<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:syn="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/">
  <channel rdf:about="http://pinboard.in">
    <title>Pinboard (robertogreco)</title>
    <link>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/</link>
    <description>recent bookmarks from robertogreco</description>
    <items>
      <rdf:Seq>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-berry/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LiED_5Rj8"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/43/2%20(163)/75/400513/Time-BombsGhassan-Kanafani-beyond-Life-and-Death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-springing-time/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.the1916company.com/blog/time-reconsidered-why-the-universal-geneve-ferrovie-dello-stato-is-the-railroad-watch-to-rule-them-all.html"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://danwang.co/2025-letter/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-33-new-years-resolutions-1943.html"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBgnjn5cC0"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.koozarch.com/columns/sonic-kinships-5-violeta-parra-por-la-maanita-1961"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaxixDC-o4"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Pmy2_4jlk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-love-internet-you-hate-it"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://psyche.co/ideas/we-can-live-well-even-though-we-dont-have-a-higher-purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/in-praise-of-floods-james-c-scott-book-review"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt7swnEb3g"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogies-of-collapse-9781350400498/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4948/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcoi4camxI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/09/work-repair-and-reading/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/forget-what-the-ruling-class-deems-unacceptable-revolution-is-illegal-ed-mead-on-a-life-in-struggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnzkjUAZnQ"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyIi9ga4n4"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://newrepublic.com/article/173934/bear-starts-new-season-fx-tv-review"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mike-davis-could-see-the-future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYgY9yO5gc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/mike-davis-conversation-doom-hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptNFZ-mKNg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-22/essays/we-found-love-in-a-hopeless-place/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16xz_tXWC4"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://groundedfutures.com/shows/silver-threads/silver-threads-episode-25-antonio-buehler/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://lithub.com/into-the-feel-tank-remembering-lauren-berlant-and-her-concept-of-cruel-optimism/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/affect-theory-0"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rrU-t1Ncw"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-FUogFD6bY"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://believermag.com/jaron-lanier-in-conversation-with-tim-maughan/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/17/21182231/halt-and-catch-fire-watch-netflix-amc-tech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Let_Go_of_the_World_and_Love_All_the_Things_Climate_Can%27t_Change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/beautiful-losers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://twitter.com/nkoyenkoyenkoye/status/1029849407708164096"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://theintercept.com/2020/01/22/bernie-sanders-movement-solidarity/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-minneapolis/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPE9v4O5qPk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://culturesofenergy.com/133-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTkoZTFd1k"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://onbeing.org/programs/teju-cole-sitting-together-in-the-dark-feb2019/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-FbtHmZhU"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-20-mariame-kaba-and-prison-abolition/"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14"/>
      </rdf:Seq>
    </items>
  </channel><item rdf:about="https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-berry/">
    <title>Ellul and Berry – International Jacques Ellul Society</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-13T21:03:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://ellul.org/themes/ellul-and-berry/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ellul and Berry: A Short Comparison of Wendell Berry and Jacques Ellul
by Jason Hudson, 2016

“Once we build beyond a human scale, once we conceive ourselves as Titans or as gods, we are lost in magnitude.” –Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (born 1934) is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. He is best known for his critical essays and his environmental activism. Students of Jacques Ellul will find striking similarities between the two. For example, in an essay called “Discipline and Hope,” Berry critiques television as a means that imposes itself on its passive audience by creating images that “will not bear scrutiny.”[1] He goes on to say, “It is a politics of illusion, and its characteristic medium is pre-eminently suited…to the propagation of illusion.”[2] The same essay features the section headings, “The Kingdom of Efficiency and Specialization,” “The Kingdom of Abstraction and Organization,” and “Discipline and Hope, Means as Ends.” Despite their overlapping concerns and Berry’s year (1961) spent studying in France, there is no evidence that either directly influenced the other.[3]
Capitalism and War

Like Ellul, Berry’s early disillusionment with capitalism and the advent of the atom bomb significantly shaped his attitudes toward industrialism and technology. In his 2012 Jefferson Lecture, Berry tells the story (which he inherited from his father) of the tobacco harvest of 1907. The American Tobacco Company had monopolized the industry, and Berry’s grandfather, a farmer, returned home from market with zero profit after transportation cost and commission fees were paid.[4] Additionally, Berry marks the end of WWII as the official turning point in USDA policy toward mechanization that has prioritized efficiency, minimized human agency, and produced an industrial food system that isolates and displaces smaller farms and rural populations. He sees a direct link between technologies of war and technologies of agriculture.
Technology

The most obvious commonality in the thought of Berry and Ellul is their similar critiques of technology. Berry claims that the chief aim of technological progress is an insatiable pursuit of greater efficiency and that human spontaneity and freedom will necessarily be sacrificed to this greater good. Furthermore, Berry argues that there is a tipping point, a limit of scale beyond which technology can no longer be contained by those who create it; it becomes autonomous. Berry writes, “They [works of technical invention] diminish us because…once we build beyond a human scale, once we conceive ourselves as Titans or as gods, we are lost in magnitude; we cannot control or limit what we do… If we have built towering cities, we have raised even higher the cloud of megadeath. If people are as grass before God, they are as nothing before their machines.”[5]
Politics in a Technological Age

Berry sees this drive toward technical efficiency as the dominant factor in all areas of life. Regarding the mechanization of politics, for example, he writes, “It is evident to us all by now that modern totalitarian governments become more mechanical as they become more total. Under any political system there is always a tendency to expect the government to work with mechanical “efficiency”– that is, with speed and no redundancy.”[6] In a later essay, he echoes Ellul’s frequently repeated concern that all things are political: “We must reject the idea — promoted by politicians, commentators, and various experts — that the ultimate reality is political, and therefore that the ultimate solutions are political….It seems likely that politics will improve after the people have improved, not before. The ‘leaders’ will have to be led.”[7]
Language in a Technological Age

Both men are concerned with the function and degradation of language in a technological age. Berry, as a poet, novelist, and English professor has devoted many pages and one collection of essays, Standing by Words, to the exploration of language and the role of the writer. In his essay, “In Defense of Literacy,” Berry argues that mastery of language is now taught as a specialization, and that “the schools…are following the general subservience to the ‘practical,’ as that term has been defined for us according to the benefit of corporations.”[8] Therefore, literacy is practical to the extent that the literate can efficiently function as an integer in a technological economy. He goes on to argue that true literacy, a knowledge of books and mastery of language, is the best defense against this industrial “language-as-weapon.”[9]
Pleasure Industries

Berry has seen that our alienating and inhuman technological society has given rise to an industry of new techniques devoted to help further assimilate people into the technological system; Ellul calls this “human technology.” Our industrial economy, Berry argues, is devoid of true pleasure. He acknowledges, “that we support… a great variety of pleasure industries and that these are thriving as never before. “But,” he counters, “that would seem only to prove my point. That there can be pleasure industries at all, exploiting our apparently limitless inability to be pleased, can only mean that our economy is divorced from pleasure and that pleasure is gone from our workplaces and our dwelling places.”[10]
Violence

Following from their critiques of technology and their common Christian faith, both men advocate for pacifist approaches to violence and war. Berry writes in Blessed are the Peacemakers, “One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the Gospels without feeling that something is amiss. One may feel that, in the name of honesty, Christians ought either to quit fighting or quit calling themselves Christians.”[11] He provides further analysis of modern warfare as a product of industrialization: “Modern war and modern industry are much alike, not just in their technology and methodology but also in this failure of imagination.”[12] He clarifies, “In the face of conflict, the peaceable person may find several solutions, the violent person only one.”[13] Finally, Berry links violence in warfare with violence against the creation. He asks, “How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry — between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing?”[14]
Differences

Finally, Berry and Ellul take diverging paths at some significant points. Some of the differences are a matter of emphasis. Berry, for example, is never as explicitly theological as Ellul. And while Berry is often known for his environmentalism and his writings on ecology, Ellul only hints at an implicit ecology in his critique of technology and capitalism. Despite Ellul’s own environmental activism and his brief time as a farmer, Bernard Charbonneau took the lead in addressing ecology head-on.[15]

Others differences are a matter of style. Berry’s thought, even on technology, is less systematic and rigorous and is rooted in his own experience in rural Kentucky. Perhaps the greatest rift between the two is their views of work. Berry is far more optimistic about the potential for work to be full of meaning and pleasure, while Ellul sees work as a necessary rather than good part of life in marred world.

