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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoHow to Keep Time - The Atlantic [bookmarking for Season 5, "How to Keep Time" - this podcast covered other topics before that.]2024-01-23T05:11:04+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
robertogrecoanildash culture internet web online 2023 history decentralization blogs blogging twitter socialmedia platforms tumblr threads instagram bluesky meta facebook everestpipkin netabomani sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputation ritughiya zines stefanbohacek optimism elankidermanullendorffyoutune dariuskazemi kindness social connection 2024 scale human humanism reddit fediverse humanweb 2000 elonmusk mastodon openwebhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7cfecff95f5/Boots Riley on Labor, Palestine & I'm A Virgo - YouTube2023-12-06T05:32:12+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo
robertogrecobootsriley unions organizing strikes general strike palestine israel occupywallstreet ows 2023 work teachers fastfood radicals radicalization ilwu uaw solidarity history class classstruggle capitalism communism left i'mavirgo occupyoakland 1999 2012 1960s 1980s southafrica genocide apartheid bds sovietunion ussr economics civilrightsmovement hippies neoliberalism generations babyboomers genx genz millennials geny movements boomers longshoremen sorrytobotheryou art music repetition process practice goals purpose inspiration writing howwewrite cia jacksonpollock parisreview literature activism optimism hope anger howwework wga sag film generationz zoomershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f57dbce186e/Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel - YouTube2023-11-12T04:49:48+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnzkjUAZnQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyIi9ga4n4
robertogrecobryanalexander solarpunk highered highereducation climatecrisis climatechange climate globalwarming colleges universities 2023 education design technology mitigation change changemanagement sustainability biophilia optimism repair nature despair plants governance pedagogy curriculum institutions administration management democracy edupunk horizontality altgdp decentralization online web internet remotelearning travel transportation cyberpunk communities community wellbeing reuse sharing repurposing recyclinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c17e5c0b5064/Why “The Bear” Starts Over In Its New Season | The New Republic2023-07-18T06:56:09+00:00
https://newrepublic.com/article/173934/bear-starts-new-season-fx-tv-review
robertogrecolearning pedagogy television thebear education howwelearn howwteach youtube unschooling deschooling messiness complexity tv film competence expertise growth growing optimism self-improvement slow patience humility humanity humanism talent self-awareness philipmaciak classroom schoolhouse skills apprenticeships lessons beauty human mistakes failure self-abnegation instructionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c76a01cf24ce/Near Future Laboratory Podcast: N°063 - Imagining the Future of the Imagination Academy with Will Richardson on Apple Podcasts2023-03-01T18:59:22+00:00
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067
robertogreconearfuturelaboratory julianbleecker willrichardson solarpunk edupunk covid-19 coronavirus pandemic designfiction designthinking schools schooling children education learning howweteach howwelearn 2023 creativity imagination change transformation unschooling deschooling antidisciplinary transdisciplinary optimism punk statusquo bigquestionsinstitute multispecies morethanhuman economics midjourney ai artificialintelligence activism organizing narrative publishing selfpublishing zachstein liminality discord compulsory agency internet self-directed self-directedlearning youtube tiktok margaretmead self-organizing zakstein zacharystein drélabre future futurism books ebooks futuree futurists sciencefiction scifi cyberpunk neuralimplants indigenous indigeneity self-publishinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b9a597be330c/Wendell Berry: The Work of Local Culture | The Contrary Farmer2023-01-21T22:04:57+00:00
https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/
