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    <title>Christian Writer Daniel Nayeri Dreams from Home - Christianity Today</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-25T03:53:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fear of boredom fits Daniel as naturally as the leather jacket he wears while riding his motorcycle up and down the street for us to take pictures. When Daniel was my age—late 20s—he “wanted nothing more than to be a travel writer,” he said, journeying to exotic locations and penning pieces for Outside Magazine and National Geographic. He wanted to be the Anthony Bourdain of desserts, seeking out the best confections, smiling at the camera. But he doesn’t ride much anymore. When he’s not traveling for work, he’s content to stay home.

The man who longed to live out of a suitcase has become a homebody. He has his fitted-out kitchen, a room full of board games, a space for his son’s homeschooling, his writing shed. Why leave?

In his what-makes-a-house-a-home criteria, Kingsnorth listed “the coming together of man and woman in partnership,” “the education of children,” the “cooking, storing, and eating of food,” and the limiting of technological distractions. Daniel and his family check the boxes of Kingsnorth’s rubric, though they aren’t Luddites. Alexandra has an iPhone, and their son has a Nintendo Switch, but nobody texted during meals. They’ve learned how to keep the hearth burning without completely eschewing technology.

Before my friend and I left, Daniel pulled out puff pastry, spinach, and mushrooms to make lunch. His son put on music full of synth and drums. Someone tossed me an apron. As I helped cook, dancing around the kitchen with Daniel and his family, I was invited into their circle of warmth.

Really, I already had been invited into it, before I even bought my plane ticket. Anyone who has read Daniel’s writing can feel the heat radiating from his words, whether he tapped them into an iPhone in New York or scrawled them in a leather journal in South Carolina. With Daniel’s characters, I’ve traveled the 11th-century Silk Road and navigated a bus ride to school in Edmond, Oklahoma. But the fuel propelling his adventures has always been the desire for home.

Through both his work and our weekend together, Daniel taught me that making a house a home doesn’t mean insularity or avoidance of the world. He’s curious and free-spirited. But when he’s under the copper gutters, he turns his attention not toward a screen but instead toward his family, the blank page, or the mound of flour in front of him. In fact, it’s his rootedness that allows him to write such great adventures. As Kingsnorth observes, sitting in a smoky living room can be the precondition for the best folk tales and songs. And when it comes to pulling chairs around the coals, Daniel isn’t selfish. He extends hospitality physically with his scones and figuratively with his stories.

There’s something else essential to hearth-centered homes—something Kingsnorth, though himself a Christian, didn’t mention in his lecture. Daniel and his family are believers. Along with two millennia of Christians, they believe in God the Father Almighty, in Jesus Christ our Lord, in the Holy Spirit. With Dostoevsky’s characters, they believe like children that all the suffering and absurdity of this life will be justified. And with Samwise Gamgee, they believe that all the sad things will come untrue. That’s the story underneath all the other stories that keeps the embers burning. The church is their spiritual home no matter their geographical location. It’s mine too."]]></description>
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    <title>US is better than Europe! - Chris Arnade Walks the World</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Or so say some people, at least by their actions"

...

"(Warning: The headline is engagement bait. Read below for a more nuanced discussion. Well, hopefully it is more nuanced.)

Every few weeks Twitter gets caught up in a fight when someone proclaims that Europe is better than the US, or vice-versa1. I usually stay away from these dust ups because it’s an ignorant debate. The question is badly defined, subjective, and impossible to answer, so the fights devolve into two groups talking past each other, until someone eventually drags out a picture of Breezewood [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-america-part-5-breezewood ], and then for all effective purposes it’s over2.

To the pro-Europe side, Europe is a cornucopia of crime-free, gothic-cathedral-having cities with great public transportation, quaint row homes, and sensible policies on guns, health care, and child care. America, in contrast, is a dystopian landscape of depressing suburbs with oversized cars, soul-sucking strip malls, and people shooting up drugs and each other.

To the pro-US side America is a land of hard-working, money-making, independent-minded people who hate being told what to do, especially by mid-wit bureaucrats with zero appreciation that human flourishing requires true and almost absolute freedom. Europe, by contrast, is an impoverished, crowded, backward, continent determined to stay impoverished, crowded, and backward because of a stubborn and stupid commitment to high taxes, high regulation, and low entrepreneurialism.

The inconvenient reality (for each camp) is that both are large diverse places with a lot of different groups living in very different ways, and so it’s close to impossible to compare, except in strokes so broad it ends up being useless.

The latest of these tweets, which against my better judgement I engaged with, isn’t that bad, because I think it gets the broad strokes correct. Which is, in the US most of your income is yours to decide what to do with, whereas in Europe a majority of it, or close to it, is funneled to a central authority that’s dedicated (in theory) to the public good.

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<blockquote>[Marko Jukic, @mmjukic]Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.

<blockquote>[Flo Crivello, @Altimor] Americans severely underestimate how dirt poor most Europeans are.

They go spend their American wages there and are amazed at the "quality of life," not realizing that they're taking the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland, and everyone around them is the staff.

<blockquote>[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome] Median size of a dwelling in every US state vs the same thing in Europe. [presumably a map or chart]</blockquote></blockquote>

[Marko Jukic, @mmjukic]The EU has triple the population density of the United States and doesn't believe in "suburbs," just "cities." Given how much more space there is in America, it's surprising that the numbers are so close, if anything. [maps]</blockquote>

Or, as I’ve written before [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/why-the-us-cant-have-nice-things-a6d ], it’s about a communitarian versus individualistic lifestyle, with the US having chosen a policy path emphasizing self-sufficiency and convenience, and Europe being more focused on the communal good and restraint.

The tweet also highlights the two most striking, easy-to-measure differences between the US and Europe — the US is wealthier, at least in material terms, and has a lot more space, and so US homes end up being large enough that Europeans get either jealous, or see them as wasteful — You mean, you don’t live with your parents and grandparents in a fourth floor walk-up? You mean you have separate rooms to cook in, eat in, and even store your junk in? Wow.

There are so many other easy-to-measure differences between the US and Europe, like life-span, crime, pollution, car ownership, and so on, that makes it close to impossible to adjudicate which is better on data alone, even if you wanted to go that way.

Then there are all the hard to measure very subjective differences, like aesthetics, food, nature, and so on, that highlights that it’s a very personal decision.

Or, asking which is better is a deeply silly and flawed question, since it’s asking someone if they prefer the culture they grew up in, or a different one, and with a few notable exceptions3 the majority of people will vote for their own culture because it’s core to their identity. Humans are cultural animals, groomed from birth by the society they grew up in, to value the society they grew up in.

I’ve alluded to this cultural essential-ism before, in my essay on Thick Travel [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/thick-travel ],

We humans are cultural animals, imbued at birth with “the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life” but who generally end up “in having lived only one.”

That one life we end up living is largely determined by what culture, and place in it, we are born into.

As Geertz writes,

<blockquote>“As culture shaped us as a single species so too it shapes us as separate individuals. This … is what we have in common.

Oddly enough, many of our subjects seem to realize this more clearly than we anthropologists ourselves. In Java, for example, the people quite flatly say, “To be human is to be Javanese.”</blockquote>

To be human is to be American, or Danish, or Japanese, so it’s not surprising the majority of people are more comfortable in the culture they’re born into4.

So, why am I writing this essay, and why did I title it the way I did, other than as click-bait, especially given how often I write about what the rest of the world does better than the US, like the whole being happy thing. [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-hanoi-part-1 ]

Because while the majority of the world does like where they live (again, with the big caveat of destitute places), a minority does indeed reject the culture they’re born into, and choose to move, and an even larger minority dream of moving, and almost all of those who do, imagine themselves in the US.

As I tweeted in response to the above tweet, again somewhat provocatively,

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<blockquote>Don't necessarily disagree with this framing (would say it differently), but I believe a large percentage of Europeans would swap their tiny apartment three miles from downtown Brussels, or Marseille, their tiny car, for a ranch house in Jacksonville beach with three cars & a yard for the kids to play in.

Not sure many Americans would take up the opposite offer, other than grad students wanting a quaint experience

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my sense.</blockquote>]

Now there are things I would change with that tweet, which was attempting to compare the modal (or most common) European experience to the modal US experience. For instance, I would switch Jacksonville Beach to Jacksonville, or Houston, and Marseille to Bucharest or some other Eastern European city.

Yet, I stand by the intended larger point, culled from years of talking to people all over the world, which is, what the US is selling (space, freedom, meritocracy), has a lot of buyers across the globe, including in Europe. Or to put it another way, the rest of the world (other than academics) really really love the US. Or, at least they love the idea of the US.

Why do I feel the need to point this out? Because I don’t think it’s well understood on twitter, and certainly not in the “smart” discourse.

The reason it’s not well understood is because the people who find the US brand the most appealing are not people you hear from a lot, because they don’t have lots of money, or lots of education.

There is a big educational divide in how the world views the US, and it’s lifestyle, with the less educated being largely positive towards it, while the highly educated generally favor a more European lifestyle (walkable urban environments with smart regulation), including those in the US, who cluster in the most European parts of the US5.

That’s partly why I went to Phoenix, which in many ways represents the pinnacle of what the educated hate most about the US — its sprawl, its dependency on cars, its disregard for the natural elements, its ugly wastefulness, its shortsightedness that places immediate convenience above a focus on the longer term and greater good.

Now, I also famously hated Phoenix, loathed it so much that I’m still getting yelled at on Reddit, but Phoenix is growing rapidly, which shows that while I don’t like it, and you might not like it, a lot of people really do like it. Or at least what it represents to them.

As I wrote then,

<blockquote>Phoenix is a large grid, of mile-long four-lane sides, with shopping plazas at the corners, and an inside of twisting single-lane roads and simple ranch homes on half-acre plots. Those residential insides are the nice parts, and showing that they’re nice is partly why I’d come to Phoenix: to highlight a version of the American Dream, which, while I might not love and isn’t necessarily “walkable,” is still very appealing to lots of people. It’s what I wrote about last week, when I cautioned that walkability doesn’t necessarily translate into livibility. [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/so-what-makes-a-city-more-walkable ]</blockquote>

This weekend I made a personal trip to Miami, where I did a ten-mile walk through the least fancy parts6. When I mentioned this on Twitter, I got a now very familiar push-back telling me all that’s wrong with Florida: That it’s going to be underwater soon. It’s hot. It doesn’t have any culture. Basically, it’s an unlivable gross shit-hole with a wrong approach to everything, including politics.

Yet, people are moving to Florida. In droves. And they’ve been moving there in droves for the last fifty years.

I grew up in central Florida, not the fancy part, and back in the 70s our school system was so overwhelmed with an influx of new residents from Michigan, New York, Ohio, and the rest of the north, that they shifted to an absurd system called 45-15. Each student was assigned one of four tracks (mine was B) that went to school year round, but alternating between nine week stints, followed by three week breaks, so that at any time only three quarters of the students were attending.7

Since college I’ve been moving further and further north, and at each stop people keep telling me I’m going in the wrong direction. Just this morning, at my local upstate NY McDonald’s, the old man table, when they found out I was originally from Florida, did the usual, “So, why in the hell did you leave?” thing.

All of this is a very long way of saying, people’s actions reveal a lot, and one of the things they’ve revealed to me over the last four years of travel is that while I might be very critical of the US, especially places like Phoenix, I’m beginning to understand that I’m in the minority. Which is helpful to remember.

The American lifestyle I’m so critical of, the lack of public transport, the selfish lifestyle, the gross materialism, the shortsightedness, the paper thin intellectually vapid bling, is very appealing to a large percentage of the world, and that should matter. How large a percentage? I’m not sure, but while it may not be a majority, it’s not far from it.

The smart push-back against this, which is something I’ve written a little bit about before, is that ok, people think they like the US, think they want to move to Phoenix or Florida, but that’s them responding to an image being sold. It isn’t reality.

Or, the people who tell me, over beers in Hanoi or Ulaanbaatar, or coffees in Belgium or Bucharest, that they want to move to the US don’t really know what they’re getting themselves into, deluded by glossy images from TV. Or it’s the grass is always greener effect.

There is certainly a lot of that going on, but the more time I spend walking the world, the more time I spend talking to people, I think the deeper answer is that the image the US projects and represents to a lot of the world, and in many ways provides its residents relative to other places — opportunity, material wealth, safety, independence, space, convenience, and lots of immediate pleasure — is a lot more appealing than what I’ve believed before, or want to believe. So appealing it breaks across cultural boundaries and life-long preferences.

That is, maybe most people really do want an American style transcendent-free lifestyle, especially if it comes with the conveniences of a huge dyer, powerful AC, two large cars, and a ranch house on a plot of land that couldn’t ever hold a heard of animals larger than rats.

The US has a lot of problems, but people not wanting to move here, isn’t one of them, and that shouldn’t be forgotten.

[footnotes]

1 - There is a whole meme dedicated to this, called “The American mind cannot comprehend this.” Google it.

2 - There is something called Godwin's law, which states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

I would like Arnade’s law to be, “As an online discussion over Europe versus US grows longer, the probability of someone posting that picture of Breezewood approaches one.”

3 - Very destitute places are a clear exception. Like Senegal.

Also, as I address further down in the essay, highly educated people (like myself) are less products of their culture. One of the attributes of modern education is an emphasis on valuing new experiences, and different cultures.

4 - Or to put it another way, our cultural provides us our utility function and that is what we use when we decide what array of variables is most important.

5 - Upscale neighborhoods in big cities, and any neighborhoods around elite colleges.

6 - For Miami knowers, I walked up 441, from downtown to Opa-Locka

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7 - They both couldn’t, and didn’t want to out of cheapness, build new schools fast enough to deal with the demand. "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Garden (1990) - Love In The Face Of Hate:

This week we continue our month celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride in cinema with Derek Jarman's penultimate feature, The Garden. A semi-autobiographical experimental piece that expresses his concerns for a prejudiced Britain, his pain over personal losses, and his showcase of how queer solidarity continues to persevere. A multi-layered visual poem, The Garden reinforces Jarman as a master of British experimental queer cinema.

