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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Memory of a Horse - by Matthew Battles2024-03-05T17:03:23+00:00
https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/the-memory-of-a-horse
robertogrecoswindon matthewbattles 2024 care memory horses history landscape maintenance aerialview sheep aerial aerialimagery art attention experiencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3fe710a76e0/“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century – The Public Domain Review2024-01-01T03:31:26+00:00
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/for-the-sake-of-the-prospect-experiencing-the-world-from-above-in-the-late-18th-century/
robertogrecoaerial balloons perspective maps mapping landscape thomasbaldwin lilyford 2016 via:justinpickardhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0c13ba8d5c6/Walkers in the City—and Everywhere - JSTOR Daily2023-10-31T09:22:21+00:00
https://daily.jstor.org/walkers-in-the-city-and-everywhere/
robertogrecopsychogeography situationist urban urbanism geography cities 2023 hannahsteinkopf-frank openness vitalitydavidpinder gopro walkspaceerratics iainsinclair petetackroyd exploration gerasimosfloratos damonalbarn dorianlynskey gorillaz flâneur guydebord wandering walterbenjamin mikefeatherstone urbanstudies détournment turnabout aesouzis laurenelkin francolapolla aoifenaughton mariastehle freedom streets landscape alanmoore andyhowett dérive flâneurs flaneurs flaneur mapping maps map mapmaking derivehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:50477918ea94/After Comfort: A User’s Guide - Soha Macktoom et al. - Heatscapes and Evolutionary Habitats2023-10-13T21:13:06+00:00
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/after-comfort/568093/heatscapes-and-evolutionary-habitats/
robertogrecosohamacktoom nausheenanwar mariamahmad heat landscape urban urbanism climatechange climateurbanism comfort cities globalsouth karachi architecture design buildings pakistan outdoors urbanization ivorycoast senegal cameroon guinea michelecochard tropical tropicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b033ffd65684/Leaving Behind the Yellow Submarine - Boston Review2023-10-02T18:27:53+00:00
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/jo-guldi-exile-aboard-yellow-submarine/
robertogrecojoguldi academia yale highered highereducation tenure 2016 education history jeremyduquesnayadams erichsegal yellowsubmarine film binaries humanities mentoring mentorship teaching howweteach landscape davidarmitage interested interestedness interesting elitism insularity smu south brownuniversity conversation culture southernculture dallas texas inclusivity relationships pedagogyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f1bb6e4e1c3c/How to Cool Down a City - The New York Times2023-09-20T01:27:23+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html
robertogrecocities climate climatechange 2023 singapore trees heat temperature climateurbanism urban urbanism urbanplanning landscape buildings architecture cars shade lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81a2ae931798/Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us | Corita Art Center2023-09-03T03:34:44+00:00
https://store.corita.org/products/ordinary-things-will-be-signs-for-us
robertogrecosistercorita coritakent photography everyday waysofseeing looking noticing books signs losangeles 2023 immaculateheartcollege howweteach teaching pedagogy art design framing advertising supermarkets landscape allthesenseshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e1340accf6b/JOSEF KOUDELKA ¿El mejor fotógrafo del mundo? - YouTube2023-03-29T21:51:37+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zZjOKIJuE
robertogrecooscarcolorado josefkoudelka 2021 photography margins exile documentation theater prague roma exiles ussr sovietunion romani czechoslovakia landscapehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa9412e73e09/Wendell Berry: The Work of Local Culture | The Contrary Farmer2023-01-21T22:04:57+00:00
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/
robertogrecowendellberry rural education local slow small unschooling deschooling centralization decentralization 2011 farming democracy community communities power storytelling professionalization professionals standardization standards extractivism extraction exploitation elitism culture society urban urbanization suburbs suburbia homogenization entertainment distraction belonging purpose environment land soil memory enrichment knowledge highered highereducation academia canon insurance corporations corporatism corporatization mutualaid sales advertising economics consumerism consumption gdp sustainability pollution degradation money poverty generations parenting media television tv classics bible shakespeare williamwordsworth kinship institutions institutionalization schools schooling publicschools indocrtrination children careerism professionalism careers place placebasededucation home meritocracy conservation environmentalism green ecology landscape garbage methods agesegregation government salaries income love memohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46a2ab19fd3d/Listening Across the Tree of Life, Karen Bakker - YouTube2023-01-17T04:44:29+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoL1ilperw
robertogrecokarenbakker sound sounds listening recording nature animals multispecies morethanhuman whales elephants bats dolphins birds peacocks landscape primates communication interspecies research conservation environment ecoacoustics acoustics coral rurtles plants biology bioacoustics via:todrobbins 2022 audio soundscapes microphones sensing allthesenses camilaferrara echolocation bees honeybees ethics indigenous indigeneity translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26b327614429/Episode 1: Land - YouTube2022-12-11T21:50:00+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI_6vbFm74Q
