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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Sounds Of Invisible Worlds - NOEMA2024-03-08T20:06:36+00:00
https://www.noemamag.com/the-sounds-of-invisible-worlds/
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https://www.npr.org/series/432299810/listening-series
robertogrecomultispecies morethanhuman sound listening 2015 science communication animals wildlife nature whales elephants insects squirrels birds brainhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:38757b88b9e4/John Prine Taught Us New Ways to Listen | The Nation2024-01-30T21:07:17+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/john-prine-obit/
robertogreco…the peace of the world for generations, maybe centuries to come, will depend not just on America’s military might, which is the greatest in the world, or our wealth, which is the greatest in the world, but it is going to depend on our character, our belief in ourselves, our love of our country, our willingness to not only wear the flag but to stand up for the flag. And country music does that.
Prine proved Nixon wrong. On songs like “Flag Decal” and “Sam Stone,” the story of a heroin-addicted veteran, he spoke with the voice of the silenced, refusing to be spoken for. He would continue to do so, without breaking from the tradition Nixon tried to claim. While some of the highest-profile folkies of the previous generation, like Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon, were moving in an upscale direction, with jazz harmonies and LA session musicians, Prine played it closer to the vest. The early ’70s albums Sweet Revenge and Common Sense sound more akin to the outlaw country coming out of Texas in those years than to the archetype of the confessional folk singer.
Prine was even the co-writer, with Steve Goodman, of “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” the self-described “perfect country and western song” that became a hit for David Allan Coe in 1975. After a couple of verses of heartbroken pining, a spoken interlude notes that the song has lacked any references to “mama or trains or trucks or prison or gettin’ drunk.” The final verse ties them all together. Prine declined to put his name on the song, for fear of causing offense to his fellow country fans. But it’s the kind of joke you can only tell about something you love.
Prine closed out the 1970s and kicked off the ’80s with Pink Cadillac and Storm Windows, the former recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis and the latter at Muscle Shoals in Sheffield, Alabama, both sites where canonical American music was born decades ago. They were attempts at putting his songwriting in a commercial context, inching closer toward contemporary country and fashionably retro rock ’n’ roll; both had covers emblazoned with glamour shots of Prine, with a neatly trimmed mustache, hair slicked back, in an open blazer. But even in the shiniest packaging, he was a little too eccentric for stardom. He never recorded for a major label again.
By the mid-’80s, Prine had made the same move being taken at the time by alternative rock, founding an independent label, Oh Boy Records. It took him a moment to reconnect to his audience, but he did with 1991’s The Missing Years, produced by Howie Epstein of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Featuring contributions from Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Epstein’s boss, it won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album. Ironically, it was one of his less folky recordings, placing him nearer to the heartland rock that had become commercially viable by the early 1990s and the burgeoning Americana style that would come to be called alt-country. In 1999, In Spite of Ourselves, a collection of duets with female vocalists, took Prine back to the country songs he grew up listening to on the Grand Ole Opry. He followed it up with a sequel, For Better, or Worse, and a 2007 duet album with bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman with a title that could serve as a manifesto: Standard Songs for Average People.
For a songwriter with such an impressive body of work, Prine shone doing renditions of other writers’ songs. Among the last he recorded is an odd one, a version of Stevie Wonder’s 1984 hit “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” a digital single released after Prine’s final album, 2018’s The Tree of Forgiveness. Even for Wonder’s biggest fans—and I happen to count myself among them—the song can come across as corny, with its syrupy synthesizers and blunt declarations of love. You’re more likely to hear it at the drugstore than to put it on at home. But hearing it in Prine’s voice, you discover what you may have overlooked. What seemed overly earnest and straightforward reveals itself to be wry and self-effacing at the same time. It’s a testament not only to the brilliance of a deceptively simple song but also to Prine’s powers of observation, his ability to find depths in the ordinary and everyday that the rest of us tend to miss. Like many of his own best songs, it takes the form of delivering a message. No special occasion, nothing much to say. Just wanted to talk. It was always good to hear from him."]]>2020 johnprine shujahaider music listening everyday mailmen usps folkmusic richardnixon flags stevegoodman jonimitchell davidallancoe 1970s rogerebert poetry kriskristofferson loneliness veterans vietnamwar paulsimon 1980s brucespringsteen bonnieraitt howieepstein tompetty steviewonder studsterkel countrymusic 1960s bobdylanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c07baef7ee0a/How to Keep Time - The Atlantic [bookmarking for Season 5, "How to Keep Time" - this podcast covered other topics before that.]2024-01-23T05:11:04+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/
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https://museum.care/events/pedagogies-of-care-2/
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https://blog.ayjay.org/add-revisited/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19q4pWKPlj0
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https://www.are.na/block/2396514
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCYH95t768
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https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/
robertogrecoNot everyone we work with on a particular issue has to have deep ideological alignment with us. A skilled organizer should be able to work with people who aren’t of their own choosing, including people they don’t like. It’s really as simple as being attacked by fascist police in the streets. Once the attack begins, there are two sides: armed police inflicting violence and everyone else. We need to be able to see each other in those terms, reeling in the face of unthinkable violence, scrambling to stay alive and uncaged, and doing the work to protect one another.
This will not come easily, because white supremacy and classism have forced many wedges between our communities. Great harms have been committed and very difficult conversations are needed, but refusing to do that work, in this historical moment, is an abdication of responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world is at stake, and we cannot afford to minimize what that demands of us.
This is not to say that we should seek no respite from the messiness and occasional discomfort of large-scale movement work. We all need spaces where we can operate within our comfort zone. Whether these take the shape of a collective, an affinity group, a processing space, a caucus, or a group of friends, we need people with whom we can feel fully seen and heard and with whose values we feel deeply aligned. In such a violent and oppressive world, we are all entitled to some amount of sanctuary. Many organizers have tight-knit political homes, sometimes grounded in shared identity, in addition to participating in broader organizing efforts.
But broader movements are struggles, not sanctuaries. They are full of contradiction and challenges we may feel unprepared for.
Effective organizers operate beyond the bounds of their comfort zones, moving into what we might call their “stretch zone,” when necessary. No one has to be able to work with everyone, but how far beyond the bounds of easy agreement can you reach? How much empathy can you extend to people who do not fully understand your identity or experience or who have not had the same access to liberatory ideas? How much discomfort can you navigate for what you believe is truly at stake?
These are not questions anyone can answer for you, as we must all make autonomous choices about who we connect and build with, but if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits. To expand the practice of our politics in the world, we have to be able to organize outside of our comfort zones. People whose words and ideas don’t yet align with our own often need room to grow, and some people grow by building relationships and doing work—often in fumbling and imperfect ways.