William Fowler and Tony Rayns quotes were sourced from the British Film Institute's booklet from the blu-ray release of The Garden."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Derek Jarman (1942-1994) was an English film director who made a famous garden on the shingle shore near Dungeness nuclear power station. Jarman believed that the Pilot Inn, nearby, provides  “Simply the finest fish and chips in all England". The garden design style is postmodern and highly context-sensitive - a complete rejection of modernist design theory. He disliked the sterility of modernism; he despised its lack of interest in poetry, allusion and stories; he deplored the techno-cruelty exemplified in Dr. D. G. Hessayon's 'How to be an expert' series of garden books.  Jarman's small circles of flint reminded him of standing stones and dolmens. He remarked that 'Paradise haunts gardens, and some gardens are paradises. Mine is one of them. Others are like bad children, spoilt by their parents, over-watered and covered with noxious chemicals.' The poem on the black timber wall of Derek Jarman's cottage is from John Donne's poem The Sun Rising and reads:

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Artist and film maker Derek Jarman talks about his garden in Dungeness illustrated by handmade prints inspired by the garden by artist Giles Whitehead. The prints are from a series of small edition collagraphs, entirely handmade by Giles Whitehead and available at https://gileswhiteheadartist.sumupstore.com/ "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In his film The Garden (1990) Derek explored what it meant to be gay in the 20th century, against the political backdrop of Section 28 and the HIV crisis. Filmed on location in Dungeness against the backdrop of Prospect Cottage and the nuclear powerstation. Filmed on Super 8, laid down on to tape and then 35mm film. Shifting from the personal to the political these excerpts from the film show Jarman working in his garden."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Five years ago, we led the largest-ever arts fundraising campaign to save Prospect Cottage, the former home and garden of artist, writer, filmmaker and gay-rights activist Derek Jarman. Today the cottage and garden are protected, ensuring that Jarman’s legacy continues to inspire. 

A former fisherman’s home, Prospect Cottage is an isolated structure on a shingle beach close to Dungeness nuclear power station in Kent, enveloped by an extreme microclimate of salt and wind.

Jarman managed to create within it a thriving oasis of art and nature, finding solace, beauty and inspiration following his move there in 1986, the year he was diagnosed with HIV. The garden he built became a refuge for calm and creation, and it was here where he was to film The Garden (1990) and write the book Modern Nature (1991), a diary of the garden and a powerful account of living with his diagnosis.

Prospect Cottage is a vital part of Jarman’s legacy. Thanks to everyone who supported our £3.5 million fundraising campaign, Creative Folkestone are custodians of the cottage, and Jarman’s archive has been placed into the care of Tate.

Today Prospect Cottage and its garden continue to be a source of inspiration for artists, writers, gardeners, filmmakers and creatives all over the world. And through a programme of residencies, public tours, an accessible archive and a public programme of activity, Prospect Cottage continues to thrive.   

Prospect Cottage and its contents were acquired for the public following the 2020 campaign supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, The Linbury Trust, the Luma Foundation and the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust as well as those who gave anonymously and the contributions of over 8,000 members of the public."]]></description>
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    <title>Howard Sooley: Prospect Cottage on Vimeo</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1990 Howard Sooley was commissioned to photograph Derek at Prospect Cottage. He soon became a regular visitor to Dungeness assisting Jarman in the garden, joining him on trips scavenging for flotsam and to nurseries to buy plants. In this personal film Howard Sooley recollects his visits to Dungeness and his deep fondness for the garden."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In summer 2020, to celebrate the Art Fund's successful campaign to rescue Derek Jarman’s Cottage for the nation, the Garden Museum held the first exhibition to focus on his garden, 'Derek Jarman: My Garden's Boundaries are the Horizon'.

Digging deeper into the stories told in 'My Garden's Boundaries are the Horizon', this film looks at Derek's garden, art, activism and life through the eyes of his collaborators, friends and admirers while taking you on a tour of the exhibition, with elements of Prospect Cottage recreated in the Museum.

Includes contributions from artists Jordan Mooney and Rich Porter, Prospect Cottage gardener Jonny Bruce, actor Julian Sands, and botanist Mark Spencer, a member of queer protest group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who 'canonised' Jarman in 1991. 

This film was produced thanks to a project grant from Art Fund, which allows us to bring the Derek Jarman exhibition to life online.

With thanks to the Keith Collins Will Trust and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery.

Excerpts from "The Garden" courtesy of Basilisk Communications.

Excerpts from "Studio Bankside" courtesy of Luma Foundation.

Photography courtesy of Howard Sooley (garden photos) and Ed Sykes (canonisation photos).

Soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner.

Produced by Mountain Way Pictures."]]></description>
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    <title>Tour: A Warm Writers’ House on an Island in the Pacific Northwest - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Writers Ann Medlock and John Graham never expected to build a house. But when they were priced out of their New York apartment, they found themselves on the other side of the continent, with land in the woods on Whidbey Island, Washington—and no house.

Through serendipitous timing, they were able to enlist the help of architect Christopher Alexander and The Center for Environmental Structure to design and build their dream home. The result is a warm embrace of a house, exultant with beauty, playfulness, and spirit, employing many of the patterns described in Alexander’s 1977 book, A Pattern Language. The Medlock-Graham House was later featured in Alexander’s seminal work, The Nature of Order, and cited by Alexander himself as one of his most successful buildings.

Read Ann’s writing about the house at https://annmedlock.com

For more about Christopher Alexander’s work, theory, and to learn his design process, visit https://buildingbeauty.org "]]></description>
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    <title>It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like The Future | 2517 - thejaymo</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-05T16:51:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I turn 40 in a few weeks, and I’ve realised something.

That it’s beginning to feel a bit like the future.

Looking around in 2025, the future I was sold as a turn of the millennium teen has arrived: pocket supercomputers, wireless internet, AR glasses, VR goggles, and synthetic minds [https://thejaymo.net/category/ai/ ]. Yet, the part I needed: an affordable home, a stable climate, data privacy, and fresh water free of microplastic, never really showed up.

The future worth growing old in was drowned in a bucket in the name of profit.

It feels like the future has run out of road. 

Vanessa Andreotti calls this moment [https://decolonialfutures.net/hospicingmodernity/ ] “the storm where ways of knowing are dying”. Where the tarmac ends, the work of hospicing modernity begins. We must stay by the bedside of a story that can no longer walk. 

Dougald Hine [https://dougald.substack.com/ ] says that the condition of modernity can be measured by a society’s proximity to the future. How close it feels and how much of it is sensed ahead. Bruce Sterling made a similar point in his closing keynote at Interaction 2011 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110306171125/http://www.ixda.org/resources/bruce-sterling-closing-keynote ], noting how, for the Victorians, media was full of future: in postcards, Jules-Verne and world-fair dioramas etc.

“You could hardly open a magazine in the 1890s without stumbling over a chrome-and-steam vision of the year 2000” he said.

Late-Victorian culture was an era of high colonial modernity, and as a consequence of that worldview, they lived with a surplus of future. Their future’s horizon was more than a century ahead. We, meanwhile, struggle to even picture five years ahead, we have mislaid our sense of the long now.

The Victorians overdosed on a ‘single story of forward’ and it influenced all that came after. Our task is to hospice their dying stories and midwife what may come next.

I was in my twenties when I fell into Solarpunk [https://thejaymo.net/solarpunk/ ], and I’ve spent much of the last decade arguing that we must re-future society [https://thejaymo.net/2024/06/21/solarpunk-means-dreaming-green-human-entities-2024/ ]. Imagine new possibilities, new ways of living and being in the world [https://thejaymo.net/long-form/solarpunk-rusted-chrome/ ]. It’s not, and has never been, a call to rekindle the logic of modernity, or to push back the future’s horizon. But instead it’s an invitation to sketch out the landscape on the other side, to speculate on whatever’s coming.

We need to reconnect our 2000 year old eschatological hunger and obsession with teleological progress – the sense of movement along a timeline – back into culture. We don’t need a single straight line, nor to make predictions. Instead we must refill the future with possibility. 

On July the 2nd we passed a midpoint; every sunrise now places us closer to 2050 than to 2000. 

I’ve been reading Colette Shade’s book: Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything [https://bookshop.org/p/books/y2k-how-the-2000s-became-everything-essays-on-a-future-that-never-was-colette-shade/21416954 ]. Essays on the Future That Never Was, and having lived through that era, I realise the year 2000 now feels as distant as 1975 did at the time. forever ago. 

Perhaps this distance explains the resurgence of Y2K [https://thejaymo.net/2023/11/12/301-2337-like-we-did-in-y2k/ ].

Since the crash of 2008 our culture has swung on a Janus-shaped hinge: once future-oriented, it pivoted towards the past. But now box-office returns for Marvel films are sliding; Star Wars soon turns fifty; and corporate media continues to culturally frack the last millennium [https://thejaymo.net/tag/cultural-fracking/ ] while fashion loops nostalgia ever faster.

Hardly anyone is talking about 2050, let alone 2100.

In my adult lifetime we’ve become a civilisation that looks backwards, and this pivot from future to past is (I think) a consequence of fraying narratives and ossified economic structures. 

We stopped looking toward the future, and instead stare at the past because we cannot bear to face the present.

Yet it is precisely from the now—from an honest reckoning with the present—that possible new futures emerge. And we must fill them with spirit and story, and both can only arise from living ground.

In the book of Genesis, Lot’s wife looks back at Sodom, and is struck down by God, turned into a pillar of salt. I have always read this as an allegory for nostalgia. A gaze turned toward a past robbed of vitality. Salt, inert and crystalline, entombs her longing; she does not perish by fire but by inertia. 

Nostalgia evokes history without life. It treats the past as though it were no longer alive, yet in reality, the present is nothing but the living outcome of that past. And if we linger too long on an inert yesterday, we too risk sharing Lot’s wife’s fate.

Sterling’s 2011 challenge still stands: “try to find a picture of 2100 today and the page is blank.”

Which is why we must at least attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We must try to fully inhabit possible futures. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future is already here, because in many ways it is.

We do not need 2100’s chrome skylines sketched out in neon; we need conversation, and kitchen gardens, and mutual aid that practises 2100’s ethics today. We must also try to midwife the not-yet future without suffocating it with recycled utopias. 

Every morning now tips us further into the un-imagined. Possibility is underfoot, not over the horizon.

Solarpunk [https://thejaymo.net/solarpunk/ ], at its best, is part of this midwifery: a seed catalogue rather than a master plan."]]></description>
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    <title>Family Abolition: How we Survive the Disasters to Come – Nursing Clio</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-17T19:17:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Finally I put words to it: this was my first taste of state neglect, which marginalized people have felt for centuries. This is the sinister nature of white privilege, that I thought I would be exempt from the destruction wrought by racial capitalism. I finally viscerally understood that in a system built on the disposability of Black and Brown people, we can all become disposable. In fact, the only way capitalists make more profit is if more of us become collateral.

What is one way the state gets away with this public neglect? By championing the family. It’s no coincidence that the conservative regimes that have slashed spending on social services (or propose to) also espouse pro-traditional nuclear family rhetoric.[3] In stripping back welfare, the state offloads care onto individuals, which burdens women most.[4] And who benefits from this? The top 1%.

Family abolition recognizes that the U.S. government functions to protect and grow the profits of its wealthiest citizens, and for that reason, the state will never serve the people. A just government would exist to meet people’s needs, and that kind of organization is not coming from above. We have to create our own communities’ structures of care.

While immediately meeting all of our communities’ needs by ourselves is unrealistic, we can start relying more on each other and less on the market. I’ve seen glimpses of this in people’s responses to disasters, which are the best examples of family abolition I’ve witnessed. I didn’t grow up knowing my neighbors, but I remember everyone on my block standing in their yards after Hurricane Harvey, surveying the damages, and finally, finally, talking to each other. It was the first time I had even laid eyes on some of them.

In the aftermath of Harvey, we helped salvage some items from a neighbor’s flooded house, washing their baby’s clothes with lemon-scented Lysol to get out the stink of flood water. Another friend was coordinating a supply drive, and we dropped off what we had. Disasters like Harvey became glimpses of an alternate reality, one where we acted like we knew how much we needed each other. It was powerful to see people come together in those moments, and it broke my heart when everything was cleaned up and we went back to our insular units, to living in parallel.

—

After almost a week without power, our electricity came back on and we went home. Slowly, evidence of the storm started to disappear around the city, and we returned to our regular rhythms.

Even as I felt the status quo creep back in, I knew that Beryl had changed me: I was committed to family abolition, which became the heart of the final “Redefining Family” literature review. Family abolition is the reason I decided to move into a communal house where both resources and chores are shared. It has been one of the best decisions of my life, and has shown me that we can all create community care in small, concrete ways, like getting to know our neighbors and plugging in to mutual aid networks. But fighting for family abolition does not just mean engaging in collective care in our own lives – it also means calling for the end of racial capitalism and the state’s collusion in it. Let’s not wait for the next disaster to bring us together; let’s live for and with each other now."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An economist explains what the latest data shows—and doesn't show—about the affordable housing crisis in California"

...

"To be clear: in all of these places, incomes are very high. It’s just that home prices are absolutely exorbitant. I would imagine extreme wealth, a deeply unequal distribution of income, and understated incomes due to tax sheltering explain some of this.

But loosening regulation to help unlock supply will only help on the margins. It constitutes rearranging the deck chairs while the Titanic is sinking.

If a shocking number of people fall below some reasonable threshold of what we deem fair to spend on housing—whether that’s 30% or 50%, or some other figure—then that is a problem primarily to do with the unequal distribution of incomes, not of regulation and housing supply."]]></description>
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    <title>How Southern California became the land of swimming pools - Los Angeles Times</title>
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    <title>Mehdi CHALLENGES Derek Thompson on the ‘Abundance Agenda’ and Democrats - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-30T21:21:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["US Democrats face record low approval ratings. That’s why prominent liberal journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson wrote ‘Abundance’ — a new book arguing that liberals need to innovate more by deregulating the government and developing a pro-business mindset.

The bestselling book garnered buzz and controversy — and Thompson joins Mehdi Hasan on ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’ to unpack it all.

They discuss the abundance agenda, and Mehdi presses Thompson on the book’s criticism from progressives, including its lack of focus on Republicans and oligarchy.

The author tells Mehdi that liberals are getting in their own way when it comes to building homes and green energy infrastructure, saying, “when you're trying to explain why some states like Texas are building ample housing and some states like California simply aren't, I don't think you can say that the problem is oligarchy.”

Thompson and Mehdi discuss the future of the Democratic Party, challenging Donald Trump and MAGA, Bernie Sanders and AOC, and the “orphaned center-right.” Watch the FULL interview to see Thompson admit that he and Klein got some things wrong."]]></description>
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    <title>America's Shopping Addiction! - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For decades, the American consumer has powered not just the world's biggest economy but the entire global economy. According to the World Bank – Americans make up around one third of global consumer spending but are only 4% of the global population.  We should only be so surprised by this – Americans are amongst the most productive workers in the world and thus are amongst the best paid – the fact that they are both busy and highly paid makes them naturally big consumers."]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;bigger just means blander, and luxury is shorthand for kitchen islands the size of minivans and styling that suggests either a minimalist tomb or a farmhouse in the throes of hagiography&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-13T17:53:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is a newsletter about food, not real estate, but the latter is making me think an awful lot about the former. Because one thing you’ll notice if you see enough rentals, especially newly renovated ones, is that most of their kitchens suffer from a shared malady of stupefying, generic sameness. The cabinetry is featureless, the countertops are Caesarstone quartz, the appliances are smug stainless steel. It’s billed a luxury, even if the kitchen is just a dedicated wall in a “living space,” but this vision of luxury is so antiseptic that it’s less culinary than mortuary. 

