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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoAlastair Humphreys: The Joys Of Microadventures2024-03-08T19:54:33+00:00
https://www.noemamag.com/a-single-small-map-is-enough-for-a-lifetime/
robertogrecolocal small maps mapping walking adventure alastairhumphreys 2024 maryoliver rickeygates intimacy place thoreau bogs robertmcfarlane landmarks attention attentiondeficit language observation naturalhistory multispecies morethanhuman conservation community nature solitiude marsheshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a466782976d/A Body That’s All Surface2024-02-29T23:50:15+00:00
https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-room-article/a-body-thats-all-surface
robertogreco2024 art artists leisurearts artleisure artcriticism criticsim humanism humans bodies senses beholding picasso howwewrite howwethink observation understanding criticism spiders creativity exploration degrowth refusal resistance artmaking making context artworld boundaries activity activities humanness framing demystification mutualaid idealism reinvention beauty poetry grants grantwriting institutions power control organizations confrontation obstacles dialogue body canon elisabethniculahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00db41088e05/Pedagogies of Care2024-01-19T20:16:29+00:00
https://museum.care/events/pedagogies-of-care-2/
robertogrecocare caring attention unschooling deschooling via:javierarbona 2024 ivanillich observation slow small dialog listening voice agency separation control competition capitalism pedagogy howwelearn howweteach teaching cooperation education brazil brasil indigeneity indigenous palestine activism pallenielsen bellhooks bertholdbrecht walterbenjamin franciscoferrer davidgraeber alternative future andrisbrinkmanis art arteducationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4c6421b46258/Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World | The On Being Project2023-12-02T02:42:02+00:00
https://onbeing.org/programs/sara-hendren-our-bodies-aliveness-and-the-built-world/
robertogrecosarahendren 2023 bodies kristatippet personhood design art engineering downsyndrome builtenvironment environment parenting vulnerability humans diversity adaptability age aging difference disabilities disability accessibility measurement normal culture humanness humanism religion society identity templegrandin needfulness life living dignity disabilitypolitics ada accommodations citizenship infrastructure medicine health leonarddavis dependence alasdairmacIntyre gillesdeleuze cooperation social frailty help assistance independence freedom support independentliving edroberts adaptivereuse hospitals aliveness self-determination judyheumann us individualism interdependence loneliness perspective narrative technology assistivetechnology ramps mobility adaptation inclusivity inclusion eugenics average nature jonathanadler storytelling lifenarrative existence storymaking care community need grace gracefulness intergerationalliving conviviality mutuality reciprocity everyday problemsolving making medicalization proshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db55bfde3d4b/How to Pay Attention, Nick Seaver — Are.na2023-10-29T22:29:50+00:00
https://www.are.na/block/2396514
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWZnVgfpcs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzmzR5kiY-M
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https://yalereview.org/article/elleza-kelley-ordinary-allurements
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https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2023/03/14/theres-nothing-unnatural-about-a-computer/
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https://fo.am/wabisabi-route/
robertogrecotransient 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-sabihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1cce72f57cfe/Bee Wilson · Like a Bar of Soap: Work, don't play · LRB 15 December 20222022-12-13T04:54:35+00:00
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/bee-wilson/like-a-bar-of-soap
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYELKhtDJ8
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https://envhistnow.com/2022/08/29/problems-of-place-breath-under-threat-with-and-in-the-absence-of-iodine/
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https://joylandmagazine.com/nonfiction/the-shape-of-walking/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usv9o2I_y9o
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https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/06/istanbul-and-ottoman-olfactory-heritage.html
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https://shikshantar.org/articles/how-eradicate-illiteracy-without-eradicating-illiterates
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https://www.planetadelibros.cl/libro-el-universo-segun-carlota/337668
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/tiktok-and-the-vibes-revival
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https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/forms-of-education-couldnt-get-a-sense-of-it
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https://vimeo.com/534944849
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https://brooklynrail.org/2020/04/art_books/The-Saddest-Thing-Is-That-I-Have-Had-to-Use-Words-A-Madeline-Gins-Reader
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https://www.colinsackett.co.uk/imagineobserveremember.php
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.52.4.0049?seq=1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djbj-kts_04
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https://raisingfreepeople.com/191/
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https://medium.com/slowdown-papers
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https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/alexandra-laudo-2
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https://twitter.com/BuildSoil/status/1292245577925709824
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8f4R9l1Pg8
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https://twitter.com/SFath/status/1257159589448962048
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http://www.wordsinspace.net/designingmethods/spring2018/category/methods-toolkit/
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/10/20/agnes-vardas-ecological-conscience/
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https://thewalrus.ca/where-not-to-travel-in-2019-or-ever/
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https://elisehunchuck.com/
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http://www.kyomaclear.com/books/birds-art-life/
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http://carolblack.org/the-gaze
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http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/85947/
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https://twitter.com/xianb8/status/933085640501202944
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https://twitter.com/minibeastmayhem/status/941045712124555266
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http://www.dontblinkrobertfrank.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o341S4xh1r0
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http://sarahendren.com/2017/09/23/dont-look/
robertogrecosarahendren 2017 restraint parenting observation assessment readalouds intrusion cv canon comprehension constructivism stories literature witness sharing narrative quietude stillness concentration attentionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:720e636ef2c3/how to do nothing – Jenny Odell – Medium2017-07-01T07:34:33+00:00
https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f59bbb
robertogreco…we’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying. (emphasis mine)
He wrote that in 1985, but the sentiment is something I think we can all identify with right now, almost to a degree that’s painful. The function of nothing here, of saying nothing, is that it’s a precursor to something, to having something to say. “Nothing” is neither a luxury nor a waste of time, but rather a necessary part of meaningful thought and speech."
