Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented 2026-06-14T09:36:30+00:00 https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/11/forget-the-world-cup-culture-is-becoming-more-fragmented robertogreco culture decentralization 2026 diversity denmark monoculture music language languages tv television film streaming latinamerica nigeria southafrica france germany italy poland willpage chrisdallariva worldcup attention videogames games gaming brazil brasil philippines indonesia thailand norway portugal ireland australia india czechrepublic dubai greece mexico middleeast africaeurope netflix asia larrytanz turkey türkiye southkorea korea christopherhamilton canada alexandregoncalves yeemanmargaretng youtube hindi matthewball xbox microsoft china japan manurosier newzoo garena singapore apple google roblox sensortower fortnite joostvandreunen entertainment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8610b98e71c6/ Scenes of the Crime • EQUATOR 2026-06-12T09:21:37+00:00 https://www.equator.org/articles/scenes-of-the-crime-sacco robertogreco india joesacco comics 2026 hindunationalism uttarpradesh penguinrandomhouse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62f95b9d58d3/ Heritage Exists Beyond Humankind - NOEMA 2026-06-11T21:33:55+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/heritage-exists-beyond-humankind/ robertogreco ryanhuling morethanhuman multispecies 2026 culture ecology animals behavior spermwhales communication forests plants elephants knowledge rituals ritual nonhuman henrybetson projectmela india janegoodall sarahnewman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6927282704eb/ Who Actually Sells the Most Watches? (1960–2026) Watch Brands Ranked by Units Sold Each Year. - YouTube 2026-06-04T23:42:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VCoHx-0kE robertogreco watches history smartwatches japan quartz casio citizen seiko timex switzerland applewatch 2026 chronicledseiko data business economics swatchgroup rolex india vostok bulova omega poljot ussr sovietunion luch seagull orient q&q titan hmt tissot junghans china raketa slava shanghai quartzcrisis g-shock lorus watchmaking watchindustry pulsar sekonda guess fossil festina invicta cellphones smartphones phones pebble danielwellington fitbit samsung xiaomi huawei android garmin steptrackers covid-19 pandemic coronavirus google sleep bloodoxygen heartrythm patents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:107f5f1a6dbb/ India Street Lettering - YouTube 2026-06-01T04:11:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txs6vP2roYM robertogreco lettering india 2024 poojasaxena signs banhalore koklata chennai newdelhi mumbai signmaking letterforms typography design graphicdesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e88e31108e32/ The Equator Podcast | "The American university is simply a corporate institution" 2026-05-11T00:17:35+00:00 https://share.transistor.fm/s/cd365742 robertogreco highered highereducation academia colleges universities 2026 siddharthadeb pankajmishra journalism us india middleeast reporting columbia newschool education elonmusk twitter media dept precarity loans government policy capitalism neoliberalism theory edwardsaid gabo gabrielgarcíamárquez thirdworld globalsouth 1980s 1990s internationalism morality awareness power hegemony ussr sovietunion palestine postcolonialism publishing mainstreammedia spivak gayatrichakravortyspivak criticalthinking endofhistory francisfukuyama henrykissinger niallferguson adjuncts socialsciences philosophy adjunctification susansontag joandidiaon gorevidal nationalism iraq afghanistan 9/11 nytimes kurtvonnegut normanmailer resistance gaza liberals liberalism race racism democrats democracy donaldtrump politics success wealth money materialism professionalism careerism careers factchecking cooption cooptation security iraqwar nyimes corruption incompetence freedom livelihood living howwelive institutions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7be98ba6236/ The Landscapes Inside Us | Robert Macfarlane | The New York Review of Books 2026-04-11T05:39:08+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/wayfinding-landscapes-inside-us/ robertogrecoNone of us is exempt from the ramifications of the device paradigm. We all seem to find it extraordinarily difficult to step outside the onslaught, to create the distance and perspective between us and our devices that might allow us to question what cultural or cognitive price is being paid in return for convenience. In July 1841 the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest, on the outskirts of London, and set out to walk to his home in Northborough, about eighty miles away. At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell. He had been in High Beach for four years. Although his wife, Patty, was alive, he believed himself to be searching for an imaginary second wife, a version of his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, who had died three years earlier. He suffered auditory hallucinations on the road. He ate grass for sustenance, finding it to “taste something like bread.” Footsore and confused, he continued on until he reached Northborough. The walk took him four days. In “Journey Out of Essex”—a minor epic of English travel writing—Clare described how he slept by the edge of the road each night, taking care to lie with his head pointing north, so that he would know which way to walk when he woke. That image has stayed with me since I first read Clare’s account twenty years or so ago: a man lost in mind, nevertheless seized by a homing instinct, and with his body a quivering compass needle that settled on north each night. Five months after reaching Northborough, Clare