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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoCitations Needed: Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other2026-07-09T06:24:11+00:00
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-240-how-the-medias-burden-the-straining-resources-framing-manufactures-the-expendable-other
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https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/robin-kelley-black-struggle-campus-protest/
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-the-answers-we-dont-offer
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https://logicmag.io/out-of-place/mapping-black-dispossession-in-san-francisco-with-ralowe-t-ampu-and-eric-a/
robertogreco2025 sanfrancisco history disposession raloweampu ericstanley displacement williebrown 1996 urbanplanning thelastblackmaninsanfrancisco gentrification politics policy jamesbaldwin takethishammer 1964 1970s soma westernaddion midmarket colonialism bigtech colonization twitter edlee frankjordan londonbreed hayesvallley redevelopment civiccenter blm blacklivesmatter capitalism neoliberalism copcity missiondistrict themission gavinnewsom bart garrytan doordash uber undercommons georgefloyd police policing fillmore freaknik michaeljohnson dei civicjoyfund marketstreet techcolonialism warondrugs culture abolitionism technocracy fascism desperation economicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e8e76df78c0/The Once and Future Right - Dissent Magazine2026-07-04T07:53:52+00:00
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-once-and-future-right/
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https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-despite-9-figure-infusion-from-silicon-valley-abundance-still-seeks-popular-support
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/rule-world-education-power-stanford-tech-theo-baker/
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2026.2650057
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPRkXbpFjs
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1s4lZhoC8mA8mFYsp7L3ea
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https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826504661/drug-cartels-do-not-exist/
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https://www.theideasletter.org/issue/accommodations/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI&t=2s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc4s1qu8IP8
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https://www.e-flux.com/journal/163/6776887/the-useful-narcissist
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https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/promises-and-perils
robertogrecoFear that there may be no alternative to the will of the AI arise because we have been told for decades that there is no alternative to neoliberalism, that there is no alternative to the mediation of all society by profit-driven markets, no alternative to the universal power of private self-interest that continually tries not to better the world, but to maximize it’s own profit and hence power. Stories about the “promises and perils” of AI ring true, not because the AI is poised to hunt all of us down, but because the stories reflect real experiences of technology, capitalism, and ideology; they reflect the capitalist developments of the incomprehensibility of technology, the invisibilization of labor, enclosures, proliferating neoliberal bureaucracies, and the sense that there is no alternative to capitalism and the status quo.
[from Blix & Glimmer, Why We Fear AI, page 56]
In other words, the threat isn’t so much that AI is inevitable as that the ongoing—and likely expanding—immiseration of workers is unstoppable. This is the subtext of the strange and conflicted messaging that we get from the hype men: when they say that you better learn AI or be left behind, they are admitting that a great many people will be left behind. And if you—smart and clever and hardworking person that you are—are somehow able to make it to the other side of the line, you’re supposed to find relief or pride at having done so, and not horror at all the people suffering in your wake. You’re supposed to be as uncaring as the capital that uses you.
But getting through this gauntlet is no guarantee of getting through the next one—and there will be a next one, because the plain aim of the technocrats is to immiserate everyone, eventually. From the capitalist perspective, anyone with skills enough to negotiate a comfortable wage is a cost in need of cutting. Add to that the fact that AI’s whole pitch is that the more you use it, the more data it gathers, the more likely it becomes capable of mimicking you well enough to convince the fools above you that it can do your job. So get-in-or-get-left-behind is something of a trick—everyone is left behind, eventually.
