Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Every Reason to Hate Cars - YouTube 2026-03-29T20:17:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgi-CbaSRU robertogreco cars notjustbikes 2026 cities urban urbanism violence safety propaganda advertising children disabilities motornormativity parking housing disability lifestyle isolation climate climatechange globalwarming pollution noise lightpollution noisepollution airpollution bikes biking pedestrians walking suburbia suburbs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5475e18f3387/ The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other | China | The Guardian 2026-03-21T05:10:47+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/13/chinamaxxing-social-media-trend-gen-z-china-us robertogreco china us chinamaxxing genz generationz 2026 socialmedia media perception society psychology politics economics propaganda rednote tiktok lifestyle poverty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c408bc64f6f/ Wolf Tivy on X: "Disposable income is a curse. It makes you spiritually obese. Seek austerity instead. Treat money like the Fremen treat water. Wear a financial stillsuit so tight you could last years on what most people spend in a month, pour the rest in 2026-02-16T04:29:06+00:00 https://x.com/wolftivy/status/1875774503290274262 robertogreco wolftivy austerity money small slow 2025 asceticism voluntarysimplicity poverty life living lifestyle suburbs spirituality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba3be7a4735e/ US is better than Europe! - Chris Arnade Walks the World 2026-01-10T20:43:08+00:00 https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/us-is-better-than-europe robertogreco[Marko Jukic, @mmjukic]Europeans aren't poor. They are illiquid. Much of Europe's wealth is stored in safe streets, nice parks, public transit, "free" healthcare, etc. which, it turns out, are too socially expensive for Americans to maintain. Americans take the money instead. The rest is only natural.
[Flo Crivello, @Altimor] Americans severely underestimate how dirt poor most Europeans are. They go spend their American wages there and are amazed at the "quality of life," not realizing that they're taking the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland, and everyone around them is the staff.
[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome] Median size of a dwelling in every US state vs the same thing in Europe. [presumably a map or chart]
[Marko Jukic, @mmjukic]The EU has triple the population density of the United States and doesn't believe in "suburbs," just "cities." Given how much more space there is in America, it's surprising that the numbers are so close, if anything. [maps] Or, as I’ve written before [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/why-the-us-cant-have-nice-things-a6d ], it’s about a communitarian versus individualistic lifestyle, with the US having chosen a policy path emphasizing self-sufficiency and convenience, and Europe being more focused on the communal good and restraint. The tweet also highlights the two most striking, easy-to-measure differences between the US and Europe — the US is wealthier, at least in material terms, and has a lot more space, and so US homes end up being large enough that Europeans get either jealous, or see them as wasteful — You mean, you don’t live with your parents and grandparents in a fourth floor walk-up? You mean you have separate rooms to cook in, eat in, and even store your junk in? Wow. There are so many other easy-to-measure differences between the US and Europe, like life-span, crime, pollution, car ownership, and so on, that makes it close to impossible to adjudicate which is better on data alone, even if you wanted to go that way. Then there are all the hard to measure very subjective differences, like aesthetics, food, nature, and so on, that highlights that it’s a very personal decision. Or, asking which is better is a deeply silly and flawed question, since it’s asking someone if they prefer the culture they grew up in, or a different one, and with a few notable exceptions3 the majority of people will vote for their own culture because it’s core to their identity. Humans are cultural animals, groomed from birth by the society they grew up in, to value the society they grew up in. I’ve alluded to this cultural essential-ism before, in my essay on Thick Travel [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/thick-travel ], We humans are cultural animals, imbued at birth with “the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life” but who generally end up “in having lived only one.” That one life we end up living is largely determined by what culture, and place in it, we are born into. As Geertz writes,
“As culture shaped us as a single species so too it shapes us as separate individuals. This … is what we have in common. Oddly enough, many of our subjects seem to realize this more clearly than we anthropologists ourselves. In Java, for example, the people quite flatly say, “To be human is to be Javanese.”
To be human is to be American, or Danish, or Japanese, so it’s not surprising the majority of people are more comfortable in the culture they’re born into4. So, why am I writing this essay, and why did I title it the way I did, other than as click-bait, especially given how often I write about what the rest of the world does better than the US, like the whole being happy thing. [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-hanoi-part-1 ] Because while the majority of the world does like where they live (again, with the big caveat of destitute places), a minority does indeed reject the culture they’re born into, and choose to move, and an even larger minority dream of moving, and almost all of those who do, imagine themselves in the US. As I tweeted in response to the above tweet, again somewhat provocatively, [screenshot:
Don't necessarily disagree with this framing (would say it differently), but I believe a large percentage of Europeans would swap their tiny apartment three miles from downtown Brussels, or Marseille, their tiny car, for a ranch house in Jacksonville beach with three cars & a yard for the kids to play in. Not sure many Americans would take up the opposite offer, other than grad students wanting a quaint experience Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my sense.