robertogrecowendellberry rural education local slow small unschooling deschooling centralization decentralization 2011 farming democracy community communities power storytelling professionalization professionals standardization standards extractivism extraction exploitation elitism culture society urban urbanization suburbs suburbia homogenization entertainment distraction belonging purpose environment land soil memory enrichment knowledge highered highereducation academia canon insurance corporations corporatism corporatization mutualaid sales advertising economics consumerism consumption gdp sustainability pollution degradation money poverty generations parenting media television tv classics bible shakespeare williamwordsworth kinship institutions institutionalization schools schooling publicschools indocrtrination children careerism professionalism careers place placebasededucation home meritocracy conservation environmentalism green ecology landscape garbage methods agesegregation government salaries income love memohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46a2ab19fd3d/Mike Davis Could See the Future | The New Yorker2022-11-03T04:18:24+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mike-davis-could-see-the-future
robertogrecomikedavis 2022 losangeles huahsu california optimismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c27ad5a5b5b0/Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury - New Statesman2022-10-24T21:23:24+00:00
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury
robertogrecorebeccasolnit hope despair climatechange globalwarming 2022 climatedespair fatalism optimismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:183295d45ba5/The Un-Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas + Robin D. G. Kelley - YouTube2022-09-20T01:56:24+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYgY9yO5gc
robertogrecohankwillisthomas 2022 robindgjelley art learning love activism flags poetry storytelling hope creativity healing optimism collaboration freedom liberation dreaming freedomdreaming howwething howwelearn jimcrow civilwar democracy confederacy us race racism inclusivity inclusion branding complexity nuance civicengagement engagement politicaldiscourse museums libraries unschooling deschooling lcproject openstudioproject education future messaging stewardship arts society survival attention stillness noticing awareness awakeness now thenow presence appreciation being brands nike capitalism patagonia labor change nba nfl sports accountability critique criticism ajamonet rationalization resistance surrealism andrébreton modernity humanism decolonization advertising markerting speculativefiction speculativedesign ownership wealth community virtuesignaling reparations bayarea sanfrancisco interdependence radicalism radicalimagination imagination colonialism rationality aimécésaire dereckapurnell abolitionismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f64bad1989d9/Cronopio - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre2022-09-10T17:50:55+00:00
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio
robertogrecocronopios juliocortázar cristinaperrirossi words language cv literature idealism naivite naivité rigidity unschooling creativity optimism hope hopefulness paulblackburn spanish neologisms español louisarmstrong igorstravinsky margins litoralzone deschooling personalities taxonomy humanshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c242e86daf9a/Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’ | California | The Guardian2022-09-01T02:54:34+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism
robertogrecomikedavis 2022 capitalism latecapitalism climate climatechange california despair solidarity loisbeckett activism republicans democrats left blacklivesmatter society socialchange struggle resistance protest electoralpolitics elections losangeles hope optimism legacy illness death dying organizing organization greenwashing electriccars evs politics policy fire environment sustainability globalwarminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62087a0fec0a/Column: Mike Davis has terminal cancer. But his big worry is what is happening to our world - Los Angeles Times2022-07-23T06:34:44+00:00
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/mike-davis-conversation-doom-hope
robertogrecomikedavis gustavoarellano 2022 pessimism optimism socal losangeles sandiego elcajon race racism class climatechange marxism environment californiahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:765f32fbc124/Shari Frilot - Sundance Film Festival & New Frontier 2022 AD 225 - YouTube2022-06-08T23:07:59+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptNFZ-mKNg
robertogrecosharifrilot 2022 sundance newfrontier transhumanism identity futurism technology pain hardship art film filmmaking newmedia optimism immersion web3 nfts climatechange climate socialchange jamaicaheolimeleikalaniosorio mikebrett stevejamison arnautcolinart pierrezandrowicz morethanhuman daanishmasoodalavi benjosephandrews emmaroberts valenciajames samgreen karimbenkhelifa jessedamiani kevinmccoy jennifermccoy perception change disruption digital adaptation nonbinary queer dance abba music performance empathy blindness socialconsciousness bodieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:12ca0c56512e/We Found Love in a Hopeless Place | Issue 22 | n+12022-05-12T15:02:37+00:00
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-22/essays/we-found-love-in-a-hopeless-place/