These renovated kitchens fascinate and repel me, because they reflect what developers think people want now: how they want to cook, and by extension, live. In New York, this is complicated by the dearth of square footage typically available. In this sense, a “luxury” kitchen becomes a distraction from the rest of the apartment’s distinct lack of luxury — if you have a sleek, brand-new kitchen plonked in the middle of a dwelling with little to no natural light and a bedroom smaller than a walk-in closet, then how bad can the place really be? 


New York is, of course, its own strange beast, and I’m aware that people in the rest of the country are prone to gaze upon our real estate woes with pity and scorn. But the sickness infecting modern kitchen design is not limited to the five boroughs, and more often, bigger just means blander, and luxury is shorthand for kitchen islands the size of minivans and styling that suggests either a minimalist tomb or a farmhouse in the throes of hagiography. It’s difficult to imagine people cooking in these spaces, in part because they seem too immaculate, in part because their smart appliances look like they’re programmed to kill you if you spill anything. 


I love a beautiful kitchen as much as the next person, and accept that luxury means different things to different people. But, at the risk of sounding reactionary, I long for the kitchens that don’t try too hard, and prioritize personality over keeping up with the Joneses. (Who are the Joneses, anyway? They sound like assholes.) To me, a luxury kitchen means functioning appliances and drawers that don’t open of their own accord. Just give me a place I can make a mess and a landlord I can believe in. The rest is negotiable."]]></description>
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    <title>simulacra for bootlickers | McMansion Hell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-13T17:41:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There are a lot of fake White Houses in the US. Most of them can be found in or around the area of McLean, Virginia, the ground zero of DC blob sickos whose job it is to mete out the ratio of lethality and economy for weapons manufacturers. This one, however, is in Indiana, outside of Evansville. It was built at the apex of theme park mindset in architecture (1997) and is on the market for $4.9 million dollars. However, don’t be fooled by this opening exterior shot. It takes literal drone footage to show how unhinged this house actually is. In reality, the White House facade is akin to the light dangling from an anglerfish, luring the unsuspecting victim in…"

...

"There are some images historians (if there are any left) will look back upon and say, such a phenomenon truly would not be possible without an abundance of cheap oil and derivative products. Fortunately, in the immanent post-neoliberal chobani yogurt solarpunk utopia, this house will be converted into a half ruin garden (though this will take some time with all the plastic) half public spa complex. A better world is possible, but only if we imagine it."

...

"Pro tip: there’s a way of saying “wow it’s so big” that can land as the most devastating insult in the rhetorical lexicon. "]]></description>
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    <title>Diary of a Spreadsheet | Online Only | n+1 | Chelsea Kirk</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-09T22:43:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/diary-of-a-spreadsheet/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Landlords raise rents, evict, harass, all without hesitation. Were they finally feeling a consequence for their actions?"

...

"Resistance needs many entry points. Not everyone is cut out to be a tenant organizer. It’s relentless work—demanding patience, strategy, and a willingness to keep showing up, week after week, often for years. It means knocking on doors in working-class neighborhoods, standing in a parking lot on a cold night, turning strangers into a community just moments after they’ve learned they’re losing the homes they’ve lived in for decades. Not everyone can do it. Not everyone will.

The spreadsheet taps into the anger of people who may never set foot in a tenant union meeting, but who still feel the urgency of this crisis. That night at Bernie’s, most of the people I met had never been active in the tenant movement. This crisis is reaching people who haven’t been part of the fight before.

For years, the burden of the housing crisis has fallen squarely on the working class—it still does. But this moment feels different. It’s touching the middle class, even the wealthy. The movement has spent years exposing landlord greed, only to have its demands dismissed as alarmist and overblown. Now, suddenly, displaced millionaires, first-time renters—they’re using our language. They’re here, echoing our demands for a total rent freeze.

The rent gouging crisis continues. Every week, hundreds of new listings surface, advertising illegal rents, pushing the total past 6,000. The Rent Brigade is tracking every single one in real time. Yet enforcement is virtually nonexistent: only fourteen violators have been charged, less than 1 percent of those caught in the act. The officials responsible for holding landlords accountable have done almost nothing, while some of the worst offenders happen to be major donors to their campaigns.

As a collective, the Rent Brigade is still figuring out what’s next for us. For now, we focus on rent gouging. If the Rent Brigade has a future, it will need to find new leverage, new tactics, something that strengthens the broader tenant movement while still asking the same essential question: What does it take to shift power?"]]></description>
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    <title>La Base 5x119 | España sale a la calle por el derecho a la vivienda - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-08T00:09:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["En el programa de hoy, 7/4/2025, Pablo Iglesias, Irene Zugasti, Manu Levin e Inna Afinogenova analizan las movilizaciones por el derecho a la vivienda que este sábado llenaron más de 40 ciudades españolas, convocadas por el Sindicato de Inquilinas. Con la participación del investigador sobre vivienda en IDRA Jaime Palomera."]]></description>
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    <title>Irvine, California: How One Billionaire Controls the Hottest Housing Market</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Irvine, California, is a seemingly normal place to live— except one secretive developer controls most of the city."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://buttondown.com/gnamma/archive/gnamma-91-los-angeles-phoenix/">
    <title>Gnamma #91 - Los Angeles, Phoenix • Buttondown</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-18T18:11:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I realize this newsletter likely comes across as removed and academic, talking about optimistic and rapid policy change, fire ecologies, and the need to let the landscape work itself, while people are still displaced and recovering. But I mean what I write and I believe that rebuilding hastily and sloppily, without attention to these environmental patterns and worsening fire risks, will only bring the region deeper into its entrenched environmental technical debt. I have personally grieved for Altadena, as a place I remember for its charm and history in my years in Los Angeles, and I was immensely moved by visiting the town a few weeks ago and seeing the damage firsthand. It was a true disaster, all the way through. But fires of the future will only be disasters if we don't learn to live with them."]]></description>
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    <title>An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-18T02:51:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws and everyone moves to San Francisco. But that can’t be the whole plan, right?"

...

"As a result, it would be very easy to take their critique as a muffled call for deregulation writ large; if they are not careful, the ambiguity could be used by big financial interests to make abundance a bible for a Ronald Reagan–style deregulatory juggernaut. 

The zoning reform example ends up revealing that the authors are burdened by the very scarcity mind-set they diagnose. They seek to dismantle the zoning rules and some of the procedural hurdles that require local input in residential building. Let’s assume that reforming rules on setbacks, parking, single-family zoning, and local input would achieve what they desire (the evidence is not straightforward; cities that have these reforms have lower costs, but they are rising at the same rate as in other cities). It would still seem relatively small-bore as a novel solution: Half of the 10 biggest cities in America—many in Texas—already have a zoning and procedural regime fairly close to what Klein and Thompson want. Are they simply arguing that Dems embracing Texas zoning approaches would transform national politics? That can’t be it. 

Or is it? It emerges that the examples they give from New York and San Francisco are not examples at all. Instead, they and a few other coastal cities are the whole object of reform. These cities seem to bear almost magical capacities for the authors, who cite research that purportedly shows that they are more productive than other places. But rather than ask what policies have drained wealth away from such once-vibrant centers of innovation as St. Louis or Cincinnati, they presume that if only more people moved to New York or San Francisco the nation’s productivity would soar, and that the only big obstacle to this happening is exclusionary zoning and burdensome building permit requirements. 

Doctor, heal thyself! They seem to be blinded by their own scarcity mind-set. When it comes to the resources of humans and places, they imagine that only a few places can be the engines of the country. I live in New York City now, and I love New York City, but the “fiery creation of the new” does not only happen here or in one of a few supercities. Frozen food, the radio, the airplane, were all created far from any major urban hub. As for for productivity and contributions to GDP, places like Rockford, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Des Moines, Iowa; and Cleveland, Ohio, were all among the 25 richest metro areas as recently as the mid-1960s. 

It cannot be that people need to move to a handful of elite coastal cities to produce abundance. The growth of regional inequality of opportunity that the authors’ own scarcity mind-set represents is a real problem, and has little to do with land use regulation and everything to do with the deregulatory push from the 1970s to the 2020s and the resulting concentration of power and shift of resources from the real economy to the financial sector. 

The 40-year stagnation of wages, and the drop in small and medium-sized businesses, is a supply-side story that they simply don’t engage—one that, as the former chair of the FTC Lina Khan and many others have recognized, is a direct result of monopolization and financialization. 

If they took their own “stop the scarcity mind-set” medicine, they’d realize that the industrial policy of the 1980s to 2020, not zoning, was what caused the scarcity of opportunity throughout the country—and we can change that policy. During the most productive and innovative era in American history, places like Corning, New York, known as a glassware technology powerhouse, and St. Louis, which once had 22 Fortune 500 companies and a thriving “creative class,” were the centers of the dynamism. If we just got out of the modern coastal-scarcity mind-set and took on the real bureaucratic behemoths of today—the private equity cartels and the monstrous platform monopolies like Google and Meta—we would unlock far more innovation and creativity and vitality. 

I can’t tell after reading Abundance if the authors are seeking something fairly small-bore and correct (we need zoning reform) or nontrivial and deeply regressive (we need deregulation), or if there is room in the book for anti-monopoly politics and a more full-throated unleashing of U.S. potential.

There’s some language that casually evokes economies of scale hinting at a Chicago School efficiency and consumer welfare framework of economic productivity, but also some praise of Bidenomics, which directly confronted and rejected the efficiency paradigm. For instance, they trace America’s decline in semiconductor manufacturing and argue that ceding ground to Taiwan and South Korea was not due to inevitable economic forces but rather a failure to have a long-term industrial policy. They highlight Joe Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act as a belated attempt to reverse this trend, and argue persuasively that interventions must be sustained and expanded if the U.S. is to reclaim its leadership in critical industries.

Which is to say, I still can’t tell after reading Abundance whether Klein and Thompson are seeking something fairly small-bore and correct (we need zoning reform) or nontrivial and deeply regressive (we need deregulation) or whether there is room within abundance for anti-monopoly politics and a more full-throated unleashing of American potential. 

It happens that I have a personal affinity for the language of abundance. My very first speech in my very first campaign for public office was about abundance and scarcity, and how we needed to reject Andrew Cuomo’s scarcity mind-set, which was holding back New York’s economy. 

My view then, and now, is that to transform a bloated corporate feudal system into a dynamic one, we need to break up feudal power, unlock the brilliance that accompanies human freedom, and allow small and medium-sized businesses to prosper. We have to stop thinking of economic development as giving out big grants to big donors. Instead, we need to start thinking about it as building platforms for entrepreneurs and new ideas
to flourish. 

This position has a long lineage and is currently at the center of major public debates on industrial policy. After finishing Abundance, however, I’m unclear about where the authors stand on those debates. I know what they think about permitting reform, NEPA, and the NIH, and I know they think we need to be more solution oriented. But I don’t know what their agenda requires outside of that."
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    <title>Roadside Oddity: Beer Can House</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How one Houston man turned his trash into a tourist attraction"

...

"Beer can house
Open Wed-Sun 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
222 Malone St., Houston.
orangeshow.org/beer-can-house

Beyond the walls of conventional galleries, some art exists in plain sight, embedded in city streets and public spaces, waiting to be discovered by curious passersby. Such is the case with Houston’s legendary Beer Can House—a renowned work of folk and idiosyncratic art in the Rice Military neighborhood.

Nestled among Mediterranean-style and modern townhomes and apartments, this three-bedroom, 1940 bungalow stands out as a recycler’s paradise. Some 50,000 weather-worn beer cans and accessories from brands like Bud Light and Busch adorn the facade and dangle in garlands throughout the playful property. 

This artistic, once-residential space at 222 Malone St.—now owned and maintained by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art since 2001—was created by John Milkovisch, an upholsterer for Southern Pacific Railroad. He spent 20 years transforming a humble abode into a road trip-worthy spectacle, embellished with signs like “Live By Golden Rule” and mosaics of marbles and rocks.

The Beer Can House evolved organically over time. It started in the late ’60s, when Milkovisch laid concrete stepping stones surrounded by marbles and brass. He followed that project by building a kaleidoscope-like patio fence. By the mid-1970s, Milkovisch had worked his way to the beer cans. Milkovisch detested waste and spent an estimated 17 years collecting beer cans, storing them in the most unlikely places like his attic, garage, and even his mother’s home. He flattened, cut, and molded them into the attraction we know today.

“He had no idea that people would drive from all over the city or even from all around the country to see his house,” says Jonathan Beitler, former chief operating officer of the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art. “That’s how a lot of these types of environments come to life. The creators have a compulsion, something they need to do that they might not know why they’re doing it. That was very true for him.” 

Mister McKinney, Houston historian and founder of Mister McKinney’s Historic Houston and the Houston History Bus, says Milkovisch’s skills as a craftsman make the home more than just an eccentric project. “The house is done with an engineering kind of artistry that makes it work so well,” McKinney says. “That house represents Houston, but also visionary art and thinking outside the box and using craft and creativity with purpose.”

All these decades later, the property still draws visitors from far and wide and refuses to fade into the background amid Houston’s rapid, ever-changing new development. A tour of the silver-hued interior contains a noticeable lack of beer cans—the result of a promise Milkovisch made to his wife, Mary. Visitors can view the tools and worktable that Milkovisch employed for his masterpiece before his death in 1988. Though the home sticks out like a sore, albeit artistic, thumb now as much as it did in its heyday, it has become an integral part of the neighborhood’s fabric. What might be considered an HOA nightmare now lives on as an iconic landmark that’s a part of Houston’s enduring charm.

“Back then, it was fun for people to say they lived next to the Beer Can House, and honestly, it still is,” Beitler says. “At one point, that neighborhood was just those small, two or three-bedroom bungalows, and now it’s one of the very few houses like that left in the neighborhood. It really exemplifies Houston’s growth and change as a city over time.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-04T01:02:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work"

[also here:
https://www.monbiot.com/2025/02/01/homing-device/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes."

