Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco What Has Happened to Taste? 2026-05-27T07:57:56+00:00 https://www.esquire.com/style/a71276009/what-has-happened-to-taste/ robertogreco tiffanyng taste 2026 socialmedia online internet web blackbirdspyplane susansontag montesquieu algorithms kylechayka culture pinterest spotify johanweiner erinwylie tastemakers trends perception reality jeanbaudrillard simulacra simulation mainstream exclusivity compliance consensus connoisseurs connoisseurship baudrillard franlebowitz signaling subjectivity aesthetics introspection thinking howwethink deadinternettheory guydebord dérive derive situationist being having instagram objects membership society engagement are.na internetwalks visibility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:288eae64d312/ We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World – On my Om 2026-05-26T06:52:34+00:00 https://om.co/2026/05/25/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world/ robertogreco ommalik carlocollodi pinocchio 2026 ai artificialintelligence montblanc objects pens fountainpens autonomy stimulation grifters hucksters grift influencers certainty doubt politics governance truth industrialization velocity authority jensenhuang samaltman elonmusk capitalism reputation prestige future exploitation impatience greed skepticism deception labor parables https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:97919fb2048b/ Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk on why museum are like novels - YouTube 2026-05-05T20:25:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbXu9J970sE robertogreco 2026 orhanpamuk 2024 museums literature novels collections collecting istanbul storytelling museumofinnocence nationalism turkey türkiye howwewrite writing objects politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:76bbe5a94764/ Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality | Quanta Magazine 2026-04-09T20:15:09+00:00 https://www.quantamagazine.org/carlo-rovellis-radical-perspective-on-reality-20251029/ robertogreco carlorovelli 2025 zacksavitsky physics reality mathematics philosophy worldview space time quantummechanics hegoland buddhism nagarjuna objects observereffect karlpopper thomaskuhn richardfeynman stepehnhawking copernicus galileo truth observation quantumtheory quantumphysics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5afe9fb43808/ Being in the World (full, award winning, Heidegger/Hubert Dreyfus documentary) - YouTube 2026-03-26T03:11:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 robertogreco hubertdreyfus heidegger documentary philosophy taoruspoli being time thinking waysofbeing risk human humans humanism technology jazz flamenco music 2010 film experience interaction art education skills risktaking mastery leahchase markwrathall austinperalta hiroshisakaguchi bobteague jumanesmith ryancross tonyaustin manuelmolina isaacsprintis christophergallo paulforte giancarlocanavieso christophredlich musicalinstruments johnhaugeland taylorcarman iainthomson seandkelly seankelly senses beginnersmind unschooling perception ai artificialintelligence darpa mit descartes plato charlestaylor certainty engagement tradition disengagement embodiment reason rationalism spinoza leibniz doing annesakaguchi tools stuartdreyfus movement knowhow activity objects waysofknowing knowing edgarchase dookychase food theoryofmind abstraction theory intelligence humanities howwethink relevance metaphor care caring mattering whatmatters consciousness aesthetics moods emotions waysofseeing waysofsensing bodies rules patterns joy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15ad9e269803/ The Throne 2026-03-25T03:12:40+00:00 https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/trump-when-it-finally-happens-saramago/ robertogreco aaronbady josésaramango donaldtrump 2026 antóniodeoliveirasalazar portugal hisory autocracy aimécésaire 1968 1970 1930s authoritarianism objects thingification things chairs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2e221313624d/ Why modern life is designed to keep you anxious — and what to do about it | The Gray Area - YouTube 2026-03-03T06:43:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxBCd4q9Lc robertogreco seanilling thegrayarea 2026 samirchopra anxiety philosophy buddhism acceptance stress worry dread fear life living interdependence interconnected interconnectedness existentialism freud resignation consciousness psychology finance panic vibes time presence future human humanism curiosity control change everythingchanges modernity humans parenting thinking howwethink wonder awe terror freedom activism problemsolving uncertainty complextity inquiry emotions society affect crueloptimism affecttheory mind signalanxiety power loss relationships love hope security suffering outdoors prescribingnature death dying social embodiement boides mindfulness culture sublime present mysticism beauty selflessness objects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e106522c021/ Ancient Everyday Weirdness (2026) | by Bruce Sterling | Jan, 2026 | Medium 2026-01-12T03:12:52+00:00 https://bruces.medium.com/ancient-everyday-weirdness-591955f40a2d robertogrecobtucesterling 2026 edc everydaycarry tools manuport objects human humans multitools everyday adamgreenfield design behavior homofaber leatherman timleatherman modernity aristotle plato weirdness swissarmylknives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:57e13dc29a4d/ Thingness | A Working Library 2026-01-03T06:32:37+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/thingness robertogrecoFor Hannah Arendt it is the durability of things that gives them their “relative independence from men [sic].” They “have the function of stabilizing human life.” Their “objectivity lies in the fact that…men, their ever-changing nature notwithstanding, can retrieve their sameness, that is, their identity, by being related to the same chair and the same table.” In life, things serve as stabilizing resting points. (Han, The Disappearance of Rituals, page 3) The table does not change—at least, it does not change at any time scale that is noticeable to the human who sits before it. I do not need to pay attention to the table, because nothing is happening with it that requires or even asks my attention. I can simply trust it. I can turn around and turn back, and even with my eyes on something else, I can reach for it and know it will be there, exactly where I left it. Screens, of course, lack any such sameness or stability. Screens are inconstant, unsame, unstable. A screen demands my attention—not only via the regular chirping of notifications, as hungry and unrelenting as a baby bird—but through that fundamental inconstancy: I know something may have changed since I last looked at it, know I cannot trust it to remain the same, to be steady or faithful. I must be vigilant towards a screen, always on alert, suspicious. And vigilance is exhausting. I will not add to the discourse about how we should spend less time with screens; you are as familiar with those patterns and arguments as anyone. I want to suggest instead that turning away from screens is turning towards something else. It is not an absence but a presence, not an empty hand but one with a hold on something solid and true. That is, a politics of refusal must be more than a closed door; it must be both a closing and an opening, both rejection and invitation. The refusal must contain its alternative, the other paths, the thing you are turning to while you turn away. And what you turn to must have that stabilizing presence, that thingness, the restfulness of something you can trust. A rock that fits into your palm, a notebook, a bowl, a tree, a trail through the woods, a book (always a stack of books), a table, the chairs around it scraping the floor as your kin sit down to join you."]]