] Now there are things I would change with that tweet, which was attempting to compare the modal (or most common) European experience to the modal US experience. For instance, I would switch Jacksonville Beach to Jacksonville, or Houston, and Marseille to Bucharest or some other Eastern European city. Yet, I stand by the intended larger point, culled from years of talking to people all over the world, which is, what the US is selling (space, freedom, meritocracy), has a lot of buyers across the globe, including in Europe. Or to put it another way, the rest of the world (other than academics) really really love the US. Or, at least they love the idea of the US. Why do I feel the need to point this out? Because I don’t think it’s well understood on twitter, and certainly not in the “smart” discourse. The reason it’s not well understood is because the people who find the US brand the most appealing are not people you hear from a lot, because they don’t have lots of money, or lots of education. There is a big educational divide in how the world views the US, and it’s lifestyle, with the less educated being largely positive towards it, while the highly educated generally favor a more European lifestyle (walkable urban environments with smart regulation), including those in the US, who cluster in the most European parts of the US5. That’s partly why I went to Phoenix, which in many ways represents the pinnacle of what the educated hate most about the US — its sprawl, its dependency on cars, its disregard for the natural elements, its ugly wastefulness, its shortsightedness that places immediate convenience above a focus on the longer term and greater good. Now, I also famously hated Phoenix, loathed it so much that I’m still getting yelled at on Reddit, but Phoenix is growing rapidly, which shows that while I don’t like it, and you might not like it, a lot of people really do like it. Or at least what it represents to them. As I wrote then,
Phoenix is a large grid, of mile-long four-lane sides, with shopping plazas at the corners, and an inside of twisting single-lane roads and simple ranch homes on half-acre plots. Those residential insides are the nice parts, and showing that they’re nice is partly why I’d come to Phoenix: to highlight a version of the American Dream, which, while I might not love and isn’t necessarily “walkable,” is still very appealing to lots of people. It’s what I wrote about last week, when I cautioned that walkability doesn’t necessarily translate into livibility. [https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/so-what-makes-a-city-more-walkable ]
This weekend I made a personal trip to Miami, where I did a ten-mile walk through the least fancy parts6. When I mentioned this on Twitter, I got a now very familiar push-back telling me all that’s wrong with Florida: That it’s going to be underwater soon. It’s hot. It doesn’t have any culture. Basically, it’s an unlivable gross shit-hole with a wrong approach to everything, including politics. Yet, people are moving to Florida. In droves. And they’ve been moving there in droves for the last fifty years. I grew up in central Florida, not the fancy part, and back in the 70s our school system was so overwhelmed with an influx of new residents from Michigan, New York, Ohio, and the rest of the north, that they shifted to an absurd system called 45-15. Each student was assigned one of four tracks (mine was B) that went to school year round, but alternating between nine week stints, followed by three week breaks, so that at any time only three quarters of the students were attending.7 Since college I’ve been moving further and further north, and at each stop people keep telling me I’m going in the wrong direction. Just this morning, at my local upstate NY McDonald’s, the old man table, when they found out I was originally from Florida, did the usual, “So, why in the hell did you leave?” thing. All of this is a very long way of saying, people’s actions reveal a lot, and one of the things they’ve revealed to me over the last four years of travel is that while I might be very critical of the US, especially places like Phoenix, I’m beginning to understand that I’m in the minority. Which is helpful to remember. The American lifestyle I’m so critical of, the lack of public transport, the selfish lifestyle, the gross materialism, the shortsightedness, the paper thin intellectually vapid bling, is very appealing to a large percentage of the world, and that should matter. How large a percentage? I’m not sure, but while it may not be a majority, it’s not far from it. The smart push-back against this, which is something I’ve written a little bit about before, is that ok, people think they like the US, think they want to move to Phoenix or Florida, but that’s them responding to an image being sold. It isn’t reality. Or, the people who tell me, over beers in Hanoi or Ulaanbaatar, or coffees in Belgium or Bucharest, that they want to move to the US don’t really know what they’re getting themselves into, deluded by glossy images from TV. Or it’s the grass is always greener effect. There is certainly a lot of that going on, but the more time I spend walking the world, the more time I spend talking to people, I think the deeper answer is that the image the US projects and represents to a lot of the world, and in many ways provides its residents relative to other places — opportunity, material wealth, safety, independence, space, convenience, and lots of immediate pleasure — is a lot more appealing than what I’ve believed before, or want to believe. So appealing it breaks across cultural boundaries and life-long preferences. That is, maybe most people really do want an American style transcendent-free lifestyle, especially if it comes with the conveniences of a huge dyer, powerful AC, two large cars, and a ranch house on a plot of land that couldn’t ever hold a heard of animals larger than rats. The US has a lot of problems, but people not wanting to move here, isn’t one of them, and that shouldn’t be forgotten. [footnotes] 1 - There is a whole meme dedicated to this, called “The American mind cannot comprehend this.” Google it. 2 - There is something called Godwin's law, which states, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” I would like Arnade’s law to be, “As an online discussion over Europe versus US grows longer, the probability of someone posting that picture of Breezewood approaches one.” 3 - Very destitute places are a clear exception. Like Senegal. Also, as I address further down in the essay, highly educated people (like myself) are less products of their culture. One of the attributes of modern education is an emphasis on valuing new experiences, and different cultures. 4 - Or to put it another way, our cultural provides us our utility function and that is what we use when we decide what array of variables is most important. 5 - Upscale neighborhoods in big cities, and any neighborhoods around elite colleges. 