Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Writing Like There's No Tomorrow - Front Porch Republic 2026-07-04T08:29:38+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/07/writing-like-theres-no-tomorrow/ robertogreco kenhada writing howwewrite literature poetry 2026 aldoleopold thoreau wendellberry garysnyder rachelcarson barrylopez anniedillard terrytempestwilliams wildness nature ecosystems robinsonjeffers planet environment poems williamstaffod consumerism maryoliver mscottmomaday experience livedexperience humanness wilderness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecedf29a2f91/ The Dominance of Place | Commonweal Magazine 2026-07-03T07:20:05+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dominance-place robertogrecoNearly six years ago, when I had written the last of my poems for the collection Green Shadows and Other Poems, I felt sure that I could write nothing more for publication. I went on writing, of course, but only for my archives. But with Covid lockdowns and a bit of cajoling from his publisher, Murnane embarked upon Last Letter. The book comprises a series of short essays on his own published work, beginning with Tamarisk Row and ending with Last Letter itself. Last call, says the provincial bartender. And yet, as the reference to his archives suggests, he plans to continue serving himself. *** Murnane readers will know of the famous archives, a detailed catalog of which was first published in 2013 in Music & Literature: three separate sets of large filing cabinets in the author’s home, each containing an aspect of Murnane’s life. The first is his “chronological archive,” containing records and memorabilia, including old photos and keepsakes, reflections with titles like “Letter of 8,000 words to the Canadians” and “I’m a vengeful bastard!”, and an extensive collection of Magyar flash cards (he is a great lover of all things Hungarian.) The second archive is his “literary archive,” which houses early drafts, unpublished novels and stories, and notes for future work. Finally, and most intriguingly, there is what Murnane calls his “Antipodean archive,” his entirely private exploration—including manuscripts, maps, and geographical surveys—of two fictional islands he has named New Arcady and New Eden, together called the Antipodes. He has made reference to these islands in his fiction, notably in 1995’s “The Interior of Gaaldine,” which recounts in Murnane’s distinctive first-person voice the narrator’s travel by sea to Tasmania to meet other writers for a tour of the country. Averse to travel, like Murnane himself, the narrator drinks endless “stubbies” of beer and flasks of vodka, eats only some fruit he has brought with him, and goes without sleep for well over twenty-four hours, despite comfortable accommodations and scant obligations. When he is finally able to sleep for a few hours, he is awoken by a mysterious woman who knocks on his door, enters without invitation, and foists upon him a manuscript, which she claims was written by an unnamed friend of hers. The narrator then summarizes the manuscript: a typically Murnanian character—solitary, outwardly average, with an inner-life so rich it makes deep engagement with the outer world altogether unappealing—tells the story of his own life and his invention of an island named New Arcadia. Toward the end of this summary, Murnane interjects:
A different sort of writer than myself might have wondered why the author of the pages in the briefcase had gone to such trouble to invent a duplication of what was already available to him: why should he have invented the racecourses of New Arcadia when he could have bought a racehorse for himself and watched it of a Saturday at Mowbray or Elwick. I have always been interested in what is usually called the world but only insofar as it provides me with evidence for the existence of another world. I have never written any piece of fiction with the simple purpose of understanding what I might call the real world. I have always written fiction in order to suggest to myself that another world exists.
It is worth noting that “The Interior of Gaaldine” appears in Emerald Blue, the last fiction Murnane published for nearly fifteen years. The chapter in Last Letter to a Reader devoted to this collection focuses almost entirely on this story, which Murnane had intended to be his farewell to fiction. “I believe today,” he writes, “that I was driven to write ‘The Interior of Gaaldine’ partly to reassure myself that my Antipodean Archive, as I mostly call it nowadays, is as worthy a task as the planning and writing of any of my published works.” The drunken delirium of Murnane’s narrator, like the ecstasy of a child, leads directly to his unanticipated entrance into a world not simply parallel with his own, nor born out of it, but somehow intertwined with the stuff of his everyday experience. For want of a better term, Murnane calls this other world “his mind,” or simply “the Mind.” I might suggest “Spirit.” Whatever you call it, it is difficult not to be torn by his devotion to it. On the one hand, Murnane’s reports are those of a genuine explorer: with a strange mixture of single-mindedness and openness to surprise, his work persistently follows the singular capacities of language for both the discovery and the creation of worlds. On the other hand, one begins to wonder where all of this leads. Murnane already abandoned his readers once, in 1995. And now, after the second half of a career increasingly marked by self-reference—the author endlessly reflecting on his own utterances, even from one sentence to the next—Murnane is again retreating from the world. Of course, that doesn’t mean he will stop writing. The archives will grow, and when we finally enter into them, perhaps that will reveal a deeper communion, one that had been ongoing, however invisible. Last Letter to a Reader Gerald Murnane And Other Stories 144 pp. | $17.95"]]> jackhanson 2022 place geraldmurnane time experience landscape writing howwewrite https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6032fd87ca22/ A Prayer for Limits - by Matthew Battles 2026-07-03T07:04:10+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/a-prayer-for-limits robertogrecoOur relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them…. It is precisely within our limitations that the following find a place: compassion, as well as a sincere concern for the needs of others; a generosity that can emerge even in the midst of darkness and failure; spiritual experience and the worship of God…. Mysteriously, it is precisely in such moments that we can discover a new wisdom, tangibly experience the closeness of others and encounter the presence of the Lord. I found myself wanting not merely to assent to these words, but to pray with them. It was a curious and inexorable feeling. I have not made a practice of composing and sharing prayers; but a spiritual confidante whose fellowship I trust has encouraged me to share this one. And so here is a prayer for our limits, offered not for intercession or supplication but in adoration: It is through your love, O Lord, that we learn to love our limits, which give force to our compassion and shape to the fear we feel for others in their need; which nurture our generosity even as we fall and fail; which frame and enfold our measures of adoration. Confronted as we shall be by rejection, grieving as we must at the loss of all we hold dear, quaking as we do in the face of our failures, may we gather our wits, sense your nearness, and come to rest in the embrace of our entanglement. We suffer from these limits and we learn from them. Without them, we would cease yearning even for love. To love, to learn, and to desire is to wound and be wounded. What a gift it is to be drawn into your woundedness, into this adventure of failure and freedom, disappointment and dream. In you, we affirm the tragedy and splendor and glorious mystery of being your body together; with you, we choose the human."]]