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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Enchantment of Modern Life, by Jane Bennett (2001) | Princeton University Press2024-02-10T20:42:58+00:00
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691088136/the-enchantment-of-modern-life
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https://onbeing.org/programs/sara-hendren-our-bodies-aliveness-and-the-built-world/
robertogrecosarahendren 2023 bodies kristatippet personhood design art engineering downsyndrome builtenvironment environment parenting vulnerability humans diversity adaptability age aging difference disabilities disability accessibility measurement normal culture humanness humanism religion society identity templegrandin needfulness life living dignity disabilitypolitics ada accommodations citizenship infrastructure medicine health leonarddavis dependence alasdairmacIntyre gillesdeleuze cooperation social frailty help assistance independence freedom support independentliving edroberts adaptivereuse hospitals aliveness self-determination judyheumann us individualism interdependence loneliness perspective narrative technology assistivetechnology ramps mobility adaptation inclusivity inclusion eugenics average nature jonathanadler storytelling lifenarrative existence storymaking care community need grace gracefulness intergerationalliving conviviality mutuality reciprocity everyday problemsolving making medicalization proshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db55bfde3d4b/Unruly edges: Toddler literacies of the Capitalocene - Abigail Hackett, 20222022-09-19T01:45:20+00:00
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20436106221117575
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20436106221117569
robertogrecochildren childhood toddlers morethanhuman multispecies posthumanism 2022 charlottearculus childism ageism becoming being waysofbeing waysofbecoming emergent adults clowns donaldtrump donnaharaway baglady feminism mariakromidas karenbarad annatsing sylviawynter annalowenhaupttsing felixguattari gillesdeleuze deleuze&guattari tanubiswas mikhailbakhtin davidabram senses allthesenses unschooling deschooling lcproject pedagogy education childood childhoodstudies society schools schooling schoolinesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5cf2879290b0/Miyazaki's Marxism - The Politics of Anime's Legendary Director - YouTube2022-03-06T04:11:27+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM
robertogreco2019 film studioghibli politics economics environment marxism capitalism walterbenjamin ecology apocalypse history future annalowenhaupttsing phillipwinger redemption animism michaellöwy ajrocca tomaslamarre kōjinkaratani maxhorkheimer theodoradorno johnbellamyfoster gillesdeleuze felixguattari enironmentalism utopia nature land idealism industrialism forests modernity optimism oppression revolution humanism humanity progressive left progressivism spiritedaway princessmononoke nausicaaofthevalleyofthewind consumption consumerism materialism earth flight childhood technology wind labor work futureboyconan hayaomiyazaki steampunk fredericjameson resistance windpower class castleinthesky neoliberalism dignity romanticism japan solidarity organizing myneighbortotoro empowerment child children agesegregation society graveofthefireflies nationalism kiki'sdeliveryservice unschooling deschooling production community meaning purpose annatsinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446297b837f/Towards a “Pedagogy of Small”: A Continuing Journey – Here to there2022-01-24T22:58:51+00:00
https://heretothere.trubox.ca/towards-a-pedagogy-of-small-a-continuing-journey/
robertogrecosmall pedagogy smallpedagogy slowpedagogy deschooling unschooling noticing attention trains walking sensing learning teaching howweteach howwelearn multispecies morethanhuman nonlinear time place slow ephemeral ephemerality canon 2020 rhizomes resistance unfinished inbetween betweenness collective consent consensus endings possibility publictransit gillesdeleuze félixguattari impermanence leannebetasamosakesimpson tanyaeliashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:12e0b6172e80/Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny2022-01-01T23:00:49+00:00
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mapping-the-wander-lines-the-quiet-revelations-of-fernand-deligny/
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https://www.loom.com/share/91031bc729d442ceb8dec3a32da3da4f
robertogrecoeducation learning posthumanism 2021 kaysidebottom schools curriculum schooling schoolhouse memory neuroscience unschooling deschooling bodies allthesenses learningloss schooliness psychology work labor teaching pedagogy computation howwelearn emotions motivation humans human humanism children childhood purpose multispecies morethanhuman situatedlearning architecture environment homes space consumerism nationalism nonhuman relations multiplicities robinwallkimmerer susannordstrom community cats academia language communication animals nature kinship compassion joy interconnected behaviorism socialconstructivism philosophy rhizomes reggioemilia theory gillesdeleuze félixguattari entanglement arts art decolonization indigeneity indigenous undercommons alinear care caring fugitivity knowledge difference deficit inclusion inclusivity process being neurodiversity interdisciplinary transdisciplinary affirmativeethics praxis socialjustice change presence deleuze guattarihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f3df2fff08e/José Muñoz, Then and There | Tavia Nyong’o2021-02-13T21:54:39+00:00