robertogrecopuertorico art 2022 via:javierarbona candidaalvarez gabriellabáez rogeliobáezvega sofíacórdova danielledejesus francesgallardo sofíagallisámuriente miguelluciano javierorfón ellepérez gamalielrodríguez raquelsalasrivera gabrielasalazar armigsantos garvinsierravega edrasoto awildasterling-duprey yiyotiradorivera gabriellatorres-ferrer luluvarona tourism grieving reflecting processing ecology landscape resistance protest infrastructurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e65f90885b2c/'Animism' recognizes how animals, places and plants have power over humans – and it's finding renewed interest around the world2022-10-19T02:31:58+00:00
https://theconversation.com/animism-recognizes-how-animals-places-and-plants-have-power-over-humans-and-its-finding-renewed-interest-around-the-world-181389
robertogrecoanimism 2022 relationships place animals plants power morethanhuman multispecies justinebuckquijada davidhume personhood standingrock genesis whanganuiriver rivers mountains anthropology religion society maori indigeneity indigenous buryats siberia obligation landscape Māorihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1d3b8b133582/A Water Story2022-05-07T01:45:34+00:00
https://futuress.org/magazine/a-water-story/
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https://twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1503411519844864000
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wTyJKPkRStU8mVDMV08TE
robertogrecojuliawatson landscape architects architecture design nature indigeneity indigenous 2020 globalwarming climatechangehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:644a551bd546/Smartphone Cameras vs Reality! - YouTube2021-12-09T02:30:24+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8giCWDcyE
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https://www.frieze.com/article/many-loves-etel-adnan
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https://vimeo.com/487691322
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https://newrepublic.com/article/163735/myth-regenerative-ranching
robertogrecocattle ranching environment 2021 gabrielrosenberg jandutkiewiicz animals nature land agriculture sustainability meat food pointreyes california miwok beef dairy ecology regenerativeranching history settlecolonialsm landscape elk climatechange consumption locavores indulgence greenwashing foodsystems policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:45723a351425/Los Angeles Against the Mountains—I | The New Yorker2021-09-01T16:24:46+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1988/09/26/los-angeles-against-the-mountains-i
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https://placesjournal.org/article/redesigning-colonial-landscapes/
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https://designobserver.com/article.php?id=39038
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https://averyreview.com/issues/53/breach-in-the-wall
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https://twitter.com/ThylacineReport/status/1395107317994213379
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https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/kameelah-janan-rasheed-on-research-and-archiving/
robertogrecokameelahjananrasheed 2017 archives archiving research howwework writing howwewrite art school schooling learning howwelearn generative invasivespecies nyc landscape colonialism imperialism blackness collections collecting curriculum digitization digital hypertext online octaviabutler web crisscross teachinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84b8526ad659/Orion Magazine | The Ecological Imagination of Hayao Miyazaki2021-03-29T20:21:08+00:00
https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-worlds-of-hayao-miyazaki/
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http://invisible5.org/
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https://vimeo.com/441417334
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https://www.darklaboratory.com/
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https://btlbooks.com/book/culture-of-nature
robertogrecoalexanderwilson anthropocene northamerica 1991 2019 terrain landscape nature environment ecologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8297374d412a/Slowdown Papers – Medium2020-09-29T19:29:08+00:00
https://medium.com/slowdown-papers
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https://rosaluxnycblog.org/california-fires/
robertogrecomikedavis california fire fires 2020 climatechange desert mojavedesert landscape anthropocene naturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ded55db44f9b/Nano Training on Rematriation - YouTube2020-09-11T02:16:50+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPCHYa2vgs
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https://twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1303780722407141377
robertogrecoRiver Restoration is essential #ClimateAction. Never gets proper attention. It’s a driver of soil loss & ecosystem change that will be our undoing if we don’t address it in our efforts: Stream Incision can’t be ignored. img cred: @WIWetlandsAssoc & http://beslter.org 1/ “]]>fire fires wildfire forests history renwewal naturalhsitory logging 2020 mountsainthelens maine damns roads landscape rivers ecosystemshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f61b6e7d0a5d/Stephanie Wakefield2020-09-02T16:38:48+00:00