> matthewbattles 2026 popeleoxiv magnificahumanitas encyclicals ai artificialintelligence catholicchurch catholicism antónbarba-kay technology siliconvalley lmsacasas technocracy utility tools environment marshallmcluhan perception resistance matthewsitman samadler-bell jackhanson beauty grace life living limits incapacity illness age aging suffering vulnerability humanity humanism compassion wisdom experience prayer spirituality failure freedom disappointment entanglement human humanness humans knowyourenemy friction frictionlessness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7e82e1856b5/ Lenka Clayton in "Human Nature" – Season 12 | Art21 - YouTube 2026-07-02T02:47:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olyBoqfEPGY robertogreco lenkaclayton 2026 art artmaking collections collecting motherhood pittsburgh everyday typewriters maternityleave measurement parenting artresidencies lighthouses nonsense children engagement sharedexperience experience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:903e966330d4/ Walking and the Art of Public Space: Alisa Oleva on Cities, Belonging & Nuart Aberdeen - YouTube 2026-06-29T03:15:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqTo7GC7HM robertogreco alisaoleva walking 2026 london cities experience art walkingart urban wandering psychogeography situationist home belonging slow desirelines place attention movement noticing observation aberdeen scotland publicsace performance immersion familiarization learning howwelearn place-basedlearning everyday hangingout parkour notknowing strangers gettinglost time unknowing discovery exposure disoberdience walkingscores georgesperec geography resistance senses sensory walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:76ea0542a914/ Alisa Oleva the Walking Artist Inviting Us to View the City Differently • Inspiring City 2026-06-29T02:53:49+00:00 https://inspiringcity.com/2026/06/22/alisa-oleva-the-walking-artist-inviting-us-to-view-the-city-differently/ robertogreco walking alisaoleva london cities experience art walkingart urban wandering psychogeography situationist home belonging slow desirelines place attention movement noticing observation 2026 aberdeen scotland publicsace performance immersion familiarization learning howwelearn place-basedlearning everyday hangingout parkour notknowing strangers gettinglost time unknowing discovery exposure disoberdience walkingscores georgesperec geography resistance senses sensory walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b412bfd4d989/ The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now - YouTube 2026-06-28T22:50:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA robertogreco bennjordan leveragism capitalism internet online google gemini ai artificialintelligence aibubble journalism rugpulls authoritarianism elonmusk donaldtrump spacex israel gaza anarchism economics economy integrity finance ip intellectualproperty well-being wellbeing precarity gold debt politics us bigtech spotify suno streaming law legal happiness fuckyoumoney inequality money labor wealth laborreflexivity growth borders border privateequity libertarianism tescreal nerdreich peterthiel billackman rulingclass transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism singularity xenophobia inflation extraction rationalism oligarchy larryellison markzuckerberg jeffbezos effectivealtruism longtermism governance government democracy poverty work police policing iranwar austerity retirement maga trumpism muskism wallstreet stockmarket nasdaq indexfunds 401k leverage power policy autonomy obesity surveillance survival fear ice bronnieware life living courage death guatemala coca-cola unions wisdom pollution environment humanrigh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8e53f65ef4f/ Academia: Epistemological Graveyards We (Mostly) Whistle Past 2026-06-26T11:56:35+00:00 https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-epistemological-graveyards robertogreco timothyburke socialscience socialsciences humility history anthropology economics psychology change revolution panamapapers notknowing data politics culture society sociology experience collectives class everyday information academia highered highereducation institutions governance government decisionmaking behavior human humans hindsight cognition personality trauma addiction bias epistemology phenomenology howwethink thinking collectivity collectivities collectivism neuroscience belief beliefs metacognition inclination polemics datasets confidence policy analysis socialclaims danieldiermeier https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:30c6132eb5f6/ Pope Leo XIV's 'Magnifica humanitas' (with Jack Hanson) - Know Your Enemy - Apple Podcasts 2026-06-26T08:30:11+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pope-leo-xivs-magnifica-humanitas-w-jack-hanson/id1462703434?i=1000773716438 robertogreco magnificahumanitas 2026 popeleoxiv rerumnovarum popeleoxiii jackhanson donnaharraway cyborgs ai artificialintelligence humanism humanity reinholdniebuhr catholicchurch catholicism nature destiny human humans workers work labor augustinianism augustine staugustine saintaugustine society michaeloakenshott knowyourenemy war greed religion popefrancis us michaeloakeshott commonweal charlespéguy modernity profit capitalism privateproperty property authoritarianism democracy jdvance donaldtrump samadler-bell matthewsitman poverty augustinians sharing theology stevebannon latinamerica perú vaticanii vatican tradcatholicism globalsouth thirdworld humanrights global liberaldemocracy religiousfreedom freedomofreligion popebenedictxvi scripture thomasaquinas justice humandignity economics democraticsocialism politics adrianvermeule 1891 1937 1983 1985 discernment darioamodei anthropic antoniospadaro peterthiel towerofbabel language english audience desire homogenization tension growth friction mortality time place https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0ae7f0359ad/ Your AI Is Not a Tool - 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M. Sacasas 2026-06-23T10:09:03+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/your-ai-is-not-a-tool robertogreco lmsacasas 2026 ivanillich marshallmcluhan technology culture ai artificialintelligence philosophy ethics medialiteracy tools perception society degradation asceticism senses sensory experience slow small leomarx blaisepascal jacquesellul evanselinger woodrowhartzog obscurity andrewmccluhan toolsforconviviality stoics stoicism stevenjohnson charleyjohnson media resistance antónbarba-kay popeleoxiv pschye environment cognitiveuploading cognitiveoffloading absorption humanism subverison sensation sensing reality socialfabric https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b00a407f0bb3/ Snow Line - Seasoning a Kid: A Search for a Practice of Place by adam amir - YouTube 2026-06-19T07:33:14+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjWtt0ItWM robertogreco adamamir 2026 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7df169112493/ Sakura - Seasoning A Kid: A Search for a Practice of Place by adam amir - YouTube 2026-06-19T07:31:44+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTp0fclKG-M robertogreco 2026 adamamir 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b561b53b7add/ Meeting the Migration - Seasoning A Kid: A Search for a Practice of Place by adam amir - YouTube 2026-06-19T07:30:10+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qal6X1DpyU robertogreco adamamir 2026 2025 children nature seasons outdoors place time experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals multispecies morethanhuman unschooling education film land place-basedlearning place-basededucation learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3703327d882/ Plucking as Prayer - Seasoning A Kid: A Search for a Practice of Place by adam amir - YouTube 2026-06-19T04:48:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wHKW3KyqQ robertogreco adamamir children nature seasons 2026 film morethanhuman multispecies time land place place-basedlearning place-basededucation education 2025 outdoors experience parenting wildlife tradition traditions language berries animals unschooling learning howwelearn childhood vancouver britishcolumbia spring summer fall winter autumn land-basedlearning land-basededucation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17aba36a8579/ Tolstoy and the Illusion of