Political transformation is not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead.” Instead, we will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And we must also remember that no matter how far we have come, we are still on our own messy journeys, and our own transformations will continue as we grow.
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To do this kind of work, a person has to hone multiple skills, including the ability to listen.
When people delve into activism, they often grapple with questions like, “Am I willing to get arrested?” when often the more pressing question for a new activist is, “Am I willing to listen, even when it’s hard?”
For organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it was her time in Alcoholics Anonymous that helped her transform her practice of listening. “The main thing that I learned,” Gilmore told us, “especially in the first couple years that I was going to meetings, was the beauty of the rule against crosstalk. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, that I couldn’t say shit to anybody. I had to listen, and I had to learn to listen.” The urge to interject or object ran deep for Gilmore. “I’ve always been a nerd, yet I’ve always been a know-it-all,” she told us, “so there’s this tension between my nerdiness that wants to know everything and my know-it-all-ness that wants everybody to know that I know it all already.”
At first, listening did not come easily—or feel particularly productive—to Gilmore. “I would sit in these meetings, and I listened to people talk, and listened to them, and listened to them, and at first I was like, ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get this.’ And so for me in the early days, it was just a performance of words. I mean, my main thing was, ‘I won’t drink when I leave this meeting. I won’t drink, and I won’t use.’”
But over time, Gilmore began to appreciate the role of listening in the group’s collective struggle to avoid drugs and alcohol—even when she did not appreciate what was being said. “I would be getting more and more wound up, because there’d be the sexist guy going on about women and his wife, and then there’d be somebody else talking nonsense about whatever, [but I was] learning to just sit there, and listen, and keep my eye on the prize, which was not just that I wasn’t going to drink but that the only way I could not drink was if all of us didn’t drink.”
Being committed to the sobriety of every person in the room, which meant listening to their story and being invested in their well-being, helped Gilmore develop a deeper practice of patience. “That was kind of this transformation for me that carried into the organizing that I already used to do before I got sober,” she told us.
It is our ability to constructively engage with other people that will ultimately power our efforts. We have to nurture that ability and respect its importance in all of the ways that our society does not. And that skill of constructive engagement starts with listening.
Like so many other aspects of organizing, listening is a practice, and at times, it’s a strategic one.
We might need to hear something true that makes us uncomfortable. Listening deeply makes space for that to happen. But even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Why do they feel the way they do? What sources informed or convinced them? What influences them? What strengthens their resolve? What makes them hesitant to get more involved or to engage more boldly? If you are in an organizing space together, how has that issue brought them into a shared space with you despite your differences? What points of agreement might you build upon? What is surprising about them? A good organizer wants to understand these things about the people around them, and you cannot truly understand these things about a person without listening.
Even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them.
Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deployment of tropes or stereotypes. We must understand people as having their own unique experiences, traumas, struggles, ideas, and motivations that will inform how they show up to organizing spaces.
Some task-focused activists brush off activities that involve “talking about our feelings.” This is a common sentiment among bad listeners. The fundamental skill of patiently absorbing another person’s words in a respectful and thoughtful manner is desperately lacking in our society. For this reason, it is folly to expect this skill to manifest itself fully formed when it is most needed, such as in a heated meeting, if we are not building a greater culture of listening in our work.
A group culture that helps participants build their listening skills is an important component of successful organizing. Political education can create opportunities for people to practice listening to one another, without interruption, and interacting meaningfully with what others have contributed. For example, during the Great Depression, communist union organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, developed a practice of devoting thirty minutes of each meeting to political education. For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work.
In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements.
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As we work to build more sustainable movements, we must think hard about our strategies for responding when organizers make mistakes. Social media can often foster a “zero-tolerance” attitude about political ignorance or missteps. Platforms like Twitter have helped facilitate tremendous accomplishments in movement work, but they have also created an arena for political performance and critique that is often divorced from relationship building or strategic aims. For many people, social media is not an organizing tool but a realm of political performance and spectatorship. A trend has emerged in which some organizers will demand performances of solidarity and awareness on social media but then critique or even tear apart those performances when they fall short or are deemed insincere. As with reality television, favorites emerge, and people are sometimes voted off the island.
When the performance of solidarity via the replication of the right words or slogans becomes our central focus, it’s not surprising that responses might read as empty or even insincere. Sloganizing is not organizing, and paying righteous lip service to a cause, in the preferred language of the moment, does not empty any cages or transform anyone’s material conditions. Rather than fixating on the grammar of people’s politics, we organizers must ask ourselves what we want people to do.
When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation?
While it is important to trouble terminology and to engage with its evolution, the mastery of language does not spur systemic change or alter anyone’s material conditions. The concept of “allyship,” for example, is often grounded in presentation rather than substantive action. Similarly, people who believe they are “good people” often view goodness as a fixed identity, evidenced by their expressed feelings about injustice rather than a set of practices or actions. Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people. Mainstream liberals often fall prey to this line of thinking because liberal politics play very heavily into political identity as being determinant of whether a person is good or bad (Democrats are good, Republicans bad). But the left can fall into its own version of this trap by treating politics as a test of how well we can perform language or recite ideas.
Our movements are not driven by getting the words just right. They are driven by the goal of enacting change through collective struggle as we endeavor to both understand ideas and turn them into action. Fumbling is inevitable, but as Gilmore tells us, “practice makes different.”
Dixon emphasizes that people will show up imperfectly and that organizers have to anticipate that mistakes and harm will happen. “I worry we’re creating a culture now where people are so afraid to make mistakes,” she told us. “They’re afraid to not have the analysis before they open their mouth. The bonds that I’m really trying to build within organizing are the bonds where we can divulge the things that we are nervous about, or ashamed of, or the things we need to learn, all of those areas, because that’s when I know we’re building the kind of intimacy that takes care of each other around heightened threats.”
Dixon points out that when trust is lost, organizing not only becomes more difficult, but it also becomes more vulnerable to surveillance and infiltration: “A huge piece of COINTELPRO was around seeding distrust.” Therefore, she says, a key part of organizing is building bonds of trust, and that can only happen within a context where people are allowed to be vulnerable and make mistakes.
Learning and growing in front of other people can be embarrassing, and even intimidating, particularly for people who have been put down or made to feel diminished in the past. Even seasoned organizers like Dixon often worry about derailing their work with a verbal misstep. “I have a small crew of other organizers where I think our text thread is mostly questions we are afraid to ask publicly,” she acknowledged. “It’s our own little political education circle, where we ask, ‘What does this mean?’ Or, ‘Is this fucked up?’ Or, ‘What is the right way to say this? Because I don’t think this is right.’” Dixon says that she believes “everyone needs that text thread,” but she also hopes that more of our movement spaces can operate in the same spirit and offer opportunities for people to “feel safe in their process of transforming.”
