https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-07-09T16:45:17+00:00 https://www.catranslation.org/sf-literary-hub/ robertogreco 2026 centerfortheartoftranslation sanfrancisco writing howwewrite classideas education reading howweread 2027 citylights jazminabarrera oliviasears literature fiction translation paulyamazaki michaelholtman aaroncoleman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b6d6e94dce3/ 2026-07-04T12:33:13+00:00 https://lithub.com/on-joan-didion-and-the-art-of-looking-back/ robertogrecoYou can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing’s sake, back home to aestheticism, to one’s youthful idea of “the artist” and the all-sufficiency of “art” and “beauty” and “love” . . . away from all the strife and conflict of the world . . . back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. Webber’s unsettling revelations do not end in defeatism, however; rather, he is inspired toward “a definite sense of new direction.” While he possesses a keen awareness of the corruption that surrounds him, he also exhibits a distinct optimism for the future, particularly the future of America, which he believes still has the capacity to conquer evil, and in the end he insists that “this glorious assurance is not only our living hope, but our dream to be accomplished.” Webber’s conception of the future is thus one that simultaneously encompasses and rejects a nostalgic view of the past, as his forward-looking vision is shaped by a longing for the return of a past moment that collides with the realization of its impossibility. Of course, Wolfe is not the only American writer to contend with a nostalgic impulse that is deeply connected to experiences of chaos and change. As social, industrial, and technological shifts continued to inform art, politics, and commerce over the course of the twentieth century, writers ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Toni Morrison also examined the allure of looking back, of yearning for a purportedly more stable past. Yet I would argue that there are few contemporary American writers who examine the complexity of nostalgia with more depth, breadth, curiosity, and prescience than Joan Didion. Like Wolfe before her, Didion acknowledges the multitude of ways we might define “home,” and recognizes the inevitable pull of nostalgia for a particular time, place, aesthetic, hope, ideology, or feeling even as she, too, harbors an increasing mistrust of past narratives that “once seemed everlasting.” Yet Didion takes these ideas much further than Wolfe—and further than most writers, for that matter. Her engagement with nostalgia is not confined to a single character, publication, or era, but defines her fiction and nonfiction across decades, informing her discussions of politics, gender, rhetoric, media, and much more. Her nostalgia also becomes increasingly future-oriented, in a way that is more cautious than that of a character like George Webber, but which nevertheless undermines assessments of her worldview as nihilistic or fatalistic, and complicates common understandings of nostalgia as a purely conservative impulse." ... "Indeed, nostalgia is at the center of nearly everything she wrote, and I argue that by investigating the various ways she engages with and defines the concept in both fiction and nonfiction, we can better understand the contradictory terms that have come to define Didion’s writing and literary persona: fatalistic and hopeful, fragile and strong, detached and connected, feminist icon and antifeminist, humble and haughty, conservative and liberal. Reading Didion’s work through the lens of nostalgia theory allows us to better understand the source of these tensions, and to reevaluate her views on American history, regional identity, hubris and imperialism, gender, political theater, the counterculture, national rhetoric, grief and loss, and more." ... "While Didion’s cultural observations are often filtered through a personal experience of nostalgia, more often the latter functions as a critical lens that she discerningly turns onto twentieth-century American culture. At the same time, nostalgia theory becomes a tool we might turn back onto Didion’s work, useful in probing not only her own enigmatic ideas but also the ways modern American history has been narrativized, and how that impacts our cultural and political discussions in the present moment. An interrogation of nostalgia is also, I would argue, part of her own truth-seeking project as a New Journalist, and her exploration of the allure and menace of nostalgia takes on new dimensions as she directs her gaze outward. Indeed, the nature of New Journalism as a genre allows Didion to demonstrate an acute awareness of her own narrative construction; she draws attention to the fact that her cultural criticism might be tinged with nostalgia and then proceeds to critique this tendency in herself." ... "In both fiction and nonfiction, she documents the ways that America has used nostalgia to “pernicious” effect on a political and imperial level, a factor that continues to shape our national mythos (Where I Was From). As a nearly ubiquitous presence, nostalgia becomes a recurring theme, a character trait, a narrative perspective, a subject of her criticism, and a critical device in her work. Didion’s work emphasizes that while nostalgia can be paralyzing and foster stagnation when wielded at the institutional level and as an unquestioned worldview, political tactic, or marketing technique, it is also a natural inclination, one that allows us to make sense of our place in the world at any given moment, and can be a tool for uncovering personal truths and identifying cultural and national myths."]]