https://thebaffler.com/latest/jose-munoz-then-and-there-nyongo
robertogrecotavianuong'o josémuñoz 2021 theory queer queerness radicalism left brownness race identity language words pragmatism difference whiteness collectivism collectivity queertheory politics performance performativity whitesupremacy postracialism multiculturalism latinidad minoritarianism anarchism resistance revolt meaning samueldelany gayatrigopinath roderickferguson marxism communism blacklivesmatter neoliberalism leagueofrevolutionaryblackworks autonomiaoperaia indigeneity indigenous asianness blackness fredmoten clrjames paolovirno petebuttigieg jasbirpuar gaypragmatism pride leftism marshapjohnson anticipation cuasation verve swerve illumination art waywardness errant illegitimacy racism xenophobia migration immigration browncommons assimilation assimilationism barackobama donaldtrump georgezimmerman trayvonmartin afropessimism mourning death activism freud materialism lisaduggan homonormativity homonationalism aesthetics aestheticism tonyjust photography melancholia gillesdeleuze joséestebanmuñozhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d957bddb9e09/Article: Notes On An Anarchist Pedagogy – AnarchistStudies.Blog2018-05-24T18:06:12+00:00
https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-notes-on-an-anarchist-pedagogy/
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http://sambwmn.tumblr.com/post/169533954864/the-important-thing-is-to-understand-life-each
robertogrecogillesdeleuze spinoza life individuality velocities velocity vectors slowness form particles flow interconnectedness interconnected interdependence music complexity systems systemsthinking philosophy via:fantasylla deleuze interconnectivityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7a8f71fd608/how to do nothing – Jenny Odell – Medium2017-07-01T07:34:33+00:00
https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb
robertogreco…we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. (emphasis mine)
He wrote that in 1985, but the sentiment is something I think we can all identify with right now, almost to a degree that’s painful. The function of nothing here, of saying nothing, is that it’s a precursor to something, to having something to say. “Nothing” is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech."
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"In The Bureau of Suspended Objects, a project I did while in residence at Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), I spent three months photographing, cataloguing and researching the origins of 200 objects. I presented them as browsable archive in which people could scan the objects’ tags and learn about the manufacturing, material, and corporate histories of the objects.
One woman at the Recology opening was very confused and said, “Wait… so did you actually make anything? Or did you just put things on shelves?” (Yes, I just put things on shelves.)"
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"That’s an intellectual reason for making nothing, but I think that in my cases, it’s something simpler than that. Yes, the BYTE images speak in interesting and inadvertent ways about some of the more sinister aspects of technology, but I also just really love them.
This love of one’s subject is something I’m provisionally calling the observational eros. The observational eros is an emotional fascination with one’s subject that is so strong it overpowers the desire to make anything new. It’s pretty well summed up in the introduction of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, where he describes the patience and care involved in close observation of one’s specimens:
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
The subject of observation is so precious and fragile that it risks breaking under even the weight of observation. As an artist, I fear the breaking and tattering of my specimens under my touch, and so with everything I’ve ever “made,” without even thinking about it, I’ve tried to keep a very light touch.
It may not surprise you to know, then, that my favorite movies tend to be documentaries, and that one of my favorite public art pieces was done by the documentary filmmaker, Eleanor Coppola. In 1973, she carried out a public art project called Windows, which materially speaking consisted only of a map with a list of locations in San Francisco.
The map reads, “Eleanor Coppola has designated a number of windows in all parts of San Francisco as visual landmarks. Her purpose in this project is to bring to the attention of the whole community, art that exists in its own context, where it is found, without being altered or removed to a gallery situation.” I like to consider this piece in contrast with how we normally experience public art, which is some giant steel thing that looks like it landed in a corporate plaza from outer space.