was certified insane on the grounds of being “addicted to poetical prosings.” He was committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1864. His last words were “I want to go home.” Mental illness can result in a loss of bearings so drastic that one’s footing in the given world slips and the moorings of the mind loosen. Yet within such bewilderment lucidities persist. Clare could remember his route home, though he did not recognize his wife when he met her on the outskirts of Northborough. My grandfather, lost in the mists of dementia in the final years of his life, found it hard to recall what he had had for breakfast but could reliably give the names, heights, and ranges of mountains he had climbed in his youth, and walk in memory back up Himalayan valleys he had not entered for half a century. In the opening pages of From Here to There Bond describes how his grandmother, who also suffered from dementia, in the final weeks of her life “repeatedly used the phrase ‘Am I here?’” His book is both scientific and personal. Much of it is spent patiently explaining the neuroscience of wayfinding and spatial awareness for laypeople, with the calm tone of a seasoned science writer. But gradually, between and within the explanatory sections, Bond quietly and movingly discloses what I take to be his real preoccupation, which is Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. His book is an attempt to answer his grandmother’s question, which is also everyone’s question. Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus. Once this begins, Bond writes, “patients have trouble creating cognitive maps of new places and recalling maps of familiar ones.” The disease’s ability to disrupt the brain’s navigation and orientation system is so acute that researchers are exploring whether spatial tests might be used to diagnose it earlier than any other forms of assessment. “The tragedy for Alzheimer’s patients,” as Bond puts it, “is that the compass they have always had is now fading, and their map is shrinking. Disorientation becomes their default state, leaving them lost in places they have always known.” This contributes to the distress—variously expressed as frustration, anxiety, anger, and violence—that sufferers feel: “They are incapable of finding their way anywhere and can be lost even in their own homes.” Covid-19 has administered a global “nature shock,” leaving billions of us disoriented even in familiar surroundings. During full lockdown, we wandered our homes like the narrator in Xavier de Maistre’s mock-epic Voyage Around My Room (1794), who for forty-two days finds himself confined to his chamber, where he would “traverse the room up and down and across, without rule or plan.” Meanwhile, many countries—including China—have used the pandemic to ramp up their means of tracking and tracing citizens, making it even harder to get lost should one ever wish to. Invoking feichang shiqi, “extraordinary times,” the Chinese Communist Party is now using facial recognition technologies, “health coding,” and smartphone tracking to increase surveillance of its citizens: state security camera networks can segment facial-recognition data into dozens of sensitive subcategories, including eyebrow size, skin color, and ethnicity. In Nature Shock, Coleman writes:
Thoreau urged his audience…to reconsider the settled spaces they inhabited…. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Thoreau loved paradox, sometimes too much. It helps him find his mark here, though: one might expect our current lostness to test our self-reliance and glorify the individual, but in fact it proves our entanglement and reveals our codependence. When lost, we most of all need help. Underlying all three of these books is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans and their environments, as well as between humans and other humans. Having read them, I’ve come to think that we might best imagine wayfinding not as a skill or art but as an ethic. The abilities that are cultivated in wayfinding—imagining things from different viewpoints, moving the mind backward and forward in time, seeing situations from other perspectives, weighing alternatives subtly against one another before making the best decisions, seeking information from others and giving it freely in return—might be the same abilities that contribute to a resilient, equitable community or polity. If this is wayfinding, then we need it now more than ever."]]> robettmacfarlane 2021 mro'connor wayfinding humanism senses sensing navigation joncoleman michaelbond multispecies morethanhuman science brain indigeneity indigenous art place storytelling agnèsvarda animals arctic greenland land-basededucation place-basededucation autonoeisis jonathandostrovsky gps janejacobs australia pacificislands micronesia nature colonialism knowledge colonization decolonization civilization gettinglost india china southamerica captialism timingold siannengai hippocampus eleanormaguire theknowledge london taxis life living johnclare thoreau covid-19 coronavirus pandemic collaboration cooperation environment information humans human lostness xavierdemaistre veroniquebohbot cartography wilderness johno'keefe place-basedlearning land-basedlearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4419b518594/ The Care Economy is the Everything Economy - with Emma Holten - YouTube 2026-04-04T07:44:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM robertogreco emmaholten unlearningeconomics feminism economics 2025 economy society gdp austerity care caring carework careeconomy health healthcare childcare gender hobbes adamsmith johnlocke illness thomashobbes reality humanism relationships social bodies embodiment politicaleconomy