If Ellul was concerned with the forest, that is, the big question about fate and freedom, history and eschatology, Berry strives to be only concerned with the trees, asking, “What has happened to the black willows that once grew along the Ohio River.”[16] Ellul was fond of the slogan “Think Globally, Act Locally.” Berry, on the other hand would counter, “Think Locally and Act Locally.” “Global thinking,” he says, “can only do to the globe what a space satellite does to it; reduce it, make a bauble of it. Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. If you want to see where you are, you will have to get out of your spaceship, out of your car, off your horse, and walk over the ground.”[17]

[1] Berry, Wendell. A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural (New York: Harcourt, Brace,1972), 91. Cf. Ellul’s treatment of images and words in The Humiliation of the Word.

[2] Ibid., 90.

[3] I have recently been assured by Wendell Berry, via personal correspondence, that he is not familiar with Ellul.

[4] Berry, Wendell. It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012), 9-10.

[5] Berry, Wendell. The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba (Washington: Counterpoint, 2002), 95-96.

[6] Berry, Wendell. Life is a Miracle (Washington: Counterpoint, 2000), 51.

[7] Berry, Wendell. Our Only World: Ten Essays (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015), 63.

[8] Berry, A Continuous Harmony, 169.

[9] Ibid., 172

[10] Berry, Wendell. What are People For? (New York: North Point, 1990), 139.

[11] Berry, Wendell. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness (Washington: Shoemaker & Harold, 2005), 4.

[12] Berry, Wendell. Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (New York: Pantheon, 1992), 82.

[13] Ibid., 87.

[14] Berry, What Are People For?, 202.

[15]  Daniel Cerezuelle compares the ecological thinking of Berry and Charbonneau at  http://agora.qc.ca/documents/agriculture_biologique–wendell_berry_et_bernard_charbonneau_par_daniel_cerezuelle

[16] Berry frequently raises this question to demonstrate the difference between “expert” or “specialist” knowledge that is abstract and aloof and his own knowledge which is personal, immediate, and historical.

[17] Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, 20."]]></description>
<dc:subject>wendellberry jacquesellul comparison technology pacifism waw violence local global society theology christianity language politics capitalism farming zoominginandout writing howwewrite jasonhudson 2016 modernity industrialism agriculture literacy faith optimism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c42cc25a435a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wendellberry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jacquesellul"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:comparison"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pacifism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:waw"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:violence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:global"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christianity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:farming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zoominginandout"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasonhudson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2016"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:industrialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agriculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:faith"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y">
    <title>How the AI age forgets to ask: &quot;What for?&quot; | Benjamín Labatut + Jasmine Sun - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-06T04:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Novelist Benjamín Labatut joins writer Jasmine Sun for a haunting, funny, and deeply human conversation about AI, superintelligence, and what our abstractions leave out. Drawing on his acclaimed novel The Maniac, Labatut explores the lives behind foundational ideas in computing and AI—from McCulloch and Pitts to John von Neumann and Lee Sedol—and asks what happens when our digital creations collide with continuous, embodied human life.

What’s in this video:
—Why Labatut uses literary fiction to explore quantum physics, AI, and madness
—Humans as “continuous” beings vs. the digital, discrete abstractions behind AI
—John von Neumann as a human superintelligence—and what his blind spots reveal
—AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and Lee Sedol as parables of abstraction vs. lived human life
—Critique of “super‑” narratives and the limits of intelligence‑centric thinking about AI

Labatut doesn’t offer a policy blueprint or a growth forecast. Instead, he invites us to look directly at the emotional, moral, and narrative realities of the AI age: our shame and enthusiasm, our abstractions and our bodies, our hunger for superintelligence and our refusal to stay merely human. 

If you’re building AI, or just trying to live with it, this conversation offers a bracing, poetic counterweight to techno‑optimist narratives.

Recorded live at Sana AI Summit 2026, New York, May 21st, 2026."

[transcript:
https://jasmi.news/p/human-culture-in-the-ai-age

"Jasmine Sun You cover deeply technical and scientific concepts in your novels, from quantum computing and physics to advanced AI innovations like AlphaGo. What is it about literary writing that you’re drawn to as a medium for exploring these technologies?

Benjamín Labatut I think that human phenomena is much more complex than can be captured with nonfiction. Participating in these talks, you get a sense of something that’s being left out, something fundamental. I think that just goes back to the way that at least this part of civilization has evolved. We have taken a definite direction towards the digital, and that leaves out the continuous, no? And I think we are really unlike these things that we’re creating. We are continuous beings, we are not digital, and there’s an enormous part that is left out.

Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of those things that science has, by its own method, left out. Literature tries to put it back in, so it presents a messier, darker, and perhaps more complete, if less powerful, perspective on the world.

Jasmine Sun What do you mean when you say we are “continuous beings,” exactly?

Benjamín Labatut I think that is an incredibly profound subject that I could not explain in sixteen minutes. Just listening to the talks and looking at the visuals of the event, I feel I’m back at a time when people were washing their teeth with radioactive products and smiling—beaming, no? It all feels sort of 50s, a nuclear enthusiasm.

Before I could even attempt to answer the difficulties posed by the fact that most of our being right now is digital and discrete, divided into things that can be easily accessed through rationality and logic—our computer systems all work like this. The equations behind them are sort of like that. It goes back to the foundation of this technology. The McCulloch-Pitts neuron, right? It’s an abstraction; it’s a mathematical model of a neuron. It’s basically Boolean logic applied to the idea, the abstraction, that a neuron either fires or it doesn’t, and that is the ground zero of AI.

You immediately understand what’s left out. After that neuron, neural nets arise from that. But the people who wrote that paper, McCulloch and Pitts—Pitts drank himself to death because he was accused of raping his mentor’s daughter. And McCulloch was a brilliant philosopher-scientist who ended up trying to find a new type of non-digital, non-two-valued logic, working in a tiny study, and he also drank himself to death. So what I do in literature is this: if you actually look at the people who make the fundamental discoveries, look into their lives, and try to look into their minds as well—their souls—you get past the advertising.

I was at the back looking at the beginning of the conference and I said, “Well, how about we add a little AI slop to the visuals?” Or some of the darker elements, because we all have visions of a really dark future, a very non-human future, but we don’t include it, at least not in the aesthetics. But I think that’s coming. I think this is a precious time to be here because we’re going to replace this enthusiasm with a little bit of shame and fear. I think it’s happening to the people who created these technologies. Their enormous enthusiasm is being replaced by something else.

Jasmine Sun Let’s talk about one of the people who was a forefather of the technology. In your novel ‘The MANIAC’, the middle section is this partly fictionalized but historically grounded biography of John von Neumann. He appears as this flesh-and-blood incarnation of superintelligence—somebody who is brilliant but also terrifying because he is brilliant. I’d love it if you could say more about what made his character so compelling.

Benjamín Labatut Not just because von Neumann was such an astounding scientist and mathematician. But listening to the people who used to talk about him, it’s like hearing someone talk about a superintelligent AI. The way that he affected those around him, the way that he would suddenly meet someone in a corridor and destroy their PhD thesis in 35 seconds. And the vistas that he had on humanity, no? It’s a cold and calculating, logic-driven perspective. I used von Neumann to show his blind spots as a person; as a thinker, I’m fascinated by him.