Creating trust-based movement spaces also puts us in a better place to confront harm and conflict, Dixon says.
“The biggest part of the work is how we maintain relationships while navigating harm,” she told us. “Because that’s the thing, that will break your group. That’ll break any project.” Dixon stresses the importance of conflict resolution and accountability mechanisms within groups—that is, group- or community-based methods of confronting harm, such as peace circles and transformative justice. But she also reminds us that in order for accountability mechanisms to serve their purpose, people need room and opportunities to grow. “People need to build skills and mechanisms to navigate conflict. Sometimes we’re not apologizing. Sometimes we’re not accountable. Sometimes we have done harmful things. Sometimes we’re doing things we were never told go against the norms [of the group] and then are being held accountable.”
In an organizing space, accountability should not be about policing or punishment, but our punitive impulses can sometimes twist accountability mechanisms into those shapes. It’s easy to forget how imperfectly we ourselves have shown up in movement spaces and throughout our lives. Sometimes our aggravation with others is rooted in pain or trauma we have experienced; sometimes it is rooted in our uneasiness about things we may have said or done that were equally upsetting because we did not always know what we know now. And regardless of how much we believe we have learned, as the saying goes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Many of us would not be in this work today if someone along the way had not been patient with us.
Even if we never develop a sense of mutual respect and understanding, or even come to like the people we’re working with, we can still build power with them. In many cases, we must. After all, the whole world is at stake. We must ask ourselves, how much discomfort is the whole world worth?"]]>solidarity 2023 activism organizing kellyhayes mariamekaba listening language patience politics affinity difference behavior whitesupremacy generations age race racism diversity discomfort offense growth scale socialmedia tolerance purity puritytests education learning understanding transformation online internet trust conflict transformativejustice justice socialjustice accountability cointelpro surveillance infiltration distrust fear silence allyship action goodness liberalism identity democrats republicans left leftism performance dissent liberation jargon policing division divisiveness sloganizing spectatorship twitter politcalperformance performativepolitics relationships groups communism history society practice praxis ruthwilsongilmore crosstalk discourse conversation alcoholicsanonymous struggle strategy canon groupculture culture movements change changemaking ejerisdixon class classism lcdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c13f1560a59c/The Bear's Best Ingredient Is Tenderness - YouTube2023-08-01T23:29:09+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1EaaCeAYFI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQiM4xKIoiY
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https://loremipsum.ueno.co/room-250-6e06cedf2e42
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZoL1ilperw
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https://vimeo.com/772226780
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https://futuress.org/magazine/institutional-frictions/
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https://www.accutronwatch.com/blogs/podcast/jazzin-it-up-with-verve-records-james-krents
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/understanding-mcluhan-a-conversation
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https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-alexis-pauline-gumbs/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZzkYaZ4iBE
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https://www.frieze.com/event/fred-moten-harmony-holiday-episode-1-quietness
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-alexis-pauline-gumbs
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https://kk.org/cooltools/amber-case-2021-mozilla-fellow/
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https://counterflows.com/commission/for-ruth/
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https://medium.com/slowdown-papers
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jeXs3ZqoLg
robertogreco“The composite body which up to fifty years ago could be called ‘culture’-- that is, people expressing in fragmented ways what they feel – is now a lie, and can only be called a ‘spectacle,’ the backdrop of which is tied to, and serves as, a link between all alienated individual activities. If all the people here now were to join together and, freely and authentically, wanted to communicate, it’d be on a different basis, with a different perspective. Of course this can’t be expected of students who by definition will one day become the managers of our system, with their justifications, and who are also the public who with a guilty conscience will pick up the remains of the avant-garde and the decaying ‘spectacle.’”
The 71-year-old Lacan never loses his composure. (His cigar appears bent out of shape, but it was that way from the beginning.) The audience, too, retains a certain Gallic nonchalance. Dangerous Minds sums it up in the headline “The Single Most ‘French’ Moment in all of 1972: Jacques Lacan Accosted, But No One Stops Smoking.” The scene is from Jacques Lacan Speaks, a one-hour documentary by Belgian filmmaker Françoise Wolff. You can watch the complete film, which includes Lacan’s extended and rather cryptic response to the incident and other excerpts from the lecture, followed by Wolff’s interview with Lacan the following day, in our post: “Charismatic Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan Gives Public Lecture (1972).””
[See also:
“When Debord’s Spectacle Pops up into Lacan’s Spectacle :)”
https://bilgeserin.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/when-debord-pops-up-into-lacans-spectacle/
““I was just expressing myself, like this gentlemen. Understand?”
An excert from Lacan Parle (1972), speech of Lacan @ Catholic University of Louvain, which is interrupted by a situationist protest, or Debord’s Spectacle popped up into Lacan’s spectacle 🙂
“Typically controversial speech by psychoanalyst/philosopher Lacan is disrupted by a student, ridiculing such public intellectuals. Lacan refuses to allow security to haul off the student, lets him speak and incorporates such criticisms into his presentation.”
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[via: https://twitter.com/RuffneckRefugee/status/1307302331206324230 ]
[posted: https://twitter.com/rogre/status/1307510786089078789
“Corollary:
We should let young people be honest with us.
We should let young people be honest with us.
We should let young people be honest with us.
We should let young people be honest with us.
We should let young people be honest with us.
https://twitter.com/RuffneckRefugee/status/1307302331206324230”
after: https://twitter.com/rogre/status/1307044139268214788
“We should be honest with young people.
We should be honest with young people.
We should be honest with young people.
We should be honest with young people.
We should be honest with young people.
We should be honest with young people.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1306943206412574720
On Thursday, Trump railed against “left-wing indoctrination” in U.S. schools, calling the work of historians like Howard Zinn “propaganda tracts.”
“We should be honest with young people,” Zinn told @democracynow in 2009. “We should be honest about the history of our country.”
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-314-anja-kanngieser
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https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277838307544662018
robertogrecoIs this just a coincidence, that the Black-led abolitionist occupation is about sharing space next to each other while the oft white-dominated Occupy was about having enclosed, personal territories?
“The dream school isn’t a school.” ❤️
One of my lenses is K-12 lens, and this list is important to me. It’s also important that bell hooks comes first, as she references Freire specifically critiquing his attitude to gender especially, challenging him
https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277891278353678336
The dream school isn’t a school.
An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning.
we keep us safe / we teach each other
Considering “the dream school isn’t a school,” an abolitionist and transformative future, and voices that build upon the past while addressing our time, here are two pointers (among so many great options) for additional reading.