https://stephaniewakefield.com/
robertogrecostephaniewakefield sustainability anthropocene resilience design communityplanning planning urbanplanning urbanism infrastructure cities environment climatechange ecology geography politicalecology miami nyc geoforum nature place landscapehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8fe02a73294c/COVID-19 and Climate Change Have the Same Root Cause - The Atlantic2020-09-02T15:25:56+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-and-climate-change-have-same-root-cause/615844/
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/02/upshot/america-political-spectrum.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/sunday/cressida-cowell-children-nature.html
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/22/hayao-miyazakis-cursed-worlds/
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https://www.ruralfuturism.com/
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http://www.mariatherezaalves.org/
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https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/nature/living-with-the-land-lu-nan-rural-four-seasons-everyday-life-of-tibet-peasants/
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https://twitter.com/gnrosenberg/status/1158702396505284608
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https://vessel.fm/2019/05/21/landscape-circuitry/
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https://www.hermanmiller.com/stories/why-magazine/the-story-behind-isamu-noguchis-playscapes-in-atlanta/
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https://fieldexperience.co/
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https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/play-mountain/
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https://placesjournal.org/article/shade-an-urban-design-mandate/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/opinion/sustainable-sheep-herding.html
robertogrecolandscape sheep multispecies urban animals morethanhuman 2019 sustainabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6c8abcbee469/San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City | Public Books2019-03-31T22:55:52+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/san-francisco-or-how-to-destroy-a-city/
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http://atlasofplaces.com/
robertogrecogeography landscape urbanism photography cartography maps mapping place places architecturehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e2f9ed7bac25/Christi Belcourt on Twitter: "Education in schools is not the only form of education. The land has been my teacher for 25 years. I will never graduate and will always be an apprentice to her. The animals educate. The stars educate. Not everything can be t2018-10-14T19:43:22+00:00
https://twitter.com/christibelcourt/status/1051461306320998400
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http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/
robertogrecoplaygrounds play thechildinthecity children design architecture landscape playscapes mitsurursendajaybeckwith jeremyjoanhewes gustavmugglin alfredtrachsel paulhogan simonkuper ladyallenofhurtwoodhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eef0ebb851d0/When Scientists "Discover" What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries | Science | Smithsonian2018-02-22T01:26:16+00:00
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-science-takes-so-long-catch-up-traditional-knowledge-180968216/
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https://twitter.com/davidfickling/status/950956910391406592
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGO2GbLRWcQ
robertogrecoaustralia aborigines billgammage history human-animalrelationships human-animalrelations morethanhuman multispecies parks landscapehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:54f928d4b664/Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin | Bio, Media, and Published Work2017-11-30T06:33:53+00:00
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http://www.bldgblog.com/2011/06/the-hit-list/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEcVEFdIHs
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http://morning.computer/2017/09/folklore-situationism/
robertogrecowarrenellis 2017 folklore situationist landscape writing us naming lore myth psychogeography phenomenologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd355e346ded/WAR GAMES - DIEGO PERRONE2017-08-02T06:54:39+00:00
http://news.yicca.org/index.php/hot-news-2/item/137-war-games-diego-perrone
robertogrecodiegoperrone art landscape place revelation seeing noticing museums storytelling exploration presentation genoa italy italiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d44a9c3e9ab6/Blind Spot | Blog—Jarrett Fuller2017-07-18T20:59:02+00:00
http://jarrettfuller.blog/post/162824559912/blind-spot
robertogrecoShe asked, though these were not her exact words: Isn’t all the work part of a single piece? She asked, like someone patiently unlocking, with a pin, a pair of handcuffs: Aren’t all the photographs and texts, the fragments and experiments, even the things you say into a microphone, even the things you don’t say, aren’t they all installments toward a unified project? She said, though these are not her exact words: I have always felt that Open City was one way you approached the problem. You’re still circling the problem now, she said, obsessed, she said, and approaching it in other ways. You will probably always be returning to it, she said, making herself comfortable within the folds of my brain.