Inevitability | THR Web Features | Web Features | The Hedgehog Review 2026-06-17T10:22:04+00:00 https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/tolstoy-and-the-illusion-of-inevitability robertogreco“Traveler, there is no road. The road is made by walking.” —Antonio Machado Machado’s famous line suggests that the future does not exist in advance, waiting to be discovered, but comes into being through a choice among possible actions. Many possibilities exist at any given moment. The one that becomes actual depends on coincidences and chances as well as choices, all producing events whose significance emerges only as they unfold. That, as it happens, is also Leo Tolstoy’s argument in War and Peace. In the book’s battle scenes, plans dissolve into confusion, causes multiply beyond reckoning, and outcomes hinge on fleeting, unrepeatable moments. On the eve of the Battle of Borodino, the novel’s hero, Prince Andrei, reflects that what lies ahead is not a determinate sequence but “a hundred million chances…decided on the instant.” What matters is less the perfection of a plan and more the ability to respond to what no plan could anticipate, by means of what Tolstoy calls “alertness.” For Tolstoy, this is a feature not of war alone but of reality in general. History, far from representing the execution of a grand design, is rather the result of countless interacting elements, each shaping and reshaping what can happen next. New possibilities are always emerging as earlier ones are left unrealized. Life more closely resembles an evolving system than a solved equation. Events are contingent in Aristotle’s sense of the term: They “can either be or not be.” After all, if things could only happen one way, human action would collapse into the mechanical execution of what was already implicit in the present. “If human life could be [entirely] governed by reason,” Tolstoy writes in the book’s epilogue, “the possibility of life is destroyed.” And yet again and again, in our aspiration to a hard science allowing for prediction, we are drawn to deny this. That is one reason War and Peace has never lost its relevance. The Recurring Dream of Certainty Since the scientific revolution, Western thought has repeatedly returned to the hope that contingency might be an illusion. As Newton explained the baffling complexities of planetary motion by four simple laws, perhaps, many imagined, the same could be done for human affairs. Thinkers as diverse as Marx, Skinner, and Malinowski have shared this dream, with each promising, in his own way, to reveal necessity beneath apparent disorder. Complexity, for such men, is conceived of as a surface phenomenon, concealing an underlying simplicity that, once uncovered, will render the future knowable. Pierre-Simon Laplace insisted that events are certain, not probable: In speaking of their probability, we are really speaking of the chances our guesses may be accurate, but the events themselves are certain. Time and again, the apparent contingency of events is presented as evidence of our own ignorance. If we knew enough, we would see that events could not have happened otherwise. But there is another possibility: that contingency is real—that the world is not merely complicated but fundamentally generative, that new possibilities are not simply revealed over time but produced within it, through the interaction of elements that cannot be fully anticipated in advance. This is the world Tolstoy describes, one where knowledge cannot precede action, only emerge through it. Time and the Limits of Foresight Tolstoy’s deepest insight concerns time itself. In a deterministic view, time is a neutral space where events unfold according to fixed laws and the future lies already implicit in the present, waiting to be revealed. But in Tolstoy’s world, time is generative. Each moment reshapes what can happen next. Possibilities interact, combine, and disappear, their significance becoming visible only as events unfold. One might say that the system is constantly generating variation—new configurations, new alignments, new opportunities—but without any overarching mechanism that selects among them in advance. Selection happens locally, in real time, through action. The closer one looks, the more things fail to simplify, as in the Newtonian model, and ramify instead. What happens to be taken up is what persists. This is why most Austrian and Russian generals in War and Peace are consistently wrong. They believe they possess a science of warfare—a system capable of anticipating outcomes. Before Austerlitz, they insist that “every contingency has been foreseen.” The result is Napoleon’s greatest victory—yet their confidence remains intact, attributing failure to imperfect execution, never to the limits of prediction itself. As so often happens, the conviction that events must conform to a science makes the supposed science unfalsifiable. The wisest general, Kutuzov, appreciates that people conceive only of a few possibilities while there are thousands. Famously, in the Council of War before Austerlitz, he advises not more planning but “a good night’s sleep.” What matters most is the alertness to seize opportunities that cannot be anticipated in advance. This distinction—between a world that can be mapped and one that must be navigated—extends beyond warfare. Wherever outcomes depend on unfolding interactions, local knowledge, and irreversible time, no complete science is possible. One can orient oneself, but one cannot blaze the path in advance. The Illusion of Inevitability If the future is open, why does the past so often appear inevitable? Tolstoy offers several answers, including what he calls “the law of retrospection.” Once events have occurred, we can reconstruct the paths that led to them. We identify signs that seem to foreshadow the outcome we now know. Alternatives fade from view—not because they were not real, but because they left no trace. The result is a powerful illusion: What happened begins to seem as if it had to happen. Tolstoy asks us to imagine a group of men hauling a log, all pulling in different directions. Wherever they happen to wind up, someone will say they planned to do so. This retrospective projection—which one of us has called backshadowing—reshapes our understanding of history. We look at earlier moments and conclude that the outcome was implicit all along. The more coherent the explanation, the easier it is to forget that things might have turned out otherwise. To avoid backshadowing, we must practice sideshadowing—recognizing that other outcomes, some of which we can imagine, were genuinely possible. That is just the insight that those who believe they have discovered a hard science allowing for prediction in the social world forget or deny. And yet they cannot foresee their own future. Tolstoy’s narrative resists this illusion by preserving the density of lived experience—the sense that at each moment multiple futures were genuinely possible. History, in this view, is not a line but a branching structure, most of whose branches vanish without record. AI and Narrative Certainty In the age of AI, this dream of certainty has taken a new and more persuasive form. Artificial intelligence can process vast datasets, identify patterns invisible to human perception, and generate explanations with remarkable coherence. Faced with such capabilities, it is tempting to believe that uncertainty can finally be overcome—that the future can be rendered legible in advance. But the deeper effect of AI lies in its ability to reorganize the past. Given sufficient data, AI systems can produce narratives that make outcomes appear coherent, even inevitable. They can identify correlations, reconstruct causal chains, and highlight what they regard as signs foreshadowing what followed. The result is not necessarily false, but it is selective. In this way, AI functions less as a predictor than as a powerful engine of narrative compression, reducing the apparent space of possibilities by presenting a single path as the path. What was once understood as a field of possible alternatives becomes retrospectively legible as an inevitable sequence, reducing many “futuribles” to one. The danger here