Luckily, we are not a species that reasons only. Our ways of being will always be more than our ways of knowing. Many of the problems that we face as individuals and as a species, of course, you can look at them with logic and reason, but then you get to scenarios like mutually assured destruction, because that’s where it leads. Because it is an either-or, if-not-this-then-that mentality. But we have other ways of going about things. The biggest problems, we don’t solve them with our minds. We just live through them, and we are changed by them.

I think that we’re at a moment where this is no longer science fiction, but it’s going to start to interact with the messiness of the world. If there is one thing that I could bet all my money on, it is that we will get the bad almost for sure, because the good is always harder. Not just from the point of view of science, but from the point of view of an individual. The terrible things are easily reachable, right? But to change yourself in a meaningful way—to be better, not faster or cheaper—is difficult. I think that optimism and realism at this point, we can even throw those perspectives away and just look around right now at what is happening, how we’re living our lives. I don’t see that bright 2.5% GDP increase. I don’t think we’re going to sleep soundly just because we’re going to grow 0.5% faster.

Jasmine Sun I remember when Claude Code came out and I started playing with it. You first feel this excitement at the technology and how much you can create. And then I started to wonder how many of my problems are solved by software. And the answer is less than you think.

One thing that I really love about your retelling of the AlphaGo story at the end of ‘The MANIAC’ is that it holds the light and the dark. It is both suffused with this clear marveling at the capabilities of the technology—you really understand and appreciate these systems—and it also has the emotional texture, the sadness, and the tragedy of the human players who lost to AlphaGo.

Then the very last sentence of ‘The MANIAC’ doesn’t end with Lee Sedol’s loss; it ends with the invention of AlphaZero, this successor system that didn’t even need any human data to train on. I’m curious why you chose to leave readers with that final image.

Benjamín Labatut I think it’s the trajectory that we’re on, and I think it’s a mistake. It’s more exciting to think about AlphaZero and then AlphaFold and Alpha whatever—Alpha, Beta, Gamma. But I’m sure that Lee Sedol’s life after that has been more interesting. We forget to ask the right questions. The questions are “How much?” and “How quick?”, and we forget “What for?”

I’m sure in this audience there’s a bunch of people who have met the people driving these technologies. They’re not very interesting people. I’ve been amazed by it. What they’re doing is fascinating, but we are living beings. I think about the trajectory that we’re on right now. I think about Lee Sedol, who quit playing Go. The thing that seduced me the most about him—of course, he was a genius, right? But he has this obsession with K-pop dramas. I imagine him singing in the shower in that really weird voice that he has. And I thought, “Well, yeah, that is the human phenomena.” The entire thing, that he has a family, that he has kids. We leave it aside because we’re caught in abstraction. We’re enamored of our abstraction. We’re enamored of the things that we can do, and we forget what for.

I don’t think things are getting any better. They might be getting flashier, but not even just that. The AI that we’re getting right now, I can’t get it to write a single good paragraph, and I’ve tried. I’m sure you all have. I’m like, “What do you mean? You can read every book.” Do I need to pay more?

Jasmine Sun I’ve tried the $200 a month version. They’re not writing poetry either.

Benjamín Labatut What did you get out of it?

Jasmine Sun Not a lot. In a way, it makes me feel better that it can’t write. Maybe just because I’m a writer and that’s cope, but it pushes people to write in more interesting ways, because you don’t want to just be remixing other ideas, since it can do that already. I’m interested to see where the systems will go. Maybe they will be able to write good poetry in a few years from now. I actually won’t be surprised if they do.

There are a lot of people in the audience who are scientists, technologists, and engineers—people who are excited about building some version of superintelligence, or maybe about superintelligence that accompanies or augments humans. I’m curious what message you would leave these folks with as they go on their journeys.

Benjamín Labatut We’re all drunk on these words, ‘super’, ‘ultra’, and they just obfuscate the fact that there are ways of knowing that are not intelligence-based. There are lived processes that affect everything about you. We are not this brain in a jar. It’s amazing that we’ve managed to prove this hypothesis that intelligence is not substrate-dependent. That’s fine. It doesn’t take anything away from the fact that we are more than that.

How about they start thinking about a super loving being or a super sexy being?

Jasmine Sun They’re building those AIs too.

Benjamín Labatut I want one of those robots as soon as it’s out, but I don’t think we’ll be able to take them out with us because people will shame us.

So, okay, superintelligence, right? Let’s say we have it tomorrow, and then let’s say we have the brilliant idea to put it inside one of these robots. You told me the impression that you got from spending time with them in China. What was it? What did you feel?

Jasmine Sun I was in China at Unitree, the leading humanoid robotics company. When you stand face-to-face with a humanoid robot, the first thought that you have, before anything else—it’s something precognitive—is “This thing could kill me.” It’s evolutionary. It’s psychological. In the same way that a chatbot talks back and you think you care about it, you stand face-to-face with a humanoid and you think, “This could kill me.”

Benjamín Labatut That is absolutely fundamental. That is your entire being telling you something profound about what it means to be alive and what it means to be a human being. Our first filter we pass anybody through is “Is this guy a psychopath? Is he going to kill me?”

The way that we talk about this technology, the way that CEOs talk about it, it is chickens coming home to roost. We’ve spoken about taking everybody’s jobs. We’ve spoken about the percentage at which we’re going to destroy the human race. Let’s take ourselves seriously. Let’s take what we’re doing seriously. There is a plan B and a plan C. There’s also a great plan, which is the no-fucking-clue plan. We don’t have a plan, and yes, we’re going through this and I don’t believe anybody’s plan. Nobody who is intellectually honest will tell you a plan.

I’ve spent time with Demis Hassabis, and I ask, “What do you think?” He replies, “I don’t know. What do you think?” People are fundamentally lost. What does that signal to me? If we navigate this space, it won’t be by thinking about it. We’re going to live through it, and I hope we listen to the part of our brain that says, “killer robot,” no? Trust that.

Jasmine Sun How do you think Demis feels when he encounters the enormity of what he’s doing?

Benjamín Labatut I love him. I’m a friend, so I’m not going to betray the truth of our conversations. But there is that level, right? Everybody has what they will say in private versus what they will say in public. I think Demis is a wonderful example of our culture’s Faustian pact, this thirst for knowledge. All our stories ask, “Should I pick this cup, drink it, live forever, and know everything? Or should I just be this human thing?”

Wisdom has always said to leave that to the gods. Leave it to the gods. You are not immortal and you are not all-knowing, and that is what makes you precious. You are precious because you’re weak; you’re limited. We disabused ourselves of the notion that we will live forever. We’re living in this scary time, so let’s be a little bit more human.

Jasmine Sun Even though Tyler is an optimist and you are not, you converge on some of the same ideas around the limits of intelligence and rationality, and everything else that humans are. Thank you for having this conversation.

Benjamín Labatut Thank you so much. Sorry for bumming everybody out."]]]></description>
<dc:subject>benjaminlabatut 2026 jasminesun ai artificialintelligence fiction literature literaryfiction quantumphysics quantummechanics johnvonneumann alphago alphazero leesedol abstraction life living messiness morality emotion superintelligence human humans humanism technooptimiism technology quantumtheory walterpitts warrenmcculloch shame fear history science claude claudcode unitree demishassabis tylercowen logic reason mutuallyassureddestruction optimism realism software purpose philosophy experience bodies waysofknowing robots humanoidrobots chatbots writing howwewrite allthesenses senses wisdom mortality</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5d71052c560/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:benjaminlabatut"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasminesun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literaryfiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:quantumphysics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:quantummechanics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnvonneumann"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alphago"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alphazero"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:leesedol"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abstraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:superintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technooptimiism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:quantumtheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walterpitts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:warrenmcculloch"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shame"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:claude"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:claudcode"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unitree"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:demishassabis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tylercowen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:logic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reason"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutuallyassureddestruction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:realism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:experience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bodies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:waysofknowing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanoidrobots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatbots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:allthesenses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:senses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wisdom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mortality"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide">
    <title>SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide – Ayin Press</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-02T05:17:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Winner of the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Award

An ambitious, world-envisioning work of Indigenous futurism.