sickness unemployment labor work workers culture culturalhistory history quantification numbers statistics data information neoliberalism markets capital capitalism power lobbying influence socialscience socialsciences ideology sexism truth women understanding exclusion aging prices pricing efficiency simnplification methods method inequality diversity externalities coherence disabilities disability predicitons conservatism stabilization predictability equilibrium equilibriumtheory climate climatechange globalwarming change climatecrisis nurses nursing publicsector healthworkers rachelreeves essentialworkers values pandemic covid-19 coronavirus marketvalues qualitative purpose profit profits carecrisis nature environment sustainability uk e https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55bf219e4032/ 'Iran and Gaza are Only the Beginning' (Chris Hedges at Princeton) 2026-03-29T00:47:23+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/iran-and-gaza-are-only-the-beginning robertogrecoIt is intensely private, not to be diluted, but simultaneously public so that gentile society will confirm the crimes. A very peculiar suffering must be enshrined in public sites: Holocaust museums, memory gardens, deportation sites, dedicated not as Jewish but civic memorials. But what is the role of a museum in a country, such as the United States, far from the site of the Holocaust? Is it to rally the people who suffered or to instruct non-Jews? Is it supposed to serve as a reminder that “it can happen here?” Or is it a statement that some special consideration is deserved? Under what circumstances can a private sorrow serve simultaneously as a public grief? And if genocide is certified as a public sorrow, then must we not accept the credentials of other particular sorrows too? An American historian of Polish ancestry argues that, with the German invasion of 1939, the Poles became the first people in Europe to experience the Holocaust and that historians have so far “chosen to interpret the tragedy in exclusivistic terms — namely as the most tragic period in the history of the Jewish Diaspora.” If Polish Americans claim their own “forgotten Holocaust,” what recognition should they enjoy? Do Armenians and Cambodians also have a right to publicly funded holocaust museums? And do we need memorials to Seventh-Day Adventists and homosexuals for their persecution at the hands of the Third Reich? Unique suffering confers unique entitlement. Any crime Israel carries out in the name of its survival — its “right to exist” — is justified in the name of this uniqueness. There are no limits. The world is black and white, a never-ending battle against Nazism, which is protean, depending on who Israel targets. To challenge this bloodlust is to be an antisemite, facilitating another genocide of Jews. This simplistic formula not only serves the interests of Israel, but also the interests of colonial powers that carried out their own genocides, ones they also seek to obscure. The sacralization of the Nazi Holocaust offers a bizarre quid pro quo. Arming and funding the state of Israel, blocking U.N. resolutions and sanctions that would condemn its crimes and demonizing Palestinians, and their supporters becomes proof of atonement and support for Jews. Israel, in return, absolves the West of its indifference to the plight of Jews during the Holocaust, and Germany for perpetrating it. Germany uses this unholy alliance to separate Nazism from the rest of German history, including the genocide German colonists carried out against the Nama and Herero in German South-West Africa, now Namibia. “[S]uch magic,” Israeli historian and genocide scholar, Raz Segal, writes, “legitimizes racism against Palestinians at the very moment that Israel perpetrates genocide against them. The idea of Holocaust uniqueness thus reproduces rather than challenges the exclusionary nationalism and settler colonialism that led to the Holocaust.” Professor Segal, the director of the program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University in New Jersey, wrote an article about the war on Gaza on October 13, 2023, titled: “A Textbook Case of Genocide.” This denunciation from an Israeli Holocaust scholar, whose family members perished in the Holocaust, was a very lonely stance. Professor Segal saw in the Israeli government’s immediate demand that Palestinians evacuate the north of Gaza and the blood-curdling demonization of the Palestinians by Israeli officials — the defense minister said Israel was “fighting human animals” — the stench of genocide. “The whole idea about prevention and ‘never again’ is that — as we teach our students — there are red flags, that once we notice them, we’re supposed to work in order to stop the process that could escalate to genocide,” Professor Segal told me, “even if it’s not genocidal yet.” Professor Segal paid for his honesty. The offer to lead the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which has issued no condemnation of the genocide, was revoked. When professor Segal and I testified at the state capital in Trenton in opposition to the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) bill, which equates criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism, we were jeered by Zionists and our microphones were cut by the committee chairman. There we were, arguing that this bill would curtail free speech while we were in real time being denied free speech. Genocide is the next stage in what the anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai, calls “a vast worldwide Malthusian correction” that is “geared to preparing the world for the winners of globalization, minus the inconvenient noise of its losers.” The funding