lies in premature coherence, the sense that complexity has been resolved when it has only been reorganized into a persuasive form. A Compass Rather Than a Map Tools do more than extend thought; they reshape the environment in which thought occurs. AI, for instance, introduces a distinctive bias by generating what is statistically coherent, what resembles patterns derived from accumulated data. In an evolutionary system, what persists is not necessarily what is best in any absolute sense but what is most easily selected under prevailing conditions. AI changes those conditions in the intellectual world, lowering the cost of generating variations while subtly guiding selection toward what is already legible within its patterns. Over time, this can narrow the space of perceived possibilities by making them less visible, less accessible, less likely to be pursued. Certain forms of thought—those that resist simplification, that depend on sustained attention, or that emerge from direct engagement with the world—become comparatively fragile. What follows from Tolstoy’s ideas, on the other hand, is not that prediction is useless or that analysis should be abandoned, but rather that we must think in terms of a compass rather than a map. A map assumes a fixed terrain and a determinate path, while a compass provides direction without specifying the route. In a world of genuine contingency, only the latter is available. One can choose a bearing, but the path itself is discovered through movement. Orientation is not foresight. This is the force of Machado’s insight: The road is made by walking not because we lack information but because the path does not exist until it is created. To accept this is to adopt a different understanding of knowledge, not as a complete representation of what will happen, but as a capacity to respond intelligently to what does happen. It is inseparable from time, from attention, from the ability to recognize significance as it emerges. The impulse to eliminate contingency is understandable. Uncertainty is uncomfortable: It resists control and frustrates planning. But it is also what makes agency possible. A world in which everything could be predicted would be a world in which nothing could be otherwise. Action would lose its meaning, since outcomes would already be fixed. The openness of the future is not a defect in our knowledge, but a condition of human life. Artificial intelligence does not change this condition—but it can make us forget it. By rendering the past as if it had been inevitable, it invites us to imagine that the future is already written. Against this, one must insist on what Tolstoy and Machado understood in saying that the future remains unwritten, not because we have failed to compute it but because it does not yet exist."]]> tolstoy garysaulmorson julioottino antoniomachado fleeting alertness certainty uncertainty foresight prediction predictions contingency time variation selection local localism slow small complexity simplicity inevitability retrospection localknowledge knowledge irreverability science 2026 backshadowing sideshadowing coherence cohesion control human humanism planning plans narrativecompression future data ai artificialintelligence conditions possibility possibilities simplification orientation compass direction maps mapping liveexperience experience history action reason technocracy futuribles compasses canon humanness life living warandpeace bfskinner bronisławmalinowski karlmarx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d990d00b4a4/ Trauma is a Time Machine: A Cinematic Primer with Kwasu D. Tembo - YouTube 2026-06-08T05:32:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1-hhZUcGJY robertogrecoKwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema. In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time machine, then, functions as a fantasy that allows for this pace to be slowed or accelerated so as to appear entirely suspended, with the potentials of the “Now” (re)opened to the traveler. As the manipulation of time lends the traveler increased agency-and perhaps the conditions to see themselves more clearly amid a claustrophobic sea of information and content-Tembo contends that we must carefully consider the psycho-emotional affectivity of both the motivations and the potentially traumatic consequences of such a jarring shift in perspective. The results lend critical insight into human understandings of how we experience time and, ultimately, what these understandings permit and disallow in terms of how (it is) to be in time. Phasmid Press: https://phasmidpress.org/ "]]> timetravel film fiction sciencefiction scifi trauma acidhorizon 2026 kwasutembo philosophy death temporality therapy experience healing lajetée chrismarker agency freewill determinism nihilism physics filmtheory value chronomics responsibility capitalism longnow accelerationism charlesdickens now present labor work nostalgia backtothefuture gillesdeleuze deleuze robertasparrow donnydarko enternalsunsetofthespotlessmind twelevemonkeys coherence inception interstellar primer runlolarun upstreamcolor horsegirl looper minorityreport mrnobody thejacket momento anotherearth predestination meetcute everythingeverywhereallatonce thebeast projectalmanac timecrimes timelapse safetynotguaranteed darkcity tenet sourcecode itfollows chronologicaltime continuities continuity discretion memory change individualism choice improvisation contingency disruption looping quantumphysics stephenwolfram loops repetion complexity luddism neoluddism evolution henribergson andreasmalm wimcarton future entropy computing computation g https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:98ea222f781e/ The Future Belongs to Those Who Resist It — The New Atlantis 2026-06-06T11:13:15+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-resist-it robertogreco calrecoffey encyclicals popeleoxiv magnificahumanitas ai artificialintelligence slop aislop experience humanity humanexperience human humanism dehumanization oligarchy unemployment war technology catholicchurch catholicism llms chatbots marcusaurelisus sociality social discernment algorithms resistance civilization society everyday life living purpose policy claude https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:118e3e812887/ How the AI age forgets to ask: "What for?" | Benjamín Labatut + Jasmine Sun - YouTube 2026-06-06T04:39:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y robertogreco benjaminlabatut 2026 jasminesun ai artificialintelligence fiction literature literaryfiction quantumphysics quantummechanics johnvonneumann alphago alphazero leesedol abstraction life living messiness morality emotion superintelligence human humans humanism technooptimiism technology quantumtheory walterpitts warrenmcculloch shame fear history science claude claudcode unitree demishassabis tylercowen logic reason mutuallyassureddestruction optimism realism software purpose philosophy experience bodies waysofknowing robots humanoidrobots chatbots writing howwewrite allthesenses senses wisdom mortality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5d71052c560/ No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic 2026-06-05T05:28:24+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/ robertogreco tedchiang ai artificialintelligence consciousness anthropomorphism philosophy llms chatbots claude anthropic predicitvetext darioamodei amandaaskell clause juliuscaesar genghiskhan colinfraser sentencecontinuation anilseth alphafold google googledeepmind deepmind chatgpt openai observation deepfakes experience subjectivity honesty dishonesty reasoning douglashofstadter garrykasparov deepblue ibm 1997 emotions bodies senses multisensory ethics responsibility well-being wellbeing judgement democracy society corrigibility labor work employement software suffering hormones hype aihype https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f510feaeb784/ The Slow Line: Art Through Train Travel and Public Transit Spaces 2026-06-04T08:01:13+00:00 https://summer-university.udk-berlin.de/?id=653 robertogreco trains rail railways via:javierarbona 2026 publictransit transit nataliairinaroman art berlin publicart trainstations movement