Since 2015—through a proliferation of forms including sculpture, regalia, film, photography, poetry, painting, and installation—acclaimed multimedia artist Cannupa Hanska Luger has been weaving together strands of a new myth. Collectively referred to as Future Ancestral Technologies, this sprawling series of interrelated works seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured the earth’s population.

Part graphic novel, part art book, SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide offers readers a view beneath, beyond, and between the lines of Luger’s ever-expanding artistic universe. In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing—deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text. An epic and timely meditation on planetary life in the midst of transformation, SURVIVA boldly presents an earth-based, demilitarized futuredream that foregrounds Indigenous knowledge as critical to humanity’s survival.

SURVIVA is the first title from Aora Books, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring transformational thought and culture that transcends borders, disciplines, and traditions. Rooted in an ethos of polyvocality and planetary consciousness, Aora publishes works that forge bold connections across time, place, ideas, and beings often seen as separate.

About the Author

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental installations, sculpture, and performance to communicate urgent stories of twenty-first-century Indigeneity. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota. Luger’s bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview. His work is in numerous permanent museum collections and has been exhibited around the world, including at the Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates; the 81st Whitney Biennial, New York; the 14th Shanghai Biennale; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Gardiner Museum in Toronto; and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Georgia. Luger has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, United States Artists, Creative Capital, the Smithsonian Institution, the Open Society Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, among others. Luger currently lives and works in Glorieta, NM.

Praise for SURVIVA

“Cannupa Hanska Luger has created a wondrous book of survivance, a story to carry in pocket and study at every opportunity. At once a dystopia (earth is near destroyed) and a postcolonial fantasy (the colonizers abandon the planet for good), SURVIVA is a work of artistic brilliance that draws our attention to the simultaneity of ruins and futures. Rich with dreampower and evocation, these pages illustrate the mysteries of space-time, the dissolution of boundaries, and the relational universe described by Indigenous quantum mechanics. Read carefully, SURVIVA has the power to bend time itself, lifting us from past and present into futures innumerable.”
—Philip J. Deloria, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University and author of Playing Indian

“SURVIVA offers Indigenous wisdom for a shared future built on ancestral knowledge in radical relation. This is a survival guide like none other.”
—Candice Hopkins, curator of the Forge Project

“SURVIVA is not just another riff on a sci-fi depiction of some imagined future. Luger’s poetic and visual interventions are clear directives for all of us to ready our minds, bodies, and spirits as we continue to move through the future together.”
—Jeffrey Gibson, artist and editor of An Indigenous Present

“Cannupa Hanska Luger’s SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide boldly reimagines our conceptions of time and history as it interweaves past, present, and future. This inventive work challenges our collective narratives, pushing us to rethink the art of survival through a lens of transformation.”
—Hank Willis Thomas, artist and cofounder of For Freedoms

“Cannupa Hanska Luger is a mad genius able to weave parables from tomorrow with lessons from yesterday into a stunningly prescient and wise field guide you should read right now. This is not a book. This is a time machine.”
—Jordan Klepper, The Daily Show, Comedy Central

“SURVIVA feels everlasting and also like it will self-destruct after you read it.”
—Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker, Reservation Dogs (Hulu/FX)

“A hybrid work from a plain 1970s field guide found in an army surplus store, Luger transforms the book through unexpected redacting, speculative fiction, and informative and artistic line drawing.”
—Sandra Hale Schulman, ICT News

“Interdisciplinary Native American artist Luger delivers a daring work of speculative fiction set in a future in which the wealthy and non-Indigenous have fled the Earth they ravaged.”
—Publishers Weekly

“*SURVIVA *****provides text with new and old Indigenous lessons intermingled, while time is wonky and permeable, and the world must be rebirthed, or re-membered in a postcolonial way. This is a message from both our future and past ancestors. The thread is one and the same.”
—Soph Myers-Kelley, Graphic Medicine

Book Details
160 pages | Paperback | 8.3 x 5.4 in. | ISBN: 9781961814264 | e-ISBN: 9781961814271
Publication date: September 2nd, 2025

Product Photography by Jackson Krule"

[via: 

"Red Power Hour - Learning what we already know - YouTube"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LiED_5Rj8

"RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025), a hybrid art piece/survival manual exploring indigenous futurism, decolonization, and relationality through redacted military text and Indigenous artwork." ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>cannupahanskaluger 2025 survival form indigeneity indigenous rednation futurism indigenousfuturism decolonization relationality care caring land cyclical time kinship morethanhuman multispecies knowledge present future presentfuture motion movement nomadism nomads standingrock survivance colonialism colonization decolonialism ancestralknowledge scifi sciencefiction place relations relation boundaries dreampower ruins dystopia fantasy spacetime history past alinear redactions speculativefiction identity timemachines timetravel earth ancestors postcolonialism memory archives travel traveling contamination corruption dominion capitalism space spaceexplortation speculative transformation demilitarization humanity borders disciplines transdisciplinary polyvocality planetaryconsciousness transcendence conquest liminality betweenness inbetweenness inbetween between nature life revolution destruction obsolescence restoration interconnected interconnectedness mutualaid water landdefenders waterdefenders action activis</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b4be62af802/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cannupahanskaluger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:form"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rednation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenousfuturism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relationality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:caring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:land"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyclical"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kinship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:present"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presentfuture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:motion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nomadism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nomads"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:standingrock"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survivance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ancestralknowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:place"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boundaries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dreampower"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ruins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dystopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fantasy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spacetime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:past"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alinear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redactions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timemachines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timetravel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:earth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ancestors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:postcolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:archives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:travel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:traveling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:contamination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dominion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:space"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spaceexplortation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:demilitarization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:borders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disciplines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transdisciplinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:polyvocality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:planetaryconsciousness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transcendence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conquest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liminality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:betweenness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inbetweenness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inbetween"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:between"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:destruction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:obsolescence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:restoration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnected"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectedness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:water"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:landdefenders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:waterdefenders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activis"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LiED_5Rj8">
    <title>Red Power Hour - Learning what we already know - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-06-02T05:16:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9LiED_5Rj8</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["RPH is back! Co-hosts Elena Ortiz and Melanie Yazzie discuss Cannupa Hanska Luger's Surviva: A Future Ancestral Field Guide (2025),  a hybrid art piece/survival manual exploring indigenous futurism, decolonization, and relationality through redacted military text and Indigenous artwork."