[via:
"Housing Profiteers Caused the LA Fires to Spread Way Farther Than They Should Have"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdJMdeK92mw

"The real estate industry not only ignored warnings about building in high fire risk areas, they spent millions lobbying against efforts to regulate it. "]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The LA wildfires have spooked many in disaster prone areas, particularly as climate change exacerbates their impact on communities. And with insurers pulling out of certain regions, even here in NZ, what does that mean for the property market and home ownership in general?"]]></description>
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    <title>How L.A.'s Housing Development Plays a Role in Wildfire Risk - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-17T01:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More Americans Than Ever Are Living in Wildfire Areas. L.A. Is No Exception.
The growth of homes in areas primed to burn played a major role in the disaster."

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    <title>Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-03T01:44:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Inventor and product designer Simone Giertz of popular youtube channel ‪@simonegiertz‬ has turned her compact Los Angeles home into a functional, playful space that reflects her inventive spirit and Swedish roots. Embracing imperfections like uneven walls, custom designs maximise every inch  from a bed platform with built-in storage to a staircase that doubles as shoe and jacket storage. A modular shelving unit, dual-purpose puzzle table, and size adjustable fruit bowl are just a few of her creative solutions. A handcrafted stained glass window, inspired by a lemon tree, adds charm, while a plant-inspired lamp and a “plant stripper pole” blends practicality with whimsy. 

00:00-02:34 Introduction
02:34-03:40 Entrance
03:40-07:01 Living Room 
07:01-08:28 Dining Area
08:28-11:21 Kitchen
11:21-16:18 Bedroom
16:18-17:40 Bathroom 
17:40- 17:51 Workshop 
17:51-18:44 Conclusion"]]></description>
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    <title>Letters to the Editor, January 2025 - High Country News</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T21:47:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-1/letters-to-the-editor-january-2025/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["HCN LIGHTS THE WAY

Just received and read the December issue. Once again: Incredible! I, like so many of us, have been in quite a state of being since the election. I’m looking for wisdom and trying to find the light in these times. The editor’s note was well done. I thought “Unsteady Ground” [https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-12/can-land-repair-the-nations-racist-past/ ] was an amazing piece and why I respect HCN so deeply with complex issues. I love the various perspectives on how to move forward on such tricky territory!

HCN is relevant for families on the East Coast; it’s not a West-only magazine. You are the canaries in the coal mines for us with weather, fires. Plus, you all are so ahead of us when dealing with issues such as reparations, LandBack, eliminating dams.

All to say, HCN keeps our spirits strong in these times. 

Ricky Baruch
Orange, Massachusetts

UNTANGLING THIS MESS WON’T BE EASY

Thank you for trying to provide a thoughtful, come-together message (“Dear Friends: Finding common ground in divisive times,” [https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-12/finding-common-ground-in-divisive-times/ ]December 2024). I don’t see it that way, though — 70% of Westerners say they want a clean environment, wildlife habitat protection, etc., but they don’t do it. Sure, pockets of people are actually on the ground improving habitat and reducing resource consumption, but the F-150 is the most popular vehicle and a third bigger than 30 years ago. Energy use for transportation has doubled in 50 years; homes are 30% bigger than when I was a kid. In general, resource consumption has been on an escalating trend since forever. That isn’t stewardship. The expected dismantling of resource-management agencies, the push to develop wildlife habitat — our neighbors voted for that, or didn’t vote to stop it. I’m going to have a hard time finding common ground. I just hope folks who do actually respect the land and understand the responsibilities of stewardship don’t become shrinking violets. 

A society that worships a growing GDP that excludes the value of healthy ecosystems and rewards the hoarders of that economic substance; a public seduced by a constant stream of shiny new things, convenient and addictive non-food consumables and futuristic individual transportation is one in need of a serious health check-up intervention. The symptoms of an ill society are going to get worse if we don’t face reality. Finding common threads to mend into something useful is going to be about as easy as untangling my fishing line when I was 10. Only back then, I could just cut my losses when patience wore thin.

Steve Moore
Captain Cook, Hawai‘i"]]></description>
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    <title>Writer Orhan Pamuk Presenting the Museum of Innocence | Louisiana Channel - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-24T19:08:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“A tribute to the unimportant daily life objects and their valuable meaning for our memory and connection with time lost.” Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk delves into the deeply personal and intricate world of his Museum of Innocence, both the novel he published in 2008 and the museum he opened in Istanbul in 2012. 

Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk shows us around his Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. It is a physical manifestation of his protagonist Kemal’s unfulfilled love and longing, embodied in everyday objects meticulously collected and a personal reflection of life in Istanbul in the late 20th century.

Orhan Pamuk originally wanted to be a painter but failed, he says. Instead, at the age of mid-forties, he realized that he “wanted to create an artwork combined with literature, and this is my first attempt at combining the two."
Pamuk began collecting everyday objects for the museum and writing the novel at the same time, the objects inspired the novel and vice versa: “It's not that I had a collection, then I thought about a home for my collection. I collected and wrote and wrote and collected.” 

When planning the museum, Orhan Pamuk wanted the visitors who had not read the novel to “have a sense of the quality of the surface of the objects, the texture of life of Istanbul between 1970s and early 2000s, and also the visual atmosphere of Istanbul.” Pamuk did not write for six months but was busy composing one by one glass vitrines, boxes, and units in the manner of Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Juan Gris: “This museum is based on the things that this generation of surrealistic artists developed with the concept of ready-mades.” 

Throughout the interview, Pamuk reveals his lifelong fascination with objects as vessels of memory and nostalgia. “Objects have the power to trigger our memories,” he notes, comparing his work to Marcel Proust’s exploration of involuntary memory. He believes that even the smallest items have the power to transport us back in time: “A movie ticket found in a jacket can be the only reason you remember the film 20 years later”, Pamuk reflects, highlighting the profound relationship between memory and material objects.

At the museum, Orhan Pamuk’s manifesto for museums is written as he believes, he says, that museums “should not be a safe or heaven for precious things only. The museum should honor the objects of daily. Museums should not only dramatize the history of a nation, or a group, or a gender, or a Chinese army but should also go and explore the dramas of individual beings.” Pamuk argues that “the future of museums should be inside our own personal homes.” 

Orhan Pamuk concludes: “I am inviting you to a new artificial space which will envelop you and will make you ask questions about being, time, remembering attachment, love, jealousy, anger, and these objects are there to generate these things or make you ask these questions about your life”.

Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul in 1952, is one of Turkey's most acclaimed writers. Known for novels like My Name is Red, Snow, and Istanbul: Memories and the City, his work examines themes of identity, memory, and the cultural tensions between East and West. In 2006, Pamuk received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his contributions to world literature.

Orhan Pamuk was interviewed by Christian Lund in Istanbul in September 2024. 

Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard 
Edited by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen 
Produced by Christian Lund 
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024 "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why is housing so expensive? Patrick Condon contends that it is because, worldwide, the link between local wages and shelter pricing is broken. Many immigrants, racialized minorities, young people, and service workers are barred from joining the middle classes as they cannot build wealth through home ownership. Wages for workers, adjusted for inflation, stay flat, while housing costs multiply – a trend seen across the English-speaking world. Even when entrepreneurs open cute cafés and attractive shops, they are rewarded with rent increases that force them out of the district. Who benefits? The 1% who today own 20% of national income, versus 10% in the 1980s.

What can be done? Condon offers several examples of how cities have reclaimed land wealth from speculators and individuals for the common good and proposes a range of solutions, from ambitious ones like increasing land value taxes to quicker fixes like incentivizing construction of affordable homes, all inspired by real-world examples. Condon envisions a future where such efforts are prioritized, and land value, no longer driven by speculative investment, supports housing for the people who need it.

This is required reading for anyone puzzled by or experiencing the housing crisis, as well as scholars and students of urban planning, urban studies, geography, and political economy – particularly those interested in housing and land-use policy."]]></description>
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    <title>YIMBYism Is Code For Gentrification with David Fields - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-10-25T01:12:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If NIMBY is the classist rejection of affordable housing ("Not in my back yard”), then YIMBY is sold as the progressive counter to it: “Yes, in my back yard; because I believe affordable housing should be widely available, even in my own neighborhood.” But of course, housing development has nothing to do with the needs of the poor or the working class. It has nothing to do with the public purpose. 

Steve’s guest, political economist David Fields, explains: 

“YIMBY is yes to housing in my backyard, but housing for developers to extract profit from land value.  So build as much as possible within a given area and, in the end, extract as much as possible through rent extraction and land value appreciation. It's not, in my view, yes to actual affordable housing in my backyard to house working class folks. No, it's yes to luxury skyscrapers, luxury this, luxury that. Build as cheaply as possible for vested interests to maximize gain.” 

YIMBY’s want us to believe that sheer quantity will bring prices down, because that’s how the market works.  Those who object are accused of NIMBYism. In addition,  

“They're economically illiterate, they're economically stupid, they don't know, they don't pay attention, and they're not letting the magic do its magic. Which, anybody who knows a modicum of economics and knows that supply and demand is institutionally configurated - not natural  - should be flabbergasted and say, how did this get to be so popular, so celebrated?  Well, there are vested interests involved.” 

The episode explores the misleading narratives of YIMBYism and compares the market-driven approach to housing to trickle-down economics, emphasizing the constructed scarcity and profit motives behind urban planning. David points out the misuse of economic models like the Marshallian Cross, highlighting flaws in the market logic often used to justify YIMBY policies.  

David and Steve talk about the broader neoliberal agenda of privatization and deregulation, and its stranglehold on government policies. Awareness and organization are needed to combat systemic class inequality in housing and beyond. 

David Fields is from a critical realist and genetic structuralist ontology and epistemology. His work centers on the intricacies concerning the interactions of foreign exchanges and capital flows, with economic growth, fiscal and monetary policy and distribution, whereby critical attention is paid to the notion of endogenous money. He also delves into the political economy of regional development to study patterns with respect to the nature of housing, social stratification, and community planning. 

#YIMBY #NIMBY #Gentrification #UrbanDevelopment #Neoliberalism #Housing #LandValueTax #CulturalHegemony #MarketFundamentals #RentControl #Universities 

@ProfDavidFields on Twitter 

00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction
00:35 The Curious Case of Rent Control
01:00 NIMBY vs. YIMBY: An Overview
01:58 Healthcare and Housing: A Parallel
02:39 The Economics of YIMBYism
03:39 Guest David Fields: Background and Expertise
05:12 YIMBYism: A Political Scheme
06:43 The Reality of Housing Markets
11:07 Critique of Supply and Demand
12:53 Universities and Urban Development
22:51 Private Property and Market Fundamentals
25:04 Federal Government's Role in Housing
31:01 Cultural Hegemony and Housing
34:09 Debunking the Myth of Housing Scarcity
34:46 The Case for Land Value Tax
38:50 Government's Role in Economic Inequality
43:31 The Illusion of Political Change Through Voting
53:47 The Fight Against YIMBY and Neoliberal Policies
59:06 Concluding Thoughts and Call to Action"]]></description>
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    <title>Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis with Tracy Rosenthal &amp; Leonardo Vilchis - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-27T18:05:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6IXCq4YfwY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["From the book description:

"Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through brisk, unequivocating analysis and striking stories of resistance, it shows us how tenants can, through organizing and collective action, finally rebalance the scales.

From two co-founders of the largest tenants' union in the country, this deeply reported account of the resurgent tenant movement centers poor and working-class people who are fighting back, staying put, and remaking the city in the process. Authors Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis take us to trilingual strategy meetings, raucous marches against gentrification, and daring eviction defenses where immigrants put their lives on the line. These are the seeds of the revolutionary movement we need to make our housing, our cities, and the world our home."

Tracy Rosenthal is a writer and co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Their work has been published in The New Republic, The Nation and The LA Times among others. They serve on the advisory board of Housing the Third Reconstruction with UCLA’s Institute on Inequality and Democracy. They are now on rent strike in New York City.

Leonardo Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirty years. Trained in liberation theology, he co-founded Union de Vecinos in 1996 to stop the demolition of the Pico Aliso public housing projects, winning the right of return for two hundred and fifty families. In 2015, he co-founded the L.A. Tenants Union to organize tenant power at a citywide scale. Merging with LATU in 2019 to form the Union de Vecinos Eastside Local, Union de Vecinos has maintained a leadership role defending the long-term community against gentrification and displacement. Vilchis was activist-in-residence at the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in 2020 and now serves on the advisory board of its Housing the Third Reconstruction research endeavor. He lives in Los Angeles."

[also here:
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/we-make-our-community-by-defending-it-tracy-rosenthal-on-the-homeless-industrial-complex-housing-and-tenant-organizing ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-08-28T18:25:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Every client is unique, but Don Katz truly broke the mold."]]></description>
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    <title>Life inside a tiny earthquake shack in San Francisco's Bernal Heights</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-25T00:53:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Artist and sign painter Dave Benzler lives and paints inside a teeny home in Bernal Heights with an outsize history."

[See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIgb45UGCxg ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Secret to Japan's Great Cities - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-07-14T18:16:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlwQ2Y4By0U</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["References & Further Reading

Life Where I'm From - Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfm2xCKOCNk

Machizukuri
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machizukuri
https://participedia.net/method/
https://labgov.city/theurbanmedialab/the-japanese-way-of-urban-planning-the-machizukuri-approach/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237482918_Toshikeikaku_and_Machizukuri_in_Japanese_Urban_Planning_The_Reconstruction_of_Inner_City_Neighborhoods_in_Kobe_Japanstudien
https://strongesttown.com/approach/
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/11/11/chuck-member-drive-monday

Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks

Fietsersbond
https://www.fietsersbond.nl/

Stroads
https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-ugly-dangerous-and-inefficient-stroads-found-all-over-the-us-canada-st05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

Japan's worst traffic is NOT in Tokyo - Okinawa
https://nebula.tv/videos/lifewhereimfrom-the-worst-traffic-in-japan-isnt-in-tokyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6h_Dy7VY1Y

Toolbox of Pedestrian Countermeasures and Their Potential Effectiveness 
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa18041/fhwasa18041.pdf

How Much Traffic is Cruising for Parking?
https://transfersmagazine.org/magazine-article/issue-4/how-much-traffic-is-cruising-for-parking/

---
Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:56 What makes a Japanese Street?
2:15 Japanese Zoning
4:26 Local Planning - Machizukuri
5:11 Solving Traffic Congestion
7:08 Financially Sustainable Cities
7:57 Different Sizes of Streets
9:17 Traffic Calming & Slower Cars
10:26 Reducing Car Volumes
11:24 Road Design
11:52 Good Pedestrian Bridges?
13:41 No Street Parking
15:31 Off-Street Parking
17:06 Stopping & Unloading
17:38 Kei Cars & Key Trucks
19:36 Cycling without Bike Lanes
21:44 Bicycle Paring
24:49 Horrible Roads & Stroads
25:57 Car-Centric Japan
28:00 Oversized, Empty Roads
19:56 Destroying Great Neighbourhoods for Cars
31:30 The Reality of Japanese Cities
32:45 80,000 Hours"]]></description>
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    <title>The Painted Ladies explain California's most important housing law</title>
    <dc:date>2024-05-26T07:45:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2024-01-25T05:14:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Cities After… Profiting From The Homeless - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-22T00:00:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[S3.5E06]  Profiting From The Homeless

Cities After… with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán. A radical exploration into the capitalist contradictions of our urban world, and the many anti-capitalist futures to come.