Which is both terrifying and clarifying. Terrifying in that the capitalists really do have the ability to do us harm—they have been doing so, already. Clarifying in that there really isn’t any reason to stay on the path they’ve laid out for us. It leads nowhere good. Meanwhile, there aren’t very many people up ahead, and there are a whole lot of us back here. Let’s see what we can do."]]>ai artificialintelligence capitalism neoliberalism inequality technology society labor work workers nerdreich tescreal mandybrown hagenblix ingeborgglimmer power encolsures messaging datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26bd88e812a8/The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon2026-05-25T02:07:44+00:00
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon
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https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/news/de-lideologie-californienne-a-lideologie-texane-conservatisme-religion-et-extractivisme-au-sein-du-secteur-des/
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https://newbooksnetwork.com/fred-turner-on-countercultures-cybercultures-and-californian-and-texan-ideologies
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https://lpeproject.org/blog/muskism-as-fordism/
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https://www.compactmag.com/article/abundance-is-not-enough/
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https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/the-shadow-incentive
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https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/603-persons-of-interest
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-apathy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ombPdaRd0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9etjAosHGzA
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/23/capitalism-by-sven-beckert-review-an-extraordinary-history-of-the-economic-system-that-controls-our-lives
robertogrecocapitalism dorianlynskey history svenbeckert markets eurocentrism bolivia potosí cerrorico perú freemarkets democracy enlightenment fredricjameson ideology religion philosophy economics adamsmith socialism communism anarchism process middleeast asia colonialism colonization uk kinkleopoldii congo karlmarx josephschumpeter instability dynamism depression johnmaynardkeynes barbados samarkand phnomphen pinochet chike neoliberalism leninism jakobfugger lenin vladimirlenin hermanöchling imperialism inequality slavery war feudalism 2025https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7c132120458d/Decolonizing The World (with Amin Husain) | The Chris Hedges Report2026-01-22T06:45:08+00:00
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/decolonizing-the-world-w-amin-husain
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/democracy-on-the-ground-in-venezuela-with-gabriel-hetland/id1624843324?i=1000742328853&l=es-MX
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https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii155/articles/martin-mosquera-the-meaning-of-milei
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/europe-decline-economy-china.html
robertogreco2025 europe antonjäger michelhouellebecq hans-georggadamer ukraine donaldtrump mariodraghi policy eu us josepborrellfontelles sweden brussels china uk adamtooze neoliberalism erichobsbawm decline politics 2014 productivity economics economy climatechange climate globalwarminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:502b5552c7fe/Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine2025-12-23T04:23:18+00:00
https://proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/extractive-frontiers-an-interview-with-thea-riofrancos/
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https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/17/chile_election
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/chile-election-kast-pinochet.html
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https://bayareacurrent.com/moderate-rule-maximum-harm-a-year-of-sfs-surrender-to-oligarchy/
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https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-304
robertogreco2016 chile pacific pacificworld goldrush valparaíso pacificocean history california australia edwarddallammelillo edwardmelillo tedmelillo talcahuano warofthepacific china salvadorallende pinochet neoliberalism colonialism imperialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fee9c148435/Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century, by W. David Marx (2025): 9780593833995 | Penguin Random House2025-11-28T23:41:41+00:00
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/769187/blank-space-by-w-david-marx/
robertogrecoThe first step in reversing cultural stagnation is to accept that artistic invention is a social good. And like so many other social goods, it isn’t necessarily going to have its production prioritized by the market. We — creators and audiences alike — have to make an effort to encourage bold new forms of culture. Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than overly market-tested products.
Reading Blank Space didn’t necessarily “radicalize” me, but it made me overtly grateful for the work I’m doing: work grounded in the world, physicality, relying on social media as little as possible, operating at “human scale” and creating as many “durable” and “deep” connections as possible, attempting to elevate everyone who’s involved. I’ve been lucky. I’m able to walk, to write, to photograph, and then collate all that into printed books. It’s easier than ever to sell printed books online thanks to companies like Shopify. And it’s easier than ever to form a relationship with a fulfillment warehouse, set up a DHL account, and ship the things around the earth. Global shipping is the 10th wonder of the world. I love that I work with talented printers and binders, paying their employees well. I love that I have readers who are OK with paying what my books cost. I like that the arc of the work is slow and loping, that daily updates might happen in spurts, but they are 2,000-5,000 words spurts, amidst an outsized walk, more like an ascetic ritual, calming, fullness-giving, the opposite of whatever it is you have to access to upload daily TikToks.
Work like mine has almost no representation in David’s book. There’s a ruthlessness that’s taken hold across all strata of cultural making (and life itself). Everything turned into a casino, “traps” galore. Billions as the only goal. Achieved celebrity? Start a coffee brand (or gin brand, or tequila brand; I’m shocked nobody is selling their own cigarettes). Leave “nothing on the table.” Epicurean maximizing. That sort of thing. The whole world in a swivet about every dumb breath by some dumdum. AI now turning the future protean. Models upending models within days. Solid ground made liquid for the next decade.