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"In The Bureau of Suspended Objects, a project I did while in residence at Recology SF (otherwise known as the dump), I spent three months photographing, cataloguing and researching the origins of 200 objects. I presented them as browsable archive in which people could scan the objects’ tags and learn about the manufacturing, material, and corporate histories of the objects.
One woman at the Recology opening was very confused and said, “Wait… so did you actually make anything? Or did you just put things on shelves?” (Yes, I just put things on shelves.)"
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"That’s an intellectual reason for making nothing, but I think that in my cases, it’s something simpler than that. Yes, the BYTE images speak in interesting and inadvertent ways about some of the more sinister aspects of technology, but I also just really love them.
This love of one’s subject is something I’m provisionally calling the observational eros. The observational eros is an emotional fascination with one’s subject that is so strong it overpowers the desire to make anything new. It’s pretty well summed up in the introduction of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, where he describes the patience and care involved in close observation of one’s specimens:
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and then lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book — to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.
The subject of observation is so precious and fragile that it risks breaking under even the weight of observation. As an artist, I fear the breaking and tattering of my specimens under my touch, and so with everything I’ve ever “made,” without even thinking about it, I’ve tried to keep a very light touch.
It may not surprise you to know, then, that my favorite movies tend to be documentaries, and that one of my favorite public art pieces was done by the documentary filmmaker, Eleanor Coppola. In 1973, she carried out a public art project called Windows, which materially speaking consisted only of a map with a list of locations in San Francisco.
The map reads, “Eleanor Coppola has designated a number of windows in all parts of San Francisco as visual landmarks. Her purpose in this project is to bring to the attention of the whole community, art that exists in its own context, where it is found, without being altered or removed to a gallery situation.” I like to consider this piece in contrast with how we normally experience public art, which is some giant steel thing that looks like it landed in a corporate plaza from outer space.
Coppola instead casts a subtle frame over the whole of the city itself as a work of art, a light but meaningful touch that recognizes art that exists where it already is."
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"What amazed me about birdwatching was the way it changed the granularity of my perception, which was pretty “low res” to begin with. At first, I just noticed birdsong more. Of course it had been there all along, but now that I was paying attention to it, I realized that it was almost everywhere, all day, all the time. In particular I can’t imagine how I went most of my life so far without noticing scrub jays, which are incredibly loud and sound like this:
[video]
And then, one by one, I started learning other songs and being able to associate each of them with a bird, so that now when I walk into the the rose garden, I inadvertently acknowledge them in my head as though they were people: hi raven, robin, song sparrow, chickadee, goldfinch, towhee, hawk, nuthatch, and so on. The diversification (in my attention) of what was previously “bird sounds” into discrete sounds that carry meaning is something I can only compare to the moment that I realized that my mom spoke three languages, not two.
My mom has only ever spoken English to me, and for a very long time, I assumed that whenever my mom was speaking to another Filipino person, that she was speaking Tagalog. I didn’t really have a good reason for thinking this other than that I knew she did speak Tagalog and it sort of all sounded like Tagalog to me. But my mom was actually only sometimes speaking Tagalog, and other times speaking Ilonggo, which is a completely different language that is specific to where she’s from in the Philippines.
The languages are not the same, i.e. one is not simply a dialect of the other; in fact, the Philippines is full of language groups that, according to my mom, have so little in common that speakers would not be able to understand each other, and Tagalog is only one.
This type of embarrassing discovery, in which something you thought was one thing is actually two things, and each of those two things is actually ten things, seems not only naturally cumulative but also a simple function of the duration and quality of one’s attention. With effort, we can become attuned to things, able to pick up and then hopefully differentiate finer and finer frequencies each time.
What these moments of stopping to listen have in common with those labyrinthine spaces is that they all initially enact some kind of removal from the sphere of familiarity. Even if brief or momentary, they are retreats, and like longer retreats, they affect the way we see everyday life when we do come back to it."