6 - For Miami knowers, I walked up 441, from downtown to Opa-Locka [map] 7 - They both couldn’t, and didn’t want to out of cheapness, build new schools fast enough to deal with the demand. "]]> 2024 chrisarnade us cities livability walkability walking florida phoenix europe jacksonville houston marseille bucharest culture cliffordgeerttz communitarianism community society entrepreneurship entrepreneurialism landscape comparison wealth lifestyle materialism lifespan lifeexpectancy crime pollution cars homes housing data aesthetics food nature environment twitter discourse shortsightedness selfishness individualism consumption consumerism convenience space immediacy independence instantgratification https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:697be459736b/ Modern life is good actually 2026-01-10T20:22:03+00:00 https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/modern-life-is-good-actually robertogreco"It is not the book I intended to write when I began. Preconceptions dropped off one by one as I investigated. The period was not a Golden Age or Belle Epoque except to a thin crust of the privileged class. It was not a time exclusively of confidence, innocence, comfort, stability, security and peace. All these qualities were certainly present. People were more confident of values and standards, more innocent in the sense of retaining more hope of mankind, than they are today, although they were not more peaceful nor, except for the upper few, more comfortable. Our misconception lies in assuming that doubt and fear, ferment, protest, violence and hate were not equally present. **We have been misled by the people of the time themselves who, in looking back across the gulf of the War, see that earlier half of their lives misted over by a lovely sunset haze of peace and security. It did not seem so golden when they were in the midst of it. Their memories and their nostalgia have conditioned our view of the pre-war era but I can offer the reader a rule based on adequate research: all statements of how lovely it was in that era made by persons contemporary with it will be found to have been made after 1914.**" ] I especially struggle taking seriously the “modernity sucks” people who lay the blame on technology and seem to idolize the pre-industrial past. Modern technology is wonderful, and our current problems are not because of the machines, but in how we use them. I was reminded of this with my recent health issue—when a blood test showed I had a risk of prostate cancer, and within two months I was able to walk into a clinic, have a biopsy, and then walk out two hours later, and within a week find out the growths were non-cancerous, and even had they been, my chances of survival were very high. Modern medicine alone should be reason enough to understand how fortunate we are to be living now, surrounded by technology. At almost any other period of time, having made it to sixty in good health would be a great accomplishment, rather than the normal, and I would be nearing the end of my life, rather than having a decent chance of being here two or more decades4. That is a lesson I learned early, from my grandmother, who grew up on a Michigan milk farm, loved going into the grocery store and getting Velveeta cheese5, loved her modern conveniences, and would laugh at the “back to nature” hippies as having no idea how hard life was then. Especially as she had lost her husband at the age of thirty-eight, who dropped dead from a blood clot that had gone to his brain, something modern medicine almost certainly would have caught before it killed him. The problem with modern technology isn’t that it exists, but in how we use it, especially in highly individualistic societies such as the US, which is to go off on our own, into even more solitary lives, removed from community. It is an accelerator of an already existing problem. You can see that in Asian societies with a long-standing cultural emphasis on the communal, such as Vietnam, China, and Indonesia, where a thriving social life still exists, despite the phones. Technology has enriched our lives in so many ways—extending them, lessening pain and suffering, and providing endless diversions—that having to argue that it is in fact a net good seems like an argument that shouldn’t have to be made, yet a “simpler, more rustic, less technologically advanced” lifestyle is one of those images that always has strong appeal, because we romanticize the simple, while forgetting that the simple has never been easy. The romantic appeal of pre-modern life might be about staying busy through constant toil, but actually growing your own food without machines, washing clothes without machines, and keeping your children alive without machines is not easy. Those are immensely hard, painful, and come with a lot of despair. It’s interesting that the people most bothered by technology in the West, and most drawn to a prior lifestyle, are the highly individualistic and idiosyncratic intellectuals—not the “normies,” who when given the chance to choose overwhelmingly want the lifestyle anti-modern elites believe is so destructive. Poor people especially understand something that anti-modernist romantics don’t, which is that every choice involves tradeoffs, and the tradeoff between our current problems and past problems isn’t close. Show a Cambodian peasant, or a farmer in rural Indonesia, the neon lights and indoor plumbing of Phnom Penh or Jakarta, and they will drop their hoe in a second, happily throw away their low-tech supposedly idyllic life, cram onto a bus and move to be simply near them, even if that means living in a shack on the edge of town. That so many of them are drawn to the spectacle, like moths to a flame, is why these cities in the third world are swelling to the world’s largest, engorged with people seeking more glamorous lives. The outskirts of Ulaanbaatar is another example of this. The Ger district, extensive and polluted slums that ring Mongolia’s capital, is where thirty percent of the country lives, having tripled in the last thirty years. Not by force, but because people have shown that they prefer being crammed together, next to hospitals, gaming centers, malls packed with Korean electronics, and the bright lights of the city, to the thousand year old long-standing tradition of being out in the sticks, with your Ger, horses, and a Prius6. People, when allowed to choose, embrace modernity — because they see it as liberation from the hard, bland, boring life of poverty. The counterargument is that they have not been allowed to choose, because of globalization, and the forces of a capitalism that’s made their past lifestyle impossible. There is truth to that. Policy crafted to maximize production without regard to communal consequences has not surprisingly resulted in more stuff but also devalued the communal7. This isn't the only reason for the rural exodus, and not, I think, the primary one, but it's certainly a large part of the story. Economic transitions, from agricultural to industrial, and then from low tech industrial to higher tech industrial, always come with a great deal of turmoil, and displacement, that should and can be better managed, but as to whether it's “worth it”, I come down on the side of yes it is. Which I understand isn’t necessarily the most popular side in the online debate. All of these issues, of progress versus tradition, were debated in England, during the Industrial Revolution, and occupied most of the country’s politics from 1650 to 1850s, and while that period saw a great deal of displacement, confusion, and pain, it also saw an immense increase in living standards. Today, only a few eccentrics argue that things were better before the Industrial Revolution than after, although in the grand calculation of moral right, it certainly came at a significant cost in human suffering. Debating those questions will never end, and won’t be settled, but it is all academic because you can’t stop progress, that isn’t how humans work. You can manage it so the transition is less unsettling, and that is where the focus should be, not on denying that in totality it is the correct direction. That modern life, especially the technology, has enabled governments to expand control of its citizens is another good argument, because as China shows, it is partly true, but as a whole package technology is the enemy of authoritarianism, not its friend, because it allows everyone to be informed. That repressive regimes limit what modern inventions the citizens can have, especially blocking the internet, should be evidence enough, that they see modern life as a threat. That’s not to say modern life doesn’t come with new problems, and that technology can’t be used for ill, but all of that pales in comparison to what people faced in the past. It’s helpful to remember that every now and then. We cannot ever eliminate despair, because living, while filled with the good, is also hard. There is no utopia, not here on earth at least, and the fruitless quest to try and achieve it is why humans can’t stop progressing, and why they also won’t stop believing it was better before. The imperfection of the human condition, and our humble place in the universe, can never be eliminated. Not by more and more machines, and also not by denying the additional good they do bring, but only by an acceptance of our limitations. In that way I suppose I side more with the nostalgics than the full-on modernists, who at least grasp most of that, but then fail to recognize that even a fallen person seeks and needs material comfort. We might never be able to achieve perfection, but we might as well keep aiming for it, and that means continuing to try and move forward, rather than back, because humans, and living, is fundamentally good. 