David’s book is funny. I mean, it’s heartbreaking, mainly. But you’ll laugh as your soul is pummeled. David quotes all the fools of the last twenty-five years. They are happy to shoot themselves in their own feet, again and again. The book is most tragic when it dips into politics. In our On Margins chat, we mention Obama, how his ascension symbolized some “completion” — “it was love triumphing over hate, and peace over war, and all sorts of things of the way we were told how things were going to play out because of the natural order of the world, that there would be some sort of correction and this was the correction.” It’s surreal now to think of that world in 2010. The iPhone basically still new. Obama in the White House. The full conversion of everything online to brain traps, to teleportation heroin, still years away. Back when you actually had to “follow” folks to see their content. 2010, just fifteen years ago, but about seven generations of mental life. Back when a trillion-dollar company was a pipe dream (Apple being the first to hit that number, in 2018; now it feels like a monthly announcement, Nvidia hitting $5T a month ago), back when you didn’t nab a $100B valuation as a startup before you even launched a product. Back when Apple’s own apps weren’t loaded with ads. Back when not everything was “recurring revenue” driven. Back when even non-institutional investors had a chance to get in on a company like Facebook or Google while they were still in ascendancy.
Still, around that (now seemingly Brigadoonish) time, I already had a growing sense of doom / skepticism around how much tech money was being bandied about:
Craig: Early 2008, 2009, 2010, I was very negative on Facebook. Very early because I remember explicitly that Facebook was eating up all the designers, uh, from Brooklyn who were doing genuinely interesting work. I remember being really depressed about that. But if Facebook offers you a million dollar salary — especially in 2008, 2009, 2010, it’s hard to turn down. But it felt like there was this incredible compromise that had started to happen.
And David, expanding on this point:
David: This is a really important point of the 21st century, which is I graduated in 2001, and I don’t think anyone around me, even the money hungry people were like, I’m going to be a billionaire. No, it was just on zero people’s minds. And the best was like, dude, did you know you could go work for an investment bank and within five years you could be making $1 million?
Anyway, you should absolutely read David’s book. It deals with all of this and more. His ability to synthesize vast swaths of history and criticism into sane, compressed chapters is inspiring. It’s a fun read, and may radicalize you, too, in better directions. Or just reaffirm the path you’re already on. Or just get you to step offline for a few moments."
"Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/books/review/culture-right-wing-david-marx.html
https://archive.ph/idxdR
"Make Culture Weird Again
Even failures and half steps will be more interesting than the boring stuff."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/11/blank-space-book-excerpt-culture/685037/
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/11/blank-space-book-excerpt-culture/685037/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZzZAypQ-DyUUwPxyZrMsWaI
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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-work
robertogrecoCapital is the pure form of activity. It is the transcendence that takes hold of the immanence of life and exploits it completely. From life, it separates bare life, life that works. The human being is degraded into an animal laborans. Freedom is exploited, too. According to Marx, free competition is nothing but “the relation of capital to itself as another capital”…. The politics of inactivity [by contrast] liberates the immanence of life from the transcendence that alienates life from itself. Only in inactivity do we become aware of the ground on which we rest.
Inactivity, in this sense, is what distinguishes those noneconomic practices that make life truly human. Catholic Workers’ lives are fundamentally playful and celebratory, heedless of the conventional (factory) wisdom of maximizing control, optimizing efficiency, and living by holding off death.
Of course, Day’s life simply was her practice of Catholicism, living the age-old but radical precepts of the Gospel. It’s important not to construe her faith, as is sometimes done, as an instrument for reforming the social order or the economy. That would be to reinscribe it within totalized capitalism, to place it in the service of an order in constant retreat from death. Rather than flight from death, the Gospel represents an embrace of death.
Together, Day and Han help us remember that this embrace structures Christianity from top to bottom. In her journals and chronicles of her daily life and travels, Day regularly refers to the martyrs, to the need to put ourselves to death, and to the embrace of the cross itself. With Han’s help we can see that Day’s prodigal practices—voluntary poverty and the sharing of possessions—are intelligible only as part of a community constituted by its liberation from the hegemony of death. The radical precepts of the Sermon on the Mount are just the “economic” application of the way of the cross. The radical forms of economic life Day encouraged are the concrete and quotidian way Christians go about believing in the Resurrection.