[book link:
https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>elenaortiz melanieyazzie cannupahanskaluger survival form indigeneity indigenous rednation futurism indigenousfuturism decolonization relationality care caring land cyclical time kinship morethanhuman multispecies knowledge 2026 2025 present future presentfuture motion movement nomadism nomads standingrock survivance colonialism colonization decolonialism ancestralknowledge scifi sciencefiction place relations relation boundaries dreampower ruins dystopia fantasy spacetime history past alinear redactions speculativefiction identity timemachines timetravel earth ancestors postcolonialism memory archives travel traveling contamination corruption dominion capitalism space spaceexplortation speculative transformation demilitarization humanity borders disciplines transdisciplinary polyvocality planetaryconsciousness transcendence conquest liminality betweenness inbetweenness inbetween between nature life revolution destruction obsolescence restoration interconnected interconnectedness mutualaid water landdefenders</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:05337a68b9ea/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elenaortiz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:melanieyazzie"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cannupahanskaluger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:form"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rednation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenousfuturism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relationality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:caring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:land"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyclical"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kinship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:present"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presentfuture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:motion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nomadism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nomads"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:standingrock"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survivance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ancestralknowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:place"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boundaries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dreampower"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ruins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dystopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fantasy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spacetime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:past"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alinear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redactions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timemachines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timetravel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:earth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ancestors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:postcolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:archives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:travel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:traveling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:contamination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dominion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:space"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spaceexplortation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:demilitarization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:borders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disciplines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transdisciplinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:polyvocality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:planetaryconsciousness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transcendence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conquest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liminality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:betweenness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inbetweenness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inbetween"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:between"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:destruction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:obsolescence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:restoration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnected"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectedness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:water"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:landdefenders"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/43/2%20(163)/75/400513/Time-BombsGhassan-Kanafani-beyond-Life-and-Death">
    <title>Time Bombs | Social Text | Duke University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-21T20:54:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/article-abstract/43/2%20(163)/75/400513/Time-BombsGhassan-Kanafani-beyond-Life-and-Death</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Born in Palestine in 1936 and exiled at the age of twelve, Ghassan Kanafani eventually became one of the leading lights of Palestinian resistance — novelist, editor, playwright, sculptor, painter, political party spokesperson, revolutionary theorist, and, finally, martyr. In 1972, he was assassinated in Beirut by Israeli agents who placed a time bomb in his car. While Kanafani's life was cut short at the age of thirty‐six, he has since become famous in Palestinian circles for his short stories and novels. Kanafani's fiction is often quite dark and focused on death, but it nevertheless contains a clear utopian element, a revolutionary optimism. Where did this dimension come from? In this essay, Kanafani's work is placed in the context of his childhood — the violent era of Zionist time bomb terror. Tracing the tactics and campaigns of three Zionist militias — the Haganah, the Irgun, and the Lehi — this essay shows how time bomb terrorism pervaded Palestine during the years of Kanafani's childhood and thereby influenced his fiction. But even more, this essay argues that Kanafani — and for that matter, the movement for Palestinian liberation more broadly — also escaped Zionism. As terrible as colonialism's wounds might be, they are not all‐encompassing. In Kanafani's work, one can find traces of other calendars and clocks: other pasts that the Zionists cannot erase, other presents that they cannot dominate, and other futures that they cannot comprehend. As the example of Kanafani demonstrates, Zionism's colonization of time did not fully capture him, not even in death."]]></description>
<dc:subject>hghassankanafani 2025 gregburris death time assassinations palestine literature zionism liberation colonialism colonization clocks calendars haganah irgun lehi 1972 1936 resistance beirut shortstories novels revolutionaryoptimism optimism violence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:735aa93c7113/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hghassankanafani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gregburris"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:assassinations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:clocks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:calendars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:haganah"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:irgun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lehi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1972"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1936"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:beirut"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shortstories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:novels"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolutionaryoptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:violence"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-springing-time/">
    <title>The Springing Time – Melanie Challenger</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-01T21:09:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-springing-time/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["While more-than-human beings adapt to ecological changes like earlier springs by adjusting their rhythms and behaviors, Melanie Challenger asks, can we learn from them how to bring our bodies into a more direct conversation with the seasons?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>2026 melaniechallenger seasons time bodies ecology slow small morethanhuman multispecies ulfbüntgen nature outside outdoors indoors inside dst knowledge patwillmer life living spring purpose howwelive organisms biology science human humans survival sensitivity flexibility change attention adjustment pollution libertarianism neolibertarianism ideology phenology children wilderness disinformation arctic inuit indigeneity indigenous biorhythms puberty hormones patterns cycles plants pollinators climate climatechange springtime insects environment sun ethics utility function metabolism flourishing cuklture cultures anthropocene economics economicgrowth growth nihilism optimism mortality interdependence parenting joy grief reality daylightsavingtime</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3034ccd91b17/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:melaniechallenger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:seasons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bodies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:small"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ulfbüntgen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:outside"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:outdoors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indoors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inside"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dst"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patwillmer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organisms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sensitivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flexibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attention"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adjustment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pollution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neolibertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ideology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:phenology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wilderness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disinformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arctic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inuit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:biorhythms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:puberty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hormones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patterns"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cycles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:plants"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pollinators"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:springtime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:insects"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:utility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:function"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:metabolism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flourishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cuklture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cultures"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropocene"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economicgrowth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mortality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interdependence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parenting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grief"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:daylightsavingtime"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/">
    <title>The Broken Record</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-22T00:59:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The schools like Alpha School, AltSchool, Summit, and Rocketship are all strikingly dystopian insofar as they compromise, if not reject, any sort of agency for students; they compromise, if not reject, any sort of democratic vision for the classroom. School is simply an exercise in engineering and optimization: command and control and test-prep and feedback loops. There is no space for community or cooperation, no time for play -- there is no openness, no curiosity, no contemplation, no pause. There is no possibility for anything, other than what the algorithm predicts."]]></description>
<dc:subject>audreywatters 2026 edtech alphaschool altschool rocketship children democracy agency teaching howweteach chatbots opeanai artificialintelligence ai community optimization curiosity contemplation optimism productivity efficiency openness transparency moocs michaelpershan danmeyer emanuelmaiberg markzuckerberg reidhoffman marcandreessen learning howelearn pedagogy schools schooling samkriss roylee meta facebook cameras privacy surveillance highered highereducation colleges universities academia automation technooptimism chunginlee mooc technolgy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2d78fa8c2787/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:audreywatters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alphaschool"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:altschool"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rocketship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatbots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:opeanai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:curiosity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:contemplation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:productivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:efficiency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transparency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:moocs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michaelpershan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:danmeyer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emanuelmaiberg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markzuckerberg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reidhoffman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marcandreessen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samkriss"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:roylee"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cameras"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colleges"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:automation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technooptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chunginlee"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mooc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technolgy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.the1916company.com/blog/time-reconsidered-why-the-universal-geneve-ferrovie-dello-stato-is-the-railroad-watch-to-rule-them-all.html">
    <title>Time Reconsidered: Why the Universal Genève Ferrovie dello Stato Is The Railroad Watch To Rule Them All</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-10T07:04:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.the1916company.com/blog/time-reconsidered-why-the-universal-geneve-ferrovie-dello-stato-is-the-railroad-watch-to-rule-them-all.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The story of the Universal Genève FS—and why the most meaningful watches are the ones that carry history, not status."

...

"I don’t believe in grail watches. I believe in lists. My list is a future collection, a mental inventory of watches I admire, covet, obsess over, and, in many cases, will probably never own. Every now and then, something on that list stops me cold.

That happened again recently, when a watch I first added sometime around 2015 resurfaced and demanded attention: the Universal Genève Ferrovie dello Stato, better known simply as the UG FS.

[image: "Mark 2 Dial. Image: Fratello Watches."]

I’ve added this watch to more eBay and Chrono24 carts than I care to admit. I’ve talked myself into it, out of it, and back into it again. And yet, despite all of that familiarity, I realized I’d never really reconsidered it. That makes it the perfect watch to kick off this year’s Time Reconsidered series.

I’ve never hidden my affection for Universal Genève. Like many collectors, I’m eagerly awaiting the brand’s long-anticipated revival under the guidance of Breitling and Georges Kern. But the FS isn’t the Universal Genève most people picture first. It isn’t a Nina Rindt. It isn’t a Tri-Compax. It certainly isn’t a Polerouter. Those watches deserve every ounce of praise they get.

The watch is generally still attainable, with most models just shy of the $1K price tag. In a vintage UG landscape where quality pieces have become increasingly untouchable, the FS stands out not as a consolation prize, but as a reminder of what watch collecting is supposed to be about.

History, Railways, Time, And A New Italy

[image: "In the early 1930s, Bologna San Ruffillo emerged as one of the more modern stops along the newly inaugurated Direttissima line between Bologna and Florence. Unlike many small stations of the era, it was built with raised, fully paved platforms, sheltered canopies, and a dedicated pedestrian underpass—amenities that signaled a quiet leap forward in everyday railway infrastructure. Image: Wikipedia Commons."]