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Siddiqi 2025-11-29T01:03:34+00:00 https://ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empire-life-extension robertogreco ayeshasiddiqi aesthetics fascism rightwing farright 2025 longevity aging beuaty west latefascistaesthetics fascistaesthetics waronterror ant-aging society oldage us capitalism medicine plasticsurgery franklydson sergevoronoff johnbrinkley canada australia uk colonialism colonization germany occupation freud williambutleryeats johnwilliampolidori mikedavis productivity purity lebensreform lifereform switzerland austria michaelhau health wellness gender reactionaries england fitbit pilates wearables oura samsung smartrings barackobama drones lifestyle donaldtrump maga trumpism bryanjohnson longtermism projectblueprint racism iraq afghanistan pakistan yemen andersbreivik foxnews jeaninepirro afd sweden emmanuelmacron nicolassarkozy winstonchurchill hitler adolfhitler grievance economics genocide violence alligatoralcatraz misogyny fitness security skincare goop gwynethpaltrow 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/ Ursula Le Guin's Anarchist Alternative - YouTube 2025-10-02T16:10:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73s-YMcNTI robertogreco anarchism ursulaleguin 2025 alexisshotwell emmagoldman peterkropotkin anarresproject josephorosco futures philosophy thedispossesed utopia politics politicalphilosophy purity feminism gender race ethics angusmaguire jamesrowe sciencefiction scifi octaviabutler marionzimmerbradley robertheinlein activism buddhism omelas samueldelaney horizontality hierarchy hierarchies power williammorris erricomalatesta humannature mutualaid collectivity collectivism alexanderberjman taoism daoism imagination society exploitation misery horror odo nkjemisin relationships oppression critique speculativefiction anarres politcalphilosophy humans human property organizing anarcho-communism cooperation solidarity libertarianism nonownership capitalism anticapitalism sociability ammari comradeship kinship togetherness antoniogramsci vulnerability patriarchy humility charity difference deviance sameness individualism individuality kathrynnorlock stoicism murraybookchin unfinshed ongoingness staffordbeer lifestyle infrastructure inst https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe77f9b848a5/ Iceland’s shorter working week has been a huge success – and it’s changed my family’s life | María Hjálmtýsdóttir | The Guardian 2025-07-19T00:21:30+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/21/iceland-36-hour-working-week-stress-job robertogreco iceland work labor workweek well-being wellbeing time productivity business 2024 unions happiness law maríahjálmtýsdóttir stress lifestyle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b1048c43eed/ Everyone I know is worried about work - by Rosie Spinks 2025-06-12T19:10:18+00:00 https://rojospinks.substack.com/p/everyone-i-know-is-worried-about robertogreco rosiespinks 2025 security unschooling deschooling careers mutualaid childcare insecurity labor work community destabilization parenting insulation linkedin ethics values morality morals douglasrushkoff billionaires elites elitism society environment careerism lifestyle lifestyles well-being wellbeing alternative economics plants resume cv freelance jonathansmall collapse howwelive living life us uk precarity jobs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95a12ced0863/ Lightness - tis.so 2025-05-27T02:33:03+00:00 https://tis.so/lightness robertogreco lightness minimalism cristóbalsciuttorodríguez 2024 economy labor effort life living play playfulness gravity burden utility public suburbia suburbs film community conviviality lifestyle sharing mutualaid https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7cd237b616e/ "Live from California" legend shares SuperAging secret, DIY-building tips 🛹 - YouTube 2025-05-15T20:19:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBN5WakKYbQ robertogreco 2024 aging age lloydkahn kirstendirksen self-suffiency lesleycreed life lifestyle living bolinas marincounty marin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecd97ea09149/ Is modern asceticism about conformity or quiet revolution? | Psyche Ideas 2025-05-02T03:30:14+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/is-modern-asceticism-about-conformity-or-quiet-revolution robertogreco asceticism slow small irynamykhailova 2025 wittgenstein marieskłodowska-curie alberteinstein luxury humanitarianism humanity popejuliusii medici michelangelo simoneweil solitude solidarity oppressed voluntarysimplicity simplicity minimalism philosophy geoffreygaltharphman freud maxweber christianity protestantism abundance technology capitalism frugality self-discipline virtues virtue us europe modernization modernity pierrehadot ascetics stoicism askesis mysticism religion hermeticism zealotry zealots poverrty celibacy torture starvation lifestyle divinity society politiics consumerism consumption apathy escapism idology plato citizenship girolamosavonarola renaissance secularism socrates materialism digitaldetox veganism environment michelfoucault foucault monasticism decluttering flourishing sustainability well-being compassion earth planet thoreau proseperity austerity valuse fairness equality wellbeing slowfood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1de85008430/ The coming pro-smoking discourse - by Max Read - Read Max 2025-04-02T17:43:20+00:00 https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-coming-pro-smoking-discourse-85c robertogreco maxread smoking online internet 2023 web discourse twitter socialmedia darkweb influencers contrarianism lifestyle medicine health ideology cigarettes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:999ea46d2df4/ The Situationist International (full documentary) - YouTube 2025-01-14T17:16:31+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH0-q9OXco robertogreco 1989 documentary brankabogdanov situationist guydebord history film experience everyday reevaluation art artmarket 1957 1972 society baudelaire flaneurs flaneur flâneurs flâneur revolt agitation commodification commercialization cosiodiarroscia avantgarde letteristinternational asgerjorn giuseppepinot-gallizio cobraartists cobra thespectacle constantnieuwenhuys resistance alienation massmedia consumerism politics anarchism anarchy passivity activity doubt filmmaking comics graffiti streetart aesthetics renegades change changemaking derive drift drifting détournement detournement cartoons foundart collage bricolage seeing howwesee unitaryurbanism utoipa games play playing theory societyofthespectacle capitalism images imagery modernity production accumulation artmaking making modification modifications alteration criticism painting anticapitalism thought thinking howwethink urban urbanism robertoohrt architecture place life living time industrialization adaptability leisurearts artleisure jean-lucgoda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5703a546e1f/ We have too many cars - YouTube 