fieldwork theory public experience travel brandenburg writing howwewrite space place fieldwalks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fd2d62bc3695/ What Are We? Where Are We? – Charles Foster 2026-05-31T21:59:18+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/what-are-we-where-are-we/ robertogreco charlesfoster uncertainty human humans comfort discomfort francescopetrarch petrarch augustine staugustine saintaugustine life living imagodei aristotle philosophy metaphor symbolism modernity bodies health affiliation conscience consciousness relationships morethanhuman multispecies play environment marthanussbaum humanness thinking howwethink christianity storytelling stories quantumtheory quantumphysics quantummechanics iainmcgilchrist experience cosmos edges liminality littoralzone phenomenology whatmatters eustace borders heraclitus hegl alfrednorthwhitehead thomasnagel galenstrawson jennyodell henribergson georgeellis cslewis grahamgreene physics nielsbohr robertbrowning 2026 liminal betweenness inbetween inbetweenness bhagwanshreerajneesh refusal failure margins cern reality alberteinstein experientiallearning between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59eec24a33e9/ The special kind of knowledge that can’t be put into words | Psyche Ideas 2026-05-29T07:23:53+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/the-special-kind-of-knowledge-that-cant-be-put-into-words robertogreco bertrandrussell 2026 mattduncan knowledge reason thinking howwethink intelligence experience context experientiallearning awareness philosophy introspection richardnisbett timothywilson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b309cf5fad0/ The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech - The Ringer 2026-05-28T22:52:26+00:00 https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/tech/pope-leo-xiv-ai-encyclical-tech-industry-problems robertogreco popeleoxiv 2026 encyclicals magnificahumanitas technology chatbots ai artificialintelligence brianphillips qrcodes capcha youtube customerservice elonmusk internet web online ux ui touchscreens cars experience streaming streamingservices peterthiel antichrist humanity human humans humanism search google 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krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace | Aeon Essays 2026-05-22T10:35:32+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/the-power-imbalance-between-parent-and-child-leaves-a-trace robertogreco children childhood parenting 2026 power tomwoolridge adamphillips adolescence families psychiatry psychology psychotherapy symmetry childism elisabethyoung-bruehl unschooling deschooling control dominance love dependence agression frustration authority imbalance behavior emotions experience disobedience dependency devotion fear intimacy relationships vulnerability bigness smallness small responsibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba12446f986b/ Play 'Liminal Bingo,' Pat Perry's Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal 2026-05-21T06:40:33+00:00 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/pat-perry-liminal-bingo-photo-hunt/ robertogreco patperry photography collaborative communal waysofseeing treasurehunts senses experience classideas bingo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1accd452e49e/ Marc Andreessen can’t explain AI’s benefits, either. | The Verge 2026-05-21T06:09:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/934765/marc-andreessen-cant-explain-ais-benefits-either?commentID=36f42419-3c74-4840-af48-27adb2b55394 robertogreco ai artificialintelligence dehumanization human humans life living senses experience 2026 marcandreessen https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c81230521c6a/ Children need stress and discomfort in order to grow up | Aeon Essays 2026-05-11T20:07:13+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/children-need-stress-and-discomfort-in-order-to-grow-up robertogreco children 2026 apprenticeships behavior howwelern adulthood niklasserning adolescence youth mentalhealth families parenting tinapaynebryson dansiegel shefalitsabary sarahokwell-smith experience conflict overparenting emotions self-efficacy danielkahneman authoritarianism collaboration senses sensory discomfort cathycreswell anxiety accommodation worry overprotectiveness play relationship life living melanieklein johnbowlby williamsears marthasears donaldwinnicott jeromekagan violence abuse neglect trauma coercion discipline love instruction guidance autonomy levvygotsky dianabaumrind overprotecting resilience care caring wellbeing well-being malaise emotionregulation relationships flourishing kindredsquared childhood dissent hardship depression cognitivebias deliberation howwethink thinking distress harm shortterm longterm annoyance emotionalsupport stillness practice acculturation aversion suporession self-control boredom school schooling education howwelearn learning comfort friendship challenges challenge a https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:caca3df79cca/ ‘Ghosts in the Head and Ghost Towns in the Field: Ethnography and the Experience of Presence and Absence’ by Jonathan Skinner (2008) - Queen's University Belfast 2026-05-07T20:33:31+00:00 https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/ghosts-in-the-head-and-ghost-towns-in-the-field-ethnography-and-t/ robertogreco jonathanskinner anthropology ethnography montserrat caribbean 2008 presence absence imagination past present experience henrycoleridge petemccarthy land migration 1995 volcaniceruptions volcanoes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:618a0a0d3c07/ Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ You know what consciousness is: you live in soul land | Aeon Essays 2026-04-18T05:58:01+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/you-know-what-consciousness-is-you-live-in-soul-land robertogreco language soul god consciousness nicholashumphrey 2026 anatolefrance philosophy metaphysics neuroscience descartes charlesdarwin denisdiderot culture human humans experience davidchalmers colinmcginn sentience keithward danieldennett galenstrawson nature art picasso franciscrick thomasnagel carljung jung diderot wassilykandinsky darwin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6dd12df3191c/ Affective Land: MADEYOULOOK & Kang Seung Lee on Memory and 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Cal Newport Is Worried. 2026-03-22T02:19:08+00:00 https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-making-us-stupid-cal-newport-is-worried robertogreco calnewport ai artificialintelligence 2026 colleges universities academia highered highereducation education productivity howwelearn learning writing howwewrite concentration attention experience humanexperience humans human humanism thinking howwethink https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecb20d7618e8/ Rammohun Roy on why government must have an ethical presence | Aeon Essays 2026-03-22T02:15:00+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/rammohun-roy-on-why-government-must-have-an-ethical-presence robertogreco distance rammohunroy small scale scaling britishempire uk india cruelty disconnect shomikdasgupta policy experience presence accountability politics history citizenship states law justice governance government 2026 power ruling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a591d8eb243c/ First, Dig the Latrines - by afra - Concurrent 2026-03-18T00:44:08+00:00 https://afraw.substack.com/p/first-dig-the-latrines robertogreco afrawang 2026 sciencefiction scifi maqianzu guancha bilibi afrazhaowang writing howwewrite literature marxism transparency philosophy politics politicalphilosophy agi ai artificialintelligence displacement brain longevity censorship media bbs experience themorningstaroflingao lingao artificialgeneralintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f0675bcecbe/ A Conversation with Jerome Bruner - Beautiful Eccentrics 2026-03-13T05:09:02+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-jerome-bruner robertogreco jeromebruner pablohelguera 2026 learning howardgardner cognition reggioemilia children childhood education knowledge dialogue process