In a later passage, Cole invokes Calvino’s continuous city and his search of the threads that connect the places he visits. But he’s also looking for the threads that connect the images and the text. Calvino suggests that there is simply one big, continuous city that does not begin or end: ‘Only the name of the airport changes,’ he writes in Invisible Cities. The same can be said of Cole’s work — it’s simply one big, continuous journey — his intellectual interests and preoccupations recur — he finds new ways to display them, new ways to talk about them. Only the name of the book changes.
I read Open City, Cole’s first novel in 2015 during my last week in San Francisco, before moving to Baltimore for graduate school. My belongings were packed up and I’d lay on the floor in the middle of a nearly empty apartment reading. In the book, largely devoid of an obvious plot, we follow the narrator, Julius, as he walks through Manhattan. I started doing the same thing — after a period of reading, I’d put the book down, put classical music on in my headphones, and walk the San Francisco streets. This had been my neighborhood for the last three years but that week, with that music, and Cole’s prose rattling around in my head, I saw the city differently. That, I think, is the thread that ties Cole’s work together. He changes your pace, forces you to slow down. His writing is patient, his photography reserved. He makes you look, really look. This world moves fast. There’s always something new to read, new tweets, new emails, new books, new music. Last month’s news feels like a decade ago.
Blind Spot is a book about looking; about seeing what’s in the frame, about reflecting on what we see. Teju Cole asks us to slow down so we can understand our own blind spots. I saw San Francisco differently that last week, and as I finished Blind Spot this week, I started to see New York differently too. He taught me to see."]]>tejucole jarrettfuller 2017 writing photography italocalvino johnberger wgsebald chrismarker film walking cities urban ubanism place landscape noticing looking seeing sansoleil lajetée blindspothttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be1c18df086c/Creative Time Summit 2015 | The Geography of Learning: Teju Cole - YouTube2017-07-18T06:37:44+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6tojpcYP2A
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http://silicamag.com/gallery/california
robertogrecocalifornia geology earthquakes landscape place senseofplace 2017 nature naturalihistory time elisabethniculahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0e5db59b8072/how to do nothing – Jenny Odell – Medium2017-07-01T07:34:33+00:00
https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb
robertogreco…we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. (emphasis mine)
He wrote that in 1985, but the sentiment is something I think we can all identify with right now, almost to a degree that’s painful. The function of nothing here, of saying nothing, is that it’s a precursor to something, to having something to say. “Nothing” is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech."
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"In The Bureau of Suspended Objects, a project I did while in residence at Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), I spent three months photographing, cataloguing and researching the origins of 200 objects. I presented them as browsable archive in which people could scan the objects’ tags and learn about the manufacturing, material, and corporate histories of the objects.
One woman at the Recology opening was very confused and said, “Wait… so did you actually make anything? Or did you just put things on shelves?” (Yes, I just put things on shelves.)"
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"That’s an intellectual reason for making nothing, but I think that in my cases, it’s something simpler than that. Yes, the BYTE images speak in interesting and inadvertent ways about some of the more sinister aspects of technology, but I also just really love them.
This love of one’s subject is something I’m provisionally calling the observational eros. The observational eros is an emotional fascination with one’s subject that is so strong it overpowers the desire to make anything new. It’s pretty well summed up in the introduction of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, where he describes the patience and care involved in close observation of one’s specimens:
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
The subject of observation is so precious and fragile that it risks breaking under even the weight of observation. As an artist, I fear the breaking and tattering of my specimens under my touch, and so with everything I’ve ever “made,” without even thinking about it, I’ve tried to keep a very light touch.
It may not surprise you to know, then, that my favorite movies tend to be documentaries, and that one of my favorite public art pieces was done by the documentary filmmaker, Eleanor Coppola. In 1973, she carried out a public art project called Windows, which materially speaking consisted only of a map with a list of locations in San Francisco.
The map reads, “Eleanor Coppola has designated a number of windows in all parts of San Francisco as visual landmarks. Her purpose in this project is to bring to the attention of the whole community, art that exists in its own context, where it is found, without being altered or removed to a gallery situation.” I like to consider this piece in contrast with how we normally experience public art, which is some giant steel thing that looks like it landed in a corporate plaza from outer space.
Coppola instead casts a subtle frame over the whole of the city itself as a work of art, a light but meaningful touch that recognizes art that exists where it already is."