2024-09-16T16:51:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec5UjDmO4Ak robertogreco cars puertorico transportation biancagraulau 2023 roads transit publictransit masstransit us levittown roabaja poverty costofliving commuting health publichealth lifestyle suburbs suburbia trains chile santiago subways railways rail urbanplanning urban urbanism convenience walking bikes biking buses seoul amsterdam traffic freedom mobility bancars https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6cfc6dfbe425/ Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident - Public Books 2023-06-13T20:29:05+00:00 https://www.publicbooks.org/neoliberal-keywords-creative-passionate-confident/ robertogrecoEverything Is Fine: A Toolkit for Surviving and Thriving in Grad School … Register for our Empowered Educator Online Conference … Leverage technology to increase students’ digital literacy and career readiness … The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you. There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant of these emails. Such exhortations have become ubiquitous on the corporatized university campus, where a diverse cast of players—administrators, student clubs, brand ambassadors, Christian ministries, military recruiters, corporate employers, fitness organizations, test prep companies—coalesce around a shared set of keywords. But when did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising? And how did having those qualities get to be so important? Three new books address those questions, each dismantling a core myth of neoliberal discourse. In The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin uncovers the contemporary premium placed on “creativity” as a product of postwar US anxiety. Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life, by Renyi Hong, critiques the contemporary idea of “passion” for one’s work as an affective tool for managing the disappointments, alienation, and injustices of labor under late capitalism. And in Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill contend that the contemporary discourse of self-empowerment directed at women—both a “culture” and a “cult”—represents a neoliberal strand of feminism that makes the individual responsible for improving her own circumstances rather than addressing systemic and institutional injustices. Together, these books provide historical context for some of neoliberalism’s most persistent idioms: grit, resilience, initiative, innovation, positive mindset, and self-improvement. The books also remind us of the stakes of language in all this. When we continue to rely on such keywords, we obscure the structural reality—and political urgency—of issues like worker precarity and widening economic inequality. Our linguistic repetition reinforces the unquestioned “truth” of the words themselves, and we thus naturalize political problems as personal ones."]]> language highered highereducation education 2023 creativity labor positivity neoliberalism precarity work grit resilience initiative innovation positivemindset mindset self-improvement ianarobitaille samuelfranklin renyihong shaniorgad rosalindgill anxiety capitalism copropratization universities colleges administration management keywords discourse rhetoric passion confidence culture disappointment alienation injustice latecapitalism rossalindgill self-empowerment women gender cults feminism individualism systems systemicinjustice institutions growth growthmindset structures reality politics urgency inequality linguistics truth ubiquity business psychology academia policy collusion industry ideology workplace us coldwar joypaulguilford calvintaylor economics lifestyle labororganizing eugenics aesthetics equity williamshockley davidogilvy belllabs entrepreneurialism progress class classdistinction technology autonomy fulfillment leisure workculture exploitation emotionalfulfillment cynicism uncertainty depri https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4db7ecbee9dd/ my problem with becoming "that" girl: is it a lifestyle or an aesthetic? - YouTube 2021-12-20T22:16:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE-b8yEmJQE robertogreco thatgirl influence influencers algorithms 2021 irisolympia motivation depression capitalism productivity life living faixhad influences tiktok instagram contentcreators lifestyle lies marketing propaganda youtube fakeness socialmedia internet online influenceculture scale trust reality fabrication authenticity self-care self-help aesthetics fitness behavior food health diet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4f87bf961fb/ influencers are lying to you // tiktok's 'that girl' trend is toxic - YouTube 2021-12-20T22:15:17+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qFLoKBQJg robertogreco influences tiktok instagram contentcreators algorithms depression 2021 lifestyle capitalism lies marketing propaganda youtube fakeness socialmedia internet online influenceculture scale trust reality fabrication thatgirl authenticity self-help self-care influence influencers motivation productivity life living fauxhad aesthetics fitness behavior food health diet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d70a4807f3b2/ Unboxing iPad Air4 + Apple Pencil / iPad Accessories / My Daily Life with iPad / Great Uses for iPad [SUB] 아이패드 에어4🍏+ 애플펜슬 언박싱 | 아이패드 악세사리 | 아이패드 활용법 | 아이패드일상 | iPad Air4 unboxing🎁( 2020-12-08T21:30:56+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxqy3zYSlgU robertogrecoipadair dalbitjuice video filmmaking 2020 unboxing lifestyle usereview howwework howwelive https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f205f757806/ Idzie Desmarais on Twitter: "There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what unschooling is, how it works, what people mean when they use the term... So I wanted to do a great big thread on the topic addressing some of the biggest misunderstandings 2020-04-16T22:09:00+00:00 https://twitter.com/Idzie/status/1250502877556232192 robertogreco I get really frustrated when people who don’t really understand the concept of unschooling yet write about it anyway make out as if it’s just an elaborate con job carried out by the parents. Misconception #4: You can unschool part time. The assumption behind this claim is generally that weekends & summer break can be for “unschooling,” after the REAL learning has taken place in school. But as I hope it’s becoming clear, unschooling is a *lifestyle*, it’s a whole different way of approaching living & learning with children. It’s not something you stuff into spare moments, without challenging dominant ideas about schooling. http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2018/10/why-cant-you-just-unschool-part-time.html Misconception #5: Unschooling is just a way for parents to isolate their children from the wider world, to keep them away from the “wrong” sorts of people & influences. I think it’s hard to convey to those outside of the community just how wide a schism there is between religious & secular homeschooling/homeschoolers. The ideology is NOT the same. The fundamentalist/evangelical homeschoolers often DO want to isolate their kids. Unschoolers, though, tend to fall heavily on the secular side of reasons-for-homeschooling (whatever their personal beliefs or religion is), & do not want their children isolated at all. I tend to make the distinction between those who want kids to have MORE access to the world than school provides, vs those who want kids to have LESS access. Generally more = good, less = bad in terms of the experience kids have http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2018/08/homeschooling-right-way-more-of-world.html Misconception #6: Unschooling means you stay at home all the time. I mean, right now most people are home all the time. But NORMALLY, & expanding on the above point, that is not at all the case. [https://twitter.com/Idzie/status/1248375017827491840 ] > Unschoolers usually, you know, go outside. They go to the