Coppola instead casts a subtle frame over the whole of the city itself as a work of art, a light but meaningful touch that recognizes art that exists where it already is."
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"What amazed me about birdwatching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which was pretty “low res” to begin with. At first, I just noticed birdsong more. Of course it had been there all along, but now that I was paying attention to it, I realized that it was almost everywhere, all day, all the time. In particular I can’t imagine how I went most of my life so far without noticing scrub jays, which are incredibly loud and sound like this:
[video]
And then, one by one, I started learning other songs and being able to associate each of them with a bird, so that now when I walk into the the rose garden, I inadvertently acknowledge them in my head as though they were people: hi raven, robin, song sparrow, chickadee, goldfinch, towhee, hawk, nuthatch, and so on. The diversification (in my attention) of what was previously “bird sounds” into discrete sounds that carry meaning is something I can only compare to the moment that I realized that my mom spoke three languages, not two.
My mom has only ever spoken English to me, and for a very long time, I assumed that whenever my mom was speaking to another Filipino person, that she was speaking Tagalog. I didn’t really have a good reason for thinking this other than that I knew she did speak Tagalog and it sort of all sounded like Tagalog to me. But my mom was actually only sometimes speaking Tagalog, and other times speaking Ilonggo, which is a completely different language that is specific to where she’s from in the Philippines.
The languages are not the same, i.e. one is not simply a dialect of the other; in fact, the Philippines is full of language groups that, according to my mom, have so little in common that speakers would not be able to understand each other, and Tagalog is only one.
This type of embarrassing discovery, in which something you thought was one thing is actually two things, and each of those two things is actually ten things, seems not only naturally cumulative but also a simple function of the duration and quality of one’s attention. With effort, we can become attuned to things, able to pick up and then hopefully differentiate finer and finer frequencies each time.
What these moments of stopping to listen have in common with those labyrinthine spaces is that they all initially enact some kind of removal from the sphere of familiarity. Even if brief or momentary, they are retreats, and like longer retreats, they affect the way we see everyday life when we do come back to it."
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"Even the labyrinths I mentioned, by their very shape, collect our attention into these small circular spaces. When Rebecca Solnit, in her book Wanderlust, wrote about walking in the labyrinth inside the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, she said, “The circuit was so absorbing I lost sight of the people nearby and hardly heard the sound of the traffic and the bells for six o’clock.”
In the case of Deep Listening, although in theory it can be practiced anywhere at any time, it’s telling that there have also been Deep Listening retreats. And Turrell’s Sky Pesher not only removes the context from around the sky, but removes you from your surroundings (and in some ways, from the context of your life — given its underground, tomblike quality)."
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"My dad said that leaving the confined context of a job made him understand himself not in relation to that world, but just to the world, and forever after that, things that happened at work only seemed like one small part of something much larger. It reminds me of how John Muir described himself not as a naturalist but as a “poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc.”, or of how Pauline Oliveros described herself in 1974: “Pauline Oliveros is a two legged human being, female, lesbian, musician, and composer among other things which contribute to her identity. She is herself and lives with her partner, along with assorted poultry, dogs, cats, rabbits and tropical hermit crabs.” Incidentally, this has encouraged me to maybe change my bio to: “Jenny Odell is an artist, professor, thinker, walker, sleeper, eater, and amateur birdnoticer.”
3. the precarity of nothing
There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.
But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and although we can definitely say that this right is variously accessible or even inaccessible for some, I believe that it is indeed a right. For example, the push for an 8-hour workday in 1886 called for “8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, and 8 hours of what we will.” I’m struck by the quality of things that associated with the category “What we Will”: rest, thought, flowers, sunshine.
These are bodily, human things, and this bodily-ness is something I will come back to. When Samuel Gompers, who led the labor group that organized this particular iteration of the 8-hour movement, was asked, “What does labor want?” he responded, “It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.” And to me it seems significant that it’s not 8 hours of, say, “leisure” or “education,” but “8 hours of what we will.” Although leisure or education might be involved, what seems most humane is the refusal to define that period.