> joandidion nostalgia home memory 2026 maggiemckinley thomaswolfe time fscottfitzgerald tonimorrison literature svetlanaboym society collectivememory politics psychology art culture identity collectiveidentity us brucebawer ellenfriedman kathleenvandenberg williamhandley alissawilkinson hollywood class gender americanlife fiction nonfiction newjournalism journalism narrative present future past remembering subjectivity historicization idealism stangation worldview nationamyths myth myths rhetoric history counterculture conservatism imperialsim https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:04f948d390cf/ 2026-06-27T07:38:26+00:00 https://theamericanscholar.org/on-the-trail-with-an-arkansas-traveler/ robertogreco charlesportis richardtillinghast us writing howwewrite adventute travel novels literature fiction storytelling arkansas journalism reporting depiction narrative nationalidentity myths jackkerouac waltwhitman ontheroad fscottfitzgerald thegreatgatsby identity wildwest ernesthemingway cormacmccarthy west royblountjr gnomonism self-delusion belief mythology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bcf2afaee523/ 2026-06-24T07:41:46+00:00 https://www.jerrysmap.com/ robertogreco maps mapping fiction jerrygretzinger obliquestrategies art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity surpise mortality death collage diaries howwewrite writing memory generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9099a592d543/ 2026-06-24T07:40:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ robertogreco jerrygretzinger maps mapping fiction obliquestrategies 2026 art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ac8c23a8f07/ 2026-06-17T10:29:10+00:00 https://cosmosmalick.net/2026/06/15/autocinema.html robertogrecoEvery night I kept getting another phone call thinking it was my last day on set and just being happy with that one day, and then getting a phone call that one night saying Terry wants you to come back in tomorrow. You okay with that? I was like, yes! Yes I’m okay, that is so exciting. And then the next night, the same thing, the same thing, and I think I ended up shooting about eleven days and they took me to Vegas. I remember Christian [Bale] laughing, he was like, you’ll probably end up being the main character in this movie. And that’s just one example of how completely the filming can diverge from the script. Imagine then, the transformations that can take place in the process of editing. The Criterion edition of The New World contains an interview with the films’s editors, and they talk extensively about how Malick encouraged them to experiment, to get beyond their usual practices. One of them said that his typical experience in editing was to be constrained by the director, but when working with Malick he often wanted to say, Whoa, Terry, let’s pull it back a little. With such an improvisatory, open-ended approach, even the most strictly autobiographical script might turn into something very different by the time the story is filmed and edited. It’s safe, I think, to say that the three films I have mentioned have deep roots in Malick’s own experience, but it would be unwise to see any of those films as documenting his life. "]]> alanjacobs terrencemalick 2026 filmmaking direction writing howwewrite autobiography fiction autocinema editing improvisation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abc7927188a7/ 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 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2025-02-25T05:15:57+00:00 https://news.sfsu.edu/news/sfsu-art-students-create-extraordinary-exhibition-exploring-ordinary robertogreco sfsu 2025 art everyday ordinary exhibitions bureaucracy lizhernández observation fun nanakonirei tenderness vulnerability fiction inquiry protests https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a0fa9495c64/ 2025-01-22T00:02:41+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/before-you-define-fiction-check-your-metaphysical-assumptions robertogreco fiction nonfiction 2025 hannahkim metaphysics philosophy language stories storytelling reality culture languages chinese appearances https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:87aab531a0c1/ 2025-01-14T18:41:06+00:00 https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/how-the-mfa-swallowed-literature robertogreco erikhoel 2021 mfaification mfa writing howwewrite workshopping mfas williamgadis brandontaylor garthriskhallberg zadiesmith jonathanfranzen davidfosterwallace jeffreyeugenides donnatartt daveeggers 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They carry their disabilities all the time. They don’t get a day off. They don’t get a minute off… And so I find they bring me closer to the cross. They feel it; they sense it; they’re part of it more than I am. I sometimes have to think my way there, whereas they simply guide me – they take me by the hand and bring me there. They show us, they teach us, they tell us — this language runs through the whole piece. Really? Who is this they? People with Down syndrome will always be trotted out in these narratives, I find. What about a man who’s had a sudden significant hearing loss in his 60s? A woman in her twenties who had rheumatoid arthritis that’s now in remission? An amputee? Someone living with a low-lying malaise of depression for decades on end? Are these people the same in any meaningful sense? To be sure: the Christian framework does offer sacrifice as an inevitable part of any human life and an invitation. We hold our many sufferings and, by grace, let them be united with the sacrificial Love that precedes and subsumes them. And yes, disabling conditions may well show up in the Venn diagram of our suffering and our sacrifices; like all givenness in life, those conditions can also be gifts if seen in light of that same Love. All of that mix — our gifts and our suffering as sacrifice — conjoins us to one another as no more and no less than human. If some abstract they is used to teach an edifying lesson, you can be sure that we’re dealing with flat characters: cardboard cutouts and allegorical symbols, not human beings. But of course we do teach other. A person might say: People with cognitive disabilities remind me that I am too impressed by the genetic lottery distribution of book-smart cleverness. But one might also say: People with very few material resources show me that I too often hoard ephemeral pleasures. People in recovery teach me that idolatry lurks everywhere. And we’d also have to say: People with twice as much courage as me — twice as much compassion, twice as much magnanimity — they teach me that virtue. The old idea from Iris Murdoch endures: the most important revelation that stories offer is that other people exist. Stories in fiction and stories unfolding right before our eyes. Other people exist! A miraculous banality, half comedy and half tragedy, and a truth that takes rituals and habits to take seriously. We calibrate our inflated sense of self by learning from others’ gifts and from their suffering, and perhaps we learn the most when those two are almost irreducibly mixed. We — we, all of us — teach each other, insofar as we have the capacity to really learn."]]> sarahendren disability disabilities christianity 2024 objectification josephdutkowsky irismurdoch existence stories storytelling literature genetics cleverness fiction learning howeelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17eca8bb1f29/ 2024-12-22T02:30:47+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/apocalyptic-aesthetic-on-agustin-fernandez-mallos-the-nocilla-trilogy/ robertogreco agustínfernándezmallo 2019 katrynevinson fiction literature interdisciplinary indterdisciplinarity science https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:934c90e2108a/ 2024-11-24T07:35:40+00:00 https://www.zendalibros.com/cuatro-cuentos-cuanticos-de-javier-arguello/ robertogreco-Partí- En el muelle saludé vestido de rojo. Sabía y estaba alerta del largo viaje de Ulises. Soñé que mi pensamiento fuera como el mar. Soñé con un violeta eterno. La mecánica del ego nunca te deja ir del todo. La inteligencia te juega trampas, como el recuerdo. -Partí- En la borda mirando el mar oscuro. Tenso, vestía luto. Despedí mis últimas palabras reconocidas. Despedí la muerte del delirio de este mundo. Una palabra volvió sobre sí: poesía. El retorno de la fuga de todas las palabras. El hecho ocurrió hace unos diez años, y no fue sino hasta esta noche que volví a tener noticias de Oscar Caridad. Fue en un bar cerca de mi casa. Un bar en el que, extrañamente, nunca antes había reparado. Me encontraba regresando de un día particularmente ajetreado cuando lo vi. Y no es que estuviera escondido, no. Tampoco era un sitio nuevo. Se notaba en la arquitectura y en el mobiliario, y sobre todo en la forma en que el hombre que lo atendía se relacionaba con sus clientes. Era un tipo mayor y llevaba a cabo su trabajo con la mecánica tranquilidad que sólo el tiempo otorga. Entré como por obligación. Me parecía una especie de deslealtad hacia vaya a saber quién esto de no conocer un bar tan cercano a mi domicilio. Me senté en la barra y pedí cerveza, y mientras esperaba, comencé a recorrer el sitio con la vista. Entonces lo descubrí. A escasos dos metros de donde me hallaba, y también junto a la barra, me encontré con la melancólica silueta de Oscar Caridad."]]> javierargüello 2024 science physics quantumphysics quantummechanics reality philosophy literature fiction perception time space conscience consciousness intelligence uncertainty observation experience cern oscarcaridad poetry poems quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d11515661bf5/ 2024-11-24T07:35:08+00:00 https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20240415/9595054/javier-arguello-cuatro-cuentos-cuanticos-sentido-realidad-limite-ficcion-tecnologia-inteligencia-artificial.html robertogreco javierargüello 2024 literature fiction reality laragómezruiz benjamínlabatut science quantumphysics physics quantummechanics philosophy perception time space conscience consciousness intelligence uncertainty observation experience cern ukraine beijing geneva ai artificialintelligence robotics robots humanities schools schooling disciplines 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