> 2025 mandybrown hannaharendt byung-chulhan vigilance ritual rituals things thingness ux objectivity screens presence absence refusal trust notebooks books objects invitation rejection substance familiarity patterns https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff19f7476c43/ Crispin "Mr" Jones Airs A Philosophical Perspective On Watchmaking 2026-01-03T06:01:32+00:00 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2046020/episodes/17558846-crispin-mr-jones-airs-a-philosophical-perspective-on-watchmaking robertogreco alonbenjoseph crispinjones mrjones watches watchmaking 2025 robnudds via:hayim design manufacturing applewatch apple smartwatches criticaldesign technology blackmirror objects history jewelry 2007 2020 hongkong shenzhen china servicing repair mrjoneswatches https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4289f1bc1702/ Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination, by Matt G. Kirschenbaum (2007) | Books Gateway | MIT Press 2025-11-30T22:31:11+00:00 https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3356/MechanismsNew-Media-and-the-Forensic-Imagination robertogreco mattkirschenbaum newmedia storage computing computers reading howweread writing howwewrite electronicliterature literature 2007 michaeljoyce forensics computerforensics williamgibson mysterhouse games gaming videogames personalcomputing books objects text platforms systems devices mechanism affordances interactivefiction if https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ee36895890d/ You're overspending because you lack values 2025-11-06T19:14:31+00:00 https://www.sherryning.com/p/youre-overspending-because-you-lack-values robertogrecoLust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. —Bernard Cornwell Shopping has this effect on me, the voyage is more satisfying than the destination. There is such thing as post-purchase clarity: the moment when you buy something trendy and you suddenly sober up to how much you don’t care about it (let alone like it); you just want to be seen having it. Who is No-Face? Spirited Away is most known for the character with the least lines: a masked ghost who can conjure gold. He has no backstory, we only know that he is banned from entering the bathhouse. Chihiro, out of kindness, lets him in. No-Face is refused service at first, but the staff quickly compromise their values upon seeing his gold. They serenade him, “Welcome the rich man. He’s hard for you to miss. His butt keeps getting bigger, so there’s plenty to kiss!” while they fight for the gold nuggets that plop out of his fat hands. Then, he devours the workers in despair when he realizes their kindness is bought, and only Chihiro is genuine. [image] The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters to them. It’s like waking up from a trance state and realizing, What have I done to myself? I certainly felt this way standing in front of my garbage bags. Loneliness, alienation, addictions and self-defeating loops—these are not material problems, but ‘desire’ problems. I’m finally coming to understand what Girard meant by, “All desire is a desire for being.” We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging. That’s why No-Face has no face: he is desire itself, the appetite to become, the emptiness that consumes while wishing it were someone else. Money reveals this: In Roman mythology, the temple of Juno Moneta was both sanctuary and mint (it’s where we get the words “money” and “monetary”). To strike a coin was to sanctify it with divine authority, so it circulated as both economic and spiritual power. It still does: money organizes meaning. Fiat currency works because we collectively believe it means something—fiat literally “let it be” in Latin—its meaning assigned by our shared narrative. And because money is tethered to desire, it doesn’t just reflect value; it follows it. It’s the pull of eyes when a sports car glides down a street. It’s Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, saying “when you create desire, profits are a consequence.” Shopping is not independent from the spiritual realm that strips away our names, and it’s a very literal form of kamikakushi. When we feel the weight of our limits, we start reaching toward idols to imitate, goals to chase, places to explore, people to meet. What we’re really chasing is a sense of immortality or infinity, something that lives longer than we ever will. We want to be remembered long after we’ve left a conversation, the company, the world. Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence. This is why Marie Kondo’s “spark joy” test is great: it reframes consumption as discernment. It asks whether an object raises your spirit or weighs it down. Left unchecked, your possessions take away your freedom to be who you are. As Fight Club says, “The things you own end up owning you.” *** Every now and then, I feel my value system collapsing under the seduction of Alo’s knitwear sets through their windows. Overall, none of this is about “how to spend less”, it’s about the freedom to just be… you.
You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. —Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
Stronger values make you spend more mindfully because they shift the axis of desire. When you know what you worship—what you actually stand for and who you want to become—everything gets tested against that vision. Values act like a sieve: they filter out the empty cravings that come from comparison and they let through only the things that genuinely serve your spirit. Without values, desires lead you astray by following ads and algorithms and the envy of friends—a state commonly known as “being distracted”. The scariest part of Chihiro watching her parents turn into pigs is that they could’ve simply walked away. The unattended food stalls feel like a test of whether one can resist charming distractions. Like the family in Spirited Away, you’re rarely forced to follow one desire over another (until you choose wrongly, and only later realize what you’ve done, if you realize it at all). But if you aim at your highest value—placing no other gods above it, coveting nothing of your neighbor’s—you free yourself from the distractions that split your soul and can refocus your being on becoming who you want to be."]]> sherryning consumption consumerism overconsumption values 2025 spiritedaway desire money budget materialism mirandapriestly stuff shopping fomo lust bernardcornwell process thejourneyisthedestination experience loneliness being life living capitalism objects junomoneta bernardarnault mariekondo freedom chuckbalahniuk distraction envy algortithms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:482bcc3fed1e/ Untapped : We Need More Than Fewer, Better Things : By Deb Chachra 2025-11-02T21:16:34+00:00 https://untappedjournal.com/stories/deb-chachra-need-more-than-fewer-better-things robertogreco 2024 debchachra adaptivereuse materials consumption cradeletograve environment small reuse use consumerism consciousconsumerism plastic plastics novelty design bees objects artifacts civilization lego https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbcc78e8d044/ A Tender Excavation – The Luckman 2025-10-31T21:23:25+00:00 https://theluckman.org/gallery/a-tender-excavation/ robertogreco art archives zeynepabes susuattar jamilbaldwin melybarragán artemisaclark arleenecorreavalencia mercedesdorame primajalichandra-sakuntabhai leahking tarrahkrajnak heesookwon annle arlenemejorado starmontana camillewong 2025 photography families diaspora discrimination displacement erasure exclusion slavery systemicviolence identity immigration migration migrants us care caring excavation objects anecdotes memory memories narrative representation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2417a7beaed0/ Xigagueta: A Vessel for Contemporary Art, Writing and Thinking – KoozArch 2025-10-26T19:13:13+00:00 https://www.koozarch.com/essays/xigagueta-a-vessel-for-contemporary-art-writing-and-thinking robertogreco art writing thinking languagae translation 2025 xigagueta howwethink howwewrite embodiment memory imagination creation reflection anthropology life righttolife humanrights evaposas nieuweinstituut nations nationswithoutastate statelessness state states 2018 research bodies objects territory binnizá diidxazá dormancy oaxaca tehuantepec mexico libraries chiapas miguelcovarrubias diegorivera indigeneity indigenous race mestizo society discrimination ikoots chinanteco