*This episode is the third of several to come where Politics In Motion will be re-publishing some of the previous productions that he did on a volunteer basis for democracy@work.

The number of people experiencing homelessness has been increasing dramatically worldwide. This crisis has worsened in the past decade due to uncontrolled predatory real estate speculation, the harmful privatization of social housing, high levels of inequality, a severe shortage of affordable homes, and the lack of legal and economic support for social spending on basic human needs. Neoliberal capitalism is at the core of this problem. In this episode, Prof. Robles-Durán examines the systemic failure of governments, private-public partnerships, and non-profit organizations in addressing homelessness. This combination has given rise to an exploitative homeless industry that has profited from creating and perpetuating this social misfortune for decades.

References:
- The Business of Homelessness report by Picture The Homeless:
https://www.picturethehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PtH_White_paper5.pdf ]]]></description>
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    <title>On Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-11T00:59:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue, the term has simply become an insult people throw around."

"Gentrification, the process of local demographic change by which the lower-income residents of under-resourced neighborhoods are displaced by wealthier ones, is one of the most studied subjects in sociology, economics, and urbanism. Its bleak reality is irrefutable and cannot be accepted as merely neutral “economic development,” particularly as it contributes to a worsening housing crisis amid ongoing threats of a recession. But rather than understand gentrification as a systemic issue—a product of the real estate industry that hastens this project of displacement—the term has simply become an insult people throw around on Twitter or in community planning meetings at the often-white hipsters, students, or artists with more financial resources than those in the communities in which they are entering.

Allow me to be blunt: It is a waste of time to respond to this issue by transforming the socioeconomic phenomenon into a rhetorical weapon that progressively loses its sting the more it’s used. Gentrification is not an abstract moral failing—a kind of transplant’s original sin—or an imported aesthetic worked into the fabric of a neighborhood. It is a result of money and power—of the landlords, developers, real estate flippers, and investors who have it, and everyone else who does not. Most of the folks living in a neighborhood, transplants or not, are neighbors. Many are tenants whose ability to stay in one place is at the mercy of their landlords, regardless of whether they are on a fixed income, work at McDonald’s, or have a cushy work-from-home job. Many, like the working-class people on my street in Chicago, own their homes and can attribute their economic stability solely to that fact. Even if they are sitting on a house-shaped mountain of cash, that cash will disappear the moment they sell their home and try to buy another one as investment-minded strangers close in around them, squeeze out their neighbors, and toy with the value of their property. Or these homeowners lose their only asset and become renters, a sadly common fate that is the by-product of our terrible, broken housing industry. Meanwhile, especially in Chicago, speculative buyers—companies like Blackstone, and even developers—take the existing stock, often two-flat apartment buildings, and convert it into palatial urban McMansions. The people who move into those houses have more money than the majority of the people in the city can fathom, and often fight any attempt to distribute that wealth more evenly. They are not good neighbors.

We in American society have been discouraged from thinking in terms of class. We fight with our neighbors, whether because of paranoid NIMBYism or dogmas of supply and demand, ignoring the fact that there are powerful interests and industries who are fine with letting us bicker, or who even use our real struggles to further their cynical ends. We hear a lot, for example, about homeowners coming together to fight against the construction of new apartment buildings, because unlike other changes prioritizing the needs of special interests over community residents, there is still a semblance of democracy to the planning process. Yet when the slumlord who owns the converted house next door to me evicts the two families living there and turns it into an empty lot, or when the rich entrepreneur buys a church very cheaply and turns it into a luxury Airbnb, there is no democracy. Democracy—no matter how messy, no matter how divisive—is essential to achieving housing justice.

The root of the problem is that housing is treated as an instrument of profit, one in which the exchange value is prioritized over its use value. The sole solution is to decouple housing from profit and make it a human right. The profit motive keeps all but the flippers, private equity firms, and management companies, the developers and landlords and the obscenely wealthy—whose economic freedom is unimpeded—in constant, virulent antagonism.

The cost of housing forces those below a certain income level into peripheries where we become the gentrifier—with the power to gamble on the price of land and permanently alter a community’s social capital. Yes, this feels terrible. Yes, many of us, especially if we have the freedom of movement, are complicit in this process in our own ways. The choice is either to live with this sin-like guilt or to be a neighbor who knows their neighbors and their rights, who deftly avoids the selfish pitfalls of NIMBYism while keeping an eye on the real fight: a high-stakes political battle for increasingly scarce stability, for what was once in more idealistic times called “the right to the city.” It’s true, many of us neighbors are transplants. But no one wants to be a transplant forever."]]></description>
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    <title>How the real estate market is about to upend your job | The Star</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-08T23:54:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With the rate of office vacancies the highest since 1994, Navneet Alang writes, a second real estate crisis looms."

...

"With so much money at stake, there is a structural incentive to have workers return to the office, lest those desks remain empty and become a drain on one side of the balance sheet.With so much money at stake, there is a structural incentive to have workers return to the office, lest those desks remain empty and become a drain on one side of the balance sheet."

Why does your boss want you back in the office? Sometimes, it’s to prevent a big loss in commercial real estate"

...

"If you are ever bored at a dinner party, here’s a little game you can play with a friend: take a bet on how long before someone mentions the cost of real estate.

That the subject will arise is almost inevitable. Forget maple syrup, the great outdoors or multiculturalism. There is simply nothing more Canadian than talking about real estate.

And it’s no wonder. Most of the country is grappling with an affordability crisis, and in the most populated regions, the cost of housing is a looming, inescapable presence.

Alas, add one more thing the real estate market is about to upend: your job.

That at least is a reasonable assumption to make after we had one more sign commercial real estate is facing a reckoning. According to commercial real estate firm CBRE, the national vacancy rate for offices has climbed to its highest number since 1994.

Put more plainly, as remote work has become increasingly common for white collar workers post-COVID, the need for commercial real estate has plummeted.

It’s tempting to think in idyllic terms and believe that there will be a neat resolution. Behaviour changed in reaction to a historic event, and over time we will simply need fewer offices.

But things rarely work out so unproblematically. Rather, a showdown between companies and their workers is more likely.

It’s useful to put some of this in context. Not so long ago, most North American cities had central business districts populated with larger office buildings and not much else. But the urban renewal that started in the 1990s led to gentrification and saw downtowns draw in more and more people.

At the time it was a virtuous cycle: companies were hiring and opening office space, while people wanted to work and live downtown.

How things have changed. With the prevalence of remote work, that cycle is instead now a vicious one, in which not only commercial real estate is suffering, but also all the related businesses that cater to an office crowd.

The first and most obvious problem is, companies that have invested in commercial real estate see remote work as a financial burden. Having put money into property, whether via construction or long-term leases, they now are motivated make a return on that investment.

A slightly more cynical read of the situation is that with so much capital at play, there is a structural incentive to have workers return to the office, lest those offices remain empty and become a drain on one side of the balance sheet.

This may well factor into the reasons many CEOs have been calling for a return to the office. It’s not just the possibility that it leads to better outcomes — a proposition that needs further debate and study — but that it’s about recouping sunk costs.

There is another looming real estate issue here. As the country’s biggest urban centres continue to struggle with an affordability crisis, people are being pushed out of the areas that only recently became so vibrant. And for those who can work remotely, there is greater motivation to move to the suburbs, or even further.

After all, the worst thing about living far from the city centre is the commute. If you don’t even have that, many simply ask: well, why stay?

In that sense, one factor driving remote work isn’t just convenience or lifestyle: it’s the chance to live somewhere more affordable.

The real estate market is thus squeezing work on both sides: affordability for workers and capital investments made by companies.

There are a few possible resolutions, but one particular sticking point is the significant difference between a five-room office and a 70-storey skyscraper. The towers that crowd Downtown Toronto will either have to be filled with workers or they will have to be converted to residential.

It’s a phenomenon happening all around the world — but that doesn’t mean it’s straightforward.

The other issue is that those with their hands on policy levers of housing — people who thus far have done almost less than nothing to alleviate the affordability crunch — need to factor in the productivity losses if the real estate crisis continues.

Real estate is everything in Canada, but it’s a situation that cannot hold. It accounts for the largest percentage of the gross domestic product, dwarfing other sectors like manufacturing and mining. For an asset class that simply sits there, that is phenomenally wasteful.

Workers want to work from home. Companies have excess real estate, and off-loading or transforming it is no small task.

It all amounts to a second real estate crisis, and it’s one that will express itself in tension between workers and their bosses. Yes, it’s true, we are already always talking about real estate. But in the discussions that take place over canapes and bubbly in the halls of power, some thought must be given to this impending conflict, too."]]></description>
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    <title>Cities After… The WORK FROM HOME Reset: Office Work and the Looming Real Estate Crisis - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-05T21:07:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[S3.5E01] The WORK FROM HOME Reset: Office Work and the Looming Real Estate Crisis

Cities After… with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán. A radical exploration into the capitalist contradictions of our urban world, and the many anti-capitalist futures to come.

In this first episode with Politics In Motion, Prof. Robles-Durán attempts a retake/update to a previous podcast series he did last year, titled Office Spaces as Homes; This new broadcast is a response to new doom predictions of a collapse of the commercial real-estate bubble and about the active reluctance of many employees to go back to the office.

In the wake of the pandemic, one mode of labor exploitation has gained a remarkable worldwide popularity: Work From Home. In heavily urbanized and service-oriented regions, this prevailing trend has been inciting rampant anxiety among the ranks of municipal officials, urban economists, and the real-estate industry alike. Indeed, as vacancy rates continue to soar beyond the 90th percentile in some regions. In an absurd contradiction to all the vacant spaces, the plight of the homeless has reached dire proportions, leaving a dire need for truly affordable housing. In this compelling episode, Prof. Robles-Durán plunges into the depths of the capitalist undercurrents and some social counter-currents behind this crisis, delving into the ominous consequences and complex future outcome.

Prof. Miguel Robles-Duran’s Cities After… is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-06-21T20:36:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fans of the Sopranos will remember the "bust out" as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the lives of the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mafia does this, we call it a bust out; when Wall Street does it, we call it "private equity."

It used to be that we rarely heard about private equity, but then, as national chains and iconic companies started to vanish, this mysterious financial arrangement popped up with increasing frequency. When a finance bro's presentation on why Olive Garden needed to be re-orged went viral, there was a lot of snickering about the decline of a tacky business whose value prop was unlimited carbs. But the bro was working for Starboard Value, a hedge fund that specialized in buying out and killing off companies, pocketing billions while destroying profitable businesses.

https://www.salon.com/2014/09/17/the_real_olive_garden_scandal_why_greedy_hedge_funders_suddenly_care_so_much_about_breadsticks/

Starboard Value's game was straightforward: buy a business, load it with debt, sell off its physical plant – the buildings it did business out of – pay itself, and then have the business lease back the buildings, bleeding out money until it collapsed. They pulled it with Red Lobster,and the point of the viral Olive Garden dis track was to soften up the company for its own bust out.

The bust out tactic wasn't limited to mocking middlebrow family restaurants. For years, the crooks who ran these ops did a brisk trade in blaming the internet. Why did Sears tank? Everyone knows that the 19th century business was an antique, incapable of mounting a challenge in the age of e-commerce. That was a great smokescreen for an old-fashioned bust out that saw corporate looters make off with hundreds of millions, leaving behind empty storefronts and emptier pension accounts for the workers who built the wealth the looters stole:

https://prospect.org/economy/vulture-capitalism-killed-sears/

Same goes for Toys R Us: it wasn't Amazon that killed the iconic toy retailer – it was the PE bosses who extracted $200m from the chain, then walked away, hands in pockets and whistling, while the businesses collapsed and the workers got zero severance:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/01/how-can-they-walk-away-with-millions-and-leave-workers-with-zero-toys-r-us-workers-say-they-deserve-severance/

It's a good racket – for the racketeers. Private equity has grown from a finance sideshow to Wall Street's apex predator, and it's devouring the real economy through a string of audactious bust outs, each more consequential and depraved than the last.

As PE shows that it can turn profitable businesses gigantic windfalls, sticking the rest of us with the job of sorting out the smoking craters they leave behind, more and more investors are piling in. Today, the PE sector loves a rollup, which is when they buy several related businesses and merge them into one firm. The nominal business-case for a rollup is that the new, bigger firm is more "efficient." In reality, a rollup's strength is in eliminating competition. When all the pet groomers, or funeral homes, or urgent care clinics for ten miles share the same owner, they can raise prices, lower wages, and fuck over suppliers.

They can also borrow. A quirk of the credit markets is that a standalone small business is valued at about 3-5x its annual revenues. But if that business is part of a large firm, it is valued at 10-20x annual turnover. That means that when a private equity company rolls up a comedy club, ad agency or water bottler (all businesses presently experiencing PE rollup), with $1m in annual revenues, it shows up on the PE company's balance sheet as an asset worth $10-20m. That's $10-20m worth of collateral the PE fund can stake for loans that let it buy and roll up more small businesses.

2.9 million Boomer-owned businesses, employing 32m people, are expected to sell in the next couple years as their owners retire. Most of these businesses will sell to PE firms, who can afford to pay more for them as a prelude to a bust out than anyone intending to operate them as a productive business could ever pay:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken

PE's most ghastly impact is felt in the health care sector. Whole towns' worth of emergency rooms, family practices, labs and other health firms have been scooped up by PE, which has spent more than $1t since 2012 on health acquisitions:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/17/the-doctor-will-fleece-you-now/#pe-in-full-effect

Once a health care company is owned by PE, it is significantly more likely to commit medicare fraud. It also cuts wages and staffing for doctors and nurses. PE-owned facilities do more unnecessary and often dangerous procedures. Appointments get shorter. The companies get embroiled in kickback scandals. PE-backed dentists hack away at children's mouths, filling them full of root-canals.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/17/the-doctor-will-fleece-you-now/#pe-in-full-effect

The Healthcare Private Equity Association boasts that its members are poised to spend more than $3t to create "the future of healthcare."

https://hcpea.org/#!event-list

As bad as PE is for healthcare, it's worse for long-term care. PE-owned nursing homes are charnel houses, and there's a particularly nasty PE scam where elderly patients are tricked into signing up for palliative care, which is never delivered (and isn't needed, because the patients aren't dying!). These fake "hospices" get huge payouts from medicare – and the patient is made permanently ineligible for future medicare, because they are recorded being in their final decline:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

Every part of the health care sector is being busted out by PE. Another ugly PE trick, the "club deal," is devouring the medical supply business. Club deals were huge in the 2000s, destroying rent-controlled housing, energy companies, Mervyn's department stores, Harrah's, and Old Country Joe. Now it's doing the same to medical supplies:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/14/billionaire-class-solidarity/#club-deals

Private equity is behind the mass rollup of single-family homes across America. Wall Street landlords are the worst landlords in America, who load up your rent with junk fees, leave your home in a state of dangerous disrepair, and evict you at the drop of a hat:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/16/die-miete-ist-zu-hoch/#assets-v-human-rights

As these houses decay through neglect, private equity makes a bundle from tenants and even more borrowing against the houses. In a few short years, much of America's desperately undersupplied housing stock will be beyond repair. It's a bust out.

