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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift | CBC.ca2024-03-23T19:44:32+00:00
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1.7032238
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGDB22dpmwk
robertogrecobranding luxury fashion 2023 lvmh bernardarnault gucci louisvuitton quality stealthwealth advertising marketing brands rolex lamborghini value status statussymbols signaling clothes clothing incomeinequality poverty class insecurity stress counterfeits moet hennessy economics consumerism consumption balenciaga scarcity burberry supreme waste birkin hermès oldmoney newmoney wealth succession thegreatgatsby ralphlauren polo aesthetics zara h&m socialmedia identity futility manufacturedscarcity capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:56e582bfdfb3/“Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine”: Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World - YouTube2023-09-12T22:02:20+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMVJgH8kY3o
robertogrecocapitalism insecurity astrataylor 2023 economics politics policy studentdebt life living climatechange society latecapitalism advertising labor collectivism solidarity organizing wealth wealthconcentration anxiety us left leftism precarity surveillance panopticon lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a7b5b3990861/Pixies: how we made Where Is My Mind? | Music | The Guardian2023-08-21T04:38:56+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/02/pixies-how-we-made-where-is-my-mind
robertogrecopixies stevealbini arrogance petulance intellect insecurity music 2020https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a34c011de18/Giving Up Food And Heating For Hospital Bills - YouTube2023-07-16T16:27:59+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnjHnNuU4Bc
robertogreco2023 us healthcare nonprofit nonprofits nonprofitindustrialcomplex hospitals medicine providence precarity debt homelessness insecurity lifeexpectancy infantmortality lobbyinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f502d62080f/Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond | The Chris Hedges Report - YouTube2023-07-15T02:17:03+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyCfNnXGOE
robertogreco2023 matthewdesmond poverty us economics policy politics housing eviction insecurity homelessness trauma labor organizing unions exploitation race racism misinformation povertyabolition finance banking segregation desegregation taxes taxevasion funding mortgageinterestdeductionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ecc8f893e61/Buddhism Without Beliefs - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review2023-06-04T20:45:52+00:00
https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-without-beliefs/
robertogreco "This is not a process of self- or world-transcendence, but one of self- and world-creation."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/until-black-women-are-free-none-of-us-will-be-free
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https://annehelen.substack.com/p/who-cheats-and-why
robertogrecoRoynorris Ndiritu, 28, who asked that only part of his name be used because he feared retribution from others in the industry in Kenya, graduated with a degree in civil engineering and still calls that his “passion.” But after years of applying unsuccessfully for jobs, he said, he began writing for others full time. He has earned enough to buy a car and a piece of land, he said, but it has left him jaded about the promises he heard when he was young about the opportunities that would come from studying hard in college.
Or:
Now Ms. Mbugua finds herself at a crossroads, unsure of what to do next. She graduated from her university in 2018 and has sent her résumé to dozens of employers. Lately she has been selling kitchen utensils.
Ms. Mbugua said she never felt right about the writing she did in the names of American students and others.
“I’ve always had somehow a guilty conscience,” she said.
“People say the education system in the U.S., U.K. and other countries is on a top notch,” she said. “I wouldn’t say those students are better than us,” she said, later adding, “We have studied. We have done the assignments.”
The piece is an incisive (and accurate!) take on the American educational system and its place in the global hierarchy. It’s explicit about how America’s general reluctance to crack down on these services has allowed them to flourish (in a way they no longer do in the UK or Australia) — and thorough in its exploration of how the supply of essays is generated. But it leaves the demand for those essays largely unexplored, a hazy vision of the unmotivated, unprepared, overprivileged college student willing to pay $30 a page for an essay three hours before it’s due.
Just to be clear, this isn’t a critique — no piece can do everything, I mean that. And significant regulation of these sites would temporarily solve a problem, as it seems to (at least temporarily) have done in Australia. But if the American demand remains, it’ll just find a different outlet. And that demand is far less rooted in entitlement than in fear. Which isn’t to say that this isn’t cheating: it is. But “catching” students with software like TurnItIn isn’t actually a deterrent when students are acting out of abject anxiety.
When I was in the classroom, the students who plagiarized were never the worst students in the class. To be sure, there were a handful of students who are exactly the douchey, rich, entitled asshole you’re picturing as the customers of these services. But most teachers will tell you that the students plagiarizing weren’t the laziest, or the most entitled. They were often the solid B students, desperate, truly desperate, for As. They’d do extra credit, they never skipped class. For some assignments, they were in my office, asking questions, talking over drafts, incredibly anxious about thesis statements, at a loss about how to craft the rest of the essay. And then something would happen with an assignment — not even necessarily a big one! — where they’d get super overwhelmed, panic, and copy something from the internet.