To understand the FS, you have to start with railroads. And to understand railroads, you have to understand time.

The story of modern timekeeping cannot be told without trains. Railroads didn’t just shrink distance; they forced the world to agree on what “now” actually meant. Time zones exist because trains needed them. Schedules demanded synchronization. Local noon stopped being practical the moment steel tracks connected cities moving at unprecedented speed.

Universal Genève was far from alone in producing watches for railroad service. In the United States, brands like Hamilton and the Ball Watch Company were the true standard-bearers, supplying timepieces that met strict railroad certification requirements. These watches were engineered for demanding conditions, with features such as magnetic protection, improved shock resistance, and highly legible dials designed to be read at a glance, even in poor light. It wouldn’t be until later that Omega entered the conversation, applying the same functional principles to the Railmaster as rail-adjacent needs evolved beyond the American system.

Long before Universal Genève existed as a brand, its roots were already intertwined with Italy — and with the language of railways. Trademark records show that in October 1893, a rail-themed mark featuring a wagon and the word Ferrovia was registered in Le Locle by P. Baillod-Houriet. That same mark was formally transferred in 1894 to Descombes & Perret, the firm that would soon operate under the “Universal Watch” name, and again in 1897 to Perret & Berthoud.

[image]

By 1901, the lineage had evolved further, with Perret & Berthoud registering Cronometro per Ferrovie for watches and watch components. These early trademarks do not point to an official supply contract with the Italian State Railways, but they do reveal something more subtle and just as important: from its very beginnings, Universal’s predecessor firms were deliberately positioning themselves within the Italian market using railway imagery and nomenclature, aligning precision timekeeping with the symbolism and prestige of rail transport decades before the famous FS wristwatches would appear.

[image]

During the Fascist era, the Italian watchmaker Perseo held exclusive rights to supply watches to Ferrovie dello Stato employees. That changed in the postwar period. By the 1950s, as Italy rebuilt itself, the railway began offering workers a choice: pocket watch or wristwatch, multiple suppliers, personal preference within a professional framework.

This is when Universal Genève entered the picture. Already respected for its chronographs and complicated watches, UG became one of the approved suppliers for Ferrovie dello Stato employees. What emerged was not a marketing exercise, but a true employee watch — issued for work, built for purpose, and worn daily.

In that sense, the FS is something like the grandfather of the watches collectors love to talk about today: Pan Am–signed GMTs, Domino’s Rolexes, corporate-issued Omegas. Before any of that became romanticized, the FS existed quietly on the wrists of working Italians, keeping trains on time and on track.

In Italy, railroads carried even greater symbolic weight. They represented unity, progress, and national identity — sometimes exploited, sometimes earned. Under Fascism, the rail system became a tool of propaganda. By the end of World War II, it was also in ruins.

What followed was one of the most important transformations in Italy’s modern history. The Ferrovie dello Stato was rebuilt almost from scratch. New lines were laid. Electrification expanded. The groundwork for high-speed rail was established. What had once been a symbol of authoritarian spectacle was reimagined as something else entirely: a marker of renewal, mobility, and possibility.

Railway workers became part of that story. They weren’t just employees — they were stewards of movement, stability, and modern life. In many ways, they came to represent freedom and prosperity in motion. And the watches they wore mattered.

The Universal Genève FS

[image: "The cleanest Mark 1 dial you will ever see. Image: MarktheTime."

The Universal Genève Ferrovie dello Stato was produced across three distinct series between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, a relatively short window that nevertheless captures a period of rapid aesthetic and industrial change. While the cases, dials, and proportions evolved, the core brief from the Italian State Railway remained remarkably consistent: a highly legible wristwatch, modestly sized by modern standards, with a clean white dial, Arabic numerals, and a subsidiary seconds display at six o’clock.

Across all three iterations, the FS was powered by Universal Genève’s manually wound caliber 64 (which is eerily similar to the Omega 30T2RG). It’s a no-nonsense movement, which is the nicest way to describe a mechanical movement that is non-hacking, non-chronometer rated, but reliable, slim, and generally easy to service.

Every example was engraved on the caseback with “FS” along with a unique serial number. Unlike many military or employee-issued watches where production figures are speculative at best, the sequential numbering here allows for educated estimates. In total, roughly 82,000 Universal Genève FS wristwatches appear to have been produced between 1964 and 1975, with the vast majority belonging to the second series.
First Series (circa 1964–1966)

The earliest FS, and still the one I find myself chasing most often, is the First Series. These watches feature a 34mm case with white enamel dial, that gets, dare I say it, creamy with age. When scouring online for these, pay special attention to the enamel dials as many are in poor condition.

The Arabic numerals are stamped from the reverse of the dial, creating raised forms that are then filled in dark paint, offering excellent contrast and depth. The small seconds register at six o’clock has radially printed numerals, which just looks really good. Look closely and you’ll spot another tell: the “6” in 60 is wide open, a small detail that has become a shorthand for identifying early examples.

Many collectors, myself included, seek out the Mark I for its faceted case, slightly smaller size, and radial subdial layout. Produced only for a brief period, the First Series is significantly rarer than what followed, and finding one in strong, original condition has become increasingly difficult.

Second Series (circa 1969–1974)

[image: "Mark 2 Dial. Image: Fratello Watches."]

The Second Series marks the most substantial visual shift in the FS lineage, and also accounts for nearly 70 percent of total production. Here, Universal Genève moved to a larger 36mm cushion-shaped case with broader proportions and 19mm lug spacing, aligning more closely with late-1960s design trends.

Despite the new case, much of the dial DNA remains intact. The white enamel dial returns, as do the stamped Arabic numerals. On the sub-seconds register, the numerals are now printed straight rather than radially, the “6” in 60 is tightened up, and no longer fully open, though not entirely closed either.

Third Series (circa 1974–1975)

The Third Series represents the final chapter of the FS story — and the most visually distinct. The cushion case remains, but the dial takes a sharp turn. Gone is the enamel; in its place is a silver dial with a more modern, utilitarian feel.

The typography shifts as well. The sub-seconds register features smaller, straighter printing with concentric circles, and the Arabic numerals appear to be applied rather than stamped. Below six o’clock, the dial now reads simply “Swiss,” replacing the earlier “Swiss Made.” It’s a quieter, more restrained execution.

Production numbers for the Third Series are exceedingly small. Based on known serial ranges, as few as 1,500 examples may have been made, all toward the very end of Universal Genève’s involvement with the FS program.

A Note for Anyone Looking: Correct crowns across all series remain a point of debate, but evidence suggests that a signed Universal Genève crown bearing a capital “U” is appropriate. As with much vintage collecting, originality here is part documentation, part informed consensus.

Why This One Matters to Me

When I look at the watches on my list, the ones I want and the ones I admire, it is hard not to notice how disconnected many of them really are. Some are aspirational in the most obvious way. We see Steve McQueen, James Dean, James Bond. We see our boss’s gold watch and imagine what it might say about us if it were on our wrist instead. None of that is wrong. We all use objects, watches included, to project identity, to borrow a little meaning, a little confidence, a little cool.

[image: "Two Mark 2 dials. Image: Omega Forums"]

The Universal Genève FS is undeniably cool, but not in a way that tries to impress. It is not going to upend horological history, and it does not pretend to be some revelatory act of design. What it does instead is something far rarer. It connects.

Universal Genève was one of the first vintage brands I encountered in the earliest, most formative years of my collecting. Long before I understood movements or production numbers, I wanted a UG. That desire never faded, only my ability to act on it did. The FS, in many ways, feels like the most honest expression of that early fascination.

