Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco The Anarchist Ethics of Ricardo Flores Magón - YouTube 2025-10-03T04:16:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLq-WE157NQ robertogreco ricardofloresmagón 2025 anarresproject sergiogallegos anarchism anarchy ethics revolution labor mexico us theory politics inequality liberty socialmovements mikhailbakunin porfiriodíaz pierre-josephproudhon peterkropotkin proudhon anarchosocialism indigenous indigeneity work workers ideals border borders zapatistas ezln privilege kant aristotle poverty liberation socialchange slavery freedom care caring responsibility radicalism johnstuartmill mutualaid mobility survival justice duties rights insurrection leonardharris leemcbride insurrectionistethics resistance defiance animosity oppression liberalism egalitarianism zapatismo emilianozapata maya chiapas autonomy immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:37c54629e73b/ Vuela alto, tupamaro - Editorial - YouTube 2025-05-14T16:20:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_APdUE4tKc robertogreco pepemujica 2025 politics uruguay revolution integrity lauraarroyo josémujica legacy ideals resistance approriation identity pragmatism revolutionaries freedom dictatorship imperialism antiiperialism fascism antifascism guerilleros socialjustice humanrights socialsim wealthredistribution economics socialism struggle politicization democracy horizontality capitalism anticapitalism well-being wellbeing class humility obituaries amlo gustavopetro evomorales internationalism solidarity neoliberalism dinaboluarte micaelabastidas tupamaros túpacamaruii andrésmanuellópezobrador https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67c61fe14a99/ Steven Salaita, "No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University" - YouTube 2025-04-27T18:49:14+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMPB756-mI robertogreco stevensalaita 2025 us universities colleges highereducation highered palestine academicfreedom zionism gaza genocide ethniccleansing israel colonialism colonization bds boycott divestment sanctions mohammedabed progressivism progressive progressiveexceptpalestine civilliberties access accessibility redistribution walkouts refusal resistance labor wildcatstrikes strikes organzing workers work unions allies nationalism patriotism rebellion revolution centrism pragmatism democrats moderates suspension expulsion policebrutality arrest doxing defamation deportation persecution oppression repression suppression zionistmccarthyism mccarthyism antizionism tenure power faculty solidarity compliance principles socialclimbing terrorization terrorism antisemitism democracy humanrights authoritarianism radicalism hypocrisy organizations institutions maurafinkelstein jeremycorbyn islamophobia travelbans fascism racism capitalism militarism antagonism administrativebloat automation management ai artificialintelligence preca https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55f3f2eb4575/ Late Fascist Aesthetics [Katie Ebner-Landy]: A Theory of the Online Forum - YouTube 2025-03-24T20:25:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRVtCXqtvA robertogreco aesthetics fascism 2025 katieebner-landy fascistaesthetics forums online internet web socialmedia aiaesthetics nationalsocialism nazis italy benitomussolini racism bureaucracy state mussolini authoritarianism violence enlightenment hierarchy gender families race sexism patriarchy farright india brasil brazil us albertotoscano socialcohesion authority capitalism neoliberalism culture uniforms crowds socialpractices society johannchapoutot nazism ethics ideology culturalrevolution latefascism 4chan discord gab onlineforums virtual reality 2016 2024 memes ukraine whitesupremacy donaldtrump israel palestine conspiracytheories antisemitism feminism rightwing pizzagate qanon 1993 history japan otaku identity status disaffected christopherpoole 2chan 2008 scientology greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis power anonymous wikileaks julianassange 2010 arabspring ows occupywallstreet 2012 manosphere masculinity incels depression betas neets misogyny 2013 liberalism reactionaries zoequinn games gaming videogames doxing ga https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ffdb8e1bcda2/ Thoreau’s view on Technological Progress | Kishore Balasubramanian English IOP 2024-02-08T18:25:46+00:00 https://kishorebalasubramanian.wordpress.com/thoreaus-view-on-progress/ robertogreco“As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. . . . Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. . . . We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.“ To him, the biggest problem with technology is that it’s just there. It was also new, affordable, and popular making people think that since earlier generations did without it, must therefore have progressed. He also felt that people have to spend too much time working to earn money to afford technology and that technology tends to distance us from the natural environment. Both these points are illustrated in the following passage in Economy (from Walden):
One says to me, “I wonder that you do not lay up money; you love to travel; you might take the cars and go to Fitchburg today and see the country.” But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try to see who will get there first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents. That is almost a day’s wages. I remember when wages were sixty cents a day for laborers on this very road. Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day.