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"Even the labyrinths I mentioned, by their very shape, collect our attention into these small circular spaces. When Rebecca Solnit, in her book Wanderlust, wrote about walking in the labyrinth inside the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, she said, “The circuit was so absorbing I lost sight of the people nearby and hardly heard the sound of the traffic and the bells for six o’clock.”
In the case of Deep Listening, although in theory it can be practiced anywhere at any time, it’s telling that there have also been Deep Listening retreats. And Turrell’s Sky Pesher not only removes the context from around the sky, but removes you from your surroundings (and in some ways, from the context of your life — given its underground, tomblike quality)."
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"My dad said that leaving the confined context of a job made him understand himself not in relation to that world, but just to the world, and forever after that, things that happened at work only seemed like one small part of something much larger. It reminds me of how John Muir described himself not as a naturalist but as a “poetico-trampo-geologist-botanist and ornithologist-naturalist etc. etc.”, or of how Pauline Oliveros described herself in 1974: “Pauline Oliveros is a two legged human being, female, lesbian, musician, and composer among other things which contribute to her identity. She is herself and lives with her partner, along with assorted poultry, dogs, cats, rabbits and tropical hermit crabs.” Incidentally, this has encouraged me to maybe change my bio to: “Jenny Odell is an artist, professor, thinker, walker, sleeper, eater, and amateur birdnoticer.”
3. the precarity of nothing
There’s an obvious critique of all of this, and that’s that it comes from a place of privilege. I can go to the rose garden, or stare into trees all day, because I have a teaching job that only requires me to be somewhere two days a week, not to mention a whole set of other privileges. Part of the reason my dad could take that time off was that on some level, he had enough reason to think he could get another job. It’s possible to understand the practice of doing nothing solely as a self-indulgent luxury, the equivalent of taking a mental health day if you’re lucky enough to work at a place that has those.
But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and although we can definitely say that this right is variously accessible or even inaccessible for some, I believe that it is indeed a right. For example, the push for an 8-hour workday in 1886 called for “8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, and 8 hours of what we will.” I’m struck by the quality of things that associated with the category “What we Will”: rest, thought, flowers, sunshine.
These are bodily, human things, and this bodily-ness is something I will come back to. When Samuel Gompers, who led the labor group that organized this particular iteration of the 8-hour movement, was asked, “What does labor want?” he responded, “It wants the earth and the fullness thereof.” And to me it seems significant that it’s not 8 hours of, say, “leisure” or “education,” but “8 hours of what we will.” Although leisure or education might be involved, what seems most humane is the refusal to define that period.
That campaign was about a demarcation of time. So it’s interesting, and certainly troubling, to read the decline in labor unions in the last several decades alongside a similar decline in the demarcation of public space. True public spaces, the most obvious examples being parks and libraries, are places for — and thus the spatial underpinnings of — “what we will.”"
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"The way that Berardi describes labor will sound as familiar to anyone concerned with their personal brand as it will to any Uber driver, content moderator, hard-up freelancer, aspiring YouTube star, or adjunct professor who drives to three campuses in one week:
In the global digital network, labor is transformed into small parcels of nervous energy picked up by the recombining machine. … The workers are deprived of every individual consistency. Strictly speaking, the workers no longer exist. Their time exists, their time is there, permanently available to connect, to produce in exchange for a temporary salary. (emphasis mine)
The removal of economic security for working people — 8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will — dissolves those boundaries so that we are left with 24 potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles."
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"I also started noticing some crows in my neighborhood. At the time I had just read The Genius of Birds, and I’d learned the crows are incredibly intelligent and can recognize and remember human faces. They can in fact teach their children which are the good and the bad humans, good being ones who feed them and bad being ones who try to catch them or do something else weird. I have a balcony, so I started leaving a few peanuts out for the crows."
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"This isn’t only about me watching birds. I think a lot about what these birds see when they look at me — and I’m sure anyone who has a pet is familiar with this feeling. I assume they just see a female human who for some reason seems to pay attention to them.⁵ They don’t know what my work is, they don’t see progress — they just see recurrence, day after day, week after week.
And through them, I am able to inhabit that perspective, to see myself as the human animal that I am, and when they fly off, to some extent, I can inhabit that perspective too, noticing the shape of the hill that I live on and where all of the tall trees and good landing spots are.
There are ravens that I noticed live half in and half out of the rose garden, until I realized that there is no “rose garden” to them. These alien animal perspectives on me and our shared world have provided me not only with an escape hatch from contemporary anxiety but also a reminder of my own animality and the animateness of the world I live in.