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"What amazed me about birdwatching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which was pretty “low res” to begin with. At first, I just noticed birdsong more. Of course it had been there all along, but now that I was paying attention to it, I realized that it was almost everywhere, all day, all the time. In particular I can’t imagine how I went most of my life so far without noticing scrub jays, which are incredibly loud and sound like this:
[video]
And then, one by one, I started learning other songs and being able to associate each of them with a bird, so that now when I walk into the the rose garden, I inadvertently acknowledge them in my head as though they were people: hi raven, robin, song sparrow, chickadee, goldfinch, towhee, hawk, nuthatch, and so on. The diversification (in my attention) of what was previously “bird sounds” into discrete sounds that carry meaning is something I can only compare to the moment that I realized that my mom spoke three languages, not two.
My mom has only ever spoken English to me, and for a very long time, I assumed that whenever my mom was speaking to another Filipino person, that she was speaking Tagalog. I didn’t really have a good reason for thinking this other than that I knew she did speak Tagalog and it sort of all sounded like Tagalog to me. But my mom was actually only sometimes speaking Tagalog, and other times speaking Ilonggo, which is a completely different language that is specific to where she’s from in the Philippines.
The languages are not the same, i.e. one is not simply a dialect of the other; in fact, the Philippines is full of language groups that, according to my mom, have so little in common that speakers would not be able to understand each other, and Tagalog is only one.
This type of embarrassing discovery, in which something you thought was one thing is actually two things, and each of those two things is actually ten things, seems not only naturally cumulative but also a simple function of the duration and quality of one’s attention. With effort, we can become attuned to things, able to pick up and then hopefully differentiate finer and finer frequencies each time.
What these moments of stopping to listen have in common with those labyrinthine spaces is that they all initially enact some kind of removal from the sphere of familiarity. Even if brief or momentary, they are retreats, and like longer retreats, they affect the way we see everyday life when we do come back to it."
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"Even the labyrinths I mentioned, by their very shape, collect our attention into these small circular spaces. When Rebecca Solnit, in her book Wanderlust, wrote about walking in the labyrinth inside the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, she said, “The circuit was so absorbing I lost sight of the people nearby and hardly heard the sound of the traffic and the bells for six o’clock.”
In the case of Deep Listening, although in theory it can be practiced anywhere at any time, it’s telling that there have also been Deep Listening retreats. And Turrell’s Sky Pesher not only removes the context from around the sky, but removes you from your surroundings (and in some ways, from the context of your life — given its underground, tomblike quality)."
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"My dad said that leaving the confined context of a job made him understand himself not in relation to that world, but just to the world, and forever after that, things that happened at work only seemed like one small part of something much larger. It reminds me of how John Muir described himself not as a naturalist but as a “poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc.”, or of how Pauline Oliveros described herself in 1974: “Pauline Oliveros is a two legged human being, female, lesbian, musician, and composer among other things which contribute to her identity. She is herself and lives with her partner, along with assorted poultry, dogs, cats, rabbits and tropical hermit crabs.” Incidentally, this has encouraged me to maybe change my bio to: “Jenny Odell is an artist, professor, thinker, walker, sleeper, eater, and amateur birdnoticer.”
3. the precarity of nothing
There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.
But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and although we can definitely say that this right is variously accessible or even inaccessible for some, I believe that it is indeed a right. For example, the push for an 8-hour workday in 1886 called for “8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, and 8 hours of what we will.” I’m struck by the quality of things that associated with the category “What we Will”: rest, thought, flowers, sunshine.
These are bodily, human things, and this bodily-ness is something I will come back to. When Samuel Gompers, who led the labor group that organized this particular iteration of the 8-hour movement, was asked, “What does labor want?” he responded, “It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.” And to me it seems significant that it’s not 8 hours of, say, “leisure” or “education,” but “8 hours of what we will.” Although leisure or education might be involved, what seems most humane is the refusal to define that period.
That campaign was about a demarcation of time. So it’s interesting, and certainly troubling, to read the decline in labor unions in the last several decades alongside a similar decline in the demarcation of public space. True public spaces, the most obvious examples being parks and libraries, are places for — and thus the spatial underpinnings of — “what we will.”"
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"The way that Berardi describes labor will sound as familiar to anyone concerned with their personal brand as it will to any Uber driver, content moderator, hard-up freelancer, aspiring YouTube star, or adjunct professor who drives to three campuses in one week:
In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine. … The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists, their time is there, permanently available to connect, to produce in exchange for a temporary salary. (emphasis mine)
The removal of economic security for working people — 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will — dissolves those boundaries so that we are left with 24 potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles."