zoque chontal ayuuk collectives ombeayiüts hegemony poetry narrative sublevation dellalvarado diegomatus anapalacios oraltradition language languages uniónhidalgo sierramadresur lagunasuperior chicapa esteroguié espiritusanto victorfuentes galeríagubidxa globalization local small textiles textilejustice belonging identity land crime extraction extractivism silence loneliness technology emancipation transgression isthmusoftehuentepec wisdom meaning meaningmaking zá fernandomagariño binnigula'sa guendaabiani' gabriellópezchi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6917f12868c1/ The Last Dinosaurs: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Things That Disappear" - Cleveland Review of Books 2025-10-22T02:51:15+00:00 https://clereviewofbooks.com/jenny-erpenbeck-things-that-disappear-philip-harris/ robertogreco jennyerpenbeck philipharris 2025 via:javierarbona objects memory disappearance erasure tylerdurden michaelhoffmann disassembly permanence impermanence history change ephemeral ephemerality walterbenjamin buddha buddhism commodities everyday knowledge belongings possessions thoreau https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4705ab08cc5c/ When Pilgrimage Becomes Form - Beautiful Eccentrics 2025-10-18T06:09:52+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/when-pilgrimage-becomes-form robertogreco pablohelguera pilgrimage 2025 form loriwaxman pandemic coronavirus covid-19 2020 walking mobility childhood movement knowledge understanding art arts moving caminodesantiago place museums artworks commoditization carolduncan guydebord ritual tourism walterbenjamin idolotry fetishism process happenings allankaprow bodies participation participatory risk richardlong francisalÿs hamishfulton relics objects acts time dialogue derive dérive situations situationist displacement reality dislocation aristotle mauricemaeterlinck happiness journeys quests sorjuanainésdelacruz drifting learning howwelearn psychogeography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ef6bb16d4cbb/ Partita for Ghost Ladder and Insect Eyes 2025-10-18T05:48:48+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/partita-for-ghost-ladder-and-insect robertogreco art javiertoscano danielawolf lourdesmorales gabriellagómez-mont fronteracorozal chiapas mexico guatemala lacandon border borders marjorieperloff witrgenstein compasses language poetry scaffolding experience thought action aníballópez bubunegrón miguelventura documentary understanding comprehension labor museums markets intentions process production product lygiaclark taniabruguera happenings artmaking permanence impermanenece via:laure arteútil utility objects relationalobjects acts pedagogy value authorship existence work howwework artleisure leisurearts interpretation ladders inquiry artifact ownership inventory economics social mediation audience activation conversation learning howwelearn sense sensemaking jamesjoyce fugue absence manners impalpability instruction pablohelguera allankaprow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d3a908173685/ Jeffrey Yoo Warren | Jeffrey Yoo Warren 2025-10-02T16:43:17+00:00 https://unterbahn.com/ robertogreco jeffreyyoowarren identity equity via:javierarbona environment archives objects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea1b20d5ee3c/ MB&F - Tales from the Tribe Podcast - S2 EP3 - Jonathan Ferrer - YouTube 2025-10-02T16:23:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38z_JfujXpA robertogreco jonathanferrer watches brewwatches brew mb&f 2025 microbrands watchmaking maximilianbüsser maxbüsser small design storytelling art objects motorcycles ducati independence business growth brands branding experience industrialdesign dieterrams architecture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92888116b7be/ STOP Buying Watches: You Don't Need ANOTHER ONE! - YouTube 2025-07-30T23:03:44+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qGzLFstko robertogreco doug'swatches 2025 consumption consumerism socialmedia algorithms youtube watches baudrillard meaning symbols status aesthetics idenity marxism capitalism commodification symbolism sybolism watchcollecting hype fastfashion appreciation watchcanon watchenthusiasm instagram reddit meaningmaking purpose business objects identity jeanbaudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dfc895255c4a/ Overthinking Why Dive Watches Are All the Same - YouTube 2025-07-30T22:49:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euahMnkSDiw robertogreco watches divers divewatches history rolex blancpain omega zodiac unimatic ming rolandbarthes baudrillard simulacra symbols semiotics aura talismans conservatism nostalgia permanence identity tradition business design designconservatism materials socialmedia algorithms progress function signaling heirlooms doug'swatches iso isoinertia inertia symbolism icons philosophy watchcanon form 1932 1953 fiftyfathoms zodiacseawolf doxa seiko seikoskx iso645 standards convergence traditions significance rolexsubmariner omegaseamaster steinhart fashion tudor blackbay58 sanmartin invicta blackbay ressence mb&f mainstream innovation designdarwinism myths masculinity exploration competence readiness reality danger adventure survival mythologies objects courage stories storytelling trust walterbenjamin culturalmemory culture continuity memory taste aesthetics instagram echochambers stainlesssteel ceramics manufacturing credibility templates evolution functionality ritual historyy aspiration artifacts craftsmanship jeanbaudrill https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d6dbeba3c37/ Podcast Insights E23 - Rolex vs. Gen X - BEYOND THE DIAL 2025-07-24T23:14:55+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e63-rolex-vs-gen-x/ robertogreco tolisten 2021 rolex genx generationx 1980s 1990s vintage nationalism luxury economics watches allenfarmelo umbertoeco traditionalism conservatism technology past marinetti futurism italianfuturists modernity futurists antiestablishment fascism progressivism environmentalism directaction greenpeace luddism luddites neoluddites neoluddism waltwhitman thoreau resistance left society analog liberalism liberals corporations corporatism filippotommasomarinetti filippomarinetti counterculture 1960s backtotheland communalism progress stephengreenblatt philosophy future thomasaquinas christianity atheism time democracy ancientgreece epicureanism ethics silentgeneration generations boomers babyboomers paralysisofanalysis thinking howwethink rebellion communes hippies romanticism childhood ingenuity forums flamewars online internet digital digitization change web billclinton neoliberalism globalization plannedobsolescence quality repair maintenance deindustrialization jean-claudebiver switzerland blancpain vintagenation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc3f9345a3e8/ Podcast Insights E1 - 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Che-Wei Wang & Taylor Levy (CW&T) - Iterating Together with Time - Jackson Dahl 2025-03-29T02:23:34+00:00 https://jacksondahl.com/dialectic/cwandt robertogreco cw&t che-weiwang taylorlevy 2025 design time jacksondahl howwework friction engineering nyuitp objects growth prototyping kickstarter process intuition efficiency legacy purpose audience learning howwelearn timelessness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b235c315f18/ Trees With a Secret Message - JSTOR Daily 2025-02-28T06:02:31+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/trees-with-a-secret-message/ robertogreco trees pacificnorthwest 2025 ameliasoth bark materials cartography wayfinding navigation temporality cedar vancouverisland nicholaskawa bradleypainter cailínmurray anthropology australia scandinavia newmexico alaska wood fibres objects brianpegg archaeology cmts history economics douglasdeur karenevanhoff jamiehebert indigeneity indigenous forests landscape culture diet spirituality charlesmobley morleyeldridge larsöstlund ollezackrisson gregerhörnberg stephenjett philipwilke ronaldtowner stacygalassini dendrochronology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:188da7547b2a/ San Francisco's history is stored in an Alamo Square house filled with