Their flights enable my own literal flights of fancy, recalling a question that one of my favorite authors, David Abram, asks in Becoming Animal: “Do we really believe that the human imagination can sustain itself without being startled by other shapes of sentience?”⁶"
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"But beyond strategic / activist self preservation, there’s something else to be gained here: Doing nothing teaches us how to listen. I’ve already mentioned literal listening, or Deep Listening, but this time I mean it in a broader sense. To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
There are a lot of us, and I’m certainly not immune to this, who could stand to learn how to listen better, and I mean listen to other people. As a lover of weird internet things, I definitely do not want to write off the amazing culture and also activism that happens online. But even with the problem of the filter bubble aside, the platforms that we use to communicate with each other about very important things do not encourage listening. They encourage shouting, or having a “take” after having read a single headline.
I alluded earlier to the problem of speed, but this is also a problem of listening, and of bodies. There is in fact a connection between listening in the Deep Listening, bodily sense, and listening, as in me understanding your perspective. Writing about the circulation of information, Berardi makes a helpful distinction between connectivity and sensitivity. Connectivity is the rapid circulation of information among compatible units — an example is something getting a bunch of shares very quickly and unthinkingly by likeminded people on Facebook. With connectivity, you either are or are not compatible. Red or blue; check the box. In this transmission of information, the units don’t change, nor does the information.
Sensitivity, in contrast, involves a difficult, awkward, ambiguous encounter between two differently shaped bodies that are themselves ambiguous — and this meeting, this sensing, requires and takes place in time. Not only that, due to the effort of sensing, the two entities might come away from the encounter a bit differently than they went in.
This always brings to mind a month-long artist residency I once attended with two other artists in an extremely remote location in the Sierra Nevada. There wasn’t much to do at night, so one of the artists and I would sometimes sit on the roof and watch the sunset. She was Catholic and from the Midwest; I’m sort of the quintessential California atheist. I have really fond memories of the languid, meandering conversations we had up there about science and religion. And what strikes me is that neither of us ever convinced the other — that wasn’t the point — but we listened to each other, and we did each come away differently, with a more nuanced understanding of the other person’s position."
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"Ukeles’ interest in maintenance was partly occasioned by her becoming a mother in the 1960s. In an interview she explained, “Being a mother entails an enormous amount of repetitive tasks. I became a maintenance worker. I felt completely abandoned by my culture because it didn’t have a way to incorporate sustaining work.” Her 1969 Maintenance Manifesto is actually an exhibition proposal in which she considers her own maintenance work as the art. She says, “I will live in the museum and I customarily do at home with my husband and my baby, for the duration of the exhibition … My work is the work.”"
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"I think of the hours and hours that I have now spent in the rose garden, putting off returning to my work on a glowing two-dimensional screen an arm’s length from my face; or the days on which I’ll leave just to get coffee and wind up almost involuntarily on top of a hill four hours later, regardless of the shoes I’m wearing; or the fact that the last five or six books I’ve read have had to do with animal intelligence and the importance of landscape in memory and cognition. I don’t know where any of this, where I, will end up."]]>jennyodell idleness nothing art eyeo2017 photoshop specimens care richardprince gillesdeleuze recology internetarchive sanfrancisco eleanorcoppola 2017 1973 maps mapping scottpolach jamesturrell architecture design structure labyrinths oakland juliamorgan chapelofthechimes paulineoliveros ucsd 1970s deeplisening listening birds birdwatching birding noticing classideas observation perception time gracecathedral deeplistening johncage gordonhempton silence maintenance conviviality technology bodies landscape ordinary everyday cyclicality cycles 1969 mierleladermanukeles sensitivity senses multispecies canon productivity presence connectivity conversation audrelorde gabriellemoss fomo nomo nosmo davidabram becominganimal animals nature ravens corvids crows bluejays pets human-animalrelations human-animalelationships herons dissent rowe caliressler jodythompson francoberardi fiverr popos publicspace blackmirror anthonyantonellis facebook socialmedia email wpa history bayarea crowdcontrol mikedavis cityofquartz erhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb75f2831428/The Seattle Review of Books - Here is a movie to remind you why you love reading and writing2017-01-22T22:21:54+00:00
http://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/notes/2017/01/17/here-is-a-movie-to-remind-you-why-you-love-reading-and-writing/
robertogrecopaterson jimjarmusch fil towatch poetry everyday notebooks attention mundane paulconstant 2017 williamcarloswilliams understanding thinking whywewrite happiness howwewrite writing words notetaking observation listening art life living reading artleisure leisureartshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ab0b09b4530/John Berger remembered – by Geoff Dyer, Olivia Laing, Ali Smith and Simon McBurney | Books | The Guardian2017-01-07T04:58:55+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/06/john-berger-remembered-by-geoff-dyer-olivia-laing-and-ali-smith