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"I also started noticing some crows in my neighborhood. At the time I had just read The Genius of Birds, and I’d learned the crows are incredibly intelligent and can recognize and remember human faces. They can in fact teach their children which are the good and the bad humans, good being ones who feed them and bad being ones who try to catch them or do something else weird. I have a balcony, so I started leaving a few peanuts out for the crows."
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"This isn’t only about me watching birds. I think a lot about what these birds see when they look at me — and I’m sure anyone who has a pet is familiar with this feeling. I assume they just see a female human who for some reason seems to pay attention to them.⁵ They don’t know what my work is, they don’t see progress — they just see recurrence, day after day, week after week.
And through them, I am able to inhabit that perspective, to see myself as the human animal that I am, and when they fly off, to some extent, I can inhabit that perspective too, noticing the shape of the hill that I live on and where all of the tall trees and good landing spots are.
There are ravens that I noticed live half in and half out of the rose garden, until I realized that there is no “rose garden” to them. These alien animal perspectives on me and our shared world have provided me not only with an escape hatch from contemporary anxiety but also a reminder of my own animality and the animateness of the world I live in.
Their flights enable my own literal flights of fancy, recalling a question that one of my favorite authors, David Abram, asks in Becoming Animal: “Do we really believe that the human imagination can sustain itself without being startled by other shapes of sentience?”⁶"
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"But beyond strategic / activist self preservation, there’s something else to be gained here: Doing nothing teaches us how to listen. I’ve already mentioned literal listening, or Deep Listening, but this time I mean it in a broader sense. To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
There are a lot of us, and I’m certainly not immune to this, who could stand to learn how to listen better, and I mean listen to other people. As a lover of weird internet things, I definitely do not want to write off the amazing culture and also activism that happens online. But even with the problem of the filter bubble aside, the platforms that we use to communicate with each other about very important things do not encourage listening. They encourage shouting, or having a “take” after having read a single headline.
I alluded earlier to the problem of speed, but this is also a problem of listening, and of bodies. There is in fact a connection between listening in the Deep Listening, bodily sense, and listening, as in me understanding your perspective. Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a helpful distinction between connectivity and sensitivity. Connectivity is the rapid circulation of information among compatible units — an example is something getting a bunch of shares very quickly and unthinkingly by likeminded people on Facebook. With connectivity, you either are or are not compatible. Red or blue; check the box. In this transmission of information, the units don’t change, nor does the information.
Sensitivity, in contrast, involves a difficult, awkward, ambiguous encounter between two differently shaped bodies that are themselves ambiguous — and this meeting, this sensing, requires and takes place in time. Not only that, due to the effort of sensing, the two entities might come away from the encounter a bit differently than they went in.
This always brings to mind a month-long artist residency I once attended with two other artists in an extremely remote location in the Sierra Nevada. There wasn’t much to do at night, so one of the artists and I would sometimes sit on the roof and watch the sunset. She was Catholic and from the Midwest; I’m sort of the quintessential California atheist. I have really fond memories of the languid, meandering conversations we had up there about science and religion. And what strikes me is that neither of us ever convinced the other — that wasn’t the point — but we listened to each other, and we did each come away differently, with a more nuanced understanding of the other person’s position."
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"Ukeles’ interest in maintenance was partly occasioned by her becoming a mother in the 1960s. In an interview she explained, “Being a mother entails an enormous amount of repetitive tasks. I became a maintenance worker. I felt completely abandoned by my culture because it didn’t have a way to incorporate sustaining work.” Her 1969 Maintenance Manifesto is actually an exhibition proposal in which she considers her own maintenance work as the art. She says, “I will live in the museum and I customarily do at home with my husband and my baby, for the duration of the exhibition … My work is the work.”"