jars 2025-01-03T00:57:03+00:00 https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/02/ron-henggeler-san-francisco-history-jars/ robertogreco collections collecting sanfrancisco storytelling jars glassjars memory everyday objects artifacts juliezigoris morganellis archives journaling journals archiving accretion accumulation gathering noticing observation art arts josephcornell ronhenggeler https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e4243061257/ Writer Orhan Pamuk Presenting the Museum of Innocence | Louisiana Channel - YouTube 2024-12-24T19:08:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3vmCpimA-g robertogreco orhanpamuk collections collecting objects museums museumofinnocence istanbul 2024 memory josephcornell robertrauschenberg juangris marcelproust proust memories everyday writing howwewrite time ottomanempire clocks watches surrealism art literature visualarts readymade homes life living emotions love anger place space türkiye turkey https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a68967b71bcb/ Writer Orhan Pamuk: The Texture of Istanbul | Louisiana Channel - YouTube 2024-11-01T02:45:42+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmBGE80iUrI robertogreco orhanpamuk istanbul 2024 landscape cities bosphorus sound soundscapes howwewrite writing place literature memory sufi melancholy turkey failure resignation history texture photography ottomanempire deterioration imagery visuals sadness poverty turkishism time cats views minarets islam hagiasophia hills oldness fragility change goldenhorn streets urban urbanism objects identity juxtaposition religion rousseau baudelaire flaneur flâneurs flaneurs flâneur bodyguards walking belonging modernity creativity complexity tanizaki jun'ichirōtanizaki japan russia flaubert europe provinciality novels henryjames art elasticity everyday details canon small richness interestedness dailylife citylife gustaveflaubert dostoevsky türkiye https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b09f7c72f748/ Walking as Research Practice 2024-10-28T18:53:03+00:00 https://www.ideabooks.nl/9789464460674-walking-as-research-practice robertogreco walking alicetwemlow tâniacardoso morethanhuman multispecies multisensory research senses objects urban urbanism commons publicspace design via:daniellucas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:759b33e772e6/ L.A. artist Ed Ruscha on his plant board and love for plants - Los Angeles Times 2024-09-11T16:05:19+00:00 https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2024-08-07/ed-ruscha-on-love-for-plants robertogreco eliswoukalmino jennellefong plants art losangeles life death objects edruscha time memory nostalgia change https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83923409326b/ Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era | The Walrus 2024-09-10T05:51:33+00:00 https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/ robertogreco moleskines notebooks 2024 rolandallen brucechatwin 1995 samuelpepys objects davidallen daniellevitin davidsax statussymbols writing howwewrite karlrove rhodia clairefontaine paper paperblanks leuchtturm fieldnotes midori hobonichi stalohy oplepo oulipo modo&modo brands branding francescofranceschi marisebregondi georgesperec raymondqueneau https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3926f3df8bc5/ Tokens of History - Foundling Museum 2024-09-08T19:15:56+00:00 https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/tokens-of-history/ robertogreco tokens amulets objects coins medals https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80a8dde8e87f/ Writer Orhan Pamuk | A Good Novel Should Make Us Feel the Passing of Time | Louisiana Channel - YouTube 2024-08-20T21:19:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ssAtOn6I0 robertogreco orhanpamuk time novels thomasmann magicmountain williamfaulkner josephconrad virginiawoolf timepassing reading howweread writing howwewrite warandpeace tolstoy vladimirnabokov timepassage 2024 henryjames comics comicbooks experience life death human humans perception salvadordalí objects literature storytelling meaning meaningmaking change art painting sculpture architecture space https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:febce84e0c55/ A flawed archive | likeahammerinthesink 2024-08-15T05:41:44+00:00 https://likeahammerinthesink.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/a-flawed-archive/ robertogreco collections collecting playingcards cards situationist 2016 psychogeography rousseau drifting derive walking jokers thejoker dominicpaterson stinawirfelt deborahstratman corneliaparker graememiller calumstorrie memory dérive encounters finding foundobjects objects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3cbdf8039d39/ FAITH IN ARTS: A Conversation with Dr. Fahamu Pecou - YouTube 2024-07-24T22:45:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8qWLzKuEko robertogreco fahamupecou art faith spirituality objects powerobjects popculture culture 2024 religion identity trap rap music hiphop sneakers masculinity fineart blackness talismans making artmaking transport time space bmcm+ac faithinarts https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:581e5acb7220/ Added by @havenwatchco Instagram post Maybe a wk ago, on the phone with one of my best friends, he said “Nostalgia is a trap” and I almost cheered. I didn’t, because it was late and I was outside, trying to keep the coughing down and stay away from 2024-07-01T07:13:32+00:00 https://www.picuki.com/media/2840275612750153788 robertogreco weltoncutter haven havenwatchco 2022 books nostalgia poetry westoncutter time thejourneyisthedestination writing howwewrite reading howweread pandemic coronavirus objects spark amazement possessions accumulation hoarding covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:962725a59306/ Esoteric Forms Emerge from Wood in Aleph Geddis's Enchanting Geometric Sculptures — Colossal 2024-06-26T06:21:01+00:00 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/02/aleph-geddis-wood-sculptures/ robertogreco alephgeddis wood art 2024 woodworking objects sculpture glyphs symbols shapes platonicsolids orcasisland bali hokkaido japan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:34ce7ecc1d9c/ The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life - by L. M. Sacasas 2024-05-16T04:42:27+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-stuff-of-a-well-lived-life robertogreco lmsacasas 2024 apple ads advertising marketing ipadpro objects albertborgmann devices focalthings experience crushaddebacle timcook ipad creativity destruction brianmerchant deviceparadigm care practice engagement bodies embodiment mastery effort pleasure rewards relationships things competence skill consumption consumerism ease safety efficiency convenience exhaustion socialorder society humancondition humanism machines humanity humans biranmerchant hubris bigtech arts culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:724d0dcf993d/ Tegowerk - A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair 2024-05-12T23:54:22+00:00 https://tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle-repair/ robertogreco bikes biking maintenance repair 2022 tegowetk thinking howwethink doing matthewcrawford tangibility objects bullshitjobs websites webdeb web online internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d03a446c064e/ ⬜ The meaning of a moka pot - One Thing 2024-03-31T20:45:36+00:00 https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-a-moka-pot robertogreco coffee nategallant moka 2023 mokacoffeepot mokaexpress nostalgia thingification objects design espresso bialetti express https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59c7c37e6b14/ Packing My Library - Believer Magazine 2024-01-29T04:27:35+00:00 https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/2016-08-10-packing-my-library/ robertogrecocollections collecting music packing moving 2016 shujahaider twins giftgiving culture sharing dwwinnicott siblings individuality primaryselfishness relationships books walterbenjamin nostralgia memories memory homesickness pakistan us children childhood immigrants immigration