robertogrecojohnberger 2017 geoffdyer olivialaing alismith simonmcburney marxism capitalism migration soundbites hospitality storytelling hope hopefulness utopia hierarchy consumerism compassion unselfishness questioning skepticism simoneweil creativeattention attention goldenrule humanism encouragement relationships friendship equality giving generosity solidarity suffering seeing noticing looking observation senses kindness commonality belonging ownership thinking howwethink care caring blackpanthers blackpantherparty clarity money communalism narrowness alls difference openness crosspollination hosting hosts guests strangers enemies listening canon payingattention audience audiencesofone laughter resistance existence howtolive living life howwelive refuge writing certainty tendernesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a2e0332c6f6d/Planet parts: Global data feeds2017-01-05T05:11:08+00:00
https://planet.parts/
robertogrecocharlieloyd data earth observation climatechange realtime atmosphere satellitefeeds hydrosphere lithosphere biosphere sun mars jupiter maps mapping nasa noaa landsat himwari-8https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0dac81919454/John Berger: ‘If I’m a storyteller it’s because I listen’ | Books | The Guardian2016-10-31T05:13:17+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/30/john-berger-at-90-interview-storyteller
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http://www.walkerart.org/magazine/2016/gordon-hall-transgender-hb2-bathroom-bill
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/what-babies-know-about-physics-and-foreign-languages.html
robertogrecoalisongopnik 2016 children learning unschooling deschooling howwelearn parenting education schools scientists science experimentation observation davidbuttelmann gyorgygergely haroldbekkering ildikokiraly andrewmeltzoff policy imitation howweteach teaching daphnabuchsbaum babies instruction creativityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b65105222a3b/Austin Kleon — John Holt, How Children Fail No matter what tests...2016-07-30T00:09:01+00:00
http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/148162212366
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12312538/werner-herzog-interview-masterclass-lo-and-behold
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https://medium.com/@sylvialibow/moment-us-teaching-4925d29bc16e#.t0yfe76jb
robertogrecocarlarinaldi reggioemilia listening love beauty respect children learning howwelearn 2016 sylviamartinez observation intervention decisionmakinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d81ea6ce202e/Due North | VQR Online2016-07-11T00:26:10+00:00
http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2014/09/due-north
robertogrecowalking serendipity 2014 garnettecadogan nyc inequality discovery wonder possibility ebwhite wealth waltwhitman rebeccasolnit micheldecerteau observation flaneur flâneurs flaneurs flâneurhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:399713286e63/The Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design2015-12-11T05:00:16+00:00
http://naturelab.risd.edu/
robertogrecorisd nature science observation via:ableparrishttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e6ac2731573/Reading Right-to-Left | booktwo.org2015-10-31T19:20:27+00:00
http://booktwo.org/notebook/reading-right-to-left/
robertogreco“One of the first tricks I learned many years ago had nothing to do with photography, but was drilled into me by an army sergeant. It only took a few smacks up the back of my head to learn how to look from right-to-left when scanning a landscape in an effort to see the hidden “enemy” in our mock battles. This process of reverse reading forced me to slow down and read each tree as if it were a syllable I was seeing for the first time. Even today, about thirty years after I called that sergeant every adjective not found in a decent dictionary, I still find myself scanning a landscape from right-to-left.”
The conference speaker contrasted this way of seeing, and the assumptions explicit within it, with the Japanese way of reading, which may be right-to-left, or vertical:
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One might also, in the context of today’s military operations consider the right-to-leftness of Hebrew and Arabic script (and Farsi, and Urdu) – and from there consider the verticality and three-dimensionality of text and thought online, the way it branches and deepens, how it recedes through the screen, through hyperlinks, into an endless chain of connections and relationships.
This reversal and inversion of language patterns has many historical and thus military uses. In Reality is Plenty, Kevin Slavin relates a tale told to him by a photography professor, who was trained as a World War II radar operator.
When radar signals were received aboard an aircraft carrier, they were displayed on a radar oscilloscope. But in order for this information be used in the midst of battle, the positions needed to be transcribed to a large glass viewing pane, and as part of this process they needed to be inverted and reversed. To perform this operation quickly and accurately, the radar operators were trained and drilled extensively in “upside down and backwards town”, a classified location where everything from newspapers to street signs were printed upside down and backwards. This experience would not so much create a new ability for the radar operators, as break down their existing biases towards left-to-right text, allowing them to operate in multiple dimensions at once.
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This process, in Kevin’s reading and in mine, is akin to much of our experience of new technology, when our existing frameworks of reference, both literary and otherwise, are broken down, and we must learn over once again how to operate in the world, how to transform and transliterate information, how to absorb it, think it, search for it and deploy it. We must relearn our relationship not only with information, but with knowledge itself.
And I was reminded of this once again when I found myself at the weekend defending, for the first time in a long time, but certainly not for the first time ever, the kind of thinking and knowledge production which is native to the internet. In this oft-rehearsed argument, whether it be about ebooks or social media or news cycles or or or, the central thrust is that x technology is somehow bad for us, for our thought, our attention, our cognitive processes etc., where x always tends towards “the internet”, as the ur-technology of our time.