You know all those exploding trains filled with dangerous chemicals that poison entire towns? Private equity bust outs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/04/up-your-nose/#rail-barons

Where did PE come from? How can these people look themselves in the mirror? Why do we let them get away with it? How do we stop them?

Today in The American Prospect, Maureen Tkacik reviews two new books that try to answer all four of these questions, but really only manage to answer the first three:

https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-06-02-days-of-plunder-morgenson-rosner-ballou-review/

The first of these books is These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/These-Are-the-Plunderers/Gretchen-Morgenson/9781982191283

The second is Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, by Brendan Ballou:

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brendan-ballou/plunder/9781541702103/

Both books describe the bust out from the inside. For example, PetSmart – looted for $30 billion by RaymondSvider and his PE fund BC Partners – is a slaughterhouse for animals. The company systematically neglects animals – failing to pay workers to come in and feed them, say, or refusing to provide backup power to run during power outages, letting animals freeze or roast to death. Though PetSmart has its own vet clinics, the company doesn't want to pay its vets to nurse the animals it damages, so it denies them care. But the company is also too cheap to euthanize those animals, so it lets them starve to death. PetSmart is also too cheap to cremate the animals, so its traumatized staff are ordered to smuggle the dead, rotting animals into random dumpsters.

All this happened while PetSmart's sales increased by 60%, matched by growth in the company's gross margins. All that money went to the bust out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2021/09/27/the-30-billion-kitty-meet-the-investor-who-made-a-fortune-on-pet-food/

Tkacik says these books show that we're finally getting wise to PE. Back in the Clinton years, the PE critique painted the perps as sharp operators who reduced quality and jacked up prices. Today, books like these paint these "investors" as the monsters they are – crooks whose bust ups are crimes, not clever finance hacks.

Take the Carlyle Group, which pioneered nursing home rollups. As Carlyle slashed wages, its workers suffered – but its elderly patients suffered more. Thousands of Carlyle "customers" died of "dehydration, gangrenous bedsores, and preventable falls" in the pre-covid years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/opioid-overdoses-bedsores-and-broken-bones-what-happened-when-a-private-equity-firm-sought-profits-in-caring-for-societys-most-vulnerable/2018/11/25/09089a4a-ed14-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html

KKR, another PE monster, bought a second-hand chain of homes for mentally disabled adults from another PE company, then squeezed it for the last drops of blood left in the corpse. KKR cut wages to $8/hour and increased shifts to 36 hours, then threatened to have workers who went home early arrested and charged with "patient abandonment." Many of these homes were often left with no staff at all, with patients left to starve and stew in their own waste.

PE loves to pick on people who can't fight back: kids, sick people, disabled people, old people. No surprise, then, that PE loves prisons – the ultimate captive audience. HIG Capital is a $55b fund that owns TKC Holdings, who got the contract to feed the prisoners at 400 institutions. They got the contract after the prisons fired Aramark, owned by PE giant Warburg Pincus, whose food was so inedible that it provoked riots. TKC got a million bucks extra to take over the food at Michigan's Kinross Correctional Facility, then, incredibly, made the food worse. A chef who refused to serve 100 bags of rotten potatoes ("the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in my life") was fired:

https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/michigan/prison-food-worker-i-was-fired-for-refusing-to-serve-rotten-potatoes/69-467297770

TKC doesn't just operate prison kitchens – it operates prison commissaries, where it gouges prisoners on junk food to replace the inedible slop it serves in the cafeteria. The prisoners buy this food with money they make working in the prison workshops, for $0.10-0.25/hour. Those workshops are also run by TKC.

Tkacic traces private equity back to the "corporate raiders" of the 1950s and 1960s, who "stealthily borrowed money to buy up enough shares in a small or midsized company to control its biggest bloc of votes, then force a stock swap and install himself as CEO."

The most famous of these raiders was Eli Black, who took over United Fruit with this gambit – a company that had a long association with the CIA, who had obligingly toppled democratically elected governments and installed dictators friendly to United's interests (this is where the term "banana republic" comes from).

Eli Black's son is Leon Black, a notorious PE predator. Leon Black got his start working for the junk-bonds kingpin Michael Milken, optimizing Milken's operation, which was the most terrifying bust out machine of its day, buying, debt-loading and wrecking a string of beloved American businesses. Milken bought 2,000 companies and put 200 of them through bankruptcy, leaving the survivors in a brittle, weakened state.

It got so bad that the Business Roundtable complained about the practice to Congress, calling Milken, Black, et al, "a small group is systematically extracting the equity from corporations and replacing it with debt, and incidentally accumulating major wealth."

Black stabbed Milken in the back and tanked his business, then set out on his own. Among the businesses he destroyed was Samsonite, "a bankrupt-but-healthy company he subjected to 12 humiliating years of repeated fee extractions, debt-funded dividend payments, brutal plant closings, and hideous schemes to induce employees to buy its worthless stock."

The money to buy Samsonite – and many other businesses – came through a shadowy deal between Black and John Garamendi, then a California insurance commissioner, now a California congressman. Garamendi helped Black buy a $6b portfolio of junk bonds from an insurance company in a wildly shady deal. Garamendi wrote down the bonds by $3.9b, stealing money "from innocent people who needed the money to pay for loved ones’ funerals, irreparable injuries, etc."

Black ended up getting all kinds of favors from powerful politicians – including former Connecticut governor John Rowland and Donald Trump. He also wired $188m to Jeffrey Epstein for reasons that remain opaque.

Black's shady deals are a marked contrast with the exalted political circles he travels in. Despite private equity's obviously shady conduct, it is the preferred partner for cities and states, who buy everything from ambulance services to infrastructure from PE-owned companies, with disastrous results. Federal agencies turn a blind eye to their ripoffs, or even abet them. 38 state houses passed legislation immunizing nursing homes from liability during the start of the covid crisis.

PE barons are shameless about presenting themselves as upstanding cits, unfairly maligned. When Obama made an empty promise to tax billionaires in 2010, Blackstone founder SteveS chwarzman declared, "It’s a war. It’s like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939."

Since we're on the subject of Hitler, this is a good spot to bring up Monowitz, a private-sector satellite of Auschwitz operated by IG Farben as a slave labor camp to make rubber and other materiel it supplied at a substantial markup to the wermacht. I'd never heard of Monowitz, but Tkacik's description of the camp is chilling, even in comparison to Auschwitz itself."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Across Europe, the cost of housing has risen sharply in recent years. Rents have exploded; neighbourhoods gentrified; public spaces privatised. The result: more and more people facing homelessness or precarious living conditions.

What are the root causes of this growing — yet relatively under-reported — crisis? What are the different housing challenges people are facing across European countries? And what can we do to help make sure everyone has the basics: an affordable, decent roof over their heads?

Our pan-European panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Erik Edman and Julijana Zita, investigate!"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-12-12T16:12:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans."]]></description>
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    <title>How “dementia villages” work - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Can miniature towns make dementia care more humane?

On any given day at the Hogeweyk, you can see locals wandering the streets, going out for coffee, folding laundry, and tending gardens, all surrounded by lush outdoor space. Located in Weesp, a Dutch city just outside Amsterdam, the Hogeweyk is a planned village intentionally designed for one purpose: maximizing quality of life for its 180 residents — all of whom have severe dementia. 

Inside, nurses and doctors don’t wear uniforms, meals are cooked inside the home with groceries from the village grocery store, and other Weesp residents are free to dine at the on-site restaurant. These design choices aim to deinstitutionalize senior living, blurring the line between what typically happens in front of residents and what happens out of sight. 

The style of care that this facility pioneered has been nicknamed the “dementia village,” and it’s been emulated across the world. It’s architecturally organized around choice; by giving residents a high level of freedom, its designers hope to minimize issues associated with dementia like aggression, confusion, and wandering."]]></description>
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    <title>Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-14T19:15:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sixty years after renouncing modernity, the writer is still contemplating a better way forward."

...

"The place was so inviting, I wondered if anyone had ever broken in—seeking, perhaps, a little food and a furtive night’s rest. “Yes, once,” Berry said. He was pretty sure he knew the culprit. “Someone took out a few panes and tried to get into my safe. I wrote him a note—‘Dear Thief, if you’re in trouble, don’t tear this place up. Come to the house, and I’ll give you what you need.’”

From this sliver of vanishing America, Berry cultivates the unfashionable virtues of neighborliness and compassion. He divides his time between writing and farmwork, continuing his vocation of championing sustainable agriculture in a country fuelled by industrial behemoths, while striving to insure that rural Americans—a mocked, despised, and ever-dwindling minority—do not perish altogether. Whenever the country struggles with a new man-made emergency, Berry is rediscovered. A Twitter feed called @WendellDaily recently circulated one of his maxims: “Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”

Berry’s admirers call him an Isaiah-like prophet. Michael Pollan and Alice Waters say that he changed their lives with five words: “Eating is an agricultural act.” Pollan became a scourge of the meat industry, genetically modified food, and factory farms; Waters launched the farm-to-table movement. The cultural critic bell hooks, another Kentuckian, began reading Berry in college, finding his work “fundamentally radical and eclectic.” Decades later, she visited him at his farm to talk about the importance of home and community and the complexities of America’s racial divide.

Berry’s critics see him as a utopian or a crank, a Luddite who never met a technological innovation he admired. In “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer,” an infamous 1987 essay that ran in Harper’s, he announced, “I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work.” When indignant readers sent a blizzard of letters to the editor, Berry noted in reply that one man, who called him “a fool” and “doubly a fool,” had “fortunately misspelled my name, leaving me a speck of hope that I am not the ‘Wendell Barry’ he was talking about.”"

...

"In the early sixties, the Berrys seemed to be launched on a very different life. After Wendell received a Guggenheim Fellowship, they lived for a year in Tuscany and southern France, then moved with their children, Mary and Den, to New York, where Wendell taught at New York University. In 1964, he announced to his astonished colleagues that he had accepted a professorship at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, and that he was going to take up farming near his family’s “home place.” That year, he and Tanya bought their house and their first twelve acres. His New York friends, imagining him surrounded by moonshine-swilling hillbillies and feuding clans, were sure he had consigned himself to intellectual death. He set out to prove them wrong, even as he admitted, “I seem to have been born with an aptitude for a way of life that was doomed.”

He found a kind of salvation, and a subject, in stewardship of the land. With renunciative discipline, he tilled his fields as his father and grandfather had, using a team of horses and a plow. And he took up organic gardening. I’d learned from the letters that it was my father who introduced Berry to the practice, sending him Leonard’s book “Gardening with Nature,” and recommending the works of Sir Albert Howard. An early-twentieth-century English botanist, Howard had studied traditional farming methods in India and emerged as an evangelist for sustainable agriculture. In 1977, Berry quoted Howard, his defining guide on the topic, as “treating the whole problem of health in soil, plant, animal, and man as one great subject.”

I confessed that I’d never read Howard. Berry, turning professorial, retrieved “An Agricultural Testament” and read aloud, enunciating each word: “ ‘Mother Earth never attempts to farm without livestock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste.’ ” Berry closed the book. “That’s it,” he said. “That’s the pinch of the hourglass.”"

...

"When Wendell and his three siblings were young, Henry County was famous for a light-leafed, unusually fragrant crop known as burley tobacco. The small farmers of the “burley belt”—including parts of Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia—saw themselves as part of a centuries-old culture that produced the most labor-intensive agricultural product in the world. In “Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy,” a book of photographs that Berry’s college friend James Baker Hall took in 1973 at a neighbor’s farm, Berry writes about the cultivation of tobacco as “a sort of agrarian passion, because of its beauty at nearly every stage of production and because of the artistry required to produce it.” At harvest time, neighbors “swapped work,” as they did when putting up hay or killing hogs, undertakings that took days and required intense collective labor. In one story, Andy Catlett, Wendell’s fictional counterpart, tells a young helper, “If you don’t have people, a lot of people, whose hands can make order of whatever they pick up, you’re going to be shit out of luck.”

I had always associated tobacco with lung cancer. Seeing that I needed help understanding it as a cultural touchstone, Berry said, “I’d better tell you about my daddy.” His father, John Marshall Berry, had a searing early experience that shaped his life, as well as the lives of his children and grandchildren. In January, 1907, when John was six, he woke up in what he called “the black of midnight” to the sound of his father’s horse on the gravel driveway. He was heading for the annual tobacco auction, in Louisville. The family had sat around the fire earlier, speculating about how much he would get for the year’s crop, and how they would use the money to pay down their debts. Instead, he returned empty-handed. The American Tobacco Company, a trust run by the tycoon James B. Duke, had forced the price of tobacco below the cost of production and transport. Wendell said, “My dad saw grown men leaving the warehouses crying.”

John Berry became an attorney, married Virginia Erdman Perry, from Port Royal, and established himself as a prominent citizen of Henry County. According to Tom Grissom, who is writing a book about the local history of tobacco, Berry was a member of his town’s bank board, a trustee of his college, and a Sunday-school teacher at the Baptist church. He was also a fervent advocate of a new organization, the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association. It enabled farmers to free themselves from the grip of the trust by establishing production controls and parity prices, and by selling their tobacco directly to manufacturers.

In 1933, as prices plummeted during the Great Depression, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, to save farmers from ruin. The act introduced production controls in return for price supports—a federal version of the regional Burley Association. John Berry served as the association’s president from 1957 until 1975, and insisted that the programs were not handouts but the equivalent of a minimum wage. Wendell maintained that the purpose of the Burley Association was to “achieve fair prices, fairly determined, and with minimal help from the government.”