expatriates harveypekar jazz thebeatles robertcrumb learning knowing howwelearn obsessions heritage anticipation napster streaming internet spotify objects playlists photography raydavies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3672f6c785e6/ The Watch In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction 2023-12-10T03:34:32+00:00 https://jackforster.substack.com/p/the-watch-in-the-age-of-mechanical robertogreco jackforster 2023 williammassena massenalab watches walterbenjamin aura reproduction plagiarism homages intellectualproperty patekphilippe objects nostalgia time reproductions fakes exclusivity rarity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ef06dc3ec62/ Marcus Aurelius: The Man Who Solved the Universe - YouTube 2023-09-26T15:59:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv6W0Nv5ev0 robertogrecohorsesonyt marcusaurelius 2023 paxromana romanempire ancientrome hedonism vices videoessays midjourneyai goodness virtue temptation meditations nature imperfection judgement interconnected interconnectedness ecology duty adversity endurance bravery life living prosperity possessions values fulfillment objects kindness accumulation potential howtolive howwelive death dying stoics stoicism philosophy pleasure happiness fear sadness greatness lcd michaelsorensen interconnectivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c9bef0f615b/ Planned Obsolescence Will Kill Us All - YouTube 2023-09-22T23:11:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz68ILyuWtA robertogreco plannedobsolescence obsolescence unlearningeconomics 2023 economics greatdepression disposability consumption consumerism capitalism waterbury watches yankeewatches maintenance care repair ingersoll objects nature environment sustainability disposal waste righttorepair ownership possessions caring intimacy familiarity anthropology transdisciplinary economy libertarianism conservatism ewaste systems systemsthinking history math landfills landfill emissions toxicity mercury lead toxins soil air water wildlife circulareconomy materials reuse recycling bernardlondon 1920s 1930s boomandbust speculation supply demand markets trusts production johnmaynardkeynes fdr gilesslade replacement negativeexternalities keynesianism lcd keynes franklindelanoroosevelt thesimpsons cahalmoran https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3f2592a8f4c3/ Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang 2023-08-22T20:13:49+00:00 https://futuress.org/stories/designing-belief/ robertogreco 2023 amulets thailand phrakhreūang tradition history objects culture napisaleelasuphapong inequality resistance precarity buddhism possessions wealth neoiberalism materialism art design futuress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6db5747ff9f1/ The Untold Story Of Watchmaking's Most Iconic Advertising Campaign 2023-08-07T00:17:38+00:00 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/untold-story-patek-philippe-generations-advertising-campaign robertogreco watches advertising patekphilippe emotions luxury inheritance objects stephenpulvirent parenting psychology generations legacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:42b385e8c4a6/ Personal Machines and Portable Worlds - Christopher Butler 2023-07-09T19:58:31+00:00 https://www.chrbutler.com/personal-machines-and-portable-worlds robertogreco“My book is so much about how technology dictates culture. The devices that we use aren’t just accessories to culture or windows that we consume things through; they are collaborators, gateways, and molds…the idea of a personal computer had to be invented, manufactured, and marketed. We had to imagine computers as personal machines.” This is an important point. We could live in a world where computing is a public works — where terminals to central processing work like telephones used to. You can pick them up or put them down, but nothing inside of them is yours. But we don’t live in that world. As soon as the first computer booted up in the first home, the computer became a personal object. And when an object becomes personal, it is difficult to leave it behind. We want it with us. Perhaps that one thing — a simple desire for a personal machine — set us on the course we have followed since. Not Moore’s Law, not Capitalism, but personhood. Later, in the same post, Chayka writes of the Palm Pilot — an early attempt at portable computing — that, despite it not providing much in the way of “fun” features for a kid, there was still an “ineffable appeal to holding a gateway to a digital world in your hand.” A world. There’s that word again. Why a world? There is a sense of dimensional transcendence to computers. As C.S. Lewis wrote of the wardrobe, “It’s inside is bigger than its outside.” In the early days of mobile computing, it was hard to not compare the capaciousness of a computer you could carry with you to something like a book. Of both you could say their insides were bigger than their outsides, but when it came to information, you’d have to settle for figurative capaciousness in a book; their actual contents are literally cover to cover. A digital machine’s contents are an entirely different thing. In the time of the Palm Pilot, a tiny door to a vast digital world was more powerful as an idea than a tool. The digital world just wasn’t as big back then as it is now. But to Chayka’s first point, we built the digital world using these little devices that didn’t do very much. We made it worth the journey. And meanwhile, the object was our companion, and inside was a tiny, personal digital world — our notes, our messages, our few digital texts. It was not much, but it was ours." ... "Many of the examples I’ve looked at so far align with my ideas of what makes a machine personal because they were designed with limitations imposed upon them, and many of the examples I’ve discussed that no longer feel personal have been designed to surpass those limitations. If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very different machines. Sometimes it feels like it is simply a matter of whether a machine is connected to the internet or not. But of course it’s more than that. It’s as much about what we do with our machines as it is about what they were designed to do. I think we can still experience the personal machine by choosing to experience a machine that way. In a way, the continued popularity of vinyl is a good example of this. For the same price as a single record, you can get several months of access to more music than you could ever hear in that time. Still, some people choose records over digital files. It’s too easy to dismiss this as an affectation. It’s a choice to experience music in a particular way. It’s also a choice of a personal machine — a record player rather than a phone. One benefit of personal technology reaching the maturity it has is the abundance of choices. It may seem like you must use an iPhone — perhaps everyone you know and care about is group messaging with iMessage — but you can choose something else. Every choice has benefits and costs. Ten years ago, I chose to leave Facebook. The benefits were many; the costs were not having easy access to where people I cared about shared information I wanted to know. A few years ago, I stopped using an e-reader — I had used a Kindle, and then a Kobo, both great machines. The cost was no longer being able to send articles from the web to my machine and reading them, as well as books, in bed. The benefit was not having too many choices in front of me when I just want to read one thing. I went back to the printed book. You could say that’s as much of an affectation in 2023 as playing a vinyl record. Maybe. But it’s a choice. I haven’t owned a laptop for many years. My primary machine is a Mac Mini set up in my home office. The cost is I can’t work from my couch or the local coffee shop. The benefit is I have some separation in my life between work and not work. For me, these choices turn using the same machines everyone uses into a more personal experience." ... "I also notice that when I look at these older machines and the old media they use, I often find myself feeling like I’m looking at a door