robertogreco2015 gabrielwinant affecttheory neoliberalism economics feeling identity hope optimism crueloptimism laurenberlant wendybrown elizabethfreeman history capitalism latecapitalism imagination multiplicity academia highered highereducation evekosofskysedgwick homeownership ownership normativity queer queerness queertheory work labor emotionallabor saraahmed anncvetkovich williamdavies happiness wolfgangstreeckhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:225f81f5e304/Miyazaki's Marxism - The Politics of Anime's Legendary Director - YouTube2022-03-06T04:11:27+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM
robertogreco2019 film studioghibli politics economics environment marxism capitalism walterbenjamin ecology apocalypse history future annalowenhaupttsing phillipwinger redemption animism michaellöwy ajrocca tomaslamarre kōjinkaratani maxhorkheimer theodoradorno johnbellamyfoster gillesdeleuze felixguattari enironmentalism utopia nature land idealism industrialism forests modernity optimism oppression revolution humanism humanity progressive left progressivism spiritedaway princessmononoke nausicaaofthevalleyofthewind consumption consumerism materialism earth flight childhood technology wind labor work futureboyconan hayaomiyazaki steampunk fredericjameson resistance windpower class castleinthesky neoliberalism dignity romanticism japan solidarity organizing myneighbortotoro empowerment child children agesegregation society graveofthefireflies nationalism kiki'sdeliveryservice unschooling deschooling production community meaning purpose annatsinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446297b837f/The Trap of Climate Optimism | The Nation2021-12-24T15:36:54+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/
robertogrecodansherrell aaronbady 2021 climate climatechange optimism hope society politics policy economics multispecies morethanhuman inequality capitalism future present survival activism organizing sunsrisemovement gretathunberg youth andreasmalm ethics morality justicedemocrats us democrats extreamweather weather globalwarming environment race collapse faith belief religion judaism uncertainty urgency fatalism patience despair anxiety pragmatism spirituality worldview climatecrisis crisis neoliberalism discountrate externalities fossilfuels extractivism extraction meat civilization conservatism solidarity agesegregation generations sustainability powerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92e2f8b07984/Goodbye Internet: Infinite Detail - YouTube2021-11-25T19:55:06+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16xz_tXWC4
robertogrecotimmaughan ingridburrington liekewouters 2021 infinitedetail internet complexity infrastructure meshnetworks systems sciencefiction scifi economics capitalism capital systemsthinking colonialism expectations entitlement jgballard williamgibson davidgraeber brucesterling democracy anarchism anarchy mutualaid climatechange future nearfuture present adjacentfuture parallelfuture fiction exploitation optimism pessimism utopia dystopia superflux anabjain cyberpunk snowcrash neuromancer nealstephenson play networkedculture prediction online love grief neoliberalism brendanbyrne howwewrite writing howwethink alternatehistory inevitability malleability history change speculativefiction speculativedesign supplychains bleakness globalization precarity resilience astrataylor activism art organizing politicalchange culture smartphones corydoctorow davidbyrne narrative ursulaleguin hope hopefulness technology bigtech metaversehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7aa98f73056b/What David Graeber, ‘Dawn of Everything’ Author, Left Behind2021-11-12T23:15:07+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html
robertogrecodavidgraeber 2021 history mollyfischer anarchism anarchy yale academia highered highereducation horizontality hierarchy unschooling deschooling ows occupywallstreet astrataylor humanism biography politics solidarity directdemocracy optimism marshallsahlins madagascar malagasy blackbloc humanity humans human anthropology kamariclarke thomasblomhansen laurenleve debt economics meetings unclubbable workingclass roots 1999 seattlewtoprotests protest activism michelfoucault foucault christinamoon death dyanneary bartering money theory thomasgokey greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis andrewross nicholasmrzoeff democracy strikedebt braddelong berniesanders jeremycorbyn labor work organizing rojava kurds abdullahocalan murraybookchin fascism quarantine pandemic covid-19 coronavirus fireisland scholarship writing nikadubrovsky durbachattaraj ayçaçubukçu directactionnetwork ethnography participation participatory debtjubilee thedawnofeverything davidwengrowhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc50348031b0/Silver Threads Episode 25: Antonio Buehler - Grounded Futures2021-11-10T17:44:45+00:00