And the truth is that I cannot abide this kind of talk. I know people don’t read books like they used to, and they don’t think like they used to, but I struggle to care. Most of this talk is pure nostalgia, a kind of mostly knee-jerk, mostly uncritical (although not thoughtless) response to entirely rational fears about technological opacity and complexity (this nostalgia, of course, was the basis for the New Aesthetic). But this understandable reaction also erases all the new and different modes of attention and thought which, while they are difficult to articulate because we are still developing and discovering the language to articulate them with, are nonetheless present and growing within us. And I simply do not see the damage that is ascribed to this perceived “loss” – I don’t see the generations coming up being any less engaged in culture and society, reading less, thinking less, acting less, even when they are by any measure poorer, less supported, forced to struggle harder for education and employment, and, to compound the injury, derided at every opportunity as feckless, distracted, and disengaged. I see the opposite.
I’m getting more radical in my view of the internet, this unconsciously-generated machine for unconscious generation. I’m feeling more sure of its cultural value and legacy, and more assertive about stating it. We built this thing, and like all directed culture of the past, it has an agency and a desire, and if you pay attention to it you can see which way it wants to go, and what it wants to fight. We made that, all of us, in time, but we don’t have full control of it. Rather, like the grain of wood, it’s something to be worked with and shaped, but also thought about and conceptualised, both matter and metaphor.
It’s possible, despite the faults of data and design, to be an unchurched follower of the internet: undogmatic, non-sectarian, wary of its faults, all too conscious of its occupation by the forces of capital and control, but retaining a deep faith in its message and meaning. A meaning which it is still up to us to explore and enact, to defend where possible and oppose when necessary. If there is progress, if things can be improved, then they must be improved by new inventions, by the things we have not tried before. No going backwards to the future."]]>culture knowledge internet japanese arabic howweread understanding noticing books reading meadia online socialmedia newaesthetic future bookfuturism control change data design technology criticalthinking kevinslavin observation seeing howwesee waysofseeing perspective rewiring attention knowledgeproduction society difference cv canonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5d93f4b57cad/More-Than-Human Lab. » Design Ethnography in the Anthropocene2015-07-22T16:10:50+00:00
http://morethanhumanlab.org/blog/2015/07/22/design-ethnography-in-the-anthropocene/
robertogreco“Ethnography has a goal, of which an Ethnographer should never lose sight. This goal is, briefly, to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world. We have to study man, and we must study what concerns him most intimately, that is, the hold life has on him. In each culture, the values are slightly different; people aspire after different aims, follow different impulses, yearn after a different form of happiness . . . In each culture, we find different institutions in which man pursues his life-interest, different customs by which he satisfies his aspirations, different codes of law and morality which reward his virtues or punish his defections. To study the institutions, customs, and codes or to study the behaviour and mentality without the subjective desire of feeling by what these people live, of realising the substance of their happiness—is, in my opinion, to miss the greatest reward which we can hope to obtain from the study of man.”
Ignore the outdated language and, almost one hundred years later, I think it is still an unusually eloquent statement on the beauty of our field of research. And if ethnography is committed to sharing stories about what it means to be human, then we can also count amongst its rewards a greater understanding of ourselves.
The first assignment is to conduct several hours of participant observation, doing something that can help us better understand people’s everyday understandings of, and interactions with, “nature”. I haven’t defined nature for them, and I can’t wait to see what they do!
I’ve also started doing something new this trimester: Each class begins with 10 minutes of sustained consideration of a photograph. Spending ten full minutes looking at one image is incredibly challenging but, I hope, also rewarding. The longer we spend looking at something, the more we stand to see. Our minds are given time to move away from–and perhaps more importantly, return to–what’s right in front of us. The activity, especially when done regularly, sharpens attention and increases awareness. It teaches students the foundational skill of all ethnographic research: engaged observation. The activity ends with answering one question: “What matters here?” and, of course, there is no right answer. The goal is simply to get better at seeing–at recognising–the larger context(s) which lend any image its resonance or power."]]>annegalloway morethanhumanlab anthropocene photography ethnography designethnography 2015 jedediahpurdy aaroncanistian fonnaharaway bronislawmalinowski looking noticing observation understanding slow classideas multispecies nature culture reflection context behavior jedediahbritton-purdyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:111f26ff6214/more-than-human lab - On anthropology, not ethnography, and design2015-06-12T07:04:14+00:00
http://morethanhumanlab.tumblr.com/post/121308092025/on-anthropology-not-ethnography-and-design
robertogrecotimingold design designanthropology ethnography anthropology listening criticalinquiry inquiry speculativedesign experimentation observation holism criticaldesign open-ended unfinished comparison via:anne openendedhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:505940f16ead/Jamie Zigelbaum: Excerpt From My Master's Thesis2015-05-20T19:47:21+00:00
http://www.jamiezigelbaum.com/#/external-legibility/
robertogrecojamiezigelbaum legibility workinginpublic modeling 2015 via:litherland lcproject openstudioproject interface interfacedesign design observation inference craft craftsmanship communication understanding process context visibilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e8ef301c206e/Caminar como último acto de libertad que nos queda | VICE | España2015-05-13T06:45:42+00:00