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"I think of the hours and hours that I have now spent in the rose garden, putting off returning to my work on a glowing two-dimensional screen an arm’s length from my face; or the days on which I’ll leave just to get coffee and wind up almost involuntarily on top of a hill four hours later, regardless of the shoes I’m wearing; or the fact that the last five or six books I’ve read have had to do with animal intelligence and the importance of landscape in memory and cognition. I don’t know where any of this, where I, will end up."]]>jennyodell idleness nothing art eyeo2017 photoshop specimens care richardprince gillesdeleuze recology internetarchive sanfrancisco eleanorcoppola 2017 1973 maps mapping scottpolach jamesturrell architecture design structure labyrinths oakland juliamorgan chapelofthechimes paulineoliveros ucsd 1970s deeplisening listening birds birdwatching birding noticing classideas observation perception time gracecathedral deeplistening johncage gordonhempton silence maintenance conviviality technology bodies landscape ordinary everyday cyclicality cycles 1969 mierleladermanukeles sensitivity senses multispecies canon productivity presence connectivity conversation audrelorde gabriellemoss fomo nomo nosmo davidabram becominganimal animals nature ravens corvids crows bluejays pets human-animalrelations human-animalelationships herons dissent rowe caliressler jodythompson francoberardi fiverr popos publicspace blackmirror anthonyantonellis facebook socialmedia email wpa history bayarea crowdcontrol mikedavis cityofquartz erhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb75f2831428/What's Wrong with Apple's New Headquarters | WIRED2017-06-13T22:36:16+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-campus/
robertogrecoapple urbanism cities architects architecture adamrogers 2017 applecampus cupertino suburbia cars civics howbuildingslearn stevejobs design housing publictransit civicresponsibility corporations proposition13 bart allisonarieff bayarea 1030s 1940s 1950s facebook google amazon seattle siliconvalley isolationism caltrain government capitalism publicgood louisemozingo unioncarbide ibm history future landscape context inequality prop13https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15bbf30861cf/The Myth of a Desert Metropolis: Los Angeles was not built in a desert, but are we making it one? – Boom California2017-05-29T21:20:19+00:00
https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/05/22/the-myth-of-a-desert-metropolis-los-angeles-was-not-built-in-a-desert-but-are-we-making-it-one/
robertogrecolosangeles california myth 2017 deserts glenmacdonald cities climate history williammulholland realestate future water landscape ralphshaffer propagandahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a67e24d8e5c/A World Without People - The Atlantic2017-05-27T19:18:40+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/05/a-world-without-people/527988/
robertogrecolandscape photography apocalypse worldwithoutus multispecies riodejaneiro brasil brazil us nola neworleans alabama germany belarus italy italia abandonment china bankok thailand decay shengshan athens greece lackawanna pennsylvania tianjin russia cyprus nicosia indonesia maine syria namibia drc fukushima congo philippines havana cuba vallejo paris libya wales englandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:57e988867b82/crap futures — Back to nature2017-05-14T21:54:57+00:00
http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/160479294104/back-to-nature
robertogrecoThe difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. A road, on the other hand … embodies a resistance against the landscape. Its reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. Its wish is to avoid contact with the landscape. … It is destructive, seeking to remove or destroy all obstacles in its way.
Aside from conversation as usual, the reason we are talking about Berry is the arrival of a new film, Look & See, and a new collection of his writing, The World-Ending Fire, edited by Paul Kingsnorth of Dark Mountain Project fame. Berry and Kingsnorth, along with the economist Kate Raworth, were on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week recently chatting about the coming apocalypse and how it might best be avoided. It is a fascinating interview: you can actually hear Berry’s rocking chair creaking and the crows cawing outside the window of his house in Port Royal, Kentucky.
The normally optimistic Berry agrees somewhat crankily to read ‘the poem that you asked me to read’ on the programme. ‘Sabbaths 1989’ describes roads to the future as going nowhere: ‘roads strung everywhere with humming wire. / Nowhere is there an end except in smoke. / This is the world that we have set on fire.’ Berry admits that this poem is about as gloomy as he gets (‘blessed are / The dead who died before this time began’). For the most part his writing is constructive: forming a sensual response to cold, atomised modernity; advocating for conviviality, community, the commonweal.
Paul Kingsnorth talks compellingly in the same programme about transforming protest into action, although in truth no one walks the walk like Berry. Kingsnorth says: ‘We’re all complicit in the things we oppose’ - and never were truer words spoken, from our iPhones to our energy use. In terms of design practice, there are worse goals than reducing our level of complicity in environmental harm and empty consumerism. Like Berry, Kingsnorth talks about paths and roads. He asks: ‘Why should we destroy an ancient forest to cut twelve minutes off a car journey from London to Southampton? Is that a good deal?’