Travelling by train might seem to be the most ‘efficient’ way to travel, but Thoreau challenges us to rethink how this new technology affects our experience and what are its full costs. And although Thoreau’s example here considers transportation only, the points he makes are generally applicable to all our decisions relating to technology. The book Walden by Thoreau is, among other things, a book about progress. According to Thoreau technological advances such as the railroad and the telegraph have sped up life at an inhuman rate. Increasing the amount of time we have to spent of technology and decreasing the amount of time we have to think. Instead of the people running the machines, the machines are running the people. No matter how hard we work, we can never keep pace, let alone pause to think about what we’re doing. Thoreau wants us all to slow down and reconnect with real time, Nature’s time. By slowing down, we give ourselves some space to think about our values and the direction this fast-paced life is taking us. Live simply.
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail”
Thoreau placed the above words in action during his “experiment” at Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847. His 2 year stay with nature was Thoreau’s proof that material progress was not necessary for a rich life." [via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgXgkpu7pkg ]]]> thoreau technology progress nature ideals resistance luddism liddites prosperity slow small liberation freedom simplicity voluntarysimplicity life living philosophy machines luddites https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ba9325ceb7e/ "Double Agents": Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also Work for Big Oil - YouTube 2023-07-08T20:12:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd08rqVjAxE robertogreco bigoil lobbying fossilfuels nonprofits universities colleges environment climatechange globalwarming olivermilman shell bp nonprofitindustrialcomplex conflictsofinterest conflictofinterest bigtech climatecrisis californiastateuniversity diverstment univerlsityofwashington corruption philadelphia baltimore exxonmobil johnshopkins maryland coal losangeles chicago cities florida syracuseuniversity commoncause kochindustries amazon apple newmuseum lacma corporations green sustainability microsoft google opensecrets politics influence power ideals policy insurance statefarm skiresorts carbonemissions climatedisasters wildfires floods vail jacksonhole bardcollege csu california https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:321de6763d68/ Two or Three Things I Know About Provo - On printing Provo 2021-08-25T18:29:56+00:00 https://2or3things.tumblr.com/post/161316248271/printing-press-at-bloemstraat-amsterdam-1966 robertogreco robstolk printing print provo provomovement amsterdam 1960s ideals 1991 1965 1966 1967 publishing posters activism fredfontijn liberation freedom youth society socialmmovements magazines anarchism anarchy commercialism integrity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c71f56359365/ The Analog City and the Digital City — The New Atlantis 2020-11-08T23:13:43+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city robertogrecoThe machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed. We have focused on how digital media transforms the subjective experience of individuals. The political corollary is that it enables and empowers regimes of algorithmic governance, predictive analytics, and social credit. The profound erosion of trust in the Digital City leaves a vacuum, and we look to our tools to fill it. We seem set upon interlocking trajectories: of ever greater swaths of the human experience being computationally managed, and of intractable human subjects increasingly breaking down or revolting against these conditions. From another vantage point, however, we might see this as a hopeful moment, full of promise and opportunity. Another path also seems possible. Freed from certain unsustainable illusions about the nature of the self and the world, we may now be called back to reckon with reality in a new, more chastened and more responsible manner. It is possible that the Promethean aspirations that characterized the modern self and modern society may now yield to a more sober assessment of the limits within which genuine human flourishing might occur. It is possible, too, that we may learn once again the necessity of virtues, public and private — that we will no longer, as T. S. Eliot put it, be “dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”"]]> lmsacasas digital newmedia writing howwewrite reading 2020 howweread secondaryorality walterong politics discourse audience abundance scarcity news print text communication neilpostman digitalcity analogcity truth speech digitalmedia socialmedia saintaugustine change liminality factchecking publishing jaydavidbolter reformation scientificrevolution history internet web online smartphones publiclife cities urban urbanism community howwethink thinking nicholascarr 2008 web2.0 facebook twitter algorithms moderation commenting tv television video dialogue criticalthinking affordances technology citizenship censorship values char charlestaylor bufferedself disenchantment meaning meaningmaking magic power objects heresy security purity bots data bigdata automation knowledge systems systemsthinking vulnerability time place now identity sharedtime sharedspace simultaneity realtime telegraph radio