In other words, by being “irresponsible” with her money and her physical safety, Day was refusing the lie that we must try to ensure our lives turn out right by submitting to the current economic order. Her refusal to abide by the dictates of economic efficiency and to let her life be run by “risk” are training in martyrdom. She reminds us that the early Christians were not simply martyred for a “religious belief” detachable from their daily lives; they went to their deaths prepared by an alternative social life that spurned the fear of death.
Han’s work thus not only demonstrates the continued—and even heightened—relevance of the Catholic Worker’s philosophy of labor for a digital age. He also unearths the intimate connection between radical Christian social practices and the very center of our faith—the Paschal Mystery. If those practices sometimes seem a little too radical for us ordinary Christians, it’s worth recalling that Day herself often pointed out that the way she lived was not for the religious elite, but for everybody. Her own inspiration came from the simple truths Christians share and with which we are marked in our baptism: we have already died, and so we have nothing to lose; we have already risen, and so we can live without fear. "]]>byung-chilhan catholicism catholicworker colinmiller religion catholicchurch christianity philosophy labor work workers politics dorotyhday petermaurin communism capitalism industrialism society efficiency ideology morality arthurpenty technocracy colonization slavery self-oppression self-slavery influencers working neoliberalism optimization gkchesterson hilairebelloc culture howwework capital life living socialmedia ai artificialintelligence virtualreality vr emmanuelmounier peterkropotkin nikolaiberdyaev inactivity play celebration control death karlmarx accumulation divineprovidence voluntarypoverty poverty collectivity gandhi survival giorgioagambenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ed5d245a474/The Return of Operation Condor - YouTube2025-11-28T21:34:19+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqV3XLB4U8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmDje3HfHI
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https://www.koozarch.com/columns/sonic-kinships-5-violeta-parra-por-la-maanita-1961
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https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/trumps-pro-hunger-agenda-and-the-cruel-logic-of-capitalism/
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https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/reading-ivan-illichs-deschooling-society-in-the-neoliberal-university/
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https://www.noemamag.com/the-progress-paradox/
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-observed/
robertogreco There is no good way to say this — when the police arrive, they inevitably preface the bad news with that sentence, as though their presence had not been ominous enough. The first time I heard the line, I knew already what was about to be conveyed. Nevertheless, I paid attention to how the news was delivered: the detective insisted that I take a seat first. I sat down at the dinner table, and he moved another chair to the right distance and sat down himself. No doubt he was following protocol, and yet the sentence — there is no good way to say this — struck me as both accurate and effective. It must be a sentence that, though nearly a cliché, is not often used in daily conversation; its precision has stayed with me.
> The second time, having guessed the news about to be delivered, I did not give the sentence a moment’s thought. I did not wait for the detective to ask me to sit down, either. I indicated a chair where my husband should sit and took the other chair in the living room. My heart already began to feel that sensation for which there is no name. Call it aching, call it wrenching, call it shattering, but they are all wrong words, useless in their familiarity. This time, the four policemen all stood.”
"There is no good way to say this." There is no easy way to talk about this. There are acceptable words, I suppose, but they are never "good," never remotely satisfying or comforting -- not to say, not to hear.
By "this," I mean death obviously. By "this," I also mean other traumas, other endings. By "this," I mean what might feel like or look like the end of education – an end not spoken about with the solemnity of the policemen but rather with a real jubilation from technologists and venture capitalists, who gloat about disruption.
I want to start here – by “here,” I mean the recognition that there is no good way to talk about death, no good way to talk about grief, even though I am going to try very hard to do so: to talk about grief – mine, yours, students’, teachers' – and tie it to “artificial intelligence.” I want to talk about grief and “the end." I want to talk about the end of the world – I don't, really; I want to talk about what feels like the end of the world and what might be, should we continue to build data centers, invest in this rapacious technology, and ignore climate change, literally the end of the world; I want to talk about the destruction of the future (our own, our children's), about the end of democracy, the end of education.
I want to talk about loss. A loss that is, perhaps, an abandonment. Perhaps an abdication. An absence. An erasure. A trauma. Death, mass death -- literal and metaphorical.