howwelearn nielbohr bauhaus imagination creativity wendywoon play playfulness curiosity art experience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:866d3ac4654a/ Raymond Saunders | Hammer Museum 2026-02-26T06:36:02+00:00 https://hammer.ucla.edu/now-dig-this/artists/raymond-saunders robertogreco raymondsaunders art conniechoi assemblage artists jazz teaching howweteach arteducation milesdavis charlieparker collage oakland pittsburgh foundobjects urbanity experience expressionism cityscapes education lifeexperiences socialnarrative struggles urban life living splendor dirtiness dissonance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dceb03b5b60d/ The Enemy of the Good | The Point Magazine 2026-02-22T01:22:06+00:00 https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-enemy-of-the-good/ robertogreco nicholasclairmont optimization 2026 slow efficiency aella effectivealtruism georgeorwell gandhi fomo mindset humanism perfectionism perfection human humans bertrandrussell life living experience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c795c4f0a318/ AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write | Aeon Videos 2026-02-20T05:40:29+00:00 https://aeon.co/videos/ai-isnt-merely-bad-at-writing-it-does-not-and-cannot-write robertogreco ai artificialintelligence llms chatgpt writing howwewrite videoessays gertrudestein stephenking teaching howweteach edtech technology maxteeth language communication policy joshwithparenthesis modernism ernesthemingway fscottfitzgerald sinclairlewis thorntonwilder jamesjoyce ezrapound nonsense poetry poems decoding keatonpatti lingusitics meaning meaningmaking understanding titosantana autocomplete linguistics tenderbuttons connection human humanism humans openai literature humanexperience consciousness perception experience subjectivity humansubjectivity plagiarism mashups recombinance remixing milesdavis lcdsoundsystem media mediamixing kleptones dangermouse macglocky cubism lasmeninas picasso velázquez recombination variation thinking howwethink education humanunderstanding criticalthinking context confusion playfulness 2025 notice turingtest personhood senses sensoryperception feeling feelings logic algortihms victorhugo lesmisérables damienowens onelsaymore brainrot intention conversation barbaraeh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:906a8da3152e/ Sofia Samatar - Opacities [Feature Review] - The Englewood Review of Books 2026-02-17T07:22:59+00:00 https://englewoodreview.org/sofia-samatar-opacities-feature-review/ robertogreco sofiasamatar lizharmer writing howwewrite 2024 rolandbarhtes identity opacity experience life living torreypeters édouardglissant frantzfanon walterbenjamin claricelispector bhanukapil katezambreno rainermariarilke anniedillard davidshield maggienelson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5cd8f47e647e/ Stop Meeting Students Where They Are - The Atlantic 2026-02-16T03:39:00+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/youth-reading-books-professors/685825/ robertogreco walthunter 2026 pedagogy education highereducation highered colleges universities howweread reading attention howwteach teaching academia tonimorrison songofsolomon ai art chatgpt virginiawoolf writing howwewrite ulkrajanand harrietjacobs williamfaulkner willacather jonathanedwards literature experience wegsebald emilydickinson johnkeats tolstoy victorhugo michaelcrichton charlesswann georgesaunders books thoreau distraction confusion endurance stamina understanding waltwhitman humanities wallacestevens adriennerich adamkirsch vice vices mobydick moby-dick hermanmelville https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bcede8e5666a/ The Therapy of Symbols | Joshua Hochschild | Humanum Review 2026-02-14T22:35:13+00:00 https://humanumreview.com/articles/the-therapy-of-symbols robertogrecoWhat I perceive in all its intricate and iridescent reality is the thing itself as it has formed itself within the web of sound. No wonder the poet is seduced. Once he has savored this dangerous delight, it is enough to set him fondling words for life, turning them this way and that in the hope that one will catch this holy fire."]]> walkerpercy 2026 joshuahochschild cspeirce ernstcassirer susannelanger heidegger thomism hacquesmaritain johnpoinsot semiotics symbols philosophy descartes elonmusk technology peteraugustinelawler phenomenology communion language anthropology human humans humanism reality neurolink transhumanism life living mediation experience humanexperience slow humancondition humanbeings humanity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8978e497d94b/ Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future - YouTube 2026-02-09T16:51:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk robertogreco adamneely suno ai artificialintelligence art artmaking music musicmaking slow friction chatgpt howwethink thinking loneliness narcissism work labor effort isolation friendship influences copyright deskilling learning howwelearn humanism human humans tecnhooptimism movefastandmakethings futurism technology songwriting culture relationships community movefastandbreakthings efficiency impatience patience optimization dystopia craft mikeyshulman howwemake making howwewrite writing rickrubin taste skill skills rolemodels inspiration lineage influence improvisation alanjacobs evil techmooptimism siliconvalley arthurcclarke ip intellectualproperty streaming internet web online creativity sharedexperience experience disruption fun humanity chess play craftsmanship turingtest jamming sychophancy capitalism technodeterminism technologicaldeterminism tressiemcmillancottom control power marketing mohinidey education vc venturecapital artseducation musiceducation italianfuturism filippomarinetti marcandreessen nickland pr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33c7ccb6fe11/ True mastery demands going beyond the rules to learn for yourself | Aeon Videos 2026-02-04T21:35:16+00:00 https://aeon.co/videos/true-mastery-demands-going-beyond-the-rules-to-learn-for-yourself robertogreco 2026 taoruspoli rules heidegger hubertdreyfus philosophy jazz music creativity predictability being time thinking waysofbeing risk human humans humanism technology flamenco 2010 film documentary experience interaction art education skills risktaking mastery https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c747247cb42b/ The Persistence of Guy DeBord, That Bastard - Shepherd Express 2026-02-03T22:26:37+00:00 https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/visual-art/the-persistence-of-guy-debord-that-bastard/ robertogreco shanemcadams gudebord derive richardprince sherrielevine robertlongo film philipkdick georgeorwell raybradbury kurtvonnegut cindysherman life living reality resistance habermas marxism experience freedom herbertmarcuse dérive situationist technology art culture deviation socialmedia containment 2026 socialart scifi sciencefiction jürgenhabermas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8312c3dcc5f0/ Long Walks 2026-01-25T21:51:43+00:00 https://www.artforum.com/features/long-walks-208841/ robertogreco 1980 art walking nancyfoote ideas abstraction senses aimlessness expediency chatting conversation consciousness richardlong williamhazlitt hilairebelloc flanno'brien thoreau robertlouisstevenson artforum nature temporary experience installations peterhurchinson foraging cycles time slow spirals circles samueljohnson pilgrimage landscape 1970s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40a33c6c7688/ Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays 2026-01-25T03:27:16+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/sure-ai-can-do-writing-but-memoir-not-so-much robertogreco computers computing ai artificialintelligence 2026 richardbeard human humans humanism alanturing geoffreyjefferson chatgpt clude generativeai llms royalsociety writing howwewrite sydfield imagination creativity christophervogler maxbennett literature philipsidney philipstone adalovelace charlesbabbage mariannemoore gregbaxter art artmaking denisdiderot shakespeare intelligence memoir life living experience existence senses andrewhodges turingtest memory biography stories storytelling self