presence social belonging ivanillich memory memories language literacy orality oraltradition fables institutions bureaucra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6b35065c0c/ Inhumanism Rising - Benjamin H Bratton - YouTube 2019-11-18T07:12:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgLk5AObao robertogreco benjaminbratton libertarianism technology blockchain peterthiel society technodeterminism organization anarchism anarchy jamesbridle 2019 power powerlessness control inhumanism ecology capitalism fascism interdependence surveillance economics data computation ai artificialintelligence californianideology ideology philosophy occult deeplearning deepecology magic deepstate politics agency theory conspiracytheories jordanpeterson johnmichaelgreer anxiety software automation science psychology meaning meaningfulness apophenia posthumanism robotics privilege revelation cities canon tools beatrizcolomina markwigley markfisher design transhumanism multispecies cybotgs syntheticbiology intelligence biology matter machines industry morethanhuman literacy metaphysics carlschmitt chantalmouffe human-centereddesign human-centered experience systems access intuition abstraction expedience ideals users systemsthinking aesthetics accessibility singularity primitivism communism duty sovietunion ussr luxury ianhacking determi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdd9baad2490/ Female Artists Give Advice to Women in Art World 2016-07-23T05:26:26+00:00 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/advice-to-young-female-artists-542609 robertogreco art artists money adrianpiper purpose glvo cv freedom fundding compromise ideals values nyeemamorgan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c34cfeab78ce/ Jan Chipchase: Keynote on Vimeo 2016-07-20T03:58:40+00:00 https://vimeo.com/121939450 robertogrecoteams janchipchase 2015 studiod studiodurans design media criticism hype risk riskaversion ideo frogdesign risktaking designthinking innovation small scale replicability creativity legal longevity impact organizations relevance change sfsh bureaucracy corporations corporateamnesia money integrity ideals values sellouts changeagents socialimpact transparency storytelling commercialism consistency process planning replication predictability impromptu uncertainty notknowing lcproject openstudioproject cv experience pop-ups designresearch pop-upstudios democracy cohabitation decompression recalibration reflection memory peakexperience endexperience themeparks amusementparks doreenlorenzo carasilver schwe sellingout https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3dce8463c4e6/ How Will We Live? | NEXT Network 2015-10-04T07:51:40+00:00 http://nextconf.eu/2015/10/keynote-how-will-we-live/ robertogreco anabjain superflux 2015 future surveillance amazon mortality selfies death futures futurism speculativefiction designfiction confirmationbias news selectiveexposure sensemaking belief information filterbubbles cognitivedissonance officesupplies globalwarming justification trends trendwatching shopping social amazonprime socialization habits feedbackloops chunking routines patents algorithms siri agency internetofthings iot tracking datacollection data behavior humans smarthomes ethics empowerment drones business disruption china bigdata power systemsthinking policing lawenforcement socialmedia stereotypes static99 politics government prediction anonymity forgetting archives datakarma dystopia technology ideals marketing affordances society culture refugees syria whatsapp messaging communication facebook internet web online worldchanging inclusion inclusivity diversity plurality hope values climatechange inlcusivity smarthome makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b21a03111aa/ guiding principles for an adaptive technology working group | Abler. 2014-08-20T22:47:28+00:00 http://ablersite.org/2014/08/20/guiding-principles-for-an-adaptive-technology-working-group/ robertogreco art design making sarahendren 2014 assistivetechnology adaptivetechnology manifestos rhizomes adaptation human humans bodies criticaldesign conviviality ivanilllich normalcy functionality orchestratedadjacencies hitech lowtech agency makers socialpractice transparency questionasking askingquestions jeremydeller studios lcproject openstudioproject howwework ethics ideals disability disabilities differences time change conversation principles adaptive olincollege body low-tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f67df2775b02/ Chokwe Lumumba: Remembering "America’s Most Revolutionary Mayor" | Democracy Now! 2014-02-28T23:28:44+00:00 http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/26/chokwe_lumumba_remembering_americas_most_revolutionary robertogreco chokwelumumba socialjustice leadership 2014 obituaries ideals idealism praxis government policy politics law jackson alabama benjaminjealous amygoodman akinyeleumoja kwamekenyatta fairness equality civilrights justice us chokweantarlumumba https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b622482039f2/ Alex Payne — Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup 2013-06-03T20:59:09+00:00 http://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html robertogreco alexpayne change idealism ideals 2013 systems responsibility startups labor disruption meaning meaningfulness vocations collusion pricefixing corruption finance power control hierarchy purpose bureaucracy incubators accelerators vc venturecapital https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cb5a478eb50/ Maverick Colleges: Ten Noble Experiments in American Undergraduate Education (1993) 2013-05-09T15:10:21+00:00 http://www.mit.edu/~jrising/webres/maverick.txt robertogrecoThere is something of the artist in everyone, and the development of this talent, however small, carrying with it a severe discipline of its own, results in the student's becoming more and more sensitive to order in the world and within himself than he can ever possibly become through intellectual effort alone. (Adamic 1938:626) Although he cautioned against the possible tyranny of the community, Rice eventually decided that some group activity would,
