of people displaced and seeking safe haven around the world? Letting us see our own indifference, our complicity in the ongoing wars?
Is their pain powerful enough to allow us to change our hearts? To see our part in it?
I “wounder,” said Margarita, my immigrant friend, mixing up wondering and wounding, a perfect embodiment of our true condition!
Vicente Huidobro said, “Open your mouth to receive the host of the wounded word.”
The wound is an eye. Can we look into its eyes?
my specialty is not feeling, just
looking, so I say:
(the word is a hard look.)
—Rosario Castellanos
I don’t see with my eyes: words
are my eyes.
—Octavio Paz
In l980, I was in exile in Bogotá, where I was working on my “Palabrarmas” project, a way of opening words to see what they have to say. My early life as a poet was guided by a line from Novalis: “Poetry is the original religion of mankind.” Living in the violent city of Bogotá, I wanted to see if anybody shared this view, so I set out with a camera and a team of volunteers to interview people in the street. I asked everybody I met, “What is Poetry to you?” and I got great answers from beggars, prostitutes, and policemen alike. But the best was, “Que prosiga,” “That it may go on”—how can I translate the subjunctive, the most beautiful tiempo verbal (time inside the verb) of the Spanish language? “Subjunctive” means “next to” but under the power of the unknown. It is a future potential subjected to unforeseen conditions, and that matches exactly the quantum definition of emergent properties.
If you google the subjunctive you will find it described as a “mood,” as if a verbal tense could feel: “The subjunctive mood is the verb form used to express a wish, a suggestion, a command, or a condition that is contrary to fact.” Or “the ‘present’ subjunctive is the bare form of a verb (that is, a verb with no ending).”
I loved that! A never-ending image of a naked verb! The man who passed by as a shadow in my film saying “Que prosiga” was on camera only for a second, yet he expressed in two words the utter precision of Indigenous oral culture.
People watching the film today can’t believe it was not scripted, because in thirty-six years we seem to have forgotten the art of complex conversation. In the film people in the street improvise responses on the spot, displaying an awareness of language that seems to be missing today. I wounder, how did it change? And my heart says it must be fear, the ocean of lies we live in, under a continuous stream of doublespeak by the violent powers that rule us. Living under dictatorship, the first thing that disappears is playful speech, the fun and freedom of saying what you really think. Complex public conversation goes extinct, and along with it, the many species we are causing to disappear as we speak.
The word “species” comes from the Latin speciēs, “a seeing.” Maybe we are losing species and languages, our joy, because we don’t wish to see what we are doing.
Not seeing the seeing in words, we numb our senses.
I hear a “low continuous humming sound” of “unmanned aerial vehicles,” the drones we send out into the world carrying our killing thoughts.
Drones are the ultimate expression of our disconnect with words, our ability to speak without feeling the effect or consequences of our words.
“Words are acts,” said Paz.
Our words are becoming drones, flying robots. Are we becoming desensitized by not feeling them as acts? I am thinking not just of the victims but also of the perpetrators, the drone operators. Tonje Hessen Schei, director of the film Drone, speaks of how children are being trained to kill by video games: “War is made to look fun, killing is made to look cool. ... I think this ‘militainment’ has a huge cost,” not just for the young soldiers who operate them but for society as a whole. Her trailer opens with these words by a former aide to Colin Powell in the Bush/Cheney administration:
OUR POTENTIAL COLLECTIVE FUTURE. WATCH IT AND WEEP FOR US. OR WATCH IT AND DETERMINE TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE
—Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel U.S. Army (retired)
In Astro Noise, the exhibition by Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the language of surveillance migrates into poetry and art. We lie in a collective bed watching the night sky crisscrossed by drones. The search for matching patterns, the algorithms used to liquidate humanity with drones, is turned around to reveal the workings of the system. And, we are being surveyed as we survey the show! A new kind of visual poetry connecting our bodies to the real fight for the soul of this Earth emerges, and we come out woundering: Are we going to dehumanize ourselves to the point where Earth itself will dream our end?
The fight is on everywhere, and this may be the only beauty of our times. The Quechua speakers of Peru say, “beauty is the struggle.”
Maybe darkness will become the source of light. (Life regenerates in the dark.)
I see the poet/translator as the person who goes into the dark, seeking the “other” in him/herself, what we don’t wish to see, as if this act could reveal what the world keeps hidden.
Eduardo Kohn, in his book How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: riparana means “darse cuenta,” “to realize or to be aware.” The verb is a Quichuan transfiguration of the Spanish reparar, “to observe, sense, and repair.” As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, had the power to heal.
I see the invention of such verbs as true poetry, as a possible path or a way out of the destruction we are causing.
When I am asked about the role of the poet in our times, I only question: Are we a “listening post,” composing an impossible “survival guide,” as Paul Chan has said? Or are we going silent in the face of our own destruction?
Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista guerrilla, transcribes the words of El Viejo Antonio, an Indian sage: “The gods went looking for silence to reorient themselves, but found it nowhere.” That nowhere is our place now, that’s why we need to translate language into itself so that IT sees our awareness.
Language is the translator. Could it translate us to a place within where we cease to tolerate injustice and the destruction of life?
Life is language. “When we speak, life speaks,” says the Kaushitaki Upanishad.
Awareness creates itself looking at itself.
It is transient and eternal at the same time.
Todo migra. Let’s migrate to the “wounderment” of our lives, to poetry itself."]]>ceciliavicuña language languages words migration immigration life subcomandantemarcos elviejoantonio lawrencewilkerson octaviopaz exile rosariocastellanos poetry spanish español subjunctive oral orality conversation complexity seeing species joy tonjehessenschei war colinpowell laurapoitras art visual translation eduoardokohn quechua quichua healing repair verbs invention listening kaushitakiupanishad awareness noticing wondering vicentehuidobro wounds woundering migrants unknown future potential unpredictability emergent drones morethanhuman multispecies paulchan destruction displacement refugees extinction others tolerance injustice justice transience ephemerality ephemeral canon eternal surveillance patterns algorithms earth sustainability environment indifference complicity dictatorship documenta14 2017 classideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ada86a335b2/‘Silence Is Health’: How Totalitarianism Arrives | by Uki Goñi | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books2018-11-03T18:51:56+00:00
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/08/20/silence-is-health-how-totalitarianism-arrives/
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http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/cassettes-from-exile
robertogrecochile exile 2017 dannismaxwell argentinahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0cd42edf6f8/BOMB Magazine — Edwidge Danticat by Garnette Cadogan2016-07-12T06:19:38+00:00
http://bombmagazine.org/article/7470/edwidge-danticat
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http://www.proyectosurlosangeles.blogspot.com/
robertogrecojenhofer writing storytelling biography autobiography proyectosur losangeles exilehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3931ae505422/Blog - by Allen Tan - An accent marks the lag between two cultures, two...2015-03-28T06:55:58+00:00
http://blog.tanmade.com/post/114816765596/an-accent-marks-the-lag-between-two-cultures-two
robertogrecoandréaciman language accents identity languages speech exile connection betweenness migration immigration belonging culture seams interstitial thirdculture liminality liminalspaces liminalstates betweenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f0cb9293af3/Photo Booth: Living Ghosts: In Exile with the Sahrawi Bedouins : The New Yorker2011-05-14T22:45:56+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/05/living-ghosts-in-exile-with-the-sahrawi-bedouins.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_yaUgmGJQ
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