That campaign was about a demarcation of time. So it’s interesting, and certainly troubling, to read the decline in labor unions in the last several decades alongside a similar decline in the demarcation of public space. True public spaces, the most obvious examples being parks and libraries, are places for — and thus the spatial underpinnings of — “what we will.”"
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"The way that Berardi describes labor will sound as familiar to anyone concerned with their personal brand as it will to any Uber driver, content moderator, hard-up freelancer, aspiring YouTube star, or adjunct professor who drives to three campuses in one week:
In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine. … The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists, their time is there, permanently available to connect, to produce in exchange for a temporary salary. (emphasis mine)
The removal of economic security for working people — 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will — dissolves those boundaries so that we are left with 24 potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles."
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"I also started noticing some crows in my neighborhood. At the time I had just read The Genius of Birds, and I’d learned the crows are incredibly intelligent and can recognize and remember human faces. They can in fact teach their children which are the good and the bad humans, good being ones who feed them and bad being ones who try to catch them or do something else weird. I have a balcony, so I started leaving a few peanuts out for the crows."
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"This isn’t only about me watching birds. I think a lot about what these birds see when they look at me — and I’m sure anyone who has a pet is familiar with this feeling. I assume they just see a female human who for some reason seems to pay attention to them.⁵ They don’t know what my work is, they don’t see progress — they just see recurrence, day after day, week after week.
And through them, I am able to inhabit that perspective, to see myself as the human animal that I am, and when they fly off, to some extent, I can inhabit that perspective too, noticing the shape of the hill that I live on and where all of the tall trees and good landing spots are.
There are ravens that I noticed live half in and half out of the rose garden, until I realized that there is no “rose garden” to them. These alien animal perspectives on me and our shared world have provided me not only with an escape hatch from contemporary anxiety but also a reminder of my own animality and the animateness of the world I live in.
Their flights enable my own literal flights of fancy, recalling a question that one of my favorite authors, David Abram, asks in Becoming Animal: “Do we really believe that the human imagination can sustain itself without being startled by other shapes of sentience?”⁶"
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"But beyond strategic / activist self preservation, there’s something else to be gained here: Doing nothing teaches us how to listen. I’ve already mentioned literal listening, or Deep Listening, but this time I mean it in a broader sense. To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
There are a lot of us, and I’m certainly not immune to this, who could stand to learn how to listen better, and I mean listen to other people. As a lover of weird internet things, I definitely do not want to write off the amazing culture and also activism that happens online. But even with the problem of the filter bubble aside, the platforms that we use to communicate with each other about very important things do not encourage listening. They encourage shouting, or having a “take” after having read a single headline.
I alluded earlier to the problem of speed, but this is also a problem of listening, and of bodies. There is in fact a connection between listening in the Deep Listening, bodily sense, and listening, as in me understanding your perspective. Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a helpful distinction between connectivity and sensitivity. Connectivity is the rapid circulation of information among compatible units — an example is something getting a bunch of shares very quickly and unthinkingly by likeminded people on Facebook. With connectivity, you either are or are not compatible. Red or blue; check the box. In this transmission of information, the units don’t change, nor does the information.
Sensitivity, in contrast, involves a difficult, awkward, ambiguous encounter between two differently shaped bodies that are themselves ambiguous — and this meeting, this sensing, requires and takes place in time. Not only that, due to the effort of sensing, the two entities might come away from the encounter a bit differently than they went in.
This always brings to mind a month-long artist residency I once attended with two other artists in an extremely remote location in the Sierra Nevada. There wasn’t much to do at night, so one of the artists and I would sometimes sit on the roof and watch the sunset. She was Catholic and from the Midwest; I’m sort of the quintessential California atheist. I have really fond memories of the languid, meandering conversations we had up there about science and religion. And what strikes me is that neither of us ever convinced the other — that wasn’t the point — but we listened to each other, and we did each come away differently, with a more nuanced understanding of the other person’s position."
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"Ukeles’ interest in maintenance was partly occasioned by her becoming a mother in the 1960s. In an interview she explained, “Being a mother entails an enormous amount of repetitive tasks. I became a maintenance worker. I felt completely abandoned by my culture because it didn’t have a way to incorporate sustaining work.” Her 1969 Maintenance Manifesto is actually an exhibition proposal in which she considers her own maintenance work as the art. She says, “I will live in the museum and I customarily do at home with my husband and my baby, for the duration of the exhibition … My work is the work.”"