library & to classes & spend time with friends & go to museums & volunteer & generally take advantage of the various opportunities available in their communities. Unschoolers usually see plenty of other people, have friends & activities & spend lots of time out & about. They are plenty “socialized” http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-ultimate-unschooling-socialization.html Misconception #7: Kids (& people in general) are inherently “lazy” & won’t learn unless forced to. I feel like there are two components to address here. The first is “laziness” as a concept, which… I do not think exists. My reasoning can be found here: http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2014/08/i-dont-believe-in-laziness.html Also the fantastic article “Laziness Does Not Exist (but unseen barriers do)” by Devon Price is a must read on the topic https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01 But the second part of the misconception is that kids (being “lazy”), must be FORCED to learn, with the inherent assumption that learning must be hard, & that no one would willingly do it. When really, SCHOOLING is the unpleasant thing that many children resist, find stressful or boring or de-motivating. That’s the part that kids don’t like. Schooling & learning are not synonyms, & learning does not have to be that way. Unschoolers know that living is learning, & that children just need supportive & resource filled environments in which to thrive. As long as their needs are met, they will learn enthusiastically, joyfully, fiercely. Misconception #8: Children will never do hard things on their own. Obviously similar to misconception #7, but I thought this one still deserved it’s own attention. Because obviously… Learning CAN be hard! Learning new things is often hard: sometimes it’s joyful work, but sometimes also frustrating. The thing is though, that people–children included–will do hard things if they feel there’s a good reason to do so. Certain things need to be in place to make hard things more manageable, which I go into way more depth on here: http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2014/05/unschooling-doesnt-mean-theres-no-hard.html But ultimately, it doesn’t require force. It just requires support. Misconception #9: That kids will “rule” the household if adults aren’t busy controlling their every move. This one… Well, it seems to be coming from people who have a wildly different, very negative view of human nature in general & children in particular as compared to USers. If you see the world through a starkly hierarchical & authoritarian lens, if you think people need to be ruled, & that homes should be run like miniature dictatorships, unschooling might seem like it could never work (respect & trust children?? Surely not!). The fact is DOES work, that there are lots of parents trying to undo their own authoritarian conditioning & create non-hierarchical models based on consent in their homes instead, which children then thrive in, shows that those doubters do not understand human nature so well. Unschoolers of all backgrounds (those whose parents made the decision & those who left school themselves as teens) show that not only do parent-child relationships not have to be based on control, but teacher-student hierarchies can also be disrupted: http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2014/07/breaking-down-hierarchies-in-learning.html People of all ages really are capable of cooperating, collaborating, & learning together in ways that aren’t based on coercion & control. Misconception #10: Unschooling means no teacher, textbooks, classes, or structure. Here is where it’s important to emphasize the SELF-DIRECTED aspect of unschooling. The idea isn’t to do away with any & all school-like trappings, it’s to respect that the learner gets to call the shots in their own education. Which means unschoolers are absolutely free to utilize a variety of resources, including classes & teachers, which many do. At various points I was in classes ranging from French, to history, to principles of aviation, to doll making. Structure is in no way incompatible with unschooling, as long as that structure is freely chosen by the learner. http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2015/10/no-classes-no-teachers-no-books-reality.html (Also probably a good time to point out that unschoolers can also choose to go to school! It’s not at all uncommon to move in & out of the school system over the years, sometimes trying out school briefly, sometimes going & staying. The important point is *self-direction*/CHOICE) Misconception #11: Unschooling will only work for “motivated” children. Honestly, I hate this one SO much. I hate the hierarchy, the division it creates between the supposedly “smarter” or “more motivated” & the supposedly… Less. As if there are some children who deserve more respect, trust, & freedom, & some who don’t. Which seems like such a profoundly broken way of looking at other people. ALL children, if given the needed support–a safe environment, caring adults, access to a variety of resources–are capable of self-directed learning. There isn’t some special type of kid who deserves to learn more freely than others. *Access* is a whole different thing: because we live in a capitalist hellscape most people don’t have the financial means to unschool. Because our society does not value children, they are segregated from the rest of society instead of being a crucial, integral part of culture. But all children CAN & SHOULD be trusted & respected, & in any revolutionary vision of a different society the rights of children should be considered of utmost importance. I also think there are a lot of models (agile learning centers, homeschool co-ops, free schools, etc.) that provide inspiration for what COULD be, if they were fully publicly funded & accessible to all children who don’t have the option of unschooling… Misconception #12: Unschooling is elitist & incompatible with “social justice”. I feel like I started to address the issue of privilege in my previous point, & now I want to shift focus a bit & point out that *schooling* is incompatible w/social justice [https://twitter.com/Idzie/status/1237176567136223232 ] > Almost every concern people bring up in regards to unschooling seems to me to rest on a politics of reform, whereas to me, self-directed education is a revolutionary practice. I don’t personally see unschooling as any type of solution in a vacuum: I think the necessary changes to create a truly just society (societies?) are revolutionary. I don’t think any tweaks to any bits of problem areas are going to be enough. However, I absolutely agree that unschoolers (along with everyone else) need to understand how power, privilege, & oppression function in order to start chipping away at their own oppressive views & actions, & take steps towards greater justice. I just feel very strongly that treating children badly, in controlling & disrespectful ways, is, you know, BAD. Ageism is an oppression that needs to be addressed, & I think unschooling can be a way to combat that. I also think it’s completely counterproductive to try & teach children to be anti-authoritarian & anti-oppression by… treating them in authoritarian & oppressive ways. I talked a lot more about my understanding of the ways unschooling & “social justice” relate here: http://yes-i-can-write.blogspot.com/2019/08/yes-there-are-things-every-kid-should.html Okay, wrapping this up! Hope it’s been helpful, & if anyone has any specific resources addressing any of the common criticisms I brought up, please tell me about them."]]