It’s a fair question. It also illustrates perfectly what Berry was describing in the passage that started this post: the difference between paths that blend and coexist with the local landscape, preserving the knowledge and history of the land, and roads that cut straight through it. These roads are like a destructive and ill-fitting grid imposed from the centre onto the periphery, without attention to the local terrain or ecology or ways of doing things - both literally (in the case of energy) and figuratively.
Another book we read recently, Holloway, describes ancient paths - specifically the ‘holloways’ of South Dorset - in similar terms:
They are landmarks that speak of habit rather than of suddenness. Like creases in the hand, or the wear on the stone sill of a doorstep or stair, they are the result of repeated human actions. Their age chastens without crushing. They relate to other old paths & tracks in the landscape - ways that still connect place to place & person to person.
Holloways are paths sunk deep into the landscape and into the local history. Roads, in contrast, skip over the local - collapsing time as they move us from one place to the next without, as it were, touching the ground. They alienate us in our comfort.
Here in Madeira there are endless footpaths broken through the woods. Still more unique are the levadas, the irrigation channels that run for more than two thousand kilometres back and forth across the island, having been brought to Portugal from antecedents in Moorish aqueduct systems and adapted to the specific terrain and agricultural needs of Madeira starting in the sixteenth century.
Both the pathways through the ancient laurel forests and the centuries-old levadas (which, though engineered, were cut by hand and still follow the contours and logic of the landscape) contrast with the highways and tunnels that represent a newer feat of human engineering since the 1970s. During his controversial though undeniably successful reign from 1978 to 2015 - he was elected President of Madeira a remarkable ten times - Alberto João Jardim oversaw a massive infrastructure program that completely transformed the island. Places that used to be virtually unreachable became accessible by a short drive. His legacy, in part, is a culture of automobile dependency that is second to none. The American highway system inspired by Norman Bel Geddes’ (and General Motors’) Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair almost pales in comparison to Jardim’s vision for the rapid modernisation of Madeira.
But when you walk the diesel-scented streets of the capital, or you drive through the holes bored deep into and out of towering volcanic mountains to reach the airport - and even when you think back in history and imagine those first settlers sitting in their ships as half the island’s forest burned, watching the dense smoke of the fires they lit to make Madeira favourable to human habitation - it’s hard not to think what a catastrophically invasive species are human beings.
Bespoke is a word we use a lot. In our vocabulary bespoke is not about luxury or excess - as it has been co-opted by consumer capitalism to suggest. Instead it is about tailored solutions, fitted to the contours of a particular body or landscape. Wendell Berry insists on the role of aesthetics and proportionality in his approach to environmentalism: the goal is not hillsides covered in rows of ugly solar panels, but an integrated and deep and loving relationship with the land. This insistence on aesthetics relates to the ‘reconfiguring’ principles that inform our newest work. The gravity batteries we’ve been building are an alternative not only to the imposed, top-down infrastructure of the grid, but also to the massive scale of such solutions and our desire to work with the terrain rather than against it.
Naomi Klein talked about renewable energy in these terms in an interview a couple of years ago:
If you go back and look at the way fossil fuels were marketed in the 1700s, when coal was first commercialized with the Watt steam engine, the great promise of coal was that it liberated humans from nature … And that was, it turns out, a lie. We never transcended nature, and that I think is what is so challenging about climate change, not just to capitalism but to our core civilizational myth. Because this is nature going, ‘You thought you were in charge? Actually all that coal you’ve been burning all these years has been building up in the atmosphere and trapping heat, and now comes the response.’ … Renewable energy puts us back in dialog with nature. We have to think about when the wind blows, we have to think about where the sun shines, we cannot pretend that place and space don’t matter. We are back in the world.
In a future post we will talk about the related subject of sustainable agriculture. But speaking of food - the time has come for our toast and coffee.]]>2017 crapfutures wendellberry paths roads madeira bespoke tailoring audiencesofone naomiklein sustainability earth normanbelgeddes albertojoãojardim levadas infrastructure permanence capitalism energy technology technosolutionsism 1969 obstacles destruction habits knowledge place placemaking experience familiarity experientialeducation kateraworth paulkingsnorth darkmountainproject modernity modernism holloways nature landscape cars transportation consumerism consumercapitalism reconfiguration domination atmosphere environment dialog conviviality community commonweal invasivespecies excess humans futurama ecology canon experientiallearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3ce948dacae/