and arming of Israel by the United States and European nations, as it carries out genocide, has effectively imploded the post-World War II international legal order. It no longer has credibility. The West can no longer lecture anyone about democracy, human rights or the supposed virtues of Western civilization. The ruse, that somehow we as a nation promote democracy, equality and human rights, is finished. “At the same time that Gaza induces vertigo, a feeling of chaos and emptiness, it becomes for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the twenty-first century — just as the First World War was for a generation in the West,” Pankaj Mishra writes. None of us who reported from Israel and Palestine, where I worked as a reporter for seven years, predicted this genocide. And yet, we were acutely aware of the genocidal impulse that lay at the heart of the Zionist project — the desire by large segments of Israeli society to eradicate and expel all Palestinians. This genocidal impulse was there from the inception of Zionism. Victor Klemperer, a professor of linguistics and the son of a Berlin rabbi living under Nazi rule, noted in his diary, “To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus), are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient ‘cultural roots,’ their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists.” I covered the extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane, who claimed that violence was a Jewish virtue and revenge, a divine commandment. He was, when I was based in Israel, barred by the Israeli government from running for office. Kahane was assassinated on November 5, 1990, in New York City. His Kach Party in Israel was outlawed four years later after Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born doctor and Kach member, entered Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque and opened fire on worshippers, killing 29 Palestinians. Goldstein, dressed in his army captain’s uniform, was overpowered by worshippers and beaten to death. I was sent by my editors in New York to interview the survivors. When they received the copy, they insisted I do more interviews with Jewish colonists who justified Goldstein’s grievances with Palestinians, part of the game of balance, but really part of the effort to obscure the truth. Kach, following its statements of support for the massacre, was declared a terrorist organization by the United States. But Kahanism did not die. It was nurtured by Jewish extremists and colonists. Kach’s racial intolerance and calls for mass violence against Palestinians infected larger and larger segments of Israeli society. It found near universal acceptance after the attacks of October 7. I saw this intolerance at political rallies held by Netanyahu, who received lavish funding from right-wing Americans associated with AIPAC, when he ran against Yitzhak Rabin, who was negotiating a peace settlement with the Palestinians. Netanyahu’s supporters chanted Kahane-inspired slogans such as “Death to Arabs” and “Death to Rabin.” They burned an effigy of Rabin dressed in a Nazi uniform. Netanyahu marched in front of a mock funeral for Rabin. Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic on November 4, 1995. Netanyahu, who first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing these Jewish extremists, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, who hung a portrait of Goldstein on the wall of his living room, Bezalel Smotrich, Avigdor Lieberman, Gideon Sa’ar and Naftali Bennett. Netanyahu’s father, Benzion, who worked as an assistant to the founder of Revisionist Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and was referred to by Benito Mussolini as “a good fascist,” was a leader in the Herut Party that called on Israel to seize all the land of historic Palestine. Many of those who formed the Herut Party carried out terrorist attacks during the 1948 war that established the state of Israel. Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook and other Jewish intellectuals, described the Herut Party in a statement published in The New York Times as a party “closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties.” There has always been a virulent strain of Jewish fascism within the Zionist project, mirroring the strain of fascism in American society. Unfortunately, for us and the Palestinians, these fascistic strains are ascendant. The decision to obliterate Gaza has long been the dream of far-right Zionists, heirs of Kahane’s movement. Jewish identity and Jewish nationalism are the Zionist versions of the Nazis’ blood-and-soil ideology. Jewish supremacy is sanctified by God, as is the slaughter of the Palestinians, who Netanyahu compared to the Biblical Amalekites who were massacred by the Israelites. Europeans and Euro-Americans in the American colonies used the same Biblical passage to justify their genocide against Native Americans. Enemies — usually Muslims — who are slated for extinction are subhumans who embody evil. Violence and the threat of violence are the only forms of communication those outside the magical circle of Jewish nationalism understand. Messianic redemption will take place once the Palestinians are expelled. Jewish extremists call for the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of three of the most sacred sites for Muslims, supposedly built on the ruins of the Jewish Second Temple which was destroyed in A.D. 70 by the Roman army, to be demolished. These extremists call for it to be replaced by a “Third” Jewish temple, a move that would set the Muslim world alight. The West Bank, which zealots refer to as “Judea and Samaria,” is being annexed by Israel. Israel, governed by religious