“There is no good way to say this.” I have read a lot of memoirs about dying and about grieving. Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, of course. Geraldine Brooks’ Memorial Days. C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed (a phrase I’ve borrowed for the title of this talk). Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart. Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk. I could go on and list so many wonderful, painful books. And yet, despite some of the greatest writers having tried, “there is no good way to say this” -- I know this. I know this intimately. Yet I still search for some good words to have been said, to have been written. Words to comfort. Words to find meaning. Words to make sense. Words to not feel so utterly alone, at the abyss abyssmal, because those we love most have left us, and the future we thought we would share is gone too.
“There is no good way to say this," the police told Yiyun Li. I don’t think that the coroner said those exact words to me, although he might have, when, in May 2020, I received the phone call that my own son had died. I do not remember the words, but I remember the feeling. Everything tilting and spinning and spiraling down. The blood drains, your stomach sinks. All words and feelings of such profound, indescribable, unspeakable loss.
May 2020 was, if you’ll recall, the early days, the early weeks of the COVID lockdown. I was in Oakland, California; Isaiah was in Seattle, Washington. He died alone in his apartment of an opioid overdose.
A few weeks later, OpenAI released GPT-3.
Our tools are cultural not merely technological, so while many people want to frame the emergence of generative AI as simply the latest development in the long history of computers, of artificial intelligence -- transformers, neural networks, tokens, and so on -- we have to remember that what emerges is not just a matter of engineering. It's a matter of markets and politics and ideology and culture.
I think it matters that GPT was released during the COVID pandemic (and ChatGPT shortly "after"), when many of us were stuck at home, isolated and interacting with one another almost entirely through screens.
I think it matters that all this talk about the potential for "AI" to do our jobs comes after labor made some important (albeit tentative) gains during this period: the whole notion of "essential worker"; the successful push for unionization in some sectors; the astonishment from many parents after trying to facilitate their own children's schooling -- all those “teachers should be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year” posts on social media; demands during and after the pandemic to continue to work from home, to have more control over space and place and time. AI is a backlash. AI is anti-worker.
I always feel the need to remind people that neither robots nor AI are coming for our jobs. But management probably is.
I think it matters that this latest AI push, with generative AI's penchant for “bullshit,” follows on the heels of growing mis- and disinformation campaigns online. This was precisely the realization many people had come to after Donald Trump's first election as President and during his first term in office. And this was precisely what LLMs have been trained upon.
I think it matters that the technology industry relies on deception and obfuscation and markets its new bullshit machines right as the leaders of this country have openly embraced being liars, cheats, and frauds, have openly rejected knowledge and expertise.
I think it matters that as we have lost faith in institutions over the course of the past few decades -- in the church, in the media, in schools, in science, in medicine (particularly in public health and in vaccines) -- that we are now promised an oracle that can deliver instant and easy answers.
I think it matters that AI -- so utterly opaque in its algorithmic predictions and decision-making -- is the ultimate unaccountability machine.
We expect more from technology than we do from each other, the psychologist Sherry Turkle wrote in her book Alone Together in 2011. I think it matters that trust and solidarity have been eroded for a while now (if they ever really existed or were encouraged in this country).
I think it matters that economic inequality has in the last few decades exploded, that the promises to students in particular – get good grades and you'll get into a good school, graduate from a good school and you'll get a good job – feel pretty empty.
AI is a "normal technology," the artificial intelligence professors Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (authors of AI Snake Oil) have argued. But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?
AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; and AI is the disease.
Generative AI emerged during a global pandemic -- a global trauma of mass death (1.2 million people in the US died of COVID, and about 7 million globally -- these are, no doubt, figures that undercount how many actually died of the disease, let alone those like my son who died during that time period of other causes -- overdoses, suicide, murder, and deaths related and unrelated to the pandemic).
Mass trauma, mass death and, as such, mass grieving. But it was, at the time and still to this day, a grief interrupted, a grief buried, a grief denied, a grief (contrary to C. S. Lewis's phrasing) unobserved. We were often not able to bury our dead, not able to hold funerals, not able to have wakes, not able to observe the rituals of death, not able to gather, to bring food, to hold and comfort one another.
And when we were told the pandemic was over -- it hasn't really ended; the World Health Organization says there were around 150,000 cases of COVID reported in the last month -- we didn't deal with our trauma. We didn't deal with our grief. We were supposed to bury our feelings; we were supposed to forget. It was back-to-school, back to work, back to "normal."