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"I think of the hours and hours that I have now spent in the rose garden, putting off returning to my work on a glowing two-dimensional screen an arm’s length from my face; or the days on which I’ll leave just to get coffee and wind up almost involuntarily on top of a hill four hours later, regardless of the shoes I’m wearing; or the fact that the last five or six books I’ve read have had to do with animal intelligence and the importance of landscape in memory and cognition. I don’t know where any of this, where I, will end up."]]>jennyodell idleness nothing art eyeo2017 photoshop specimens care richardprince gillesdeleuze recology internetarchive sanfrancisco eleanorcoppola 2017 1973 maps mapping scottpolach jamesturrell architecture design structure labyrinths oakland juliamorgan chapelofthechimes paulineoliveros ucsd 1970s deeplisening listening birds birdwatching birding noticing classideas observation perception time gracecathedral deeplistening johncage gordonhempton silence maintenance conviviality technology bodies landscape ordinary everyday cyclicality cycles 1969 mierleladermanukeles sensitivity senses multispecies canon productivity presence connectivity conversation audrelorde gabriellemoss fomo nomo nosmo davidabram becominganimal animals nature ravens corvids crows bluejays pets human-animalrelations human-animalelationships herons dissent rowe caliressler jodythompson francoberardi fiverr popos publicspace blackmirror anthonyantonellis facebook socialmedia email wpa history bayarea crowdcontrol mikedavis cityofquartz erhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb75f2831428/Full lecture - Saskia Sassen - Who owns the city? - YouTube2017-06-03T20:02:22+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_SQdDAOc5Y
robertogrecosaskiasassen 2016 economics nyc rotterdam ownership gillesdeleuze globalization migration theglobalcity complexity brutality society systems expulsion dislocations poverty injustice inequality privatization land cities hope urbanization urbanism urban geopolitics neoliberalism capitalism finance banking wealthextraction wealth colonialism studentloans derivatives capabilities density deleuzehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5758645afaf7/The Trouble with Pleasure — HACK GROW LOVE — Medium2016-03-26T19:46:42+00:00
https://medium.com/hack-grow-love/the-trouble-with-pleasure-867f729a9d29#.ar3koiynl
robertogreconavneetalang 2015 pleasure rewards self-denial bravery risk self-abnegation work suffering negation capitalism workethic consumption socialmedia denial gillesdeleuze deleuzehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10b8ac3cdc39/An American Utopia: Fredric Jameson in Conversation with Stanley Aronowitz - YouTube2016-01-14T05:53:00+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVKoX40ZAo
robertogrecofredricjameson utopia change constitution 2014 us military education capitalism history culture society politics policy ecology williamjames war collectivism crisis dictators dictatorship publicworks manufacturing labor work unions postmodernism revolution occupywallstreet ows systemschange modernity cynicism will antoniogramsci revolutionaries radicals socialism imagination desire stanelyaronowitz army armycorpsofengineers deleuze&guattari theory politicaltheory gillesdeleuze anti-intellectualism radicalism utopianism félixguattari collectivereality individuals latecapitalism collectivity rousseau otherness thestate population plurality multiplicity anarchism anarchy tribes clans culturewars class inequality solidarity economics karlmarx marxism deleuze guattarihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b42df2b11928/Hot Allostatic Load – The New Inquiry2015-12-26T21:53:19+00:00
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hot-allostatic-load/
robertogrecoThere are no activist communities, only the desire for communities, or the convenient fiction of communities. A community is a material web that binds people together, for better and for worse, in interdependence. If its members move away every couple years because the next place seems cooler, it is not a community. If it is easier to kick someone out than to go through a difficult series of conversations with them, it is not a community. Among the societies that had real communities, exile was the most extreme sanction possible, tantamount to killing them. On many levels, losing the community and all the relationships it involved was the same as dying. Let’s not kid ourselves: we don’t have communities.