1. Akilah S. Richards’s Fare of the Free Child podcast and forthcoming book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1145
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2. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s essay “Being with the Land, Protects the Land” and book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
https://abolitionjournal.org/being-with-the-land-protects-the-land-leanne-betasamosake-simpson/?fbclid=IwAR2M8qr9CaeXOLs9q3kaGcCxkrhqnbCveEFCGmrnLE7RHwWiqIDhavHLJFM
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done
one more from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation” https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22170 ”
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“as much as I loved my grad arch school, part of this project needs to be about understanding how the formal/aesthetic aspects of my architectural pedagogy might be deeply racist, or denialist in the privileging of form, concept, agency, design in architectural spaces
design focused on authorship, identity, difference is deeply problematic. It treats space as being about trying to be as “non-fungible” as possible, a “unique product” rather than a living thing that is deeply connected to our notions of community and relation
the notion of “new designs” is also deeply problematic; (I forget whose argument this is)
The focus on newness is a fundamentally market driven understanding of architecture, where value is achieved through distinction from other spaces. Spaces $ because they’re not like others
most of architectural pedagogy is a kind of giant commodity fetishizaton of a space. architecture is valued by a logic that is a logic of the market, not about SPACE ITSELF. How space is monetarily priced becomes how space is valued.
Or in other words: in architecture, instead of really caring about space first, then understanding second that different spaces might have different prices on a real estate market..
we are conditioned to care about space based on how much a profit oriented market pays for it
And the qualities of the market have actually become transmuted into the default pedagogical philosophies of most “”top”” architecture schools. This is what Marx calls reification - things appearing to have inherent ‘properties’ that actually come from social relations
A real estate market being reified into pedagogy would focus on newness and innovation in the studio pinup as a method to have unique and desirable “products” of space, teach implicitly that we should strive to have designs that are different from each other, a product mindset
A property-ist pedagogy influenced by fine art historical (art market) discourse would focus on authorship, and celebrate designers by tossing around their names, or focus on their bodies of work, or focus on the idea of “The Practice”
The commodity-ist architecture pedagogy/discourse that we seem to have is all about space, design, form, concept, all about space itself, focusing on the qualities of the commodity, not its relations, not its participation within an ecology of social relations and politics
Let me be specific: are architects trained for spatial contexts where “not designing anything” is the right answer? NO. Hence the “design a better border wall / design a better prison trap”. What would design pedagogy be if it was open to the possibility of not designing?
And I don’t mean some sort of shitty paper architecture conceptual play (very fun and meaningless tbh). I mean not designing where the “design” is the problematic part, the “architecture as commodity” is the part to transform
What would an architecture school, a spatial school look like, when commodity logics aren’t absorbed and taken as pedagogical logics??
What would an architecture school look like if space was defetishized, seen for what it actually FEELS, SUPPORTS, CREATES between people - and we used that logic of social relations and politics instead?
At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project ..
would result in the entire group just saying thoughtful and nice things about the group’s project. This would be because the whole POINT of the semester would be about learning to facilitate a conversation, to cooperate and listen, and find a consensus around the shared project.
Projects would not be thought of as “design” projects and representations would focus on social systems, politics, emotions, proxemics, rather than just visual aesthetics. Like Fanon’s sociogeny but applied onto space
As the coordinator of an exploratory arch representation course for all M.Archs at Columbia GSAPP, I’m working on this, but want to push it further. Every architectural representation should involve a discussion on the politics of that type of representation.
Not just the politics of renderings, say, but even asking the question: why the fuck is it that in architecture school, pedagogy continues to focus on an examination of even a drawing “about” the building - plans, sections, diagrams, renderings, etc etc
Why do attempts to answer this question often seem to land in a politics-bereft and easily instrumentalized paper architecture that just continues the commodity fetish space, then playing back into boosting architectural representation even further
I know what I’m saying might seem like an “old topic” in arch and the same argument gets rehashed over and over — but I am talking about arch pedagogy’s need to deeply connect to to radical politics and social justice and the pedagogy that would emerge from it
(This is getting strangely long-winded, so I will try to summarize in another thread)
(Actually, I may just have to keep on going for now and summarize later)
tldr: arch pedagogy logic is real estate logic
Context: I’ve been down at #OccupyCityHall / #abolitionplaza for a few days. It feels growing, shining, caring, safe, funny, excited, calm. I remember being at Occupy Wall Street during grad school days. No exaggeration - my understanding of space permanently changed afterwards
A friend - Demitra K - and I, after going to Zuccotti, would go into the @ColumbiaGSAPP studios and tried to tell our friends that going there was so much more important to our architectural education than a studio. We’d coax friends to come
Now I see: the societies that we can envision though OWS and occupy city hall are and have to be abolitionist futures, transformative justice futures, one in which our understanding of space needs to be DEEPLY connected to space, social relations, community care, repair
In a carceral society, our understandings of space are deeply connected to imprisonment, and also property and boundary. How has the PIC wormed its way into our architectural imaginations? How has white supremacy and fear of the Other fundamentally structured space?
At zuccotti, people mostly slept in enclosed tents; at abolition plaza everyone sleeps outside, next to each other. the abolitionist chant is that we keep us safe.
Is this just a coincidence, that the Black-led abolitionist occupation is about sharing space next to each other while the oft white-dominated Occupy was about having enclosed, personal territories?
IN ANY case, back to pedagogy. If we understand and see what space can ACTUALLY finally be about, then pedagogy needs to shift - from commodity pedagogy to transformative justice pedagogy
What would a transformative justice spatial pedagogy look like day to day, in its practice, not in theory? Some thoughts:
(caveat: I am still learning and I imagine that many people are probably doing this Work already. I can see how much more I can learn and am excited for it)
1. No final reviews. architectural review culture is real estate product culture. Communal collaboration culture would like discussing, listening, laughing, exploring. https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277849313616502784
At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project ..
When you finish a project you should feel like you collaborated or facilitated an great time working on a hard project with people. Reviews being performances is deeply deeply problematic, the more we think about it.
2. No fucking grades. Not only do grades get in the way of learning, GRADING CULTURE IS COP CULTURE https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272275976454537216
It is absolutely wild and unjust that in many/most schools, you can be *expelled* for having bad grades.
Imagine that you were on a hike on a mountain with a group. The group says: if you fall behind, we will kick you out of our group and leave you behind. Is this a good group? https://twitter.com/av_rose_ev/status/1271978534001471490
In the grad students I’ve had in the past 6 years of teaching, SO Amuch of my teaching has been about undoing harm and trauma around grades so that we can actually LEARN and explore as a group, not as a coercive student-teacher power dynamic
At least, that’s what my own teaching has _attempted_, about pushing against grading culture within an already toxic environment of high pressure architecture Ivy League grad school.