http://www.vice.com/es/read/caminar-como-ultimo-acto-de-libertad-que-nos-queda-585
robertogrecowalking freedom fernandobernal 2015 via:javierarbona ethics anarchism aesthetics thinking solviturambulando walkcelona psychogeography francisconavamuel barcelona españa spain knowing scale situationist observation criticism criticalthinking publicspace space manueldelgado transurbanism urbanism urban cities anthropologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f6f37c216c6/Fred Moten - A look at Duke's preeminent poet | The Chronicle2015-05-08T07:50:46+00:00
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2010/10/27/fred-moten-look-dukes-preeminent-poet
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http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/113041952143/the-world-is-full-of-objects-more-or-less
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http://www.halcyonmaps.com/constellations-throughout-the-ages/
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http://blog.ayjay.org/uncategorized/surveillance-and-care/
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http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2015/1/26/new-book-on-design-ethnography
robertogreco"What do designers mean when they say they’re going to do “ethnography” and “field research”? What are the relationships between observing people and designing products or services? Is there such a thing as a “designerly” way of knowing people? This book is a report from a research project conducted at HEAD – Genève that addressed the role of people-knowing in interaction/media design. It describes the wide breadth of approaches used by designers to frame their work, get inspiration or speculate about plausible futures. This book presents practitioners’ tactics and illustrates them with several cases. Unlike many resources on user-centered design, it takes a broader approach to design by considering cases in which design is not only a problem-solving activity, but a tool to speculate about the near future, reformulate problems or propose a critical discourse on society. In doing so, this book helps designers, students and consultants to challenge their own perceptions and update their approaches."
The book is a collective effort, with texts from John Thackara, Julian Bleecker, Sara Ljungblad, Gilles Baudet, Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, James Auger, Virginia Cruz and Nicolas Gaudron, Liam Young, Fabian Hemmert, Steve Portigal, Gordan Savičić and Selena Savić, Anne-Catherine Sutermeister and Jean-Pierre Greff.
It can be purchased online here at we-make.it [http://we-make.it/shop/ and http://wemakeitberlin.tictail.com/product/design-ethnography ]"]]>design ethnography designethnography nicolasnova johnthackara julianbleecker saraljungblad gillesbaudet anabjain jonardern superflux jamesauger virginiacruz nicolasgaudron liamyoung fabianhemmert steveportigal books gordansavičić selensavić anne-catherinesutermeister jean-pierregreff futurism speculativedesign disign nearfuture fieldresearch research observationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a68d5a52b67/How to Boost Your Observation Skills and Learn to Pay Attention2015-01-09T03:58:49+00:00
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-boost-your-observation-skills-and-learn-to-pay-a-1678229721
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https://vimeo.com/91106356
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http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5420/the-art-of-poetry-no-88-anne-carson
robertogrecoannecarson poetry interviews 2004 stains imperfections life living observation alicemunro paradigmshifts perspective otherness relativity willaitken wabi-sabihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b79162ff2121/Some observations on Taiye Selasi’s “Driver” – The New Inquiry2014-12-01T19:39:15+00:00
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/some-observations-on-taiye-selasis-driver/
robertogrecoobservation power silence control policing 2014 aaronbady taiyeselasi storytelling powerdynamics subjectionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b64d81c88b5/A Thousand Rivers: What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning.2014-08-10T20:58:30+00:00
http://schoolingtheworld.org/a-thousand-rivers/
robertogreco“Spontaneous reading happens for a few kids. The vast majority need (and all can benefit from) explicit instruction in phonics.”
This 127-character edict issued, as it turned out, from a young woman who is the “author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The Science of How We Get Smarter” and a “journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better.”
It got under my skin, and not just because I personally had proven in the first grade that it is possible to be bad at phonics even if you already know how to read. It was her tone; that tone of sublime assurance on the point, which, further tweets revealed, is derived from “research” and “data” which demonstrate it to be true.
Many such “scientific” pronouncements have emanated from the educational establishment over the last hundred years or so. The fact that the proven truths of each generation are discovered by the next to be harmful folly never discourages the current crop of experts who are keen to impose their freshly-minted certainties on children. Their tone of cool authority carries a clear message to the rest of us: “We know how children learn. You don’t.
So they explain it to us.
The “scientific consensus” about phonics, generated by a panel convened by the Bush administration and used to justify billions of dollars in government contracts awarded to Bush supporters in the textbook and testing industries, has been widely accepted as fact through the years of “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top,” so if history is any guide, its days are numbered. Any day now there will be new research which proves that direct phonics instruction to very young children is harmful, that it bewilders and dismays them and makes them hate reading (we all know that’s often true, so science may well discover it) — and millions of new textbooks, tests, and teacher guides will have to be purchased at taxpayer expense from the Bushes’ old friends at McGraw-Hill.