And while it was not made in Italy, its roots are inseparable from it. This watch represents a moment of rebuilding, of forward motion, of life after authoritarianism. It was worn by railway workers, people like those in my own family, who quite literally kept the country moving. There is something quietly powerful about wearing a watch that stands in opposition to the regime my grandparents fled, transformed instead into a symbol of work, dignity, and progress.

Italy will always have a place in my heart. Not just because of heritage, but because of memory. A babymoon spent driving through the Dolomites and hiking along impossibly blue alpine lakes. A best friend’s wedding on the Grand Canal in Venice. Family trips to Florence. Moments measured not just in minutes, but in motion, always on trains, always between places, always headed somewhere new.

To wear a Universal Genève FS is to carry all of that on my wrist. A piece of personal history intertwined with a broader one. A watch tied to the railroads that reshaped how we organize, understand, and experience time itself.

And that, to me, is what watch collecting is really about. It’s not about trophies or speculation, but stories that move with you and matter because they are yours."]]></description>
<dc:subject>greggentile 2026 railwaywatches universalgenève ferroviedellostato watches trains rail italia italy railways perseo time timekeeping modernism timezones synchronization modernity speed ball omega omegarailmaster chronometry 1950s fascism propaganda ww2 wwii history mobility possibility optimism renewal movement stability freedom prosperity 1960s 1970s aesthetics legibility identity connection authoritarianism dignity work progress memory hamilton railmaster</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:75ea4f2a1d85/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greggentile"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:railwaywatches"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universalgenève"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ferroviedellostato"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:watches"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trains"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:railways"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:perseo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timekeeping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timezones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:synchronization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ball"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:omega"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:omegarailmaster"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chronometry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1950s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:propaganda"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ww2"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wwii"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mobility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:possibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:renewal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prosperity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1960s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1970s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aesthetics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:connection"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dignity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hamilton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:railmaster"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://danwang.co/2025-letter/">
    <title>2025 letter | Dan Wang</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-04T07:12:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://danwang.co/2025-letter/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

If the Bay Area once had an impish side, it has gone the way of most hardware tinkerers and hippie communes. Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI. Sam Altman once combined both registers at a tech conference when he said: “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” Actually that was pretty funny.

It wouldn’t be news to the Central Committee that only the paranoid survive. The Communist Party speaks in the same two registers as the tech titans. The po-faced men on the Politburo tend to make extraordinarily bland speeches, laced occasionally with a murderous warning against those who cross the party’s interests. How funny is the big guy? We can take a look at an official list of Xi Jinping’s jokes, helpfully published by party propagandists. These wisecracks include the following: “On an inspection tour to Jiangsu, Xi quipped that the true measure of water cleanliness is whether the mayor would dare to swim in the water.” Or try this reminiscence that Xi offered on bad air quality: “The PM2.5 back then was even worse than it is now; I used to joke that it was PM250.” Yes, such a humorous fellow is the general secretary.

It’s nearly as dangerous to tweet a joke about a top VC as it is to make a joke about a member of the Central Committee. People who are dead serious tend not to embody sparkling irony. Yet the Communist Party and Silicon Valley are two of the most powerful forces shaping our world today. Their initiatives increase their own centrality while weakening the agency of whole nation states. Perhaps they are successful because they are remorseless.

Earlier this year, I moved from Yale to Stanford. The sun and the dynamism of the west coast have drawn me back. I found a Bay Area that has grown a lot weirder since I lived there a decade ago. In 2015, people were mostly working on consumer apps, cryptocurrencies, and some business software. Though it felt exciting, it looks in retrospect like a more innocent, even a more sedate, time. Today, AI dictates everything in San Francisco while the tech scene plays a much larger political role in the United States. I can’t get over how strange it all feels. In the midst of California’s natural beauty, nerds are trying to build God in a Box; meanwhile, Peter Thiel hovers in the background presenting lectures on the nature of the Antichrist. This eldritch setting feels more appropriate for a Gothic horror novel than for real life.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I want to say that I am rooting for San Francisco. It’s tempting to gawk at the craziness of the culture, as much of the east coast media tends to do. Yes, one can quickly find people who speak with the conviction of a cultist; no, I will not inject the peptides proffered by strangers. But there’s more to the Bay Area than unusual health practices. It is, after all, a place that creates not only new products, but also new modes of living. I’m struck that some east coast folks insist to me that driverless cars can’t work and won’t be accepted, even as these vehicles populate the streets of the Bay Area. Coverage of Silicon Valley increasingly reminds me of coverage of China, where a legacy media reporter might parachute in, write a dispatch on something that looks deranged, and leave without moving past caricature.

I enjoy San Francisco more than when I was younger because I now better appreciate what makes it work. I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Tech is so open towards immigrants that it has driven populists into a froth of rage. It remains male-heavy and practices plenty of gatekeeping. But San Francisco better embodies an ethos of openness relative to the rest of the country. Industries on the east coast — finance, media, universities, policy — tend to more carefully weigh name and pedigree. Young scientists aren’t told they ought to keep their innovations incremental and their attitude to hierarchy duly deferential, as they might hear in Boston. A smart young person could achieve much more over a few years in SF than in DC. People aren’t reminiscing over some lost golden age that took place decades ago, as New Yorkers in media might do. 

San Francisco is forward looking and eager to try new ideas. Without this curiosity, it wouldn’t be able to create whole new product categories: iPhones, social media, large language models, and all sorts of digital services. For the most part, it’s positive that tech values speed: quick product cycles, quick replies to email. Past success creates an expectation that the next technological wave will be even more exciting. It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything.

People like to make fun of San Francisco for not drinking; well, that works pretty well for me. I enjoy board games and appreciate that it’s easier to find other players. I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a space in which speech can be heard over music, which feels so much more civilized than descending into a loud bar in New York. It’s easy to fall into a nerdy conversation almost immediately with someone young and earnest. The Bay Area has converged on Asian-American modes of socializing (though it lacks the emphasis on food). I find it charming that a San Francisco home that is poorly furnished and strewn with pizza boxes could be owned by a billionaire who can’t get around to setting up a bed for his mattress. 

There’s still no better place for a smart, young person to go in the world than Silicon Valley. It adores the youth, especially those with technical skill and the ability to grind. Venture capitalists are chasing younger and younger founders: the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago. My favorite part of Silicon Valley is the cultivation of community. Tech founders are a close-knit group, always offering help to each other, but they circulate actively amidst the broader community too. (The finance industry in New York by contrast practices far greater secrecy.) Tech has organizations I think of as internal civic institutions that try to build community. They bring people together in San Francisco or retreats north of the city, bringing together young people to learn from older folks.

Silicon Valley also embodies a cultural tension. It is playing with new ideas while being open to newcomers; at the same time, it is a self-absorbed place that doesn’t think so much about the broader world. Young people who move to San Francisco already tend to be very online. They know what they’re signing up for. If they don’t fit in after a few years, they probably won’t stick around. San Francisco is a city that absorbs a lot of people with similar ethics, which reinforces its existing strengths and weaknesses.

Narrowness of mind is something that makes me uneasy about the tech world. Effective altruists, for example, began with sound ideas like concern for animal welfare as well as cost-benefit analyses for charitable giving. But these solid premises have launched some of its members towards intellectual worlds very distant from moral intuitions that most people hold; they’ve also sent a few into jail. The well-rounded type might struggle to stand out relative to people who are exceptionally talented in a technical domain. Hedge fund managers have views about the price of oil, interest rates, a reliably obscure historical episode, and a thousand other things. Tech titans more obsessively pursue a few ideas — as Elon Musk has on electric vehicles and space launches — rather than developing a robust model of the world.

So the 20-year-olds who accompanied Mr. Musk into the Department of Government Efficiency did not, I would say, distinguish themselves with their judiciousness. The Bay Area has all sorts of autistic tendencies. Though Silicon Valley values the ability to move fast, the rest of society has paid more attention to instances in which tech wants to break things. It is not surprising that hardcore contingents on both the left and the right have developed hostility to most everything that emerges from Silicon Valley. 