Or some “new normal,” now with AI – a technology that we didn't want, that we didn't ask for, and that we're told we cannot refuse.
Of course, that's not quite right. We can refuse.
One more correction: there was, in fact, a massive demonstration of grief – an outpouring of grieving in public – during COVID; and that was the Black Lives Matter movement, the protests that occurred in cities throughout the country particularly after the murder of George Floyd. This grief was not private or hidden; it was collective. This grief was not just personal, expressed by those impacted directly by racism and police violence; it demanded from protestors and onlookers, empathy, solidarity. This grief was expressive – even as we are always told with protest, as with grief, that that is not the “good way” to say it. The grief of Floyd’s death – and all the deaths – was not sufficient. It was not simply a marker or memorial of death; but it was an act of life, an act of repair. It was a demonstration of love and loss and fury; it was a commitment to the future.
And again, technology is cultural, ideological not simply technological.
It matters that generative AI emerged with or alongside -- you can decide the preposition you prefer -- a politics that is openly hostile to Black Lives Matter, that opposes diversity, equity, and inclusion. It matters that Silicon Valley companies were among the first to backtrack on their DEI initiatives, were happy to stand with Donald Trump when he proclaimed that AI needed to be purged of "ideological biases," purged of "woke."
Generative AI is, with or without Trump's executive orders, a backlash to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a reinscription of the words and images of white supremacist, heteronormative, Western, English-speaking capitalist patriarchy. That is the corpus that large language models have been trained on -- "the canon" (with all the copyright violations that that has entailed) as well as "the Internet" (thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of YouTube videos and YouTube comments and Reddit posts and -- with apologies to anyone this might include here this evening -- lots of very mediocre freshmen essays on the theme of family in Romeo & Juliet or the role of "states' rights" in the US Civil War).
In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief -- expressed together, embodied, on the streets -- we were presented with, forced to use in so many cases, a technology that severs us from creative expression, dignity, and truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."
One of the problems with grief, as Yiyun Li argues in her memoir, is that it's been described as a set of stages one moves through, as something that has a beginning and, significantly, an end. You will eventually, people try to tell you, "get over it." This is Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's famous formulation: grief as a series of emotions that move from denial to anger, then bargaining, then depression, and finally acceptance. And even if we might've revised this progression somewhat since she published her book On Death and Dying in 1969, society still gives mourners (and not just as workers) a very limited amount of time "to deal with it" before they're expected to "move on."
“There is no rush,” Yi writes, “as I will have every single day, for the rest of my life, to think about Vincent and James, outside time, outside the many activities of everyday life.”
> And this, among other reasons, is why I am against the word “grief,” which in contemporary culture seems to indicate a process that has an end point: the sooner you get there, the sooner you prove yourself to be a good sport at living, and the less awkward people around you will feel. Sometimes people ask me where I am in the grieving process, and I wonder whether they understand anything at all about losing someone. How lonely the dead would feel, if the living were to stand up from death’s shadow, clap their hands, dust their pants, and say to themselves and to the world, I am done with my grieving; from this point on it’s life as usual, business as usual.
> I don’t want an end point to my sorrow. The death of a child is not a heat wave or a snowstorm, nor an obstacle race to rush through and win, nor an acute or chronic illness to recover from. What is grief but a word, a shortcut, a simplification of something much larger than that word?
Of course, we like thinking of things in stages. We like the order, we like to frame our world, our understanding of time this way -- in hours and days and seasons. We ritualize these -- indeed, that is one of the reasons why our inability to conduct the traditional practices associated with death and dying made our grief during COVID even more unbearable. Without rites and rituals, you cannot “move on.” You cannot grow or shift or change. You are stuck in the past. You are stuck.
The anthropologist Victor Turner used the term “liminality” to describe the one of the key phases of rites of passage, those rituals that mark transition – not just transition into the “afterlife,” for example, but transition into adulthood or into marriage or into society. This liminal phase, as he called it, was “betwixt and between” – a period where you are in the process of becoming something new, but you’re not that new person yet, nor are you the person you were any longer. Liminality, Turner argued, was a sort of limbo – but in that limbo, something really transformational happens – something radical even in the most conservative and traditional ritual practices. Liminality is a time – and to be fair, this can be a very very very brief moment, depending on the rite of passage – of solidarity and equality and unity. Protests, for example, are liminal spaces.