laws imposed by the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, will soon mirror the despotic theocracy in Iran. James Baldwin presciently saw this regression to our innate barbarism. He warned that there was a “terrible probability” that “Western populations, struggling to hold on to what they have stolen from their captives, and unable to look into their mirror, will precipitate a chaos throughout the world which, if it does not bring life on this planet to an end, will bring about a racial war such as the world has never seen, and for which generations yet unborn will curse our names forever.” The savagery in Iran, Lebanon and Gaza is the same savagery we face at home. Those carrying out the genocide, mass slaughter and unprovoked war on Iran are the same people dismantling our democratic institutions. The Iranians, Lebanese and Palestinians know there is no appeasing these monsters. The global elites believe nothing. They feel nothing. They cannot be trusted. They exhibit the core traits of all psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt. They disdain as weakness the virtues of empathy, honesty, compassion and self-sacrifice. They live by the creed of Me. Me. Me. “The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane,” Erich Fromm writes in “The Sane Society.” We have witnessed evil for nearly three years in Gaza. We watch it now in Iran. We watch it in Lebanon. We see this evil excused or masked by political leaders and the media. The New York Times, in a page out of Orwell, sent an internal memo telling reporters and editors to eschew the terms “refugee camps, “occupied territory,” “ethnic cleansing” and, of course, “genocide” when writing about Gaza. Those who name and denounce this evil, including the heroic students who set up encampments on campuses here and abroad, are smeared, blacklisted and purged. They are arrested and deported. A deadening silence is descending upon us, the silence of all authoritarian states. We know where this ends. Fail to do your duty, fail to cheerlead the war on Iran, speak out against the crime of genocide, and see your broadcasting license revoked, as Trump’s Chair of the F.C.C. Brendan Carr has proposed. We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us. They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves and masters. Gaza is only the start. There are no internal mechanisms for reform. We can obstruct or surrender. Those are the only choices left."]]> israel palestine gaza westbank zionism chrishedges history 2026 holocaust genocide ethniccleansing un internationallaw us policy fascism benitomussolini mussolini terrorism ethnonationalism supremacy benjaminnetanyahu donaldtrump jaredkushner nazis antizionism antisemitism jewishsupremacy stevewitkoff jonathanpowell josephkent marcorubio lobbying aipac west racism race iran settlercolonialism colonialism colonization settlers violence lebanon globalsouth aimécésaire australia aborigines indigeneity indigenous winstonchurchill apartheid langstonhughes jamesbaldwin hiroshima nagasaki herero namibia namaqua armenia bengal economics poland mexico india china congo vietnam humanitarianism auschwitz primolevi ww2 wwii wwi ww1 mordechaichaimrumkowski deception lying manipulation empathy honesty compassion self-sacrifice eastjerusalem jerusalem golanheights syria egypt sinaipeninsula nathanglazer evil 2023 2024 2025 charlesmaier holocausstudies refugeecamps occupation cambodia encampments zionistmccarthyism fre https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:355213bbbd5a/ Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food - Nautilus 2026-03-25T23:54:12+00:00 https://nautil.us/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-235885 robertogreco 2016 chilipeppers food spices spiciness china andrewleonard ottobraun communism chianhkai-shek maozedong maotsetung ussr sovietunion hunan sichuan revolution revolutionaries wedan paulrozin capsicum capasaicin nahuatl aztecs centralamerica southamerica latinamerica indigeneity indigenous caribbean columbus spain portugal españa deigochanca plants westafrica india newworld korea hungary paprika macao tibet middlekingdom canton robertentenmann paulsherman jenniferbilling temperature climate cuisine spice fuchsiadunlop geraldzhang-schmidt songzuying mexico oaxaca supertasters nadiabyrnes johnhayes hongjiewang chongqing chengdu globalization peppers chili christophercolumbus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70082ae79cac/ Rammohun Roy on why government must have an ethical presence | Aeon Essays 2026-03-22T02:15:00+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/rammohun-roy-on-why-government-must-have-an-ethical-presence robertogreco distance rammohunroy small scale scaling britishempire uk india cruelty disconnect shomikdasgupta policy experience presence accountability politics history citizenship states law justice governance government 2026 power ruling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a591d8eb243c/ Bring Back the Rails! | Tony Judt | The New York Review of Books 2026-03-19T07:00:21+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/01/13/bring-back-rails/ robertogreco tonyjudt trains rail railways collectivism publicgood 2011 modernity travel europe cars richardbeeching pennstation nyc northamerica us canada brussels london china malaysia russia india stlouis paris france latinamerica asia africa santiagocalatrava remkoolhaus trainsstations lyon sevilla kowloon bike biking cras buses motorcylces airplanes zurich bombay shinkasen highspeedrail hsr tgv margaretthatcher civilsociety https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1064ef50fde4/ Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn – POLITICO 