https://groundedfutures.com/shows/silver-threads/silver-threads-episode-25-antonio-buehler/
robertogrecoantoniobuehler carlabergman eleanorgoldman 2021 interviews unschooling deschooling schools schooling learning howwelearn radicalism activism homelessness poverty abolition abolitionism austin children education abrome liberation emancipation prisonabolition schoolabolition police policing libertarianism franksmith mariamekaba nkjemisin scifi sciencefiction octaviabutler adriennemariebrown akilahrichards robinwallkimmerer facebook braidingsweetgrass capitalism flyingsquads colonialism colonization inequality anarchism radicals unlearning mutualaid community alternative texas georgefloyd acabspring pandemic hope covid-19 coronavirus homeschool youth optimism generations patience anger reform reformism progressive teaching howweteach bobbyseale blackpanthers blackpantherparty brownberets alcs agilelearningcenters scottcrowhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dbbb31873e5a/Into the Feel Tank: Remembering Lauren Berlant and Her Concept of “Cruel Optimism” ‹ Literary Hub2021-10-01T03:28:13+00:00
https://lithub.com/into-the-feel-tank-remembering-lauren-berlant-and-her-concept-of-cruel-optimism/
robertogrecolaurenberlant 2021 christopherlydon maggiedoherty anahidnersessian zacharysamalin crueloptimism climatechange donaldtrump affecttheory vibes hope optimism emotions sensing capitalism neoliberalism change emotion marxism left psychoanalysis psychology anxiety covid-19 coronavirus paradigmshifts markfisher libertarianism individualism socialism collectivism systems systemsthinking organizing deathdrive hatred reciprocity messiness detachment attachment pleasure fiction literature reading howweread solidarity care nihilism fascism satisfaction accelerationism fear stockholmsyndrome indulgence gratification conspiracytheories politics economics rage meditation buddhismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:078acf75c528/Revolutionary Left Radio: Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling2021-10-01T03:23:54+00:00
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/affect-theory-0
robertogrecomaggiedoherty 2021 laurenberlant affecttheory emotions sensing capitalism neoliberalism change emotion marxism left psychoanalysis psychology anxiety covid-19 coronavirus paradigmshifts markfisher climatechange libertarianism individualism socialism collectivism systems systemsthinking organizing deathdrive hatred hope optimism reciprocity messiness detachment attachment pleasure fiction literature reading howweread vibes solidarity donaldtrump care nihilism fascism satisfaction accelerationism fear stockholmsyndrome indulgence gratification conspiracytheories politics economics rage meditation buddhismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aceeaa055637/2021 Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture: 'What we saw. What we made. When we emerge.' - YouTube2021-03-14T00:36:25+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rrU-t1Ncw
robertogrecodionnebrand 2021 coronavirus covid-19 pandemic poetry resistance optimism hope prisonabolition abolitionism organizing labor work collectivism indigenous indigeneityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e86825e4955c/Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left | The Nation2021-02-11T22:32:17+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/
robertogrecomikedavis history future 2021 socialism economics politics micahuetricht greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis cities optimism hope labor unions organizing radicals radicalism us activism communism perryanderson left newdeal 1960s 1970s 1980s losangeles cityofquartz urbanism urban ecologyoffear change neoliberalism planetofslums resistance revolt revolution collectivism collectiveaction coronavirus covid-19 slums health nature wildfires earthquakes climate egalitarianism redistribution ecology environment 1950s civilization weather jonwiener california race racism police policing policestate blackpanthers blackpantherparty rodneyking gardening peterkropotkinhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44f229966343/A New Financial Order | Aaron Meets Yanis Varoufakis - YouTube2020-12-23T21:45:19+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-FUogFD6bY
robertogrecoyanisvaroufakis 2019 economics politics finance predictions optimism jeremycorbyn brexit fascism democrats liberalism neoliberalism democracy participation participatory apathy uk elections moderation radicalism centrism eu hope socialjustice thatcherism progressivism government governance oligarchs greece us farright labor germany media liberaldemocrats davidcameron austerity tories propert propertyrights privatization borisjohnson redistribution globalfinancialcrisis greatrecession aaronbastanihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e43af4d38ca1/Jaron Lanier in Conversation with Tim Maughan - Believer Magazine2020-10-02T17:16:59+00:00