> unschooling idziedesmarais 2020 howwelearn learning deschooling education socialization lifestyle laziness howweteach schooling schooliness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fd9dfb63606/ The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism | Life and style | The Guardian 2020-01-03T16:51:53+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/03/empty-promises-marie-kondo-craze-for-minimalism robertogreco kyleshayka minimalism 2020 life living materialism consumerism maximalism climatechange environment infrastructure apple mariekondo stevejobs cleanliness clutter happiness konmarimethod austerity freedom distraction attention economics joshuabecker courneycarver 2008 2011 capitalism therapy simplicity society civilization excess comodification possessions stuff haording joshuafieldsmillburn ryannicodemus 2010 2017 ownership mobility lifestyle marketing perfection disposability design jonyive form function formfollowsfunction efficiency daisyhildyard shopping instagram aesthetics asceticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a7a85dd13f3/ Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto 2019-06-21T20:50:46+00:00 https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/09/civilisation-planet-authors robertogreco darkmountain anthropocene futurism climate climatechange globalwarming dougaldhine 2009 via:ayjay environment paulkingsnorth manifestos capitalism latecapitalism disaster civilization uncivilization art arts lifestyle catastrophe johngray darkmountainproject latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:88aecd8ee2c5/ Free-range education: Why the unschooling movement is growing - CSMonitor.com 2016-02-15T22:31:45+00:00 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2016/0214/Free-range-education-Why-the-unschooling-movement-is-growing robertogreco unschooling deschooling parenting children childhood education johnholt demographics resistance race lifestyle cv freedom society democracy community 2016 stephaniehanes patfarenga michaelapple dustinwoodard jeremystuart cherylfields-smith https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e998dda953f/ Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Channel — Walker Art Center 2015-03-28T08:56:16+00:00 http://www.walkerart.org/channel/2015/insights-k-hole-new-york robertogreco k-hole consumption online internet communication burnout normcore legibility illegibility simplicity technology mobile phones smartphones trends fashion art design branding brands socialmedia groupchat texting oversharing absence checkingout aesthetics lifestyle airplanemode privilege specialness generations marketing trendspotting coping messaging control socialcapital gregfong denayago personalbranding visibility invisibility identity punk prolasticity patagonia patience anxietymatrix chaos order anxiety normality abnormality youth millennials individuality box1824 hansulrichobrist alternative indie culture opposition massindie williamsburg simoncastets digitalnatives capitalism mainstream semiotics subcultures isolation 2015 walkerartcenter maxingout establishment difference 89plus basicness evasion blandness actingbasic empathy indifference eccentricity blankness tolerance rebellion signalling status coolness aspiration connections relationships presentationofself understanding territorialism sociology ne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83ee6e1363f6/ Africa tops the best food in the world league – By Richard Dowden | African Arguments 2015-03-15T18:41:56+00:00 http://africanarguments.org/2015/02/24/africa-tops-the-best-food-in-the-world-league-by-richard-dowden/ robertogreco richarddowden food africa nutrition uganda somalia chad ivorycoast senegal gambia mali sierraleone diet misconceptions health lifestyle well-being drought war wellbeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c79488e0b591/ Preschool lessons: New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. 2013-12-02T22:42:01+00:00 http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/03/why_preschool_shouldnt_be_like_school.single.html robertogreco psychology play parenting lifestyle toys 2011 via:lukeneff learning directinstruction motivation discovery boredom alisongopnik pedagogy howweteach wcydwt constructivism lauraschulz daphnabuchsbaum tomgriffiths patrickshafto teaching noahgoodman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d5e32eaccd5/ Against Chairs | Jacobin 2012-08-31T07:06:01+00:00 http://jacobinmag.com/2012/04/against-chairs/ robertogreco lifestyle industrialdesign colinmcswiggen ergonomics health history class 2012 design furniture chairs https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:024ef01b6b0c/ The benefits of the implied or - Bobulate 2012-07-31T02:00:50+00:00 http://bobulate.com/post/2796466787/the-benefits-of-the-implied-or robertogreco“Education is not a “this OR that” concept; rather it is a “this AND that” concept. “Or” is clean. “And” is messy. “Or” is obvious “And” is nuance. “Or” is destructive. “And” is human. Do you interact with your students the same way you tweet? Do you eat mashed potatoes AND gravy? Which word describes your pedagogy in the classroom and tweets on Twitter?” Are you a morning person? A coffee person? A public transport person? A gym person? A phone person? In each of the provocations, the silent truncation is an “or are you an X person” that the questioner may truly be curious about. Are you a morning person… or do you sleep, slovenly so, into the morning hours? Are you a coffee person… or do you deprive yourself something you know you want to have? Are you a gym person or… I’ve always been drawn to extremes, at being one or the other, so much so that I’ve never been good at being tempered much. I’ve been expert at the messy “and.” And it’s been to my own surprise that this complex, non-neat divide where most is revealed.
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations,” Paul Rand once said.
To my own surprise, I’ve recently been finding I’m “and” in most categories. I’m an early-morning and a late-night person. I’m a phone and an IM person. I walk and take public transport. Being messy has its merits."]]> lizdanzico stephendavis allsorts 2011 diversity simplicity complexity provocations extremes thisandthat lifestyle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81822ab5a25b/ Body Code - by Anselm Hook 2012-07-19T03:24:11+00:00 http://slowcode.makerlab.org/index.php/Main_Page/ robertogreco capoeira taekwondo taichi yoga lifestyle theform health bodycode well-being programming wholeperson anselmhook coding slowcode slow wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:917e06bada63/ The Setup / Blaise Aguera y Arcas 2012-07-19T01:28:09+00:00 http://blaise.aguera.y.arcas.usesthis.com/ robertogreco work lifestyle thesetup blaiseagüerayarcas 2010 usesthis https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c6634243037a/ The 'Busy' Trap - NYTimes.com 2012-07-01T17:36:28+00:00 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/the-busy-trap/ robertogreco health howwelive howwework time pace living life psychology well-being happiness cv glvo lifestyle 2012 timkreider society deschooling unschooling slow busyness idle idleness richardscarry wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a112cc0b3d0/ The Outsourced Life - NYTimes.com 2012-05-13T01:01:35+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/the-outsourced-life.html?pagewanted=all robertogreco life attachment conversation process mindfulness meaningmaking meaning leisurearts diy money class outsourcing psychology sociology markets arlierussellhochschild 2012 relationships patience impatience desire capitalism time slow lifestyle emotion artleisure https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:441324d757e3/ Kinfolk Magazine - Kinfolk 2012-04-10T09:52:01+00:00 http://www.kinfolkmag.com/ robertogreco kinfolk lcproject glvo dinnerparties supperclubs leisurearts relationships community lifestyle magazine food design culture photography entertaining artleisure https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:74ac93b26a7c/ en.Slow Media 2012-02-25T10:55:28+00:00 http://en.slow-media.net/ robertogreco culture philosophy society 2010 attention patience lifestyle