2026-03-01T23:22:15+00:00 https://www.politico.eu/article/obsession-with-growth-destroying-nature-150-countries-warn/ robertogreco economics growth gdp china india eu nature environment capitalism economy sustainability leoniecater biodiversity competition regulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:916171f6bd6b/ The Longest Line of Sight 2026-02-27T07:19:34+00:00 https://tombh.co.uk/longest-line-of-sight robertogreco visibility linofsight maps mapping india china kyrgyzstan himalayas ryanberger https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da886608879c/ The Last Yak Herder Of Ladakh 2026-02-16T01:26:35+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-yak-herder-of-ladakh/ robertogreco glaciers tradition animals multispecies morethanhuman 2026 ladakh yaks sajadhameed rehanqayoommir india changthang tibet human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships slow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8893b5adb9a4/ Ireland Was a Testing Ground for British Colonialism - YouTube 2026-02-10T20:22:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au3HEsIY2pI robertogreco denatakruri uk ireland northernireland colonialism colonization history britain belfast resistance divideandrule conquest famine landgrabs erasure culturalerasure power control brutality imperialism battleoftheboyne settlercolonialism kenya southafrica india bengal easterrising ira blackandtans irish discrimination thetroubles repression bloodysunday jamaica nelsonmandela apartheid hungerstrikes bobbysands solidarity sinnféin gerryadams walls westbank palestine israel segregation rulingclass class inequality religion poverty migration refugees migrants immigration immigrants society division hatred workingclass bloodysundaymassacre https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a45ee89dc6fd/ Everything Is at Stake | Apoorva Tadepalli 2026-02-04T21:44:34+00:00 https://thebaffler.com/latest/everything-is-at-stake-tadepalli robertogrecoapoorvatadepalli amitchaudhuri 2026 unfininished unfinishedness incompletewalterbenjamin georgesperec fragments partition bengal calcutta kolkata india writing howwewrite jonimitchell dhlawrence virginiawoolf greilmarcus totalitarianism tseliot rabindranathtagore vsnaipaul oulipo storytelling forgetfulness incompleteness incomplete jameswood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:504abb243e34/ Supply Chain Expert Answers Chinese Manufacturing Questions | Tech Support | WIRED - YouTube 2026-01-20T20:16:47+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-fK_BUmesc robertogreco china manufacturing supplychain supplychains 2026 factories temu shein us history microchips computing nvidia taiwan beltandroad economics demographics automation labor madeinusa evs cars nafta vietnam bangladesh electronics apparel clothing madeinchine qualitycontol consumerelectronics investment 2001 darkfactories regulation environment india southeastasia copyright ip intellectualproperty apple lululemon nike quality west france italy tradewar tradewars tariffs beltandroadinitiative intel amd shenzhen tesla huawei consolidation sweatshops mexico indonesia workingconditions ecosystems semiconductors ai artificialintelligence furniture northcarolina https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e5e750d8deda/ Feral Dogs on the Roof of the World - The New York Times 2026-01-02T07:23:58+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/science/feral-dogs-wildlife-ladakh.html robertogreco dogs animals feral multispecies morethanhuman 2025 ladakh india himalayas wildlife human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05355120b1d8/ Martín Mosquera, The Meaning of 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https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac8aac62745b/ The RSS Project: Mapping the Largest Far-Right Network in the World 2025-12-25T09:47:49+00:00 https://rssproject.caravanmagazine.in/ robertogreco hinduism rss india racism rashtriyaswayamsevaksangh farright rightwing data maps mapping via:javierarbona felixpal politicalscience https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:323068196fb3/ The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction. 2025-12-24T06:44:45+00:00 https://altermag.com/articles/the-secret-history-of-indian-science-fiction robertogrecogautambhatia sciencefiction scifi india isaacasimov rokeyasakhawathossain socialrealism dystopia hybridity intertextuality inclusivity universalism caste 2025 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c641e8b514c7/ ‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian 2025-12-08T19:30:13+00:00 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japan korea kimkardashian skims medicube ya-man makeup cosmetics ninapark looksmaxxing johnmew dentistry mewing rfkjr robertkennedyjr indi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b900ceaebc7/ Popups and Pipes: How the Network State Already Exists in Asia 2025-11-02T22:03:16+00:00 https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/popups-and-pipes-how-the-network robertogreco chorpharn networkstate asia singapore 2025 via:javierarbona balajisrinivasan popups brettonwoods ethereum zuzalu coinbase basecamp próspera honduras nuanu bali abudhabi elsalvador incubators seasteading movement innovation china japan korea rajeevmantri india infrastructure hefi suzhou anji crypto cryptocurrencies building changsha community communities society startups ecosystems prototyping metabolism benhorowitz palau marshallislands microstates niallferguson tylercowen brunomacaes colonialism colonization imperialism empire disembodiment tescreal transhumanism synthesis civics competence vampires west sanfrancisco zoning ai