https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-03-22T02:23:56+00:00 https://newversereview.substack.com/p/the-poets-vision robertogreco steveknepper ryanwilson poetry 2026 gratitute hospitality creation cynicism civilization attention beauty giftgiving gifts language wrirting howwewrite https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e3cbd5ad47c/ 2025-05-17T19:24:53+00:00 https://thejaymo.net/2025/05/17/2511-be-generous-online/ robertogreco thejaymo 2025 internet web online hyperlinks linking care caring genorsity platforms behavior reading writing howweread howwewrite sharing solidarity connection protocol continutiy relationships collaboration interconnected interconnectedness creativity gifteconomy gifts giftgiving context inspiration detachment commodification isolation jayspringett https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2f1a9aaa777/ 2025-03-25T18:54:09+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXD5h88_xo robertogreco nicolasdewarren anarchism 2025 pedagogy publicpedagogy anarchy institutions unthinking thinking howwethink power otherness monolingualism multilingualism bilingualism authority ethics philosophy emmanuellevinas édouardglissant acidhorizon colonialism colonization decolonization postcolonialism difference surrealism literature art pierre-josephproudhon proudjon peterkropotkin state sovereignty human humancondition language languages utopia catherinemalabou foucault michelfoucault heterotopia michaelhardt translation greatbooks hermeneutics hospitality guests jacquesderrida reciprocity indirectreciprocity giftgiving gifts saulnewman maxstirner donaldtrump elonmusk markfisher canon reading howweread intentionallyephemeral ephemerality formsofbeing nogodsnomasters ethic humanities anarchistimaginary ai artificialintelligence chatgpt education illiteracy literacy lcproject openstudioproject craiglaubach proudhon ephemeral https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:815226860567/ 2024-02-17T22:17:26+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSV1t6ZiG5c robertogreco leemingwei 2024 art care repair ritual mending letterwriting claudiaschmuckli process guernica sanfrancisco sand participatory participatoryart deyoung curation giftgiving edwardhicks copying attention taiwan cca chelsearyokowong emilyfromm emiliovillaba minnesotastreetproject performance installation slow monasteries slowness everyday gestures grace senses allthesenses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a5cc65e1ef4/ 2024-01-29T04:27:35+00:00 https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/2016-08-10-packing-my-library/ robertogrecocollections collecting music packing moving 2016 shujahaider twins giftgiving culture sharing dwwinnicott siblings individuality primaryselfishness relationships books walterbenjamin nostralgia memories memory homesickness pakistan us children childhood immigrants immigration expatriates harveypekar jazz thebeatles robertcrumb learning knowing howwelearn obsessions heritage anticipation napster streaming internet spotify objects playlists photography raydavies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3672f6c785e6/ 2021-12-22T06:01:39+00:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abd3j/the-funko-pop-is-the-mascot-of-nerd-imperialism-that-will-outlive-us-all robertogreco internet capitalism imperialism environment funkopop collections collecting 2021 consumerism culture parismarx dystopia shopping toys waste giftgiving adrianmidwood corporatism branding hype https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3c7564f87b47/ 2015-11-09T02:38:37+00:00 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511674?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents robertogrecoWe are forgetting how to give presents. Violation of the exchange principle has something nonsensical and implausible about it.... [Today] even the private giving of presents has degenerated to a social function exercised with rational bad grace, careful adherence to the prescribed budget, skeptical appraisal of the other and the least possible effort. Real giving had its joy in imagining the joy of the receiver. It means choosing, expending time, going out of one's way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of distraction. Just this hardly anyone is now able to do. At best they give what they would have liked themselves, only a few degrees worse. The decay of giving is mirrored in the distressing invention of gift-articles, based on the assumption that one does not know what to give because one really does not want to. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life (1944) 1. A paradox of gift giving, often alluded to, is that when conducted as obligation, it is profoundly depressive. There is something wrong here. After all, the act of giving, if we disengage it from Christmas and its horrors, should be a positive thing. The gift ought to be that which, when proffered by the giver, induces a double joy - that of the receiver in the object, and that of the giver at the receiver's joy. Neither of these joys is inconsiderable. It is worth analyzing them because they tell us something about how things work for us and, therefore, something about the character of design activity. Ideally the receiver of the gift obtains a double joy. First, and most obviously, there is a joy in the thing itself, the object received. The proper gift gives happiness because it matches perfectly one moment of the receiver's needs and desires. Sometimes it even helps receivers discover and satisfy desires they did not know they had. Second, the gift gives joy because the successful gift affirms a positive relationship between giver and receiver. It is concrete or evident proof that the giver knows, and has understood, recognized, affirmed, and sought to concretely meet the other's most intimate needs and desires. Moreover, the receiver finds additional joy in being the subject of the imaginative work undertaken by the giver in securing and giving this gift. The successful gift proves to us that our relationship to the giver is more than merely formal or nominal. For the giver, the joy is perhaps more subtle, but nonetheless significant. It is a joy, first and foremost, in pleasing others, in getting to know their tastes, interests, and character, in recognizing and accepting their needs and desires (even if contrary to our own). But it is also a pleasure in successfully finding a material thing that successfully concretizes these desires - that gives receivers "exactly what they wanted." Note that the gift is not just the thing itself. If the nature of the object or product that we proffer is essential, it is, nonetheless, not all we give. What the giver gives besides the gift-object is recognition - which both Lacan and Hegel recognized as the fundamental human desire, which we crave above all else."]]> gifts clivedilnot 1999 relationships presents 1944 theodoradorno giftgiving equity exchange obligation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb42b80da8e9/ 2012-02-05T18:48:16+00:00 http://vimeo.com/23538008 robertogreco mainstreammedia davidgraeber venezuela indigeneity indigenousrights indigenous us mexico ecuador anti-globalization latinamerica bolivia evamorales lula cynicism uncertainty struggle barackobama georgewbush humanrights insurgency hosnimubarak egypt yemen china saudiarabia bahrain change protest tunisia optimism future environment contrarians peterkro peterkropotkin worldbank imf globaljustice history freemarkets freetrade media globalization publicdiscourse neoliberalism easttimor syria control power children brasil argentina postcapitalism passion learning education giftgiving gifteconomy gifts politics policy generosity kindness sustainability life labor work schooloflife social society capitalism economics hope 2011 anti-authoritarians antiauthority anarchy anarchism rebeccasolnit brazil shrequest1 luladasilva antiglobalization https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ddba827a825c/ 2011-12-08T15:23:09+00:00 http://blog.millsbaker.net/post/13882913511/a-problem-with-path robertogreco path intimacy audiencesofone millsbaker communication relationships sharing gifts giftgiving 2011 audience cv https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4c8307829c17/ 2010-12-24T22:08:25+00:00 http://www.giftastranger.net/ robertogrecogifts giftgiving googlemaps random randomactsofkindness strangers https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6461f1c99a57/ 2009-11-15T21:31:46+00:00 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-high-cost-of-ugly-useless-christmas-gifts/article1363030/ robertogreco via:migurski giftgiving economics waste christmas value gifts cv https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa2b044765c4/