(This isn’t a subtweet of GSAPP specifically, which at least has pass fail and a reportedly more thoughtful studio culture compared to other organizations, but an indictment of something endemic across Architectural Discourse and capA architectural pedagogy)
3. Spatial designs aren’t visual ones. Aesthetics and vision are de-emphasized. Architectural image culture is real estate commodity culture.
4. Projects aren’t expected to be “new” and “original”, nor are they expected to be historical. Architectural projects aren’t compared between each other, or at least done so to avoid commodity culture. Architectural newness culture is commodity branding culture.
5. Architecture teachers (if they exist) have roles based on the ideal ways that space is collectively altered:
facilitator-trainers (collaboration),
engineers (building &planning),
movement organizers (supporting & maintaining),
‘play’ers (joy, pleasure, connection)
6. Group classes (if they exist) are structured like collective research practices, specifically so that each person’s work benefits and enriches everyone else’s https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272396060623765504
oriented in the same direction, like a school of fish, trying to find something together. oriented outwards, as if we are exploring a city of thought and agree to meet back in a few hours, with photos and notes of things we’ve discovered.
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(And I actually have specifc actionable ideas on how to structure a class like this, using Zoom and collaboration tools for the fall semester, and am planning my classes this way. Happy to share more)
The Jigsaw learning technique, developed as a racial desegregation learning practice in 1971 in the US, or @niloufar_s’s lab’s idea of a Hive collective formation process http://niloufar.org/publications/2018/HIVE_CSCW2018.pdf are inspiring me lately for ways to think about this kind of pedagogy and play
7. (should be #1 but I had thought it was too obvious)
The pedagogy curriculum is grounded in reading anti-racist, decolonialist, abolitionist thought, especially by Black feminist writers, being able to deeply SEE spaces of a deeply problematic history and a yearned-for future
every thought I read and encounter and learn from is personally and slowly blowing my mind, and I catch these really powerful glimpses of what that abolitionist future could be
8. Spatial projects are understood to be social, financial, racial, about gender, race, class, education, access, oppression, bias. Where is the STS (Science and Technology Studies) of architecture? (Is geography studies like this? is there a geography “design” studies?)
9. Spatial projects begin the conversation around MAINTENANCE, not construction. I mean: spaces are thought of as maintained ecologies and gardens, not as an environment that is “built”.
@stewartbrand: “A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start”
Thinking about the @The_Maintainers, @shannonmattern on maintenance and care (https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/?cn-reloaded=1), Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s work, and @adriennemaree’s Emergent Strategy, connecting movement work to space
https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/
This is, of course, often feminized labor or termed ‘domestic labor’ and implied to be undesirable; this would be feminist antipatriarchical pedagogy, classes or reading groups would discuss how spatial discourse & pedagogy has been deeply distorted and limited by the patriarchy
10. At this school, conversations would fundamentally involve talking about space, exclusivity, access. How a space can aesthetically transmit hostility or exclusivity that align and PERFORM with racism and classism https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
Or how binary-gendered bathrooms are a spatial layout that actively construct and reinforce a gender binary, as @QSAPP_ and @QSPACEarch and @melanieh0ff have been thinking about https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
11. Oh and this should be #2, also too obvious I forgot:
architectural pedagogy would be explicitly grounded in studies and histories of spatial inequality, redlining, displacement, and systematic racism. (Not once in my time in M. Arch school did I learn about Seneca Village!)
Okay. And because I have to go to bed, I will end this list (even though there’s so much more) with my dream of a transformative abolitionist school:
The dream school isn’t a school.
An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning.
we keep us safe / we teach each other
The dream school is a society, a collective — thnking of @melanieh0ff’s heartful, touching Code Societies at @sfpc https://sfpc.io/codesocieties2020/
SFPC | Code Societies Winter 2020
The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), based in NYC, is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group where students develop a deep curiosity of what it means to work poetically in…
This transformative architectural “school” or learning society would be about *taking care of a space together.*
Imagine this:
The learning collective is also a community center. We collectively run programs and maintain/change the building.
We learn and discuss how to maintain, update, create community programs. How do we change the space accordingly? We discuss, listen, argue, laugh. We think about social, political, ecological impact. We renovate the building, or try new technologies if they help us serve others.
In this learning community, learning society, we learn about space by… making it. Shaping it. Creating it. Thinking about finances, space, accessibility, budget, anti-racism, decision-making process, transformative conflict resolution, harm repair. And we have fun doing so!
Perhaps this long thread is another way to say: I have been so honored and lucky to have been part of starting and maintaining and GROWing the communal and cooperative spaces of @primeproduce and Soft Surplus, and am grateful for my collaborators in our wild adventures
There are soo many collaborators that I feel like my heart sinks at the prospect of leaving someone out, so I almost do not want to say further and stop speaking for these projects with my voice. I talked a little bit about this here with @willak: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-architect-teacher-and-learner-dan-taeyoung-on-growing-a-cooperative-like-youd-grow-a-garden/
On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
Dan Taeyoung discusses building trust within cooperative spaces, developing open-ended systems, and un-learning hierarchical ways of operating.
But want to shoutout my initial collaborators in @primeproduce, Jerone Hsu &
@mr_tumnus, and Soft Surplus, @melanieh0ff & @_newcubes_ all whom I have laughed and debated and imagined with; whom I have also made mistakes to, disappointed, in my own neverending process of learning.
Starting and growing two spaces and collectives has deeply shifted and structured my understanding about space and architecture and community in powerful, fundamental ways that my schooling did not and was deeply incapable of.
It’s from this context and experience that I (stay up incredibly late and) articulate this vision of a transformative architecture school.. that is anti-racist, that actively works towards repair, and works to abolish the police and jails in our minds, because it GROWS.
spatial culture can be about societal care, about repair, about calling in, about invitation. We can see space as something we want to grow, garden, tend, care for, the way we do with our neighbors and strangers.
Okay, to conclude.
architecture culture and pedagogy can be real estate market culture
OR
spatial culture can be communal culture, play culture, abolition culture, transformative culture.
Which one do we want for our communities? In our neighborhoods? In our imaginations?
FINALLY:
In terms of starting tomorrow, the statement that @bsa_gsapp has written to GSAPP is crucial.