The problems with this process are many, but the one that I’d like to highlight is this: the available “data” that drives it is not, as a matter of fact, the “science of how people learn.” It is the “science of what happens to people in schools.”
This is when it occurred to me: people today do not even know what children are actually like. They only know what children are like in schools.
Schools as we know them have existed for a very short time historically: they are in themselves a vast social experiment. A lot of data are in at this point. One in four Americans does not know the earth revolves around the sun. Half of Americans don’t know that antibiotics can’t cure a virus. 45% of American high school graduates don’t know that the First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees freedom of the press. These aren’t things that are difficult to know. If the hypothesis is that universal compulsory schooling is the best way to to create an informed and critically literate citizenry, then anyone looking at the data with a clear eye would have to concede that the results are, at best, mixed. At worst, they are catastrophic: a few strains of superbacteria may be about to prove that point for us.
On the other hand, virtually all white American settlers in the northeastern colonies at the time of the American Revolution could read, not because they had all been to school, and certainly not because they had all been tutored in phonics, which didn’t exist at the time. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, not exactly light reading, sold over 500,000 copies in its first year of publication, the equivalent of a book selling sixty million copies today. People learned to read in a variety of ways, some from small one-room schools, but many from their mothers, from tutors, traveling ministers, apprentice’s masters, relatives, neighbors, friends. They could read because, in a literate population, it is really not that difficult to transmit literacy from one person to the next. When people really want a skill, it goes viral. You couldn’t stop it if you tried.
In other words, they could read for all the same reasons that we can now use computers. We don’t know how to use computers because we learned it in school, but because we wanted to learn it and we were free to learn it in whatever way worked best for us. It is the saddest of ironies that many people now see the fluidity and effectiveness of this process as a characteristic of computers, rather than what it is, which is a characteristic of human beings.
In the modern world, unless you learn to read by age 4, you are no longer free to learn in this way. Now your learning process will be scientifically planned, controlled, monitored and measured by highly trained “experts” operating according to the best available “data.” If your learning style doesn’t fit this year’s theory, you will be humiliated, remediated, scrutinized, stigmatized, tested, and ultimately diagnosed and labelled as having a mild defect in your brain.
How did you learn to use a computer? Did a friend help you? Did you read the manual? Did you just sit down and start playing around with it? Did you do a little bit of all of those things? Do you even remember? You just learned it, right?”
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"City kids who grow up among cartoon mice who talk and fish who sing show tunes are so delayed in their grasp of real living systems that Henrich et al. suggest that studying the cognitive development of biological reasoning in urban children may be “the equivalent of studying “normal” physical growth in malnourished children.” But in schools, rural Native children are tested and all too often found to be less intelligent and more learning “disabled” than urban white children, a deeply disturbing phenomenon which turns up among traditional rural people all over the world."
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"Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species. It’s no accident that indigenous holistic thinkers are the ones who have been consistently reminding us of our appropriate place in the ecological systems of life as our narrowly-focused technocratic society veers wildly between conservation and wholesale devastation of the planet. It’s no accident that dyslexic holistic thinkers are often our artists, our inventors, our dreamers, our rebels. "
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"Right now American phonics advocates are claiming that they “know” how children learn to read and how best to teach them. They know nothing of the kind. A key value in serious scientific inquiry is also a key value in every indigenous culture around the world: humility. We are learning."
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"“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top,” a great artist once said. Science is a tool of breathtaking power and beauty, but it is not a good parent; it must be balanced by something broader, deeper, older. Like wind and weather, like ecosystems and microorganisms, like snow crystals and evolution, human learning remains untamed, unpredictable, a blossoming fractal movement so complex and so mysterious that none of us can measure or control it. But we are part of that fractal movement, and the ability to help our offspring learn and grow is in our DNA. We can begin rediscovering it now. Experiment. Observe. Listen. Explore the thousand other ways of learning that still exist all over the planet. Read the data and then set it aside. Watch your child’s eyes, what makes them go dull and dead, what makes them brighten, quicken, glow with light. That is where learning lies."]]>carolblack 2014 education learning certainty experts science research data unschooling deschooling schooliness schooling compulsoryschooling history literacy canon parenting experimentation listening observation noticing indigeneity howwelearn howweteach wisdom intuition difference diversity iainmcgilchrist truth idleness dyslexia learningdifferences rosscooper neurodiveristy finland policy standards standardization adhd resistance reading howweread sugatamitra philiplieberman maori aboriginal society cv creativity independence institutionalization us josephhenrich stevenjheine aranorenzayan weird compulsory māori colonization colonialismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0bfaf1b7466/