These students don’t cheat because they’re lazy; they cheat because they’re incredibly anxious, terrified of failure, and haven’t been taught to come up with original arguments (or trust themselves when they do). They’re the students who got into a desired college through sheer determination. They’re not dumb or stupid or anything close to it. But they’ve become convinced that any sort of failure (on an assignment, in a class) is tantamount to total life failure, and accumulate anxiety about each assignment accordingly.
If you’ve never experienced anxiety, then it’s difficult to explain how counterintuitively it works: instead of helping you plan out the steps to succeed at a given task, it makes the task seem so insurmountable that you avoid it entirely, which creates more anxiety, which makes it seem even more insurmountable. Hence: googling “pay for essay” three hours before the assignment is due.
Many of these students are natural people pleasers: it’s part of how they got as far as they did. Which is why the idea of emailing or coming in to talk to their teacher about their failure to start the essay ahead of time is anathema. And a lot of teachers — myself included, in my early days of teaching — tell students things like “no extensions, no question” or “I’ll only entertain extensions if requested a day in advance.” And simply not turning something in, or turning it in late for a docked grade — also anathema for the striving, anxious student. So they do some ethical self-bargaining, and spend the money intended for food and “expenses” on an essay.
(Another version of this phenomenon, and one that the piece addresses briefly = international students, frustrated or insecure in their English, desperate to perform at the level they did back home, terrified of bad grades sent to their parents, unable or reticent to articulate their concern to their professors, especially if they had a very different paradigm of education back home).
There are ways for teachers to help combat these tendencies — protracting the essay writing process, requiring students to turn in outlines ahead of time — but they’re often limited to small classes or classes explicitly focused on writing. And for already overworked teachers, they’re also incredibly time-consuming. The problem isn’t that professors aren’t attentive enough; it’s that the entire American educational system primes high school (and then college) students to conflate A’s with actual thinking, and the ability to exclusively get those A’s with personal value.
Whether the student is fifteen and terrified about what their sophomore grades will suggest on their transcript, or nineteen and desperate to maintain their GPA for their scholarship or for grad school, that attitude only grows more and more destructive. The result — a degree without the ability to think — only further evacuates that degree of actual value.
In the NYT piece, several of the Kenyan essay writers described general dismay that they’d put so much time and money and energy into getting college degrees — a promised ticket to prosperity! — only to find themselves forced to cheat for other students. They were disillusioned, and rightly so, with the value of a college degree. We’re getting there in America, too: a college degree may still up your wages for the rest of your life, but it doesn’t guarantee middle class stability, or intellectual edification. More and more, American education simply reproduces the de facto millennial condition: heavily indebted, almost comically insecure, and paralyzed by anxiety.”]]>education highereducation highered cheating essayfarms anxiety us 2019 middleclass insecurity colleges universities economics kenya grading grades highschool pressure howweteach howwelearn plagiarism hierarchy inequality precarity annehelenpetersen learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7788add9d3db/The Pedagogy of Design in the Age of Computation: Panel Discussion - YouTube2019-05-08T07:30:20+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ptpqsh_vQY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIxi7BiScI
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc
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https://www.ted.com/talks/courtney_martin_the_new_american_dream/transcript?language=en
robertogrecohappiness interdependence courtneymartin life living relationships economics success solidarity community agesegregation cohousing us 2016 vulnerability policy health housing unschooling deschooling education learning privacy hospitality radicalhospitality kindness bellhooks intergenerational emotionallabor labor work domesticlabor families money wealth individualism failure insecurity meaningmaking consumerism materialism connectedness courage sfsh openstudioproject lcprojecthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:452f87108782/Deliveroo and its ilk are serving up low wages, insecurity and social division | Stefan Stern | Opinion | The Guardian2015-12-22T22:04:53+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/17/deliveroo-gig-economy-human-cost
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https://www.salon.com/2015/12/12/robert_reich_the_sharing_economy_will_be_our_demise_partner/
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/was-he-free-was-he-happy-the-question-is-absurd/
robertogrecoA recent report from UBS Wealth Management found that people with more money are generally happy, which probably doesn’t come as much of a shock. “I would say that millionaires in general are very happy,” said Paula Polito, chief client strategy officer at UBS Wealth Management Americas. “I wouldn’t confuse happiness with contentment or satisfaction or achievement.”
Got it. Happy but not necessarily satisfied or content.
The UBS report found that satisfaction rose in line with wealth: 73 percent of those with $1 million to $2 million, 78 percent of those with $2 million to $5 million and 85 percent of those with over $5 million reported that they were “highly satisfied” with life.