consciousness genai diderot georgesperec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1d7ec65c6a77/ The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life | Philosophy books | The Guardian 2026-01-17T23:53:28+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/06/the-score-by-c-thi-nguyen-review-a-brilliant-warning-about-the-gamification-of-everyday-life robertogreco gamification everyday humanism duolingo gdp economics motivation life living well-being wellbeing cyberculture quantification quantifiedself timclare cthinguyen behavior manipulation capitalism experience howwelive rankings ranking reinerknizia objectivity objectivitylaundering society metrics data measurement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1c8a973e3e73/ The Mythology Of Conscious AI 2026-01-14T21:23:01+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai/ robertogreco consciousness ai artificialintelligence computation life living anilseth 2026 blakelemoine google davidchalmers geoffreyhinton technology llms openai chatgpt anthropic claude deepmind alphafold hallucinations experience siliconvalley aibubble adambecker computers computing brain neuroscience neurobiology alanturing history algorithms software hardware walterpitts warrenmcculloch stephenkleene neuralnetworks mindware wetware biology silicon carbon autopoiesis intelligence chaitanyachintaluri timvogels generativeentrenchment neuroons alfrednorthwhitehead philosophy turingglasses antikytheramechanism cybernetics timvangelder systems systemsthinking cognition cognitivescience science mind functionalism johnsearle being self interoception emotions moods metabolism materiality simulation instantiation nickbostrom psychology social uncertainty ethics machines syntheticbiology kant mustafasuleyman microsoft yoshuabengio shannonvallor bodies embodiment stoneage descartes sherryturkle lamda immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9858b5102d17/ Why I Walk - Chris Arnade Walks the World 2026-01-10T17:52:49+00:00 https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/why-i-walk-part-1 robertogreco chrisarnade walkign 2022 learning howwelearn urban cities place experience nyc brooklyn slow hagiasofia shipoftheseus istanbul atikvalide türkiye turkey https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:74f12ae6e338/ More Than Human? | Commonweal Magazine 2026-01-02T02:14:30+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/literacy-culture-evolution-scialabba-knowledge-george robertogreco georgescialabba 2026 politics culture technology morethanhuman progress decline human humans writing biology divinity svenbirkerts collectivization evolution howwewrite text context poetry tales argument equations images imagery experience vicarity overload culturaloverload ezrapound matthewarnold henryjames modernity aesthetics dukeellington robertbresson jasperjohns franklloydwright marthagraham micheltournier levistrauss rilke wittgenstein nietzsche karlmarx baudelaire vladimirnabokov georgeorwell tseliot williamblake richardrorty universality memory tradition synergy substitution ads advertising leviathan individualism communalism freud weapons lawenforcement credit finance sensorium postmodernism promise johnstuartmill bélabartók rainermariarilke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eac87b7df56d/ Substack's Stacked Debates: Utopia - Can you teach an AI taste? - YouTube 2026-01-01T04:18:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxRj3njH7I robertogreco robinsloan jasminesun humans humanism ai artificialintelligence taste 2025 deepmind alphago music culture finitude human humanity technology experience surprise insight fashion musicmaking confidence computers computing effectivealtruism spotify claude anthropic chatgpt openai deepseek courage specificity decisionmaking stakes risk risktaking dreams dreaming choice quality quantity decisions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07b1ecfc7e9f/ They Don't Make It like They Used To - Lagomorph 2025-12-31T07:11:00+00:00 https://lagomor.ph/2024/07/they-dont-make-it-like-they-used-to/ robertogreco nostalgia memory 2024 authenticity memories simulacra simulation simulatednostalgia jeanbaudrillard remakes reboots psychology contructednostalgia identity media childhood marketing branding capitalism commercialization fauxstalgia reality representation hyperreallity 1980s videogames retroactiveinterference experience emotions familiarity homogenization ghostbusters retrobait feedbackloops sentimentality manipulation disposability history summeroflove thebeatles misinterpretation whitewashing understanding heritage depth nuance criticalthinking society senseofself self stability hyperreality starwars politics politicalmovements simplification ahistoricism accelerationism monetization vacuity presence distortion baudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea6d32ed64ec/ The Quiet Erosion of Us - Short Stack 2025-12-30T20:15:21+00:00 https://andypetro.substack.com/p/the-quiet-erosion-of-us robertogreco place community 2025 local abstraction andypetro grief experience convenience amazon internet web online automation togetherness society social doordash delivery christianity neighbors neighborliness algorithms gigeconomy belonging spontaneity habits inperson humanism human humans humanity attention presence canon significance meaning meaningmaking life living interdependence capitalism commerce consumerism consumption vocation conviviality proximity memory nearness spirituality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db830bfa8cbc/ Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy - by kyla scanlon 2025-12-13T04:31:21+00:00 https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is robertogreco kylascanlon economics democracy stability stress anxiety gambling vibecession michaelgreen johnburnmurdoch jeremyhorpedahl tylercowen paulkrugman policy inflation housing donaldtrump prosperity health healthcare healthinsurance affordability paulstarr jeantwenge bradybrickner-wood trust gregip davidbauder news collapse journalism media ai artificialintelligence bubbles aibubble misinformation scams attention infrastructure confidence optimism extraction llms labor work working employment linustorvald demishassabis markets datacenters billionaires electricity openai nvidia china airbnb energy renewables gdp investment speculation economy jobs tarekmansour kalshi financialization sports sportbetting whitneycurrywimbish emilystewart upwardmobility victorfrankl values kahliljoseph capitalism cronycapitalism technology prediction casinos regulation deregulation politics poverty experience risk generations medicare boomers babyboomers genz generationz zoomers us computing cheating scamming cognitiveoverload baumol https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fe165f990ce/ Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays 2025-12-01T01:07:59+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/why-you-need-your-whole-body-from-head-to-toes-to-think robertogreco bodies annaciaunica 2025 thinking howwethink augusterodin rodin sensory senses human humans humanism experience self-regulation life living franciscovarela organisms gilmor ingridcardenas dante divinecomedy philosophy neuroscience cognition intelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:36af0fd6b187/ To Get Happier, Make Yourself Smaller - The Atlantic 2025-11-22T01:00:55+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/happiness-confidence-grandness-humility/684988/ robertogrecoThere are no edges to my loving now. The clear bead at the center changes everything. Modern neuroscience has revealed how this works. With colleagues, Columbia University’s Lisa Miller has shown that recalling spiritual experiences lowers activity in the medial thalamus and the caudate, brain regions that control sensory and emotional processing; this allows us to transcend our ordinary concerns and focus on deeper questions than how many people liked your latest social-media post. 3. Quietly serve others. Virtually all of the many experiments on charitable behavior show that giving raises well-being—especially when it is anonymous, with no spotlight on your virtuous acts. One 2020 study demonstrated this in a novel way by studying anonymous kidney donors. The 114 donors were, on average, significantly happier than the general population after their donation to a stranger. You don’t have to give away an organ to benefit from this effect—just give more of yourself, without expectation of acknowledgment or reward. That way, you are truly transcending yourself. This evidence for the happiness-enhancing power of self-abnegation might seem like a repudiation of what we have heard for decades about the importance of self-esteem. At one level, this is true insofar as high self-esteem leads to pleasant feelings in the short term. But working this psychological lever is not especially helpful for a good and satisfying life over time, and indeed it can lead to narcissism, by returning us to the delusion of our own importance and the constant need to maintain a mirage that we are at the center of everything. The opposite approach—finding peace and perspective in smallness—is the lasting way to well-being. So relax into the reality of your cosmic smallness. The plain truth is that you are a speck on a speck. But you’re a lovely little speck, and beloved by a few other specks. That’s a good life."]]