I’m vowing to find ways that I can support these in my role as (adjunct) faculty, integrating these thoughts deeply into my teaching. https://twitter.com/a_l_hu/status/1276639014435590145
The Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP (BSA+GSAPP) has written a powerful statement to the Columbia GSAPP Dean and Administration. The statement is titled, “On the Futility of Listening.” Please read it and sign your name in support!
https://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/
And this powerful statement by the Black faculty of @ColumbiaGSAPP that rightly and justly calls for an examination of anti-Black racism and white supremacy within all modes of it at GSAPP: https://twitter.com/jgmoore/status/1277965117930352640
UNLEARNING WHITENESS
A Statement from the Black Faculty of @Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
https://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site
Everything I have said above is NOT NEW either! It has already been thought of. The barriers to us approaching this kind of transformative school isn’t because we haven’t thought of it yet. It’s the lack of willingness to actively engage in this work together.
[image (**denotes highlighted passage**): “of unlearning white supremacy. Fifty years ago there were radical actions undertaken by GSAPP students in architecture and planning inspired by the Black Power and Civil Rights movement. **One of those trailblazers, educator/alumni/colleague Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton has narrated in When Ivory Towers were Black how she and classmates forged institutional change, brought Black and Latinx students into the school's disciplines, and initiated community-based design and planning studios that worked with Harlem residents and organizations. And yet by the 1980s those radical pedagogies and curricular changes disappeared within GSAPP as the whiteness of the school's disciplines was reconstituted into new versions of old racist paradigms, discourses, and practices.** It is our belief that unless white supremacy is first, recognized and second, dismantled within this institution, then the goals professed and desired by many of the GSAPP community to eradicate anti-black”]
The real #1 in my list is fundamental - a school should be centered around BIPOC & esp. Black and Indigenous faculty and students, and an understanding of the structural forces & racisms that make schools predominantly white in faculty, and white and East Asian in student makeup”]]>unschooling 2020 dantaeyoung teaching architecture art design pedagogy learning howwlearn howweteach education highered highereducation patriarchy decolonization antiracism transformativejustice socialjustice paulofreire bellhooks canon fredscharmen abolitionism prisonabolition collectivism deschooling conviviality ivanillich occupywallstreet ows race gender ethnicity sexuality stewartbrand sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputing feminism exclusivity grades grading inclusivity genderbinary shannonmattern maintenance care caring society adriennemareebrown carceralcapitalism capitalism competition liberation teachingtotransgress primproduce jeronehsu spacialculture culture listening alhu justingarrettmoore austinwadesmith christopherchavez willaköerner niloufarsalehi themaintainers akilahrichards schools schooling schooliness community communities leannebetasamosakesimpson markets anticapitalism melaniehoff inclusion chegossett lcproject openstudioproject tcsnmy sfsh howwelearn schoolforpoeticcomputationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c65f35764f8b/yasmina on Twitter: "“friendship is a living thing” said @natalieisonline and truly it is time and care and listening and it’s always evolving and it’s never static and you have to nurture it and take it seriously but it’s absolutely for laughs 2020-07-31T04:05:57+00:00
https://twitter.com/jasminprix/status/1288624731348963336
robertogrecoyasminaprice 2020 friendship care time listening relationships nurturinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66b47bc90807/At Home with carla bergman - TouchWood Editions2020-04-02T15:44:17+00:00
https://www.touchwoodeditions.com/at-home-with-carla-bergman/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7gBBQtX14
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/the-right-to-listen
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https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/down-ballot-fights-with-jessica-cisneros-stephen-smith-and-heidi-sloan/
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https://www.ruralfuturism.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yytY7eXDc
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000b6sm
robertogrecosound sounds audio trees multispecies morethanhuman nature listening woods forests words language english thomashardy julianmay bobgilbert johnclare music lisaknapphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2368f4a3414e/Envelop2019-11-13T03:06:47+00:00
https://www.envelop.us/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-minneapolis/
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http://kenbaumann.com/text/2018/04/30/a-good-education/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpBjI3i1Fzs
robertogrecotseliot fredmoten tejucole 2019 towatch freedom vigor love witness withness breakingform ephasia art writing fluency transformation we uninterrogatedwes ceciltaylor language escape édouardglissant tonimorrison howweread howwewrite difference separability meaning meaningmaking words poetry expression togetherness liberation howweteach lacan criticaltheory reading purity jamesbaldwin race beauty criticism self selflessness fugitives fugitivity work labor laziness us capitalism politics identity society belonging immigration africandiaspora diaspora violence langstonhughes looking listening queer queerness bettedavis eyes ugliness bodies canonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c63cf4919ff7/The Voices of Birds and the Language of Belonging – Emergence Magazine2019-07-11T04:39:28+00:00
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-voices-of-birds-and-the-language-of-belonging/
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http://visakanv.com/1000/0675-smart-vs-kind/
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https://vessel.fm/2019/05/21/landscape-circuitry/
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https://emergencemagazine.org/story/magic-and-the-machine/
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https://twitter.com/richterscale/status/1129189641490436096
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https://onbeing.org/programs/teju-cole-sitting-together-in-the-dark-feb2019/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHKbeDOXas
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https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-when-the-hero-is-the-problem/
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/12/elizabeth-warren-profile-young-republican-2020-president-226613
robertogrecoWarren’s academic career soon took a turn that made her far less comfortable with unfettered free markets. Prompted in part by a surge in personal bankruptcy filings following the passage of new bankruptcy laws in 1978, Warren, Sullivan and Westbrook in 1982 decided to study bankruptcy in a way that was then considered novel in academia: by digging into the anecdotal evidence of individual filings and traveling to bankruptcy courts across the country, often rolling a small copy machine through airports along the way.
Whatever their take on "capitalism" or "socialism," I'm here for leaders who understand how American capitalism in its current form (since the late 1970s; "neoliberalism") has completely failed—both morally and technically.
In the presidential field, there are exactly two.
The intellectual damage of the 1980s is intense. It's immensely to Warren's credit that, as a young woman untenured professor then, she realized—through fieldwork—that she could not in conscience enforce the ideology.
And everyone who went to elite colleges in the US in the 1980s needs to be scrutinized. I remember intro economics in 1985-86. Martin Feldstein preaching the catechism to 1,000 young minds in Sanders Theatre. Midterms where you "proved" why rent control was bad. Deadweight loss!
Three years later those young minds were lining up for "recruiting" as Goldman, Morgan, McKinsey et al swarmed the campus to usher them into the golden cage. This shit happened quickly, people. It's a wonder anyone escaped.