https://believermag.com/jaron-lanier-in-conversation-with-tim-maughan/
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https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/17/21182231/halt-and-catch-fire-watch-netflix-amc-tech
robertogrecohaltandcatchfire 2020 emilyvanderwerff optimism vision kindness rogereberthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a8a95624159d/How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change - Wikipedia2020-04-30T00:26:55+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Let_Go_of_the_World_and_Love_All_the_Things_Climate_Can%27t_Change
robertogrecojoshfox climatechange fossilefuels 2016 documentary film us fracking optimism future activism china australia mining emissions environment pollution capitalism petroleum morality moralimagination imagination ecuador amazon brasil brazil renewables ellachou jummycarter ronaldreagan policy resistance organizing documentation forests clearcutting inequality environmentaldegradation economics poverty airpollution corevalues solidarity success goldmansachs mckinsey technology ingenuity wind windenergy carbonnegative permaculture topsoil fossilfuel divestment innovation humanrights democracy mongolia vanuatu marshallislands zambia generosity progress revolution development virtues virtue community storytelling care caring governance time scale solar electricity beagoodancestor legacy ancestors freedom health healthcare gender feminism farming local gardening hurricanesandy samoa ariadoe climatejustice love protest perú death life amazonia amazonrainforesthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7492a2d7deeb/Beautiful Losers | Commonweal Magazine2020-03-20T22:58:31+00:00
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/beautiful-losers
robertogreco[It] takes courage to tell the truth about oneself, about one’s own defeat. Many of the persecuted lose their capacity for seeing their own mistakes. It seems to them that the persecution itself is the greatest injustice. The persecutors are wicked simply because they persecute; the persecuted suffer because of their goodness. But this goodness has been beaten, defeated, suppressed; it was therefore a weak goodness, a bad, indefensible, unreliable goodness. For it will not do to grant that goodness must be weak as rain must be wet. It takes courage to say that the good were defeated not because they were good, but because they were weak.
I often find myself rereading these words in moments of defeat, to ward off the comforts of melancholy. The Sanders campaign has been premised, in part, on the idea of a righteous struggle: against the callous forces of profit and their political enablers. Our cause is righteous. But we should remember that righteousness is not enough to win. And that if we fail, our righteousness will be no consolation at all. The Bernie campaign is good, but if we are losing—to Joe Biden!—then the form of its goodness is “bad, indefensible, unreliable.”
Often it seems everything wrong with Bernie’s campaign can be attributed to something he’s doing right, but for which he’s being punished by Democratic elites or the corporate media (“the persecuted suffer because of their goodness”). Bernie doesn’t win Black voters because they’re too conservative and loyal to the establishment; his supporters are accused of online abuse because they’re particularly enthusiastic and economically desperate; he has fewer endorsements because he’s an outsider and other elected officials are afraid to buck the bosses; he receives little earned media because the media hates him for refusing to flatter the pundit class and their expertise. These things may all be true, but they’re also explanations which preclude solutions; they absolve us, attest to our innocence, and prefigure an alibi for our inevitable downfall.
We can do more than blame the formidable forces arrayed against us. We can be open to good-faith criticism, to new strategies, and to new allies (including those who have no interest in our righteousness or our struggle but who merely want to beat Donald Trump). Rigorous self-criticism is a left-wing value as well, after all. I don’t have all the answers. The way forward for Bernie may require a change in posture, from outsider resentment to magnanimous inclusivity; from hostility to the Democratic establishment to narrating how our program fulfills the highest hopes of the Democratic Party’s egalitarian tradition. Bernie needs to grow his coalition. He can’t do that by naming enemies alone. We must also seek out and embrace new friends. When you’re losing, it can feel good to huddle with the righteous few already on your side. But a willingness to face our present weakness may be a prerequisite for the strength we need to win.