Berry often writes of trying to nurture a “human economy”—the antithesis of America’s “total economy,” run by latter-day robber barons and the politicians who count on their donations. By his definition, a corporation is “a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.” Objecting to Supreme Court rulings that treat corporations as persons, Berry argues that “the limitless destructiveness of this economy comes about precisely because a corporation is not a person.” In other words, “It can experience no personal hope or remorse, no change of heart. It cannot humble itself. It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of becoming a bigger pile of money.”"

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"School held little interest for Wendell. “I didn’t like confinement,” he said. Second-grade teachers gave boys knives for perfect attendance, but he spurned the bribe, and by the eighth grade was earning F’s in conduct. When he was fourteen, his parents, determined to see their bright children buckle down, sent him and John to Millersburg Military Institute; their younger sisters, Mary Jo and Markie, later went to a private school in Virginia.

Millersburg had an effect on Wendell, but not the one his parents had intended. “The highest aim of the school was to produce a perfectly obedient, militarist, puritanical moron who could play football,” Berry writes in “The Long-Legged House.” His greatest lesson from those years: “Take a simpleton and give him power and confront him with intelligence—and you have a tyrant.” Each year, when school let out for the summer, Wendell headed to his great-uncle Curran’s camp with an axe and a scythe, to mow the wild grass and horseweed. “It was some instinctive love of wilderness that would always bring me back here,” he wrote, “but it was by the instincts of a farmer that I established myself.”

He turned himself around at the University of Kentucky, where he earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in English. He studied creative writing with Robert Hazel, a charismatic poet and novelist with a gift for shaping raw talents, including Ed McClanahan, James Baker Hall, Gurney Norman, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Wendell recalled, “He did me the great service of never allowing me to be satisfied with any work I showed him.”"

...

"In 1958, Berry was awarded a Wallace Stegner writing fellowship at Stanford. He and Tanya packed their things and three-month-old Mary in their Plymouth and drove across the country. Berry prized his seminars with Stegner, whom he considers the West’s foremost “storyteller, historian, critic, conservator and loyal citizen.” In a Jefferson Lecture in 2012, he quoted Stegner’s description of Americans as one of two basic types, “boomers” and “stickers.” Boomers are “those who pillage and run,” who “make a killing and end up on Easy Street.” Stickers are “those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.” They are “placed people,” in Berry’s term—forever attached to the look of the sky, the smell of native plants, and the vernacular of home."

...

"lthough Berry is enviably prolific, he doesn’t find writing easy. When I asked about his process, he replied with a parable. On a bitterly cold winter day, he had to leave the comfort of the house: his livestock was out, and a fence had to be mended. His gloves made his fingers clumsy, so he took them off, freezing his hands as he twisted the wire. “What’s curious to me is that, once started, you’re interested, you’re into it, you’re doing your work, and you’re happy,” he said. “That applies to writing. Sometimes I don’t believe I can stand it another day, but then I’m working at problems I know how to deal with, to an extent.”"

...

"In 1977, as my father was being ushered into retirement, Berry was told that it was time to find a new publisher. Two years later, he said, North Point Press “adopted me.” North Point was a new venture in Berkeley, co-founded by Jack Shoemaker, a thirty-three-year-old former bookseller. Shoemaker, who now edits Berry at Counterpoint Press, told me that his books were popular with environmentalists, hippies, and civil-rights advocates: “Wendell was a hero to those people, saying the unsayable out loud.” His ideas about the virtues of agrarian societies had sweeping implications—to solve the problems of the modern world required thoroughly reconceiving how we live. Wallace Stegner once wrote to him, “Your books seem conservative. They are actually profoundly revolutionary.”

Berry distrusts political movements, which, he writes, “soon decline from any possibility of reasonable discourse to slogans, shouts, and a merely hateful contention in the capitols and streets.” Still, he is a lifelong protester. In 1967, he helped lead the Sierra Club’s successful effort to block the Red River Gorge Dam, in east-central Kentucky. The following year, he marched against the Vietnam War in Lexington, where he told the crowd that, as a member of the human race, he was “in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers.” But, he insisted, he was given hope by people “who through all the sad destructive centuries of our history have kept alive the vision of peace and kindness and generosity and humility and freedom.”

On Valentine’s Day weekend, 2011, Berry joined a small group of activists to occupy Governor Steve Beshear’s office in Frankfort, as hundreds more marched outside with “I Love Mountains” placards. They aimed to convince the Governor to withdraw from a lawsuit that the Kentucky Coal Association had filed against the E.P.A. for its efforts to clean up waters polluted by toxic mining runoff. Beshear agreed to visit a few particularly afflicted towns. In Hueysville, a resident named Ricky Handshoe took him to Raccoon Creek, which had turned a fluorescent orange. Aghast, Beshear asked, “But you’re on city water, aren’t you?” Handshoe said recently that the Governor meant well, but was no match for the coal lobby: “After he left, nothing much happened.”

Berry puts his faith in citizens who are committed to restoring their communities. One of the people at the sit-in was his friend Herb E. Smith, from a family of miners in Whitesburg. In 1969, at the age of seventeen, Smith and seven other young people helped found a film workshop, called Appalshop, to produce stories about eastern Kentucky that countered the conventional narrative about benighted Appalachians. Smith told me that in the past half century, as coal jobs have disappeared, Appalshop has grown. With support from government agencies and foundations, it runs a radio station, a theatre program, an art gallery, a filmmaking institute, and a record label. Another nonprofit in town provides health care to the uninsured. A bakery up the road employs recovering opioid addicts. Addressing political disagreements in a solidly red state, Smith said, “These are people with deep concerns about community survival, even in places thought of as full of reactionaries. In reality, people accommodate each other.”

Berry hailed the concentration of talent, work, and courage in Whitesburg, citing its most famous resident, Harry Caudill, whose history of Appalachia, “Night Comes to the Cumberlands,” came out in 1963 and “brought the war on poverty to eastern Kentucky.” He also talked about a married couple, Tom and Pat Gish, who in 1956 bought the local newspaper, the Mountain Eagle, and ran it for fifty-two years. Their first decision was to replace its anodyne motto, “A Friendly Non-Partisan Weekly Newspaper,” with “It Screams.” Not everyone welcomed the paper’s candor about the hazards of mining and the misdeeds of corrupt officials. In 1974, someone threw a firebomb into its offices. The Gishes moved the paper’s operations to their house and got out the next issue. Chuckling, Berry noted that the only thing they changed was the slogan: “It Still Screams.” He added, “That story has been worth a lot to me. And so much has gathered there and kept on right in the presence of the permanent destruction of the world.”"

...

"Despite Berry’s veneration of his ancestors, he can be unsparing about their sins. “I am forever being crept up on and newly startled by the realization that my people established themselves here by killing or driving out the original possessors, by the awareness that people were once bought and sold here by my people, by the sense of the violence they have done to their own kind and to each other and to the earth,” he wrote in his 1968 essay “A Native Hill.” He saw the rapacious practices of modern agribusiness, Big Coal, the military-industrial complex, and Wall Street as the perpetuation of “some intransigent destructiveness” that drove the European settlers in America.

That year, Berry began writing “The Hidden Wound,” a book that examines racism as “an emotional dynamics which has disordered both the heart of the society as a whole and of every person in the society.” The title refers to an ugly story handed down through generations of Berrys, in which John J. Berry sold a slave who, the story went, was “too defiant and rebellious to do anything with.” Although it showed the “innate violence of the slave system,” it was relayed “as a bit of interesting history.” Berry admitted, “I have told it that way many times myself. And so the wound has lived beneath the skin.”"

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Thomas Friedman, of the Times, is scolded for a preening column in which he calls himself a “green capitalist” and blames Congress for not cracking down on coal, oil, and gas producers. Berry observes, “The deal we are being offered appears to be that we can change the world without changing ourselves.” This kind of thinking enables us to continue using too much energy “of whatever color,” hoping that “fields of solar panels and ranks of gigantic wind machines” will absolve us of guilt as consumers. Which is not to say that Berry renounces the use of green energy. He posed for a photograph several years ago in front of the solar panels by his house, grinning and flashing a peace sign.

Berry summons writers, from Homer to Twain, who extended “understanding and sympathy to enemies, sinners, and outcasts: sometimes to people who happen to be on the other side or the wrong side, sometimes to people who have done really terrible things.” In this spirit, he offers an assessment of Robert E. Lee, whom he calls “one of the great tragic figures of our history.” He presents Lee as a white supremacist and a slaveholder, but also as a reluctant soldier who opposed secession and was forced to choose between conflicting loyalties: his country and his people. “Lee said, ‘I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children,’ ” Berry writes. “For him, the words ‘birthplace’ and ‘home’ and even ‘children’ had a complexity and vibrance of meaning that at present most of us have lost.”

Berry wants readers to hate Lee’s sins but love the sinner, or at least understand his motives. War, he suggests, begins in a failure of acceptance. He writes of exchanging friendly talk with Trump voters at Port Royal’s farm-supply store, a kind of tolerance that is necessary in a small town: “If two neighbors know that they may seriously disagree, but that either of them, given even a small change of circumstances, may desperately need the other, should they not keep between them a sort of pre-paid forgiveness? They ought to keep it ready to hand, like a fire extinguisher.” Without this, we risk conflagration: “A society with an absurdly attenuated sense of sin starts talking then of civil war or holy war.”

If readers were incredulous about Berry’s claim that a pencil was a better tool than a computer, it’s not hard to imagine how many will react to his plea that we extend sympathy to a general whose army fought to perpetuate slavery in America. Several of Berry’s friends urged him to abandon the book, anticipating Twitter eruptions and withering reviews. He writes, “My friends, I think, were afraid, now that I am old, that I am at risk of some dire breach of political etiquette by feebleness of mind or some fit of ill-advised candor.” He listened, and fretted, but kept going. “They are asking me to lay aside my old effort to tell the truth, as it is given to me by my own knowledge and judgment, in order to take up another art, which is that of public relations.” In a letter, he told me that he didn’t want to offend “against truth or goodness,” although the book “at times certainly does offend, I think necessarily, against political correctness.” Tanya crisply told him, “It’s too late for it to ruin your whole life.”"

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"Mary told Wendell that she imagined a liberal-arts program that would teach students how to raise livestock and grow diversified crops, and encourage them to pursue farming as a life’s work. Wendell said to her, “It sounds like you’re starting a center.” Mary had no idea how to run a nonprofit, but, she told me, “I had what was left of a pretty good farm culture and a well-watered landscape.”

She admits that growing up on her parents’ farm wasn’t easy: the outdoor composting privy, the absence of vacations, the mandatory chores that pulled her out of bed each morning before dawn. “It was a subsistence farm,” she said. “Mom and Dad were producing eighty to eighty-five per cent of what we were eating.” She thought that they were poor: “We didn’t live in a ranch house, drink Coke, or have a TV.” A friend, taking pity on her, got on the phone each week to offer a running narration of popular shows. Mary complained to her father, “Why do we always have to do things the hardest way?” But she never considered moving away.

The Berry Center, with a staff of eight and a board of ten, attracts visitors from around the world who share many Americans’ sense of deracination. “They want to know how to belong to a place,” Mary told me. When they express alarm about climate change, she tells them, “You can’t throw up your hands in despair. You’re not responsible for solving the whole problem—you just do what you can do.”

Four years ago, the Berry Center and Sterling College, an “experiential learning” school in Craftsbury, Vermont, started the Wendell Berry Farming Program, which provides twelve students tuition-free study on Henry County farms. Leah Bayens, the program’s dean, told me that the students spend much of their time working outside. “Ultimately, we’re using the curriculum as a way for farmers to make decisions informed by poetry, history, and literature, as well as the hard sciences.”"

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"Berry’s writing, like the seasons, has a cyclical quality, returning again and again to the same ideas. Tanya once told him that his knack for repeating himself is his principal asset as a writer. He noted a few years ago, “That insight has instructed and amused me very much, because she is right and so forthrightly right.” In his new book, he has a characteristically bittersweet message: “Because the age of global search and discovery now is ending—because by now we have so thoroughly ransacked, appropriated, and diminished the globe’s original wealth—we can see how generous and abounding is the commonwealth of life.” But he has never suggested that everyone flee the city and the suburbs and take up farming. “I am suggesting,” he once wrote, “that most people now are living on the far side of a broken connection, and that this is potentially catastrophic.”

I asked him if he retains any of his youthful hope that humanity can avoid a cataclysm. He replied that he’s become more careful in his use of the word “hope”: “Jesus said, ‘Take no thought for the morrow,’ which I take to mean that if we do the right things today, we’ll have done all we really can for tomorrow. OK. So I hope to do the right things today.”

At the old Ford acreage, he showed me where the tobacco was taken after the harvest. He opened the barn doors onto a cavernous space, where light filtered through the siding boards. Craning my neck, I could imagine how the tobacco sticks, laden with heavy leaves, were once hung on the rafters to dry. It was a perilous undertaking called “housing tobacco”—each man supporting a sheaf of leaves larger than he was, balancing on a beam like a circus performer as he set the stick in place.

Wendell picked up a maul, which Meb had made from a hickory tree. It had a smooth handle and a bulbous head, squared off at the end. “With it,” he told me, “you can deliver a blow of tremendous force to a stake or a splitting wedge.” Thinking about a modern sledgehammer, I asked how the handle was inserted into the head. He put his hand on my shoulder and said, “No, no, honey,” then hastily explained himself: “That’s our way of taking the sting out of it, you see, when we correct someone.” He showed me the swirling grain of the maul’s head, chopped from the roots of a tree, and swung it over his shoulder to demonstrate how it becomes a natural extension of the body.

When I was back home, he sent me a diagram and explained how the strength of the wood came from the tree’s immersion in the soil: “The growth of roots makes the grain gnarly, gnurly, snurly: unsplittable.” After you cut the tree, you square off the root end. Then, above the roots, where the grain isn’t snurly, you saw inward a little at a time, “splitting off long, straight splinters to reduce the log to the diameter of a handle comfortable to hold. And so you’ve made your maul. It is all one piece, impossible for the strongest man (or of course woman) to break.” He scrawled at the bottom of the page, “There is a kind of genius in that maul, that belongs to a placed people: to make of what is at hand a fine, durable tool at the cost only of skill and work.”"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At his retreat near Isumi, Kazunori Hamana creates humble yet imposing ceramic vessels that evoke the world around him.