People shaped in the 1990s, with the neoliberal foundation cushioned by Clintonite anesthesia, post-Cold War complacency, and the mystical arrival of the internet, are no better. Probably need even more deprogramming. That's why the arrival of the AOC generation is SUCH A RELIEF."
https://twitter.com/NYCJulieNYC/status/1120080930658557952
"Not everyone. A lot of college students in the 1980s were committed activists, from those involved in Divestment from Apartheid South Africa to ACT UP to activism against US policy in Central America."
https://twitter.com/siddhmi/status/1120081603403898886
"Indeed. I was one of them! But that doesn't mean we didn't get coated in the zeitgeist. We all need periodic cleansing."]]]>elizabethwarren mindchanging politics research listening 2019 berniesanders siddharthamitter billclinton 1990s 1980s ronaldreagan economics martinfeldstein neoliberalism 2000s us policy bankruptcy academia jaywestbrook highered highereducation ideology fieldwork rentcontrol regulation consumerprotection democrats republicans finance cfpb banking marketshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6eacdda9e669/The UX design case of closed captions for everyone // Sebastian Greger2019-03-30T19:29:49+00:00
https://sebastiangreger.net/2019/02/ux-closed-captions-for-everybody/
robertogrecoAfter seeing several photos my (English-speaking, non-deaf) friends have taken of their TV screens over the past week, I’m realizing that many of you watch TV with closed captions (or subtitles) on?! Is this a thing? And if so, why?
The 150+ replies (I guess this qualifies as a reasonable sample for a qualitative analysis of sorts?) are a wonderful example of “accessibility features” benefiting everybody (I wrote about another instance recently [https://sebastiangreger.net/2018/11/twitter-alt-texts-on-db-trains/ ]). The reasons why people watch TV with closed captions on, despite having good hearing abilities and not being constrained by having to watch muted video, are manifold and go far beyond those two most commonly anticipated use cases.
[image: Close-up image of a video with subtitles (caption: "Closed captions are used by people with good hearing and audio playback turned on. An overseen use case?")]
Even applying a rather shallow, ex-tempore categorisation exercise based on the replies on Twitter, I end up with an impressive list to start with:
• Permanent difficulties with audio content
◦ audio processing disorders
◦ short attention span (incl., but not limited to clinical conditions)
◦ hard of hearing, irrespective of age
• Temporary impairments of hearing or perception
◦ watching under the influence of alcohol
◦ noise from eating chips while watching
• Environmental/contextual factors
◦ environment noise from others in the room (or a snoring dog)
◦ distractions and multitasking (working out, child care, web browsing, working, phone calls)
• Reasons related to the media itself
◦ bad audio levels of voice vs. music
• Enabler for improved understanding
◦ easier to follow dialogue
◦ annoyance with missing dialogue
◦ avoidance of misinterpretations
◦ better appreciation of dialogue
• Better access to details
◦ able to take note of titles of songs played
◦ ability to understand song lyrics
◦ re-watching to catch missed details
• Language-related reasons
◦ strong accents
◦ fast talking, mumbling
◦ unable to understand foreign language
◦ insecurity with non-native language
• Educational goals, learning and understanding
◦ language learning
◦ literacy development for children
◦ seeing the spelling of unknown words/names
◦ easier memorability of content read (retainability)
• Social reasons
◦ courtesy to others, either in need for silence or with a need/preference for subtitles
◦ presence of pets or sleeping children
◦ avoiding social conflict over sound level or distractions (“CC = family peace”)
• Media habits
◦ ability to share screen photos with text online
• Personal preferences
◦ preference for reading
◦ acquired habit
• Limitations of technology skills
◦ lack of knowledge of how to turn them off
An attempt at designerly analysis
The reasons range from common sense to surprising, such as the examples of closed captions used to avoid family conflict or the two respondents explicitly mentioning “eating chips” as a source of disturbing noise. Motivations mentioned repeatedly refer to learning and/or understanding, but also such apparently banal reasons like not knowing how to turn them off (a usability issue?). Most importantly, though, it becomes apparent that using CC is more often than not related to choice/preference, rather than to impairment or restraints from using audio.
At the same time, it becomes very clear that not everybody likes them, especially when forced to watch with subtitles by another person. The desire/need of some may negatively affect the experience of others present. A repeat complaint that, particularly with comedy, CC can kill the jokes may also hint at the fact that subtitles and their timing could perhaps be improved by considering them as more than an accessibility aid for those who would not hear the audio? (It appears as if the scenario of audio and CC consumed simultaneously is not something considered when subtitles are created and implemented; are we looking at another case for “exclusive design”?)
And while perceived as distracting when new – this was the starting point of Kottke’s Tweet – many of the comments share the view that it becomes less obtrusive over time; people from countries where TV is not dubbed in particular are so used to it they barely notice it (“becomes second nature”). Yet, there are even such interesting behaviours like people skipping back to re-read a dialogue they only listened to at first, as well as that of skipping back to be able to pay better attention to the picture at second view (e.g. details of expression) after reading the subtitles initially.
Last but not least, it is interesting how people may even feel shame over using CC. Only a conversation like the cited Twitter thread may help them realise that it is much more common than they thought. And most importantly that it has nothing to do with a perceived stigmatisation of being “hard of hearing”.
CC as part of video content design
The phenomenon is obviously not new. Some articles on the topic suggest that it is a generational habit [https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/why-gen-z-loves-closed-captioning-ec4e44b8d02f ] of generation Z (though Kottke’s little survey proves the contrary), or even sees [https://www.wired.com/story/closed-captions-everywhere/ ] it as paranoid and obsessive-compulsive behaviour of “postmodern completists” as facilitated by new technological possibilities. Research on the benefits of CC for language learning, on the other hand, reaches back [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19388078909557984 ] several decades.
No matter what – the phenomenon in itself is interesting enough to make this a theme for deeper consideration in any design project that contains video material. Because, after all, one thing is for sure: closed captions are not for those with hearing impairments or with muted devices alone – and to deliver great UX, these users should be considered as well."
[See also: https://kottke.org/19/04/why-everyone-is-watching-tv-with-closed-captioning-on-these-days ]]]>closedcaptioning subtitles closedcaptions text reading genz generationz audio video tv film dialogue listening howweread 2019 sebastiangreger literacy language languages ux ui television ocd attention adhd languagelearning learning howwelearn processing hearing sound environment parenting media multimedia clarity accents memory memorization children distractions technology classideas zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:861800781312/Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning – The Upgrade – Medium2019-03-30T19:21:23+00:00
https://medium.com/s/the-upgrade/why-gen-z-loves-closed-captioning-ec4e44b8d02f
robertogrecoclosedcaptioning subtitles closedcaptions text reading genz generationz audio video tv film dialogue listening howweread 2019 lanceulnoff television adhd attention classideas zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69da65e41ce0/Language Is Migrant - South Magazine Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3] - documenta 142019-03-21T00:42:55+00:00
https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/904_language_is_migrant
robertogrecoa heart in pain,
changing the heart of the earth.