to a world. I look at a book — there’s a world. Every playable disc in our house — each a world. Once you become accustomed to worldspotting, you can see them in anything. Every object is a world. In the World; of the Worlds Perhaps the days of personal machines are over. Maybe the complexities that Mau and his cohort wrote about are not safely reducible. Maybe we can’t decomplexify the world of things. Maybe. And if we can, I wouldn’t dare imagine it could happen quickly. But if we can, where do we start? What do we look at? What do we use again, despite there being sleeker, faster, frictionless options available? What limits do we embrace so that we can re-balance the human with the machine? I have spent the last few years slowly disconnecting in various ways. I’ve chosen to use things that only do a part of what readily available alternatives do and more. I’ve chosen to stop using some things altogether. I have found that these choices have enhanced my experiences because they’ve supported true insight; they’ve helped me be more aware of what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and who I am becoming. I have found that they change the world because they change my world. Jung said that in each of us is another. I think that in each of us is another world. A good personal machine reveals that world and helps us shape it."]]> christopherbutler whatisacomputer porability computers computing objects 2023 personal personalmachines machines gadgets communication expression imagination toys technology laptops smartphones phones purpose utility entertainment infinitude devices audiencesofone portals identity exploration legendofzelda zelda worldbuilding brucemau massivechange complexity institutewithoutboundaries potential thoreau simplicity human humans balance invention creation distraction attention waste want voyeurism kylechayka personhood palmpilot capitalism mooreslaw worlds companions maremecum vademecum designfiction sciencefiction scifi projectara robinsloan marydoriarussell quantumleap limitations constraints choice kindle kobo iphone tradeoffs limits facebook disconnecting carljung jung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8225eb3c6c52/ Time is not an illusion. It’s an object with physical size | Aeon Essays 2023-05-28T00:15:19+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/time-is-not-an-illusion-its-an-object-with-physical-size robertogreco time objects sarawalker 2023 evolution future measurement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0582c5b2e944/ The Computer is a Feeling 2023-05-28T00:11:02+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1QbPa3URLo5cp07bi6U-vTFjX_4btORAlwSnSRxEapsk/mobilebasic robertogreco computers computing timhwang omarrizwan personalcomputers internet smartphones 2023 via:justinpickard hardware software coding devices objects culture feeligns operatingsystems programming experience ux ui networking networkedcomputing papercraft interface interfaces gui https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:90ac628148fe/ The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things | The New Yorker 2023-04-14T02:21:05+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-philosopher-who-believes-in-living-things robertogreco 2023 janebennett objects hoarding animism enchantment formstone kinship vitality difference differences burden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:01d528480401/ Urban Technology at University of Michigan week 140 2023-04-09T03:39:18+00:00 https://urbantechnology.substack.com/p/urban-technology-at-university-of-287 robertogreco julianbleecker designfiction 2023 design manuals startrek archaeology objects storytelling imagination gabrieleferri bryanboyer speculativedesign speculativefiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ba0c581f372/ Tending to the transient and the overlooked | FoAM 2023-03-01T20:50:54+00:00 https://fo.am/wabisabi-route/ robertogreco transient overlooked maintenance care repair immersion attunement landing noticing idleness slow small allthesenses multisensory unfinished wandering hesitation resistance patience unfolding waiting watching observation receptivity solitude ritual being morethanhuman objects multispecies liminality liminal transitions inbetweenness ephemeral ephemerality poetics poetry reflection meditation pause wabi-sabi betweenness inbetween between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1cce72f57cfe/ Eyeo 2022 - Dorothy Santos on Vimeo 2023-01-02T08:54:35+00:00 https://vimeo.com/772226780 robertogreco dorothysantos eyeo 2022 interactivefiction if howwewrite writing poetry text subversion language communication time space telephones recordings audio voices patience analog mediamaking memory technology margaretmorse objects podcasts paralinguisticcues allthesenses environment translation meaningmaking listening speaking duolingo rosettastone amazonhalo diy instagram tiktok youtube speech voice sound telemarketing tagalog accents decolonization machinelistening philippines cathyparkhong english voicememos languagelearning oralhistory oralhistories oraltradition prosody relationships claudiarankine silence archives archiving eyeo2022 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e266604b89c3/ The Ezra Klein Show: Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions on Apple Podcasts 2022-12-05T03:10:14+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-ruth-ozekis-enchanted-relationship-to-minds/id1548604447?i=1000571550798 robertogreco ruthozeki ezraklein possessions objects buddhism animism 2022 normanfischer jameskugel borges janebennett mentalillness stories libraries informationoverload librarians mariekondo emptiness form zenbuddhism fiction attention ritual reality writing howwewrite meditation materialism consumerism bodies voices cognition distraction storytelling spirituality experience return mind notice noticing thoughts thinking contol interdependence interbeing thichnhathanh ephemerality notknowing beginnersmind curiosity engagement ephemeral creativity creation carljung religion shamans joanofarc gandhi rationalism psychology mentalhealth context secularism inspiration self-help intuition insight hearingvoicesmovement pathologization psychiatry normal body morethanhuman matter materials climatechange trees multispecies shinto agency respect care caring disposal maintenance reverence hoarding spirits tradition promise ownership responsibility books bookstores stationery capitalism consumption shopping clutter messiness self cra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa894d102ff9/ Beyond Horology Podcast: Why We Collect Watches with guest psychiatrist Erik Nilzèn 🇸🇪 on Apple Podcasts 2022-11-20T00:28:12+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beyond-horology-podcast/id1549388407?i=1000538216849 robertogreco watches collections collecting eriknilzèn 2021 hobbies mortality time aesthetics brain memory possessions objects light shape forms sound smells allthesenses talismans memories connections howwethink living learning pasttimes self-worth self-importance expertise value why whywelearn belonging community communities socialmedia enabling forums self-assertion shopping anxiety values consumerism validation status vanity success signaling flexing stories ego expression self-expression desire obsession longing expectations sweden fulfillment investment culture clothing accessories stress influence budget homages settling watchenthusiasm fomo image images illusions longevity durability fashion trends trendiness limitededitions manipulation addiction behavior consumption depression overconsumption procrastination relationships escape respect work lifebalance balance watchcollecting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3f9621dd3470/ Podcast | Sara Rich, "Shipwreck Hauntography: Underwater Ruins and… 2022-11-14T17:47:21+00:00 https://newbooksnetwork.com/shipwreck-hauntography robertogreco 2022 sararich transdisciplinary multispecies morethanhuman uncanny eerie history hauntography shipwrecks anti-colonialism archaeology maritime imperialism theology philosophy failure finitude via:javierarbona reality liminality liminal