—The Broken Teapot, Anonymous"
People crave community so badly that it constitutes a kind of linguistic virus. Everything in this world apparently has a community attached to it, no matter how fragmented or varied the reality is. This feels like both wishful thinking in an extremely lonely world (trans fems often have a community-shaped wound a mile wide) and also the necessary lens to convert everything to profit. Queerness is a marketplace. Alt is a marketplace. Buy my feminist butt plugs.
The dream of an imaginary community that allows total identification with one’s role within it to an extent that rules out interiority or doubt, the fixity and clearness of an external image or cliche as opposed to ephemera of lived experience, a life as it looks from the outside.
—Stephen Murphy
These idealized communities require disposability to maintain the illusion—violence and ostracism against the black/brown/trans/trash bodies that serve as safety valves for the inevitable anxiety and disillusionment of those who wish “total identification”.
Feminism/queerness takes a vague disposability and makes it a specific one. The vague ambient hate that I felt my whole life became intensely focused—the difference between being soaked in noxious, irritating gasoline and having someone throw a match at you. Normal hate means someone and their friends being shitty toward you; radical hate places a moral dimension onto hate, requiring your exclusion from every possible space—a true social death."
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"There is immense pressure on trans people to engage in this form of complaint if they want access to spaces—but we, with our higher rates of homelessness, joblessness, lifelessness, lovelessness, are the most fragile. We are the glass fems of an already delicate genderscape.
Purification is meaningless because anyone can perform these rituals—an effigy burnt in digital. And their inflexibility provides a place where abuse can thrive—a set of rules which abusers can hold over their victims.
Deleuze wrote, “The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.”
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ENDING
People talk about feminism and queerness the way you’d apologize for an abusive relationship.
This isn’t for the people who are benefiting from these spaces and have no reason to change. This is for the people who were exiled, the people essays aren’t supposed to be written for. This is to say, you didn’t deserve that. That even tens or hundreds or thousands of people can be wrong, and they often are, no matter how much our socially constructed brains take that as a message to lie down and die. That nothing is too bad, too ridiculous, too bizarre to be real when it comes to making marginalized people disappear.
Ideology is a sick fetish.
RESISTING DISPOSABILITY
— Let marginalized people be flawed. Let them fuck up like the Real Humans who get to fuck up all the time.
— Fight criminal-justice thinking. Disposability runs on the innocence/guilt binary, another category that applies dynamically to certain bodies and not others. The mob trials used to run trans people out of communities are inherently abusive, favor predators, and must be rejected as a process unequivocally. There is no kind of justice that resembles hundreds of people ganging up on one person, or tangible lifelong damage being inflicted on someone for failing the rituals of purification that have no connection to real life.
— Pay attention when people disappear. Like drowning, it’s frequently silent. They might be blackmailed, threatened, and/or in shock.
— Even if the victim doesn’t want to fight (which is deeply understandable—often moving on is the only response), private support is huge. This is the time to make sure the wound doesn’t become infected, that the PTSD they acquire is as minimized as possible. This is the difference between a broken leg healing to the point where they can run again, or walking with a limp for the rest of their life. They’ve just been victim-blamed by a huge number of people, and as a social organism, their body is telling them to die. They need social reintegration, messages of support, and space to heal.
— Be extremely critical about what people say about trans people, especially things said in vagueness. The rumor mill that keeps trans people out of spaces isn’t even so much about people believing what is said, it’s about people choosing the safest option—a staining that plays on the average person’s risk aversion.
— Ask yourself if the same thing would be happening if they were white/cis/able-bodied.
— “Radical inclusivity recognizes harm done in the name of God.” —Yvette Flunder
Marginalized spaces can’t form healthy community purely from rejection of the mainstream. There has to be an acknowledgment of how people have been hurt by feminist spaces and their models.
— A common enemy isn’t the same as loving each other.
— Don’t be part of spaces that place an ideal or “community leader” above people.
DREAM
On January 18, 2015, I woke up from a dream. It was early morning, still dark. I felt very sad that the dream wasn’t real. I wrote it down, like I’ve written down all my dreams for the last eight years.