Education, I’d argue, also has elements of this liminality. It is a rite of passage, a ritual of becoming – you enter a child, a “fresh man” and you leave an adult. We have retained some older parts of these rituals – the cap and gown obviously, moving the tassel from one side of your head to the other. But there's more to it than just these practices. You have to believe, I’d argue, in that transformation to be able to commit yourself to the time, to the work. (Socially, culturally, politically, we have to believe it is worthwhile to send children to school, to send them to college.)
But much to the detriment of learning, let alone to the survival of educational institutions, we have seen education redefined as something else -- as a product, not a process. As certification, not transformation. The liminality has been shattered; instead of ritual, society has demanded “outcomes” and “optimization.”
I don’t say any of this out of nostalgia for a once-upon-a-time when college was good. Educational institutions -- whether at the K-12 or the university level -- have always always been deeply flawed, highly exclusionary, full of all sorts of machineries of bullshit. These are, as Michel Foucault reminded us, sites of discipline -- disciplining bodies and minds.
But by dismantling educational institutions -- and AI is really just the latest act in a long long history of dismantling -- we are also dismantling that space for shared practice and purpose, for shared understanding -- “communitas,” Turner called it.
The technology industry -- indeed, capitalism -- prefers “individualization” and “immediacy.” Certainly, it pays lip service to "community" -- Mark Zuckerberg's blah blah blah about Facebook connecting the world. When Google says it wants to organize the world's information and make it "useful," this is a very different mission than the university's. The tech industry's allegiance is to surveillance capitalism, to profit and power, not to knowledge and certainly not to people.
What we are experiencing now -- with AI, with the defunding of public education and public research, with deportations and surveillance -- is more trauma, more loss, more grief. There is no silver lining here, as Yiyun Li reminds us, as much as that's offered as some tepid consolation.
Grief, to reiterate, involves a loss of identity, a loss of the future -- how we imagined things would be, who we imagined we'd become. And there is no good way to say this: it will get worse. And grief doesn't get any easier -- not with the passage of time, not with the number of times one experiences it.
There is no good way to say this. And yet we must always try.
I can only say this, and it's not good, it's not sufficient. It's not really a satisfying way to wrap up this talk. But here we go...
Grief is an expression of love. We grieve because we love, and that love does not end with death. I grieve for my son. I will grieve forever. I grieve for the future we will not share.
When I talk to teachers and students alike, I hear such grief as well: grief about what AI threatens to do education, what it's already done to the work of teaching and the work of learning, the work of research and reading and writing.
We grieve because we love. We grieve because we care. We grieve because we know that the machines do not, and that the community we try to foster -- on campus, in the classroom, in our scholarly works -- is threatened with erasure. We grieve because we fear forgetting; we worry that people will forget what is beautiful and what is difficult and what is joyous and what is horrible about education. We worry that, if we do not grieve, we give up the struggle to go on, to persevere, to live.
But we do not, we should not grieve alone. We should not be made to feel alone, feel crazed by our grief, feel crazed for grieving. We can, we should grieve together, grieve in public, grieve in protest. Such is comfort – "com" + "fort," a word that means "with" + "strength."
Technologies are often wielded in ways meant to imply that humans are weak, messy, slow, stupid, replaceable.
We are strong, messy, awkward, flawed, irreplaceable. All of us.
Our strength comes, in part, from this vulnerability, from our humanity. Together in the flesh. Not isolated, individualized thru some algorithm. We cannot allow systems and practices and machinery to foreclose this humanity, to automate the decisions, the expressions, the explorations that we turn to and that we struggle with in education, in this imperfect but liminal space of learning.
"There is no good way to say this" but to say this: AI is the antithesis of education. It is the antithesis of the future. As such, it is a kind of epistemological death, and I recognize -- thanks to capitalism and neoliberalism and imperialism and racism -- we have long been surrounded by such efforts; we are grieving already. And yet, we go on.
One final note that I think I'd be remiss not to state, even though there is no good way, or rather no polite way to say this:
Some men (and I do mean mostly men) would rather spend trillions of dollars on an idea that is financially, technologically, morally, and environmentally unsustainable, they’d rather destroy democracy and destroy education and destroy the planet than just get therapy.
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https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-obamacare-is-cooked
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https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-left-can-protest
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