artificialintelligence daos leakage computation computing datacenters cloud theology navalravinkant vitalikbuterin arthurhayes nasdaily andrewhuberman deregulation libertarianism governance government investment andreessenhorowitz sezs zedes industrialparks freedomcities brunomaçães noahsmith mythology edgecity polychain pronomos lightness sovereignty citizenship citizenry soi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7da63cbab183/ Mapping news creators and influencers in social and video networks | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2025-11-01T16:40:21+00:00 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creators-influencers/2025/mapping-news-creators-and-influencers-social-and-video-networks robertogreco news journalism commentary influencers media socialmedia youtube podcasts podcasting 2025 joerogan nelkboys international charliekirk politics tiktok online internet web facebook twitter snapchat instagram nicnewman amyrossarguedas 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https://www.nts.live/shows/the-nts-guide-to/episodes/the-nts-guide-to-indian-classical-influence-on-jazz-26th-may-2025 robertogreco music india jazz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0295f1ed92ff/ People are using AI to talk to God 2025-10-20T20:47:32+00:00 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251016-people-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-god robertogreco ai artificialintelligence chatbots gord religion spirituality 2025 india https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8dcbd2c4fc9/ Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays 2025-10-14T01:31:35+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge robertogreco ai artificialintelligence web online internet knowledge 2025 deepakvaruveldennison computers computing culture knowledgeproduction generativeai language languages tamil climate climatechange globalwarming climatecrisis misinformation ecology local peterwohlleben trees interdepence seva perumalvivekanandan environment asia africa khanacademy llms andrewpeterson knowledgecollapse diversity alternative google bias west westernsupremacy siliconvalley english chatgpt openai rlhf humanity humans humanism microsoft lindatuhiwai maori colonialism imperialism colonization india sanfrancisco architecture modernism modernity homogeneity heterogeneity antoniogramsci construction amazonia newguinea hindi inequality humanexperience experience landscape landscapes genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:88d369e3e05b/ How Zionism and Hindu Nationalism ‘Work TOGETHER’ - YouTube 2025-10-03T17:43:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhugTmSrMo robertogreco arundhatiroy medhihasan 2025 parents india zionism hindunationalism nationalism bollywood donaldtrump palestine kshmir iraq gaza genocide ethniccleansing memoirs narendramodi dissidents dissidence fascism hindutva media authoritarianism israel rightwing farright benjaminnetanyahu srilanka caste 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Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism | The MIT Press Reader 2025-07-28T20:46:29+00:00 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-metaphysical-foundations-of-buddhism/ robertogrecoBuddhism sees right through the familiar problems with cosmological and design arguments for the existence of God. Cosmologists will sometimes say one can’t ask what there was before the singularity banged or how the singularity got there. What they mean is that “time,” as physics understands it, begins (or becomes a useful concept) with the Big Bang. But this hardly makes the sense behind the question go away. Thus other cosmologists will admit the legitimacy of the question and say they have no clue as to how to answer it. Buddhism is comfortable with an infinite regress of natural causes. Indeed, the idea fits well with the metaphysical idea of dependent origination, according to which everything that happens depends on other things happening.3 The rejection of the Vedic (Indic) doctrine of atman, the idea that humans are possessors of an immutable, indestructible self or soul, comes from two lines of thought. First, there is the idea of dependent origination that I have just mentioned. Everything is in flux and all change is explained by prior change. The principle is universal and thus applies to mind. Next bring in experience or phenomenology: One will see that what one calls “the self” is like many other natural things, partaking of certain relations of continuity and connectedness. My conscious being is much more streamlike than it is like Mount Everest (which is also part of the flux, just less visibly so). Conventional speech allows us to reidentify each person by her name as if she is exactly the same over time. But in fact identity is not an all-or-nothing thing. Personhood is one kind of unfolding. The Himalayas are a very slow unfolding (one answer to how long it takes to reach final enlightenment is as long as it would take for a mountain range 84,000 times larger that the Himalayas to erode if touched once a day with a soft cloth!); humans are a faster unfolding than the ordinary Himalayas; drosophila unfold much more quickly. Each kind of thing in the cosmos is an unfolding in the cosmos, the eternal Mother of all unfoldings, and has a temporal span during which it can be said to be what it is — a mountain range, a person, a fruit fly — and after which it ceases to have enough integrity to be said to be the same thing, itself. At such a transition point, we say the thing, event, or process is gone, over, dead, that it has passed, passed on, or passed away. This is the doctrine of anatman, no-self. Nothing is permanent, even