…help the individual be complete, aware of his relation to others. Wood chopping, road-mending, rolling the tennis courts, serving tea in the afternoon, and other tasks around the place help rub off individualistic corners and give people training in assuming responsibility. (Ibid, 1938:627)
… "Rice soon discovered what he would later call the "three Alberses"--the teacher, the social being and the Prussian. The Prussian Albers decried the seeming lack of real leadership at the College and the free-wheeling, agenda-less, community-wide meetings. Rice noted later, "You can't talk to a German about liberty. You just waste your breath. They don't know what the hell you mean" (Duberman 1972:69)." … "The war years ushered in a different kind of Black Mountain; one where students, and at least some faculty members, started lobbying for more structure in learning, but yet more freedom outside the classroom. Lectures and recitations were starting to occur within the classroom, while cut-off blue jeans and nude sun bathing appeared outside. Influential faculty member Eric Bentley insisted to his colleagues: "I can't teach history if they're not prepared to do some grinding, memorizing, getting to know facts and dates and so on…" (Duberman 1972:198). Needless to say, with Albers and many of the original faculty still on board, faculty meetings were decisive and volatile. Overshadowing this dissent, however, was a new program that was to highlight at least the public notion of a historical "saga" for the College, the summer institutes. Like much at Black Mountain, the summer institutes started more by chance than choice." … "The summer institutes grew throughout the 1940s to include notable talents in art, architecture, music and literature. And it is probably these institutes and the renown of the individuals in attendance that contributed most to Black Mountain's reputation as an art school." … The excitement and publicity generated by the summer sessions, in addition to a general higher education population explosion spurred by the G.I. Bill, put the Black Mountain College of the late 1940s on its healthiest economic footing yet. Still, Black Mountain managed to avoid financial stability. Student turnover negated some of the volume gains. Faculty salaries rose substantially, but grants and endowments did not. Stephen Forbes, for example, who had always been counted on to supply money to the College in tough times, refused a request in 1949 because he was disenchanted with the new emphasis on arts education at the expense of general education. The ability to manage what money it had also did not increase at Black Mountain, although Josef Albers proposed a reorganization that would include administrators and an outside board of overseers. In the wake of arguments and recriminations about the financial situation and how to solve it, a majority (by one vote) of the faculty called for the resignation of Ted Dreier, the last remaining faculty member from the founding group. In protest, four other faculty members resigned--including Josef and Anni Albers. By selling off some of the campus acreage, the remaining faculty managed to save the College and retain its original mindset of freedom from outside boards and administrators, while setting the stage for yet another era in its history [Charles Olson]. … "What Albers lacked in administrative ability, he compensated for in tenacity and focus. What Rice lacked in administrative ability, he balanced with action and ideas. However, when Olson couldn't manage the administrative function, he simply retreated. His idea about turning the successful summer institutes into a similar series of year-long institutes fell on deaf faculty ears. So he gave up trying to strengthen the regular program." … "The vast majority of former Black Mountain students can point to clear instances of lasting influence on the rest of their lives. Mostly, this seems to have occurred through association: with one or two faculty members who made a difference, with a "community" of fellow individuals who were essential resources to one another, or with a new area of endeavor such as painting or writing or farming. Black Mountain, apparently, was a place where association was encouraged. Perhaps this occurred through the relatively small number of people shouldered into an isolated valley, perhaps by a common dedication to the unconventional, or perhaps to the existence of ideals about learning and teaching. At any rate, the encouragement of association with people and with ideas was not the norm in higher education then, nor is it now. Clearly, it is possible to graduate from most colleges and universities today with little, if any, significant association with faculty, students or ideas. But at Black Mountain, as at other experimental