simplicity manifesto manifestos jörgblumtritt sabriadavid benediktköhler via:litherland timelessness recommendations credibility respect socialmedia discourse dialogics prosumers longreads quality monotasking singletasking sustainability slowmedia slow https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:703ca0843ed3/ Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com 2012-02-20T06:54:10+00:00 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577157290201608630.html?mod=WSJ_Magazine_LEFTSecondStories robertogreco daikisuzuki engineeredgarments hyperspecialization hospitality hotels apprenticeships tiny small quintessence shuzokishida restaurants kansai tokyo hitoshitsujimoto realmccoy's nylon magazines jeans craft coffee denim detail perfection food fashion lifestyle economics luxury japan scale https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8bccc79bfac7/ On Going Feral 2011-08-20T07:52:32+00:00 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/19/on-going-feral/ robertogreco mobile cloudworkers cloudworking venkateshrao 2009 feral mutts cv society socialization deschooling unschooling illegiblepeople illegibles domestication lordoftheflies anarchism anarchy conformity lifestyle work thirdplaces introverts neo-nomads nomadism nomads telecommuting labor thirdspaces https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fa79d81306d6/ The Blogfather 2011-08-06T11:13:55+00:00 http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17721-the_blogfather.html robertogreco sustainability blogs blogging matthaughey portland oregon business glvo lifestyle lifestylebusiness 2011 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ec3ffdc1b20b/ On Being an Illegible Person 2011-08-01T07:58:09+00:00 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-person/ robertogreco neo-nomads nomads nomadism venkateshrao travel rootedness illegiblepeople identity movement lifestyle 2011 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:999c0da7e148/ radio free school: Joy and Jealousy 2011-06-27T03:50:06+00:00 http://radiofreeschool.blogspot.com/2011/06/joy-and-jealousy.html robertogreco unschooling education materialism consumerism consumerculture deschooling jealousy cv glvo srg edg workethic 2011 learning lifestyle lifechoices misunderstanding https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c2fc7531969/ Alex Payne — Settling Down Without Settling 2011-01-17T00:20:42+00:00 http://al3x.net/2010/10/07/house.html robertogreco homebuying tips money portland housing finance transience simplicity illusion houses alexpayne 2010 permanence neo-nomads nomads lifestyle silence quiet https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:edbb526cb892/ Up In The Air | > jim rossignol 2011-01-01T23:48:24+00:00 http://rossignol.cream.org/?p=1091 robertogreco life lifestyle families nomads neo-nomads relationships jimrossignol 2010 georgeclooney jasonreitman travel detachment https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93c63508e71e/ Mongolian Diptychs Tell of Profound Change: A Yin and Sim Chi Yin Talk About His Work - NYTimes.com 2010-12-24T10:21:30+00:00 http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/mongolian-diptychs-tell-of-profound-change/ robertogreco photography mongolia culture asia china urban rural tradition clothing fashion urbanism society transformation migration nomads nomadism identity innermongolia lifestyle https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:859fe323f731/ Broodwork is a multi-year, multi-faceted project implementing work that furthers the fundamental discussion of the relationship between creative practice & family life. 2010-11-07T23:03:06+00:00 http://www.broodwork.com/ robertogreco broodwork parenting art glvo cv collaboration yearoff creativity families family lifestyle life unschooling deschooling trends ethics environment sustainability methodology work livework https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e13f6a81e3b1/ BBC News - Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive 2010-08-22T05:11:50+00:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10928032 robertogreco minimalism simplicity consumerism 2010 ownership future digital lifestyle lifehacks less psychology society technology culture trends nomads neo-nomads travel homes homelessness possessions materialism via:lukeneff https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:38e2a931b5ff/ "Mad Men": Stillbirth of the American dream - Heather Havrilesky - Salon.com 2010-08-01T19:42:26+00:00 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/heather_havrilesky/2010/07/19/mad_men_season_four_preview robertogreco via:lukeneff madmen americandream satisfaction well-being us empathy socialmedia sociology mythology psychology culture society economics desire capitalism tv lifestyle reality glvo tcsnmy success consumerism work fulfillment travel parenting happiness materialism shrequest1 wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:842a9591d501/ The Viridian Design Movement 2010-07-25T17:16:26+00:00 http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.html robertogreco future futurism brucesterling consumerism culture design environment simplicity sustainability happiness life lifestyle technology green advice 2008 slow stuff qualityoverquantity philosophy things viridian viridiannote viridianmovement https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:148d8371d160/ Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens - Well Blog - NYTimes.com 2010-07-22T04:14:43+00:00 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who-stare-at-screens/ robertogreco via:preoccupations sitting exercise fitness health biology science men lifestyle https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4dd177500e1b/ How to Drop Out 2010-07-06T02:15:40+00:00 http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html robertogreco ranprieur diy anarchism lifestyle simplicity society survival lifehacks culture freedom frugality howto philosophy productivity unschooling deschooling control power https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70c7b2f27979/ Slow Media » The Slow Media Manifesto 2010-06-30T08:11:12+00:00 http://en.slow-media.net/manifesto robertogreco slow psychology networkculture media manifesto sustainability mediatheory slowmedia journalism internet cyberculture culture criticaltheory community lifestyle alternative online social manifestos https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d46f3a05ecd3/ Commuting : The Frontal Cortex 2010-04-03T06:58:31+00:00 http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/commuting.php robertogreco commuting happiness davidbrooks housing urbanplanning suburbia marriage neuroscience jonahlehrer behavior cars driving psychology estimation planning urban urbanism transportation traffic suburbs lifestyle living satisfaction https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8dbd3dbcd278/ The Idler 2010-02-14T21:45:32+00:00 http://idler.co.uk/ robertogreco culture politics procrastination humor life activism philosophy simplicity slow idleness idle magazines lifehacks lifestyle community alternative https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdb7b0d16443/ Unhappy Hipsters 2010-02-07T18:39:49+00:00 http://unhappyhipsters.com/ robertogreco hipsters humor minimalism modern lifestyle modernism architecture photography culture design dwell tumblr blogs photos fashion fun satire https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c7c915f3a55/ Tale of Tales» A bad year for dreams 2009-12-29T00:43:57+00:00 http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/2009/12/27/the-tragic-failure-of-the-games-industry/ robertogreco games gaming videogames art sony microsoft nintendo play lifestyle 2009 genre https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:34dee8ba35d6/ Step one is admitting you have a problem - 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