theory discovery scholarship realism underwater accretion ownership objects ecosystems growth unesco capitalism science religion god christianity belief liminalzones culture attribution property geopolitics duality dualities binaryoppositions heritage howwelearn anticolonialism betweenness inbetweenness inbetween between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2fe2891ff7c/ Earn it first — NOMOS Glashütte 2022-08-20T01:11:21+00:00 https://nomos-glashuette.com/en/magazine/earn-it-first robertogreco nomos less slow simplicity sustainability environment watches delayedgratification gretathunberg jörghundertpfund 2020 responsibility small objects accumulation hoarding desire exploitation place travel consumerism consumption design pause purpose mariekondo resistance possessions engagement meaning production mobility challenge watchcanon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e81b5e886bfa/ Podcast Conversations E4 - Gary Shteyngart on Watches as Literary Devices - BEYOND THE DIAL 2022-08-16T23:27:35+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e14-gary-shteyngart-on-watches-as-literary-devices/ robertogreco watches garyshteyngart 2019 writing literature collecting collections nomos junghans maxbill philosophy lakesucess autism meaning time minutia howwethink mechanics engineering art design bauhaus objects phenomenology relationships companionship watchworld distraction calm rolex jackforster things stuff podcasts thegreynato inheritance generations identity lakesuccess germany us buses greyhound roadtrips noticing details music politics losangeles southcarolina nyc lasvegas switzerland patekphillipe finance hedgefunds economics money culture society scarcity fredsavage jakegyllenhaal vintage bubbles watchbubble speculation universalgenève flipping watchflipping watchflippers watchdealers learning howwelearn fashion watchmaking timex casio tudor status grandseiko seiko audemarspiguet royaloak hodinkee jasonheaton jamesstacey watchcollecting ochsundjunior patekphillipenautilus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0046e56d3fe/ Watches: Dopamine Horology: The New Style Language For The Post-Pandemic Watch Boom | The Journal | MR PORTER 2022-08-11T16:39:09+00:00 https://www.mrporter.com/en-ca/journal/watches/dopamine-horology-bright-watches-colour-dial-strap-17532988 robertogreco timothybarber 2022 watches fashion luxury style oris breitling rolex design color propilotx geraldcharles bellandross rogerdubuis tagheuer iwc platfulness titanium analog baumeandmercier jewelry objects mrporter bell&ross baume&mercier https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fb517b0ebbf/ The Power of Ephemera: Permanence and Decay in Protective Power Objects | African Arts | MIT Press 2022-03-30T04:26:12+00:00 https://direct.mit.edu/afar/article-abstract/42/3/16/54483/The-Power-of-Ephemera-Permanence-and-Decay-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext robertogreco2009 ephemeral objects art power aiméebessire ephemerality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f70724a6b55b/ A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn - The Verge 2022-03-04T20:46:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960011/farewell-from-dieter-bohn robertogreco dieterbohn computers computing howwewrite language writing online web identity words 2022 semiotics shipoftheseus objects philosophy meaning abstraction communication socialmedia handles usernames names naming meaningmaking theseus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1c857a93052/ Maggi Simpkins 2022-02-15T19:52:24+00:00 https://www.maggisimpkins.com/ robertogreco maggisimpkins art design craft jewelry creativity autodidacts training bespoke stories objects storytelling autodidactism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69ff4768389b/ Jewelry Designer Maggi Simpkins On Her Cartier Tank 2022-02-15T19:47:11+00:00 https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/jewelry-designer-maggi-simpkins-finds-power-in-her-grandmothers-cartier-tank robertogreco maggisimpkins 2022 watches cartier cartiertank stories significance meaning meaningmaking opulence luxury storytelling objects jewelry taste canon watchcanon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:081915e2bcb4/ What is collecting? – ScrewDownCrown 2021-11-17T06:59:52+00:00 https://screwdowncrown.wordpress.com/2021/11/15/what-is-collecting/ robertogrecoDuring the blitz on London I saw how simple and profound was the passion for things of one’s own. The morning after poor people had been bombed out, they grieved far less for the house or rooms where they had been living than for their things, the things their mother had left them, or their children had given them. The bomb which destroyed their things destroyed part of themselves --“On Collecting” by Lord Eccles In short, all forms of accumulating objects can potentially be “necessities of life”, if the role of emotional well-being in physical survival is adequately taken into account. Another aspect of collection is whether it is worth distinguishing random accumulations of objects from purposeful selections. Some will say the term “collection” should be reserved for things that have been systematically ‘curated’ according to a unifying principle and should not be used to unnecessarily dignify the miscellaneous hoarding of possessions. The problem here is that you can’t really find a universally agreed definition for how “collections” are different from “accumulations,” because everyone will have their own criteria! For example, if I collect things I like – then this could very well be all my possessions! The truth is, all accumulations are actually an individual’s own selections, and therefore they will be imbued with meaning (for each person) through their own selectivity. Every accumulation, whatever additional significance it may be found to possess, has the unity that comes from its telling something about a human being who lived in a particular time and place. Of course, it might be useful to distinguish between people who deliberately pursue their own ideas of coherent groupings and people who give no conscious thought to why their possessions are multiplying as they are; but this differentiation must still acknowledge that both types of people are still “collectors.” Then there’s the consideration of the length of time one possesses something, and whether this has any bearing on someone being a collector (or not). Simply put – once you add something to a collection, how long it stays there shouldn’t really be a factor. Some people, at all levels of sophistication and deliberateness in their collecting, willingly dispose of items and start on others. Werner Muensterberger’s book “Collecting: An Unruly Passion” references “subjective value” in his definition of collecting, to make the point that the desirability of an object to a collector is independent of the market price it would fetch. I was originally in the camp who differentiated such people in the watch world as ‘dealers’ rather than ‘collectors’ but I think I’ve changed my view. Those who collect for investment (at least in part) or take some pride in the monetary value of what they possess… simply make this (monetary value) a part of the total psychological underpinning of their “collecting criteria”. Who are we to judge? Muensterberger saw the origins of collecting in childhood traumas. He argued that when kids had the experience of feeling deprived of the protection and support of those close to them, they sought relief through controllable physical objects. In doing this, they became emotionally attached to one or more items which became associated in their minds with the relief of frustration and mental distress. The act of demonstrating that one possesses and controls the objects is a pleasurable experience, and one that is repeatedly satisfying because it creates “the illusion of being able to cope”. Muensterberger’s discussion goes deeper into the psychology of collecting than many other writings on the subject. Philippe Jullian’s Les Collectioneurs, for example is relatively superficial; At one point he says “Every collection is inspired