> 2025 arthurbrooks self-esteem small enlightenment psychology life philosophy living smallness awe neuroscience service behavior charitability quiet lisamiller brain self narcissim importnance self-importance dacherkeltner happiness experience divinity divine sufism rumi love loving self-abnegation insignificance ego https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0dd58afe1605/ The System Versus Community - by Patrick Farenga 2025-11-18T04:55:26+00:00 https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/the-system-versus-community robertogreco patfarenga johnholt johnmcknight 2025 community children individualism schools schooling security police policing justice law legal lawyers professionalization childcare labor work democracy totalitarianism banks corporations universities slow small time leisure systems choice experience infantilization excellence diversity pleasure messiness unschooling deschooling technocracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:945238352b31/ Pedagogue of the Revolution: José Martí’s On Education, by Alex Turrall (2022) — Liberated Texts 2025-11-14T04:12:18+00:00 http://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/pedagogue-of-the-revolution-jose-marti-on-education/ robertogrecoalexturral 2022 josémartí cuba pedagogy education carlosmárquezsterling wendellphillips henrywardbeecher ralphwaldoemerson vasilysukhomlinsky cintiovittier ricardonassif argentina cubanrevolution literacy labor philipfoner latinamerica rafaelmeríademendive guatemala experience agriculture children walterrodney ghassankanafani revolutionaries frydaschultzdemantovani fidelcastro juanmarinello paulofreire nadezhdakrupskaya marxism-leninism vladimirlenin lenin karlmarx marxism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a857bbdf994f/ You're overspending because you lack values 2025-11-06T19:14:31+00:00 https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-overspending-because-you-lack-values robertogrecoLust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. —Bernard Cornwell Shopping has this effect on me, the voyage is more satisfying than the destination. There is such thing as post-purchase clarity: the moment when you buy something trendy and you suddenly sober up to how much you don’t care about it (let alone like it); you just want to be seen having it. Who is No-Face? Spirited Away is most known for the character with the least lines: a masked ghost who can conjure gold. He has no backstory, we only know that he is banned from entering the bathhouse. Chihiro, out of kindness, lets him in. No-Face is refused service at first, but the staff quickly compromise their values upon seeing his gold. They serenade him, “Welcome the rich man. He’s hard for you to miss. His butt keeps getting bigger, so there’s plenty to kiss!” while they fight for the gold nuggets that plop out of his fat hands. Then, he devours the workers in despair when he realizes their kindness is bought, and only Chihiro is genuine. [image] The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters to them. It’s like waking up from a trance state and realizing, What have I done to myself? I certainly felt this way standing in front of my garbage bags. Loneliness, alienation, addictions and self-defeating loops—these are not material problems, but ‘desire’ problems. I’m finally coming to understand what Girard meant by, “All desire is a desire for being.” We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging. That’s why No-Face has no face: he is desire itself, the appetite to become, the emptiness that consumes while wishing it were someone else. Money reveals this: In Roman mythology, the temple of Juno Moneta was both sanctuary and mint (it’s where we get the words “money” and “monetary”). To strike a coin was to sanctify it with divine authority, so it circulated as both economic and spiritual power. It still does: money organizes meaning. Fiat currency works because we collectively believe it means something—fiat literally “let it be” in Latin—its meaning assigned by our shared narrative. And because money is tethered to desire, it doesn’t just reflect value; it follows it. It’s the pull of eyes when a sports car glides down a street. It’s Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, saying “when you create desire, profits are a consequence.” Shopping is not independent from the spiritual realm that strips away our names, and it’s a very literal form of kamikakushi. When we feel the weight of our limits, we start reaching toward idols to imitate, goals to chase, places to explore, people to meet. What we’re really chasing is a sense of immortality or infinity, something that lives longer than we ever will. We want to be remembered long after we’ve left a conversation, the company, the world. Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence. This is why Marie Kondo’s “spark joy” test is great: it reframes consumption as discernment. It asks whether an object raises your spirit or weighs it down. Left unchecked, your possessions take away your freedom to be who you are. As Fight Club says, “The things you own end up owning you.” *** Every now and then, I feel my value system collapsing under the seduction of Alo’s knitwear sets through their windows. Overall, none of this is about “how to spend less”, it’s about the freedom to just be… you.
You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. —Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
Stronger values make you spend more mindfully because they shift the axis of desire. When you know what you worship—what you actually stand for and who you want to become—everything gets tested against that vision. Values act like a sieve: they filter out the empty cravings that come from comparison and they let through only the things that genuinely serve your spirit. Without values, desires lead you astray by following ads and algorithms and the envy of friends—a state commonly known as “being distracted”. The scariest part of Chihiro watching her parents turn into pigs is that they could’ve simply walked away. The unattended food stalls feel like a test of whether one can resist charming distractions. Like the family in Spirited Away, you’re rarely forced to follow one desire over another (until you choose wrongly, and only later realize what you’ve done, if you realize it at all). But if you aim at your highest value—placing no other gods above it, coveting nothing of your neighbor’s—you free yourself from the distractions that split your soul and can refocus your being on becoming who you want to be."]]> sherryning consumption consumerism overconsumption values 2025 spiritedaway desire money budget materialism mirandapriestly stuff shopping fomo lust bernardcornwell process thejourneyisthedestination experience loneliness being life living capitalism objects junomoneta bernardarnault mariekondo freedom chuckbalahniuk distraction envy algortithms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:482bcc3fed1e/