“She was my abuser. She came to my house on the island. I begged her to stop what she had done, to clear my name. She would not. It had been two years of being abused like a child because of her. I turned to walk deeper into the house. I looked back. She had a knife. She stabbed me. It was the happiest dream of my life. Because finally an abuser had done something to me that people would pay attention to. When I woke up my entire spirit was crushed because I had not been stabbed. I felt the weight of all these years of abuse. I wished so badly I had been stabbed.
I pulled the knife out. I wrestled the knife away. I called my friend to come over and help me.
I walked along the beach of the island and saw for the first time how PTSD had numbed and corroded every perception I’d had since that August, this debilitating disease. I finally felt the brightness of the air in my lungs, the color of the sand and the waves. It was so beautiful. I just wanted to experience all the things that had been stolen from me.”"]]>porpentine community via:sevensixfive feminism abuse disposability identity interdependence ptsd trauma recovery punishment safety socialmedia call-outculture society culture violence mobbing rape emotionalabuse witchhunts silviafederici damage health communication stigma judithherman terror despair twine laziness trashart trashzines alliyates social socialdynamics stephenmurphy queerness jackiewang complaint complaints power powerlessness pain purity fragility solitude silence ideology canon reintegration integration rejection inclusivity yvetteflunder leadership inclusion marginalization innocence guilt binaries falsebinaries predators gillesdeleuze deleuzehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4179001952ce/Michel Serres Interview (1995) | Hari Kunzru2014-07-31T03:51:14+00:00
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http://crisisofenclosure.com/index.php?/home/about/
robertogreco We are in a generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure--prison, hospital, factory, school, family. The family is an "interior," in crisis like all other interiors-- scholarly, professional, etc. The administrations in charge never cease announcing supposedly necessary reforms: to reform schools, to reform industries, hospitals, the armed forces, prisons. But everyone knows that these institutions are finished, whatever the length of their expiration periods. It's only a matter of administering their last rites and of keeping people employed until the installation of the new forces knocking at the door. These are the societies of control… (p.3-4)
We are all-too familiar with this collapse. With increasing regularity, public schools announce budget deficits, academic performance shortfalls, and bureaucratic chaos. Hospitals are often dangerously overcrowded, lacking in necessary funding, and have a number of practices politicized and services cut. Even the most well funded interior institutions—state militaries—have in the last twenty years seen the influx of private contractors and corporate service-providers: the military industrial complex run roughshod over the limits of the war machine. Deleuze points out that these changes increased dramatically in frequency following World War II. As rigid structures began their descent into perpetual reformation, a new mode of control—a society of control—began to take their place. Control, as a diagram of power, is decentralized, lightweight and mobile. If institutional enclosures are solid molds, Deleuze argues, than controls are modulations, self-deforming casts that can change to fulfill the needs of power.
In the context of my work, this shift has produced a distinct set of spatial practices that challenge the prevailing logics of detention, placing an emphasis on mobile and open performances of detainment rather than a fixed institutional isolation. Ultimately, post-Cold War detention practices have endured a substantial reorientation, today representing not only the successful completion of counterinsurgency strategy, but increasingly emerging as a vital means of contemporary security practice. Detention is no longer spatially or temporally fixed. Successful detention is not only a question of designing and constructing a secure edifice, but something much more complex. The crisis of enclosure points towards an understanding of how institutional power has leaked out of its interior and is veering towards the total decentralization and free-floating dynamism of control."]]>enclosure collapse institutions 2010 richardnisa decentralization organizations schools gillesdeleuze detention mobile mobility open openness military society control agility agile enclosures power anarchism administration management change hierarchy hierarchies societiesofcontrol deleuzehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:652d47409353/Living inside the Machine | booktwo.org2012-10-17T17:25:17+00:00
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http://maryannreilly.blogspot.com/2011/11/rhizomatic-learning-maps-as-lived.html
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In a world where everything is connected to everything else, we need new ways to make sense of our new realities. Graph Commons provides a collective network mapping platform to create, navigate, share, and discuss relations among people, organizations, or concepts."]]>via:javierarbona maps visualization network graphs commons socialgraph graphcommons deleuze&guattari gillesdeleuze mapping networks organizations relationships deleuze félixguattari guattarihttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ee2f939a039/Between the By-Road and the Main Road: An Alternative to High School: Humanities High School2011-06-28T23:50:03+00:00
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