Oh. So they are satisfied. Satisfied and happy? Satisfied and happy but not content?
What piqued my curiosity was how conflicted the report’s respondents seemed to be about the source of their wealth. They often have jobs that entail long hours, high pressure and working vacations.
Are those things satisfying? Happiness-conducive?
‘Part of this pressure to keep going is less about greed and more about insecurity that might be self-imposed,’ Ms. Polito said. ‘If you ask people, ‘If you knew you had five more years to live, would you act differently?’ they say they would. That’s a showstopper.’
Happy and satisfied but insecure?
Money buys happiness, the report said. But what good is that happiness if the millionaires who have it cannot enjoy the freedom the money gives them, the freedom that most people would love to have?
But if the inability to enjoy freedom doesn’t make you less happy or satisfied, is it a problem? If so, why?
My takeaway from reading this article: no one involved, from the investigators to the respondents to the reporter, has any idea what they mean by “happy” or “satisfied” or “content” or “free.”
Let’s try to think about these things, starting perhaps with W. H. Auden’s poem “The Unknown Citizen.” [http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/unknown-citizen ] Everyone’s assignment: read this poem, think about it for a month, and then try again."]]>happiness satisfaction 2015 alanjacobs contentment insecurity money freedomhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c79fa4a26bda/Whitney Houston and the music of loneliness / Snarkmarket2015-06-14T00:57:01+00:00
http://snarkmarket.com/2012/7653
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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-13/seven-reasons-we-hate-free-range-parenting
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http://www.salon.com/2014/05/12/americas_dangerous_education_myth_no_it_isnt_the_best_anti_poverty_program/
robertogreco2014 education poverty policy us finland insecurity capitalism society inequality edreformhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ae7e9c44786/Karen Ho - Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street2014-07-01T18:49:06+00:00
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Liquidated/
robertogrecowallstreet culture ethnography anthropology capitalism 2009 books kernho insecurity corporatism ideologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b0eb2982a15/Pasta&Vinegar » The update problem with “smart artifacts”2014-01-12T07:20:40+00:00
http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/pasta-and-vinegar/2014/01/11/the-update-problem-with-smart-artifacts/
robertogreco“the “Internet of things” stands a really good chance of turning into the “Internet of unmaintained, insecure, and dangerously hackable things.”
These devices will inevitably be abandoned by their manufacturers, and the result will be lots of “smart” functionality—fridges that know what we buy and when, TVs that know what shows we watch—all connected to the Internet 24/7, all completely insecure.
[...]
Flaws and insecurities will be uncovered, and the software components of these smart devices will need to be updated to address those problems. They’ll need these updates for the lifetime of the device, too. [...] In addition to security, there’s also a question of utility. Netflix and Hulu may be hot today, but that may not be the case in five years’ time. New services will arrive; old ones will die out. Even if the service lineup remains the same, its underlying technology is unlikely to be static.“
This necessity to have “updates” is problematic given the tendency tech companies have to badly handle them:
“That costs money, it requires a commitment to providing support, and it does little or nothing to promote sales of the latest and greatest devices. In the software world, there are companies that provide this level of support—the Microsofts and IBMs of the world—but it tends to be restricted to companies that have at least one eye on the enterprise market. In the consumer space, you’re doing well if you’re getting updates and support five years down the line.“
]]>smartdevices internetofthings maintenance nicolasnova 2014 updates insecurity security technology iothttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb3717bff166/Rookie » Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde2014-01-03T22:52:25+00:00
http://rookiemag.com/2014/01/lorde-interview/
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http://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977
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http://www.thebaffler.com/past/practical_utopians_guide
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/
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http://www.npr.org/2012/11/13/162742151/antidote-prescribes-a-negative-path-to-happiness
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http://www.variant.org.uk/25texts/Precarity25.html
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http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/education-for-uncertain-futures
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http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105?currentPage=all
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http://newhumanist.org.uk/2269/diary-the-gradual-anarchist
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http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/09/01/02doyle_ep.h30.html?tkn=XZVFvf87%2Bux6dRWiFXbLJESIHvFhUnOi9GDA&cmp=clp-edweek
robertogrecocheating teaching dishonesty schools tcsnmy competitiveness competition admissions colleges universities assessment learning motivation insecurity parenting toshare topost honesty trusthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:061c30897988/David Byrne's Journal: 07.26.10: Smarter Than Us ["it’s clear that should a successful Neanderthal be “brought back,” he or she might be smarter than us. Do we want to introduce a human that is smarter (& stronger!) than us into our world?"]2010-08-02T01:16:52+00:00
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/07/072610-smarter-than-us.html
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http://antimega.textdriven.com/antimega/2009/01/02/now-more-than-ever
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