The word “immigrant” says, “grant me life.”
“Grant” means “to allow, to have,” and is related to an ancient Proto-Indo-European root: dhe, the mother of “deed” and “law.” So too, sacerdos, performer of sacred rites.
What is the rite performed by millions of people displaced and seeking safe haven around the world? Letting us see our own indifference, our complicity in the ongoing wars?
Is their pain powerful enough to allow us to change our hearts? To see our part in it?
I “wounder,” said Margarita, my immigrant friend, mixing up wondering and wounding, a perfect embodiment of our true condition!
Vicente Huidobro said, “Open your mouth to receive the host of the wounded word.”
The wound is an eye. Can we look into its eyes?
my specialty is not feeling, just
looking, so I say:
(the word is a hard look.)
—Rosario Castellanos
I don’t see with my eyes: words
are my eyes.
—Octavio Paz
In l980, I was in exile in Bogotá, where I was working on my “Palabrarmas” project, a way of opening words to see what they have to say. My early life as a poet was guided by a line from Novalis: “Poetry is the original religion of mankind.” Living in the violent city of Bogotá, I wanted to see if anybody shared this view, so I set out with a camera and a team of volunteers to interview people in the street. I asked everybody I met, “What is Poetry to you?” and I got great answers from beggars, prostitutes, and policemen alike. But the best was, “Que prosiga,” “That it may go on”—how can I translate the subjunctive, the most beautiful tiempo verbal (time inside the verb) of the Spanish language? “Subjunctive” means “next to” but under the power of the unknown. It is a future potential subjected to unforeseen conditions, and that matches exactly the quantum definition of emergent properties.
If you google the subjunctive you will find it described as a “mood,” as if a verbal tense could feel: “The subjunctive mood is the verb form used to express a wish, a suggestion, a command, or a condition that is contrary to fact.” Or “the ‘present’ subjunctive is the bare form of a verb (that is, a verb with no ending).”
I loved that! A never-ending image of a naked verb! The man who passed by as a shadow in my film saying “Que prosiga” was on camera only for a second, yet he expressed in two words the utter precision of Indigenous oral culture.
People watching the film today can’t believe it was not scripted, because in thirty-six years we seem to have forgotten the art of complex conversation. In the film people in the street improvise responses on the spot, displaying an awareness of language that seems to be missing today. I wounder, how did it change? And my heart says it must be fear, the ocean of lies we live in, under a continuous stream of doublespeak by the violent powers that rule us. Living under dictatorship, the first thing that disappears is playful speech, the fun and freedom of saying what you really think. Complex public conversation goes extinct, and along with it, the many species we are causing to disappear as we speak.
The word “species” comes from the Latin speciēs, “a seeing.” Maybe we are losing species and languages, our joy, because we don’t wish to see what we are doing.
Not seeing the seeing in words, we numb our senses.
I hear a “low continuous humming sound” of “unmanned aerial vehicles,” the drones we send out into the world carrying our killing thoughts.
Drones are the ultimate expression of our disconnect with words, our ability to speak without feeling the effect or consequences of our words.
“Words are acts,” said Paz.
Our words are becoming drones, flying robots. Are we becoming desensitized by not feeling them as acts? I am thinking not just of the victims but also of the perpetrators, the drone operators. Tonje Hessen Schei, director of the film Drone, speaks of how children are being trained to kill by video games: “War is made to look fun, killing is made to look cool. ... I think this ‘militainment’ has a huge cost,” not just for the young soldiers who operate them but for society as a whole. Her trailer opens with these words by a former aide to Colin Powell in the Bush/Cheney administration:
OUR POTENTIAL COLLECTIVE FUTURE. WATCH IT AND WEEP FOR US. OR WATCH IT AND DETERMINE TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE
—Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel U.S. Army (retired)
In Astro Noise, the exhibition by Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the language of surveillance migrates into poetry and art. We lie in a collective bed watching the night sky crisscrossed by drones. The search for matching patterns, the algorithms used to liquidate humanity with drones, is turned around to reveal the workings of the system. And, we are being surveyed as we survey the show! A new kind of visual poetry connecting our bodies to the real fight for the soul of this Earth emerges, and we come out woundering: Are we going to dehumanize ourselves to the point where Earth itself will dream our end?
The fight is on everywhere, and this may be the only beauty of our times. The Quechua speakers of Peru say, “beauty is the struggle.”
Maybe darkness will become the source of light. (Life regenerates in the dark.)
I see the poet/translator as the person who goes into the dark, seeking the “other” in him/herself, what we don’t wish to see, as if this act could reveal what the world keeps hidden.
Eduardo Kohn, in his book How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: riparana means “darse cuenta,” “to realize or to be aware.” The verb is a Quichuan transfiguration of the Spanish reparar, “to observe, sense, and repair.” As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, had the power to heal.
I see the invention of such verbs as true poetry, as a possible path or a way out of the destruction we are causing.
When I am asked about the role of the poet in our times, I only question: Are we a “listening post,” composing an impossible “survival guide,” as Paul Chan has said? Or are we going silent in the face of our own destruction?
Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista guerrilla, transcribes the words of El Viejo Antonio, an Indian sage: “The gods went looking for silence to reorient themselves, but found it nowhere.” That nowhere is our place now, that’s why we need to translate language into itself so that IT sees our awareness.
Language is the translator. Could it translate us to a place within where we cease to tolerate injustice and the destruction of life?
Life is language. “When we speak, life speaks,” says the Kaushitaki Upanishad.
Awareness creates itself looking at itself.
It is transient and eternal at the same time.
Todo migra. Let’s migrate to the “wounderment” of our lives, to poetry itself."]]>ceciliavicuña language languages words migration immigration life subcomandantemarcos elviejoantonio lawrencewilkerson octaviopaz exile rosariocastellanos poetry spanish español subjunctive oral orality conversation complexity seeing species joy tonjehessenschei war colinpowell laurapoitras art visual translation eduoardokohn quechua quichua healing repair verbs invention listening kaushitakiupanishad awareness noticing wondering vicentehuidobro wounds woundering migrants unknown future potential unpredictability emergent drones morethanhuman multispecies paulchan destruction displacement refugees extinction others tolerance injustice justice transience ephemerality ephemeral canon eternal surveillance patterns algorithms earth sustainability environment indifference complicity dictatorship documenta14 2017 classideashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ada86a335b2/david silver en Instagram: “Every time a new semester rolls up and I scramble to prepare another syllabus, I think of the wise words of Mary “Molly” Gregory, faculty…”2019-01-12T01:06:18+00:00
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