It could be over soon. Some of the projections for the next round of primaries are grim. But the world is in crisis. Everything can change in an instant. And despair is not an option. As organizer Mariame Kaba has said, hope is a discipline; it must be practiced.
Too many times I’ve seen the left preemptively settle for virtuous defeat—accepting that we, like those before us, will be vanquished and remembered fondly for our attempt. But the waters are rising. We can’t wait to see whether ours is the generation that will fulfill the hopes of the radicals who fell before us. Whether or not history has caught up with us, ecology has us in its grasp. In this, I agree with my friend, the author and organizer Jonathan Smucker, who writes, “I take no solace in the prospect of history listing me among the righteous few who denounced the captain of a ship that sank.” We must set our aspirations higher. If we want to save the ship, “we must conspire to take the helm.”"]]>socialism politics 2020 elections us berniesanders left defeat learning howwelearn media elizabethwarren samadler-bell progressive movements organizing nostalgia belatedness memory mourning radicalism spanishcivilawar chile salvadorallende marxism rosaluxemburg power idealism coup istory radiomagallanes 1973 pessimism accountability labor joehill enzotraverso melancholy redemtion melancholia bertholdbrecht affect intimacy alienation discomfort reality richardeder absolution weakness goodness democrats criticism self-criticism establishment egalitarianism mariamekaba discipline hope optimism radicals canon golpemilitarhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3444699a11bf/nsangimwanawange[👻] on Twitter: "“For that is what we will need to do - imagine worlds that defy the ... nightmare that presently holds the world hostage.” — Kamau Brathwaite" / Twitter2020-02-05T09:09:06+00:00
https://twitter.com/nkoyenkoyenkoye/status/1029849407708164096
robertogrecokamaubrathwaite utopia resistance pocketsofresistance optimism hope imaginationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10b47590fa4f/The Power of Solidarity Is How Sanders Will Beat Trump2020-01-23T23:06:42+00:00
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/22/bernie-sanders-movement-solidarity/
robertogreco2020 naomiklein solidarity politics us change climatechange notmeus donaldtrump governance government activism organizing hillaryclinton democrats joebiden power elitism optimism hope twitter individualism interconnectedness interdependence policy transformation inequality competition capitalism greennewdeal community communities wealth trumpism alexandriaocasio-cortez movements deramdefenders sunrisemovement unions labor newdeal berniesanders aochttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08bd4c889a26/Why Ilhan Omar Is the Optimist in the Room | The Nation2019-10-16T04:34:35+00:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-minneapolis/
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https://onbeing.org/programs/teju-cole-sitting-together-in-the-dark-feb2019/
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https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-20-mariame-kaba-and-prison-abolition/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-optimistic-activists-for-a-green-new-deal-inside-the-youth-led-singing-sunrise-movement
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18055980/better-worlds-science-fiction-short-stories-video
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https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/569008/john-mcwhorter/
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https://medium.com/@edifiedlistener/what-if-and-whats-wrong-f617ada90216
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https://undercommoning.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o341S4xh1r0
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https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcVyuq9aRE
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https://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-07-07/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Q0raBHJDo
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https://www.modernghana.com/news/756213/parable-of-the-sower-not-1984-is-the-dystopia-for-our-a.html
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https://boomcalifornia.com/2016/12/29/a-boom-interview-in-conversation-with-jennifer-wolch-and-dana-cuff/
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http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/children-of-men-alfonso-cuaron-c-v-r.html
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https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-reasons-why-2016-has-been-a-great-year-for-humanity-8420debc2823#.tj7kowhpd
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https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/815294057102667778
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http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-us-politics-poor-whites/
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http://www.thetattooedprof.com/archives/624
robertogreco>> being a hardass
Things whose pedagogical impact is often underestimated: empathy and humor.
Things whose pedagogical impact is often overestimated: shaming and rigidity.