IN AN EDO-PERIOD farmhouse near the rural seaside town of Isumi, two hours southeast of Tokyo, soft light filters through paper-and-wood-lattice doors onto seven clay vessels as big and round as marine buoys; their pale surfaces glow against the building’s wood posts and beams, which have been blackened over time by smoke from an open hearth. These vessels are the only residents of this more than 200-year-old traditionally built house, or kominka. A lopsided white one, with gently indented fingerprints mottling its surface like fish scales, rests on the decaying tatami in the large front room. A turnip-shaped pair, one painted with dripping indigo polka dots and the other with a thick belt of sooty brown, seem to gaze out a window together. Hand-formed from grayish-white clay from Japan’s Shiga Prefecture, they are the work of the artist Kazunori Hamana, 51, who uses this once-grand dwelling as an exhibition space. His pieces have been shown at prestigious galleries, including Blum & Poe in Los Angeles and New York, but he refers to them simply as tsubo, a word that suggests utilitarian crocks holding homemade pickles in a grandmother’s kitchen. Compared to these familiar objects, though, Hamana’s tsubo are at once imposing — most measure nearly 30 inches across — and delicate, their weathered and cracked surfaces echoing the crumbling wattle-and-daub walls of their home.

Another buyer might have demolished this 1,000-square-foot building with its tin-covered thatched roof to construct a new house in its place, but Hamana purchased it in 2016 for the price of the land it sits on because he wanted to preserve it. “It’s part of my collection,” he says, referring to the objects he surrounds himself with to feel connected with human history: fifth-century clay vessels from Korea and Japan, ceramics made by friends and pre-20th-century mended indigo boro work wear that he finds at flea markets. Also part of his collection are a nearby modern beach house with a sand-colored cement facade, where he builds his tsubo and catches fish by casting a net into the swell from the home’s sea wall; and a modest two-story midcentury farmhouse in a valley to the north, where he fires his pieces in an old storage shed, grows rice on the property’s one-and-a-quarter-acre paddy field and lives and collaborates with the artist Yukiko Kuroda, 52. He commutes by motorbike or kei van (a cheap, compact vehicle favored by Japanese farmers) among his three houses, all within 15 minutes of one another, using the time for contemplation. His art, he says, is not the vessels he sculpts but rather the process of looking inside himself as he shapes them, and of living deliberately with nature at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

Most mornings, he wakes up with the first light and cooks brown rice for the day. In the warmer months, he does farm work, and in winter he goes straight to his studio at the beach. Before dark, he returns to the farmhouse, prepares local fish and vegetables for dinner, heats the home’s wood-fired bath — sometimes with scrap from the old houses that are being demolished nearby — and goes to bed by 8 p.m. His tsubo are an invitation, he says: “I want to tell people about this shape of life.”

HAMANA ARRIVED IN this place by a circuitous path. Though his parents indulged his early interest in growing and making things, he describes himself as the black sheep of a family descended from nobility who would have preferred that he become a doctor or lawyer. At age 6, he kept two chickens in the garden of his childhood home near Osaka, and he loved stories about country life, like the folk tales depicted in the animated TV series “Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi” (1975-94). Inspired by the show, he used his grandfather’s tools and scrap wood to construct jizo, the small stone statues of bodhisattvas made by anonymous craftsmen to protect travelers on country roads and woodland trails — they represented to him a rural existence that seemed far removed from the area around Osaka in the 1970s, where Hamana was often forced inside because of poor air quality.

At 15, he enrolled at an agricultural high school in Hyogo Prefecture by the Sea of Japan, and three years later, he left to start an environmental studies degree at Humboldt State University in Northern California. Enamored with American fashion and ’80s-era movies like “Back to the Future,” he dreamed of beaches with surfers and girls in bikinis; the frigid northern coast was a shock, and he transferred to a community college in San Diego. In a film class, he saw movies by Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, and realized that, as he recalls now with a laugh, “I knew nothing about Japan. ‘Wabi-sabi, what’s that?’”

Motivated by this new curiosity about his own country, he returned to his family home and spent his 20s partying and selling the vintage jeans and sneakers he’d been collecting since high school. Garments like Levi’s 501s, he says, are not just fashion: “They’re culture, history.” He made his way to Tokyo, where he sold clothes at flea markets until he was able to open his own vintage shop, Blues, in Harajuku in 1994. In the ensuing years, he traveled regularly to the States to source used Nikes and denim, and the store became well known; he bought himself a Ferrari and a Porsche. But when business slowed and the luster of Tokyo nightlife started to fade, he began searching for a place near both ocean and mountains.

In 1998, he found a piece of land for sale on a dead-end road by the ocean in Isumi and built a compact beach house there three years later. After a divorce, he moved to the coast full time in 2008, raising his daughter there. He’d always loved playing with clay, and now he began to experiment with the medium in earnest, making his first tsubo at a community center class in Isumi. His classmates, who were mostly elderly, were perplexed: Why couldn’t he make something small and polite, like a vase or a dish? But he was interested in humbler forms — and in what might happen if he made them bigger. At his home, he installed a kiln large enough to fire 25-inch-wide pieces and, later, at the farmhouse he bought in 2018, kilns for 30- and 40-inch pieces.

As they’re created, the tsubo move with Hamana through his three houses. On the second floor of the beach house, he hand-builds each one at the dining room table over four to five days. Waves crash against the sea wall, which sits below a steep bank of weeds — susuki (Japanese pampas grass), Japanese mugwort and feral hydrangea. Hamana doesn’t plan the shape of a vessel, or how he will paint it, until the moment he begins, instead relying on intuition and serendipity. “If I think too much, it becomes design or craft,” he says.

Next, he transports the tsubo to the farmhouse where he and Kuroda live to fire them. Sometimes, on the way down the narrow stairs of the beach property he accidentally breaks one, and Kuroda, who left behind a graphic design career to work with her hands, transforms the fractured vessel with kintsugi, the traditional craft of connecting pottery or lacquerware fragments with urushi (lacquer made from tree sap) typically dusted with powdered gold, silver or platinum. Kuroda uses pewter instead, or sometimes urushi alone, to seal cracks, augmenting it with found materials like shiny medallions cut from the inside of aluminum urushi tubes or, once, with rusted wire mesh the couple had found on the beach.

Today, Hamana’s work has been included in shows curated by Takashi Murakami, and is owned by collectors around the world, but he’s ambivalent about calling himself an artist. A tsubo, he says, isn’t intimidating or exclusive, like so much contemporary art; rather, it’s approachable: “People think it’s a vessel or a vase, not sculpture.” But when he creates a piece as wide as the trunk of an old-growth tree — his biggest works are a yard across — it transforms from a functional container into something that inspires contemplation. “It’s very similar to when you see people you don’t know,” he says: What’s inside is not visible, and you wonder what the vessel holds."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Located near central Melbourne with a view towards the Yarra River, Kew Residence is home of an architect that unites architecture, art, design and craft. Designed by and for John Wardle of John Wardle Architects, the architecture and interior design is intricately detailed, with emphasis placed on materiality and bespoke elements. The house is positioned to appear as part of the natural landscape of elm trees on the site, in a way that reflects the respect for nature inherent in Japanese design.

The architect’s love of the Japanese artefact is depicted in the forms and specifications within the interior design and architecture. Throughout the house, custom Japanese tiles are used as a measure, with spaces designed in response to the size, shape and aesthetic of the tiling. The kitchen walls feature a scalloped tile from the Tajimi Valley in Japan. A downstairs space known as the Bamboo Forest Room features tiles produced in a singular kiln in the Tajimi Valley. Each piece is slightly different, creating a varied and beautiful result that reflects the uniqueness and simplicity of Japanese artefacts. The master bathroom contains a mix of Agape products and INAX ceramic tiles, with a Nivis basin and Cristalplant bathtub completing its luxurious, organic materiality.

As the home of an architect, sculptural features are given equal weight to functional elements. The house displays John Wardle’s love of narrative, with personal stories contained in the customised interior design, an example being a table that tells the tale of a tea tray the architect purchased as a student. 

As is often seen with the home of an architect, every detail of this house has been carefully considered with bespoke elements, play of light and aesthetic effects taking precedence. 

Architecture and Interior Design by John Wardle Architects.
Stone, Tiles and Bathware from Artedomus. 
Construction by Overend Construction. 
Photography by Gavin Green. 
Filmed and Edited by Cheer Squad Film Co. 
Production by The Local Project."]]></description>
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    <title>Notes From the Metaverse - by L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-05T21:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
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…

“As Ivan Illich once put it, “Existence in a society that has become a system finds the senses useless precisely because of the very instruments designed for their extension.”

“[O]ur human and earthly limits, properly understood,” Wendell Berry has argued, “are not confinements but rather inducements to formal elaboration and elegance, to fullness of relationship and meaning. Perhaps our most serious cultural loss in recent centuries is the knowledge that some things, though limited, are inexhaustible. For example, an ecosystem, even that of a working forest or farm, so long as it remains ecologically intact, is inexhaustible. A small place, as I know from my own experience, can provide opportunities of work and learning, and a fund of beauty, solace, and pleasure — in addition to its difficulties — that cannot be exhausted in a lifetime or in generations.”

8. Drew Austin described the metaverse this way: “a more regimented simulacrum of public space where a wider range of interactions are easier to monetize—a virtual environment in which we’ll finally have digital walls where we can hang our NFTs, and where we can rub elbows with Marvel’s embodied IP.” He quotes Wendy Liu, who, considering a short definition of metaverse, quipped, “virtual reality with unskippable ads.” Rob Horning’s analysis appears in Austin’s short essay, too: “Facebook would also like to secure the ability to prevent people from any right to absence … The metaverse is fundamentally a place you will be forced to be.”

9. One way of telling the story of modernity would be to describe how commerce colonized more and more of our world and our experience by overcoming the technical and cultural limits that stood in its way. Aspects of the world now appear to us framed by the implicit challenge: Commercialize this. This is hardly a novel observation, I grant. But it is worth noting how digital technology has shaped and been shaped by this dynamic.”

…

“It is true that the sharp line between work and home is a relatively recent development. For most of human history, where we worked and where we lived were by and large one and the same. So, in historical perspective, the neat separation between work and home that characterized modern, industrialized societies during the past century (although barely that) may ultimately appear as an abberation. It may seem, then, that digital technologies have retrieved an older form of life.

This is an example of a pattern worth noting. Whereas the modernity proceeded by differentiating, fragmenting, and specializing on the model of the machine, the digital age is marked by connection and entanglement. McLuhan opened Understanding Media with observations along these lines. “The restructuring of human work and association was shaped by the technique of fragmentation that is the essence of machine technology,” McLuhan argued. So in the modern, industrial world dominated by print, itself a mechanization of the word and a proto-industrial technology, seemingly neat distinctions and separations were the order of the day.3 Private life was sequestered from public spaces, work was clearly distinguished from home, reason and emotions were distinct, as were mind and body, nature and the human, fact and value, etc. First under the aegis of electronic and then digital media, these sharp lines were harder if not impossible to sustain.

But you never go back. What has happened cannot be undone. Digital media does not make whole what had been broken apart. It’s rather more like having the pieces thrown into a pile together. Work from home is not a return to agrarian modes of relatively autonomous subsistence. For most people, it is a job and a boss that are being introduced into the rhythms of home life, in which children, as has been widely recognized, are not meaningfully integrated but rather appear chiefly as logistical problems to be solved. What will be needed, in my view, is a new way of thinking about work altogether, not merely a migration of old jobs into new settings. And it may be that we get there, and that digital technologies will play a key role in making it happen. But the metaverse as it is presently being packaged is, from this vantage point, a tool that is already obsolete, centered as it is on a virtual simulations of traditional office work.”

…

“What if we saw attention in the same way that we saw air or water, as a valuable resource that we hold in common? Perhaps, if we could envision an ‘attentional commons,’ then we could figure out how to protect it.””

…

“13. In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt explained how common sense had once been understood not as banal notions that were commonly held, but as the work of all of our senses working in tandem to perceive a world held in common with others. “Only the experience of sharing a common human world with others who look at it from different perspectives,” she wrote, “can enable us to see reality in the round and to develop a shared common sense.”

She also warned that “a noticeable decrease in common sense in any given community and a noticeable increase in superstition and gullibility are therefore almost infallible signs of alienation from the world,” and, thus, the seedbed of totalitarianism.

So, to put this another way, the metaverse would do for common sense, as Arendt understands it, what enclosure did to the commons. Having our perception of the world increasingly mediated by proprietary technologies that immerse us in ever more sophisticated realms of digital simulacra is a way of surrendering the experience of a shared reality with others.

14. It was recently suggested to me, in a discussion about embodiment and perception, that the phrase “come back to your senses” seemed rather loaded with significance As with the idea of “common sense,” we’ve taken coming back to your senses to mean something vaguely intellectual. But what if we took it literally? What if staying sane meant doing a better job of anchoring our experience to our senses?

Or, as Illich put it in lines I’ve cited here on more than one occasion, “Therefore, it appears to me that we cannot neglect the disciplined recovery, an asceticism, of a sensual praxis in a society of technogenic mirages. This reclaiming of the senses, this promptitude to obey experience […] seems to me to be the fundamental condition for renouncing that technique which sets up a definitive obstacle to friendship.””]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“KPIX News report from June 30th 1961 in San Francisco featuring silent views of Willie Brown and his family (including wife Blanche Brown) outside a model home at the Standard Building Company’s Forest Knolls housing development. They staged a civil rights sit-in there because the developers refused to show any homes to African Americans. Also includes brief scenes of them meeting with other members of the local African American community, who were supporting their protest.

Movette Film Transfer of San Francisco remastered this 16mm positive film print in December 2017 in 2K resolution (2048x1556 pixels), using a Lasergraphics film scanner. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.”

[See also:
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb796nb5dj/?brand=oac4
https://www.outsidelands.org/podcast/WNP396_Forest_Knolls
https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/fielders-choice?page=0,3
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mayor_Willie_Brown ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Features the earliest TV news coverage of Willie L. Brown, Jr. preserved by the Bay Area Television Archive. Willie Brown discusses his role in the Forest Knolls housing development sit-in strike of May 1961. Willie Brown and his wife Blanche Brown were denied the right to view a model home at the Standard Building Company’s Forest Knolls housing development, which spurred a civil rights sit-in strike. Willie Brown admits he is not interested in purchasing a home (in the range of $27,000), but plans to continue the protest in response to what the media refers to as a “cut and dry” case of discrimination.

Movette Film Transfer of San Francisco remastered this 16mm positive film print in December 2017 in 2K resolution (2048x1556 pixels), using a Lasergraphics film scanner. Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.”

[See also:
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb796nb5dj/?brand=oac4
https://www.outsidelands.org/podcast/WNP396_Forest_Knolls
https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/fielders-choice?page=0,3
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mayor_Willie_Brown ]]]></description>
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[photos of Willie Mays’s home:
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[See also:
https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/fielders-choice ]]]></description>
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