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recent bookmarks from robertogreco2020 with Naomi Klein and Nikhil Pal Singh - The Dig2020-10-31T17:04:10+00:00
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/2020-with-naomi-klein-and-nikhil-pal-singh/
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https://placesjournal.org/article/the-problem-with-solutions/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/wendell-berry-essays-library-of-america-review/
robertogrecowendellberry 2019 jedediahbritton-purdy dissent climate climatechange agriculture farming kentucky amandapetrusich activism writing christianity violence land communities community individualism left humanism morality life living howwelive environment environmentalism interconnectedness us ecology economics labor ronaldreagan inequality growth globalization finance financialization politics storytelling mining stripmining pacifism collectivism collectiveaction organizing resistance mobility culture popefrancis wholeness morethanhuman multispecies amish localism skepticism radicalism radicals jedediahpurdy innovation competition hypercapitalism anticapitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6d8a09425293/Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever | Books | The Guardian2016-04-03T22:37:17+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/01/generation-anthropocene-altered-planet-for-ever
robertogrecoenvironment geology literature anthropocene speculativefiction fiction novels juliannelutzwarren extinction 2016 robertmacfarlane posthumanism capitalism economics systems systemthinking technology sustainability technocracy capitalocene deforestation chinamiéville jedediahpurdy mckenziewark jasonmoore danielhartley jeffcandermeer tomothymorton hyperobjects naomiklein elizabethkolbert gaiavince annatsing seanborodale richardskelton autumnrichardson rorygibb memory holocene earth salvation philiplarkin plastic plasticene stratigraphy eugenestoemer paulcrutzen history apex-guilt shadowtime stieg raymondwilliams fredricjameson glennalbrecht johnclare solastalgia inequality annalowenhaupttsing jedediahbritton-purdy jacquesrancière chinamievillehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80597b4e08ed/More-Than-Human Lab. » Design Ethnography in the Anthropocene2015-07-22T16:10:50+00:00
http://morethanhumanlab.org/blog/2015/07/22/design-ethnography-in-the-anthropocene/
robertogreco“Ethnography has a goal, of which an Ethnographer should never lose sight. This goal is, briefly, to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. We have to study man, and we must study what concerns him most intimately, that is, the hold life has on him. In each culture, the values are slightly different; people aspire after different aims, follow different impulses, yearn after a different form of happiness . . . In each culture, we find different institutions in which man pursues his life-interest, different customs by which he satisfies his aspirations, different codes of law and morality which reward his virtues or punish his defections. To study the institutions, customs, and codes or to study the behaviour and mentality without the subjective desire of feeling by what these people live, of realising the substance of their happiness—is, in my opinion, to miss the greatest reward which we can hope to obtain from the study of man.”
Ignore the outdated language and, almost one hundred years later, I think it is still an unusually eloquent statement on the beauty of our field of research. And if ethnography is committed to sharing stories about what it means to be human, then we can also count amongst its rewards a greater understanding of ourselves.
The first assignment is to conduct several hours of participant observation, doing something that can help us better understand people’s everyday understandings of, and interactions with, “nature”. I haven’t defined nature for them, and I can’t wait to see what they do!
I’ve also started doing something new this trimester: Each class begins with 10 minutes of sustained consideration of a photograph. Spending ten full minutes looking at one image is incredibly challenging but, I hope, also rewarding. The longer we spend looking at something, the more we stand to see. Our minds are given time to move away from–and perhaps more importantly, return to–what’s right in front of us. The activity, especially when done regularly, sharpens attention and increases awareness. It teaches students the foundational skill of all ethnographic research: engaged observation. The activity ends with answering one question: “What matters here?” and, of course, there is no right answer. The goal is simply to get better at seeing–at recognising–the larger context(s) which lend any image its resonance or power."]]>annegalloway morethanhumanlab anthropocene photography ethnography designethnography 2015 jedediahpurdy aaroncanistian fonnaharaway bronislawmalinowski looking noticing observation understanding slow classideas multispecies nature culture reflection context behavior jedediahbritton-purdyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:111f26ff6214/On Smarm2013-12-05T22:03:04+00:00
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http://www.thebestcolleges.org/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers/
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1. Julian Assange 2. Margaret Atwood 3. Francis Collins 4. Erik Demaine 5. Blake Griffin 6. The Jonas Brothers 7. Akiane Kramarik 8. Jonathan Krohn 9. Joey Logano 10. Jedediah Purdy 11. Condoleezza Rice 12. Astra Taylor 13. Sunaura Taylor 14. timtebow 15. Sho Yano]]>julianassange margaretatwood franciscollins erikdemaine blakegriffin jonasbrothers akianekramarik jonathankrohn joeylogano jedediahpurdy condoleezzarice astrataylor sunaurataylor timtebow shoyano unschooling homeschool education jedediahbritton-purdyhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05d00e24056d/