things that seem so, aren’t. If properly understood the view is not nihilistic. One of my students once asked in a very disturbed manner, “If I am not myself who the fuck am I?” I am happy to report that further therapy about the meaning of the doctrine of anatman calmed him. Indeed, in the West a very similar view is widely held from Locke to the present. And it fits nicely with contemporary mind science. Furthermore, the doctrine of anatman suits Buddhist ideas that persons can in fact transform themselves, become enlightened, and so on. If one’s nature is, as it were, immutably fixed, it is hard to see how self-transformation is possible. ***** Owen Flanagan is a professor of philosophy and neurobiology emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of several books, including “The Bodhisattva’s Brain,” from which this article is excerpted. ***** 1. The oldest Vedas date to 1500 BCE and do not include the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. The Upanishads date from the sixth century BCE. The Bhagavad Gita is included in the Mahabharata Epic, written from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE, but the Bhagavad Gita is thought by many, perhaps most scholars, to be a late text composed possibly entirely in the Common Era. In any case, the latter are the key texts of what came to be known as Hinduism. Hindus don’t typically call their religion Hinduism (although they may call themselves Hindus as a sort of ethnic attribution). The name originates most likely in the desire of British colonialists to name their—the Indians’—religion/spiritual practices something. So Buddhism did not come from Hinduism, because whatever exactly Hinduism is or names, it comes after Buddhism. To make matters worse, the English word Hindu is almost certainly based on a mispronunciation that relates to the importance of the Indus (not Hindus’!) river. To describe their spiritual practice, Hindus sometimes use the word darshana, which is best translated as “philosophy.” Often they refer to their way as Santana Dharma, the eternal way of truth. There is no Hindu Pope. It is not a creedal faith with a single orthodox doctrine. There is no Buddhist Pope either. Buddhism is also not a creedal faith with a single orthodox doctrine. That said, every spiritual tradition has some commitments that constitute the minimal conditions of being a member, advocate, and so on. A traditional Tibetan textbook, Cutting through Appearances, says, “The definition of a proponent of Buddhist tenets is: a person who asserts that the four seals which are the views testifying that a doctrine is Buddha’s. The four seals are: 1. All compounded phenomena are impermanent; 2. All contaminated things are miserable; 3. All phenomena are selfless; and 4. Nirvana is peace.” 2. Brahman is the name for the ultimate, self-sustaining source of all creation. But “it” is not a person. Furthermore, many Hindus conceive their elaborate pantheon of gods, even high Gods like Brahma (creator of earth but not everything; that is Brahman’s role), Vishnu (loving protector), and Shiva (fierce protector) as “aspects” on the one and only God, Brahman. Hints of Spinoza. 3. The Dalai Lama (2005, 92–93) writes: “Even with all these profound scientific theories of the origin of the universe, I am left with questions, serious ones: What existed before the Big Bang? Where did the Big Bang come from? What caused it? Why has our planet evolved to support life? What is the relationship between the cosmos and the beings that have evolved within it? Scientists may dismiss these questions as nonsensical, or they may acknowledge their importance but deny that they belong to the domain of scientific inquiry. However, both these approaches will have the consequence of acknowledging definite limits to our scientific knowledge of the origin of our cosmos. I am not subject to the professional or ideological constraints of a radically materialistic worldview.… And in Buddhism the universe is seen as infinite and beginningless, so I am quite happy to venture beyond the Big Bang and speculate about possible states of affairs before it.”"]]> owenflanagan 2025 buddhism metaphysics science meaning religion anatman beginninglessness bigbang bigbangtheory cosmology buddha caste castes ethics morality ghosts spirits deities heaven hell rebirth india god dalailama singularity philosophy thinking howwethink personhood himalays connectedness continuity consciousness mounteverest phenomenology flux change life living experience nature drosphila permanence impermanence self-transformation johnlocke west vedas singularitarianism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9f4cb9d12dee/ Why 'Swiss Made' on Your Watch Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means 2025-07-27T00:50:01+00:00 https://robbreport.com/style/watch-collector/swiss-made-watch-1236164753/ robertogreco allenfarmelo 2025 sophiefurley watches watchmaking swissmade switzerland manufacturing zenith romainmarietta 2017 1971 china davidflett history stéphanewaser mauricelacroix rolex jaeger-lecoultre patrickneal montblanc laurentlecamp akrivia rexhepi philippedufour geneva india thailand asia nielseggerding frederiqueconstant swatchgroup omega blancpain machayek breguet glashütteoriginal jaquetdroz longines waltervonkänel patekphilippe vacheronconstantin chopard genevaseal ilariaresta audemarspiguet parmigianifleurier guidoterreni yvanarpa artya edouardmeylan hmoser lunglungthun frédériqueconstant rexheprexhepi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:25e5f55123eb/ #49 “I’m more about people than more about brands” – Allen Farmelo, Founder of Beyond the Dial - 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