colleges, association could hardly be avoided. Engagement with people and ideas was paramount; activity was rampant. It was social, and it was educational. As Eric Bentley would remark: Where, as at Black Mountain, there is a teacher to every three students the advantage is evident. . .a means to the most concentrated and lively interchange that any education could afford. Where the faculty are a separate world the students continue their high-school habit of avoiding study, boasting of idleness, and the like; at Black Mountain, on the other hand, diligence is de rigueur. (Bentley 1945:424)" … "Obviously, one has to wonder why the College did not survive. The times changed, of course. Black Mountain's communal nature suddenly looked like Communism to many. Students and faculty who were once content to be on the cutting edge got serious about being on the radical fringe. Other students and teachers of the time just wanted a situation where they could actualize the post-war dream of two cars in every garage. Lack of administrative acumen hurt more as the demands shifted toward government regulation, competition for students and reliance on grants and donations. Perhaps John Andrew Rice's vision of replacing management with academic leadership could only happen in small doses--during the frenzy of enthusiasm for something new and only over a short period of time. It may be an ideal that doesn't wear well."]]> deepspringscollege reed reedcollege stjohn'scollege prescottcollege bereacollege colleges alternative alternativeeducation lcproject openstudioproject experientialeducation unschooling deschooling 1991 ljacksonnewell katherinereynolds keithwilson eannadams cliffordcrelly kerrienaylor zandilenkbinde richardsperry ryotakahashi barbrawardle antiochcollege hierarchy organizations ephemeral leadership teaching learning education schools research visionaries ideals idealism specialization generalists interdisciplinary multidisciplinary crossdisciplinary crosspollination transdisciplinary innovation freedom bureaucracy universityofchicago collegeoftheatlantic democracy democraticeducation structure ephemerality popupschools small smallschools josefalbers charlesolson johnandrewrice lucianmarquis highered highereducation progressivism blackmountaincollege bmc maverickcolleges evergreenstatecollege experientiallearning miamidadecommunitycollege ucsantacruz monteithcollege fairhavencollege westernwashingtonuniversity m https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af7314f2a3fb/ George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year - NYTimes.com 2013-01-05T00:51:01+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/george-saunders-just-wrote-the-best-book-youll-read-this-year.html?pagewanted=all robertogreco struggle progress suicide davidfosterwallace canon understanding kindness living life thinking open openminded dignity character integrity ideals morality humans human fallibility aynrand capitalism careerism compassion junotdíaz humanism writing economics empathy georgesaunders 2012 wisdom storytelling https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:589b5f41f909/ Portland/CreativeMornings - William Deresiewicz on Vimeo 2012-07-27T23:35:23+00:00 https://vimeo.com/46254409 robertogreco morality ideals ideology art thought thinking cv millennials entrepreneurship smallbusiness commerce sellingout selling 2012 avant-garde society change gamchanging scale salesmanship williamderesiewicz geny generationy sellouts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07b5e8002b54/ Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle on Vimeo 2012-02-15T05:50:04+00:00 https://vimeo.com/36579366 robertogrecopurpose living life insight doing self-discovery experience modelessness causes craftsman problemsolving meaning meaningmaking specialization skills identity rightandwrong ideals richardstallman piaget jeromebruner alankay dougengelbart xeroxparc terrycavanagh larrytesler activism injustice justice morality responsibility animation mediaconnection teletype computing history analogdesign electronics comparisons data space understanding search visualization time braid making ideas programming 2012 connection discovery coding invention creativity principles bretvictor specialists jeanpiaget https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9e57c686591/ A College Education for All, Free and Online - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education 2011-07-29T20:10:56+00:00 http://chronicle.com/article/A-College-Education-for-All/128162/ robertogreco
If Harvard doesn't seize the opportunity, some other university will. Reshef is the first to tell you that he didn't invent any of the tools that UoPeople employs…

If colleges with the means to do so don't contribute to the cause, they will at best have betrayed their obligations & their ideals. At worst, they will find themselves curating beautiful museums of a higher-education time gone by."]]> universityofthepeople highereducation elearning education egalitarianism harvard elitism class ideals highered learning online uopeople 2011 shaireshef opencourseware openaccess https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bf43d5fc927d/ gewgaw » Moving On 2009-05-24T22:03:49+00:00 http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/blog/?p=41967 robertogreco via:blackbeltjones careers management administration ideals projects cv goals work organizations https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ca8ebcb9adb/