When you say “rigor,” I think of corpses.
“Coverage” for coverage’s sake is where learning goes to die.
No matter what: Teaching is a radical act of hope."]]>pedagogy technology radicalism teaching 2016 kevingannon howwetech why thewhy whyweteach hope rigor empathy humor shaming rigidity flexibility highered highereducation optimism curriculum manifestos learning metacognition reflection professionaldevelopment content knowledge howwelearn howweteach via:audreywattershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0ed61a6abf1/The Limits of “Grit” - The New Yorker2016-06-25T04:53:54+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-limits-of-grit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GX6a2WEA1Q
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http://harpers.org/archive/2016/05/the-habits-of-highly-cynical-people/?single=1
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http://www.theradiodispatch.com/show/radio-dispatch-live-with-megan-erickson-and-nikhil-goyal/
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http://www.uctv.tv/shows/UCSD-Guestbook-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-5001
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http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/139786385254/counter-constraint-1-non-progress-dogma
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http://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/all-our-imagined-futures/
robertogrecoSuch cuts can be made more or less fairly, and the richest really ought to pay the most, but the crucial thing is that they are made. Because, above all, stopping climate change means giving up on growth.
That will be hard. Not only will our standards of living almost certainly drop, but it’s likely that the very quality of our society—equality, safety, and trust—will decline, too. That’s not something to be giddy about, but it’s still a price that those of us living in affluent countries should prepare to pay. Because however difficult it is to slow down, flooding Bangladesh cannot be an option. In other words, we can and should act. It’s just going to hurt.
There’s the rub: those of us living in affluent countries must pay. Porter presumes that technology can get us out of climate change without that payment—that nuclear energy, renewables, carbon capture, and electric cars will let us continue to consume at current levels as if nothing had changed. (As an aside: you can follow the American love of cars all the way to Immortan Joe’s citadel.) But I don’t think it’s likely we’re going to get off that easy. Carbon capture is still a pipe dream, nuclear energy will take too long to ramp up even absent strong local objections, electric cars are hardly a panacea, and renewables such as solar and wind, while certainly promising, won’t help much if we continue to pull coal and oil out of the ground at the rates we are now.
As it happens, though, I think Porter’s instinct to reach for science fiction to understand the future is a useful one. In Submergence, J.M. Ledgard’s novel of planetary depths, Danny remarks: “If this was happening in a science-fiction world we would see it clearly for what it is, but we don’t because it’s happening here and now.” Fiction, and science fiction in particular, can help us imagine many futures, and in particular can help us to direct our imaginations towards the futures we want. Imagining a particular kind of future isn’t just day dreaming: it’s an important and active framing that makes it possible for us to construct a future that approaches that imagined vision. In other words, imagining the future is one way of making that future happen. Writing in Essence in 2000, Octavia Butler asked,
So why try to predict the future at all if it’s so difficult, so nearly impossible? Because making predictions is one way to give warning when we see ourselves drifting in dangerous directions. Because prediction is a useful way of pointing out safer, wiser courses. Because, most of all, our tomorrow is the child of our today. Through thought and deed, we exert a great deal of influence over this child, even though we can’t control it absolutely. Best to think about it, though. Best to try to shape it into something good. Best to do that for any child.
Butler’s Parable of the Sower is, like Mad Max, a tale of the road. And, like Mad Max, it’s a difficult but hopeful one. Maybe Porter should read it."]]>mandybrown 2016 octaviabutler mikeculfield eduardoporter zizek peterwirzbicki submergence hungergames dystopia optimism hope scifi sciencefiction danielimmerwahl jmledgard fiction imagination future futurism capitalism growth zerosum change economics climatechange globalwarminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5db432331289/Digital Manifesto Archive: Design Fiction's Odd Present vs. Science Fiction's Near Future2016-02-18T21:03:56+00:00
http://www.digitalmanifesto.net/manifestos/212/
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https://medium.com/@andrewdhudson/on-the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk-c5a7b4bf8df4#.582nkilfq
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