by the same basic factors: fear of boredom, desire for immortality, aesthetic sensibility, vanity, speculation.” Similarly, Holbrook Jackson, in “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, under the heading “The Causes of Bibliomania” breaks down the sections into “Greed,” “Vanity,” and “Fashion”. While all these reasons might impact peoples’ collecting, what is still unclear is why collecting was the chosen remedy – for example, there are other ways of passing time (i.e. curing boredom), investing (i.e. speculation), or showing off (i.e. vanity). The most fundamental question in trying to understand collecting is to ask why collecting should be the path chosen to attain personal goals. So at this point we might decide it is best to start defining collecting by the particular combinations of goals that characterise individual collectors; but this doesn’t really reach the deepest levels of the drive to collect. An inquiry like Muensterberger’s, which tries to identify the mental processes underlying the more overt motivations, is of course an important step, even if it does not tell the whole story. Walter Benjamin’s essay, “Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting,” suggests there is more to be said. One of Benjamin’s most insightful observations is framed as a question: “For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as order?” The pleasures of “the chase” and “adding to one’s collection” are described by Benjamin as follows: “The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.” Concluding thoughts The human need to find order is, to me, the most academic explanation of collecting. The other explanations such as a fascination with chance, curiosity about the past, and a desire for understanding can all slot under the umbrella of “the urge to tame the external world”. This general idea, in which collecting is traced to a human need for making the environment seem less threatening and more understandable, has been much in evidence in the past few decades, as intellectual interest in the process of collecting has increased. Ultimately, we should try and see collecting not as evasion and escapism but as a human urge to connect with the world, to make sense of it so that we can feel in harmony with it and experience it more richly. Vladimir Nabokov, wrote a well-known account of his “obsession” with butterflies and butterfly-collecting which was originally published in The New Yorker on 12 June 1948. Butterflies served as tangible reminders of episodes in Nabokov’s own life, and even the smell of ether, used as the killing substance for one of his earliest childhood catches, “would always cause the door of the past to fly open.” Nabokov’s repeated acts of observation and pursuit of butterflies, made him an expert lepidopterist who contributed to the field through important published papers. His understanding that collecting and rigorous thinking go hand in hand was shown by his ridicule of those who advocated the relaxing of scientific standards for collectors: “Their solicitude for the “average collector who cannot be made to dissect” is comparable to the way nervous publishers pamper the “average reader”—who cannot be made to think“. Nabokov of course wrote novels as well as scientific articles, and he saw the connections: “I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.” Nabokov’s most moving words for a description of “the highest enjoyment of timelessness” came to him when he stood outdoors among “rare butterflies“- and I think this captures the essence of collecting quite perfectly:
This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which I cannot explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love, a sense of oneness with sun and stone, a thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern, perhaps to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to the tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal. --Vladimir Nabokov – Butterflies: On life as a lepidopterist.
That’s the bottom line really… we’re all seeking ecstasy – one watch at a time. There is no right answer, and every single collector’s journey is unique… the more we try to make sense of it, the less we realise we know… and it also explains why we can’t stop, and why the often-used phrase “we will stop when we die” is pretty much the only universal truth that exists!"]]> collections collecting kingflum 2021 wernermuensterberger williambuellsprague history hobbies pastimes lordecckes philippejullian holbrookjackson walterbenjamin vladimirnabokov butterflies order libraries books bookcollecting bibliomania immortality boredom greed vanity fashion aesthetics speculation objects possessions accumulation selections behavior archives education learning howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:671f899a07fd/ The Mute Object and Ancient Stories of Today | Creative Capital 2021-03-10T19:59:44+00:00 https://creative-capital.org/projects/the-mute-object-and-ancient-stories-of-today/ robertogreco galaporras-kim language communication art community place history zapotec 2020 mexico indigeneity indigenous oaxaca objects ethnography meaning meaningmaking words dictionaries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:442956878361/ The irresistible, transcontinental art of Gala Porras-Kim 2021-03-10T19:57:57+00:00 https://www.artbasel.com/stories/gala-porras-kim-artist-los-angeles robertogreco galaporras-kim alexandrapechman art losangeles acitvism pedagogy moca 2020 sculpture objects zapotec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41c924c7da13/ The Analog City and the Digital City — The New Atlantis 2020-11-08T23:13:43+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city robertogrecoThe machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed. We have focused on how digital media transforms the subjective experience of individuals. The political corollary is that it enables and empowers regimes of algorithmic governance, predictive analytics, and social credit. The profound erosion of trust in the Digital City leaves a vacuum, and we look to our tools to fill it. We seem set upon interlocking trajectories: of ever greater swaths of the human experience being computationally managed, and of intractable human subjects increasingly breaking down or revolting against these conditions. From another vantage point, however, we might see this as a hopeful moment, full of promise and opportunity. Another path also seems possible. Freed from certain unsustainable illusions about the nature of the self and the world, we may now be called back to reckon with reality in a new, more chastened and more responsible manner. It is possible that the Promethean aspirations that characterized the modern self and modern society may now yield to a more sober assessment of the limits within which genuine human flourishing might occur. It is possible, too, that we may learn once again the necessity of virtues, public and private — that we will no longer, as T. S. Eliot put it, be “dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”"]]> lmsacasas digital newmedia writing howwewrite reading 2020 howweread secondaryorality walterong politics discourse audience abundance scarcity news print text communication neilpostman digitalcity analogcity truth speech digitalmedia socialmedia saintaugustine change liminality factchecking publishing jaydavidbolter reformation scientificrevolution history internet web online smartphones publiclife cities urban urbanism community howwethink thinking nicholascarr 2008 web2.0 facebook twitter algorithms moderation commenting tv television video dialogue criticalthinking affordances technology citizenship censorship values char charlestaylor bufferedself disenchantment meaning meaningmaking magic power objects heresy security purity bots data bigdata automation knowledge systems systemsthinking vulnerability time place now identity sharedtime sharedspace simultaneity realtime telegraph radio presence social belonging ivanillich memory memories language literacy orality oraltradition fables institutions bureaucra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6b35065c0c/