There’s a general lack of cultural awareness in the Bay Area. It’s easy to hear at these parties that a person’s favorite nonfiction book is Seeing Like a State while their aspirationally favorite novel is Middlemarch. Silicon Valley often speaks in strange tongues, starting podcasts and shows that are popular within the tech world but do not travel far beyond the Bay Area. Though San Francisco has produced so much wealth, it is a relative underperformer in the national culture. Indie movie theaters keep closing down while all sorts of retail and art institutions suffer from the crumminess of downtown. The symphony and the opera keep cutting back on performances — after Esa-Pekka Salonen quit the directorship of the symphony, it hasn’t been able to name a successor. Wealthy folks in New York and LA have, for generations, pumped money into civic institutions. Tech elites mostly scorn traditional cultural venues and prefer to fund the next wave of technology instead.

One of the things I like about the finance industry is that it might be better at encouraging diverse opinions. Portfolio managers want to be right on average, but everyone is wrong three times a day before breakfast. So they relentlessly seek new information sources; consensus is rare, since there are always contrarians betting against the rest of the market. Tech cares less for dissent. Its movements are more herdlike, in which companies and startups chase one big technology at a time. Startups don’t need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don’t like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, most people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right. 

The two most insular cities I’ve lived in are San Francisco and Beijing. They are places where people are willing to risk apocalypse every day in order to reach utopia. Though Beijing is open only to a narrow slice of newcomers — the young, smart, and Han — its elites must think about the rest of the country and the rest of the world. San Francisco is more open, but when people move there, they stop thinking about the world at large. Tech folks may be the worst-traveled segment of American elites. People stop themselves from leaving in part because they can correctly claim to live in one of the most naturally beautiful corners of the world, in part because they feel they should not tear themselves away from inventing the future. More than any other topic, I’m bewildered by the way that Silicon Valley talks about AI."]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanwang 2025 china siliconvalley sanfrancisco technology bayarea stanford bigtech insularity culture vc venturecapital finance beijing elitism meritocracy peterthiel institutions losangeles nyc wealth esa-pekkasalonen disruption governance government elonmusk effectivealtruism morality ethics diversity capitalism society boston academia highered highereducation colleges universities gatekeeping media mainstreammedia us california politics ai artificialintelligence nickbostrom superintelliegence darioamodei anthropic taiwan 2014 samaltman openai deepseek qwen meta shanghai immigration donaldtrump maga trumpism qianxuesen power energy electricity leninism communism socialism deanball computing computation economics economy intellectualproperty ip tesla gigafactory productivity manufacturing cars xiaomi evs arthurkroeber dragonomics infrastructure rail railways aircraft airbus boeing alexandergrothendieck drones robots robotics xijinping highspeedrail hsr trains marcandreessen huawei barackobama industry populat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e6e1c2fc10c4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sanwang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:siliconvalley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sanfrancisco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bayarea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stanford"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:insularity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:venturecapital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:beijing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meritocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:peterthiel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:losangeles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nyc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wealth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:esa-pekkasalonen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:effectivealtruism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boston"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colleges"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gatekeeping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mainstreammedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:california"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nickbostrom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:superintelliegence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:darioamodei"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taiwan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2014"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samaltman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deepseek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:qwen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shanghai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:immigration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maga"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trumpism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:qianxuesen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:energy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:electricity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:leninism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deanball"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:intellectualproperty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ip"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tesla"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gigafactory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:productivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:manufacturing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:xiaomi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:evs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arthurkroeber"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dragonomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastructure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:railways"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aircraft"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:airbus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boeing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alexandergrothendieck"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:drones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robotics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:xijinping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highspeedrail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hsr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trains"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marcandreessen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:huawei"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:barackobama"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:industry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:populat"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-33-new-years-resolutions-1943.html">
    <title>Woody Guthrie Creates a Doodle-Filled List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions (1943): Beat Fascism, Write a Song a Day, and Keep the Hoping Machine Running | Open Culture</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-02T01:50:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/woody-guthrie-creates-a-doodle-filled-list-of-33-new-years-resolutions-1943.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin’s.” Nowadays, we’d call them New Year’s Resolutions. Adorned by doodles, the list is down to earth by any measure. Family, song, taking a political stand, personal hygiene—they’re the values or aspirations that top his list. You can click the image above to view the list in a larger format. Below, we have provided a transcript of Guthrie’s Rulin’s.

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight"]]></description>
<dc:subject>woodyguthrie newyear self-improvement 1943 2018 2026 life living presence optimism health resistance hope reminders doodles howwewrite lists writing fruit work howwework time reading howweread books love relationships radio clothing drinking alcohol hygiene</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:647fbdc55465/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:woodyguthrie"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newyear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-improvement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1943"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2018"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2026"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reminders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:doodles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fruit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwework"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:relationships"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radio"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:clothing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:drinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alcohol"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hygiene"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is">
    <title>Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy - by kyla scanlon</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-13T04:31:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://kyla.substack.com/p/everyone-is-gambling-and-no-one-is</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via:
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nothing-but-flowers/ ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>kylascanlon economics democracy stability stress anxiety gambling vibecession michaelgreen johnburnmurdoch jeremyhorpedahl tylercowen paulkrugman policy inflation housing donaldtrump prosperity health healthcare healthinsurance affordability paulstarr jeantwenge bradybrickner-wood trust gregip davidbauder news collapse journalism media ai artificialintelligence bubbles aibubble misinformation scams attention infrastructure confidence optimism extraction llms labor work working employment linustorvald demishassabis markets datacenters billionaires electricity openai nvidia china airbnb energy renewables gdp investment speculation economy jobs tarekmansour kalshi financialization sports sportbetting whitneycurrywimbish emilystewart upwardmobility victorfrankl values kahliljoseph capitalism cronycapitalism technology prediction casinos regulation deregulation politics poverty experience risk generations medicare boomers babyboomers genz generationz zoomers us computing cheating scamming cognitiveoverload baumol</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fe165f990ce/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kylascanlon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anxiety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gambling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vibecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michaelgreen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnburnmurdoch"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeremyhorpedahl"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tylercowen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:paulkrugman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inflation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:housing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prosperity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:healthcare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:healthinsurance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:affordability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:paulstarr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeantwenge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bradybrickner-wood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trust"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gregip"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidbauder"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:news"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collapse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bubbles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aibubble"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:misinformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scams"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attention"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastructure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:confidence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:llms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:working"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:employment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:linustorvald"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:demishassabis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:datacenters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:billionaires"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:electricity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nvidia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:airbnb"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:energy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:renewables"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gdp"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jobs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tarekmansour"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kalshi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:financialization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sports"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sportbetting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:whitneycurrywimbish"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emilystewart"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:upwardmobility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:victorfrankl"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:values"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kahliljoseph"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cronycapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:casinos"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deregulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poverty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:experience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:risk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:medicare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:babyboomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generationz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zoomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cheating"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scamming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cognitiveoverload"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:baumol"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBgnjn5cC0">
    <title>How Big Tech Has Convinced Us to Surveil Ourselves and Each Other - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-24T16:56:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBgnjn5cC0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Jason talks to Chris Gilliard, the author of the upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Gilliard has studied the rise of companies like Ring and Flock, as well as the dynamics that lead people to surveil themselves and each other."

[Also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/luxury-surveillance-with-chris-gilliard/id1703615331?i=1000738102953 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IZJWgSZPhsQmIsYujdNLa ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>surveillance luxurysurveillance ring flock 2025 jasonkoebler facialrecognition cameras flocksafety data privacy frictionlessness ubereats grubhub dehumanization efficiency optimism videodoorbells policing ice airtravel protest protests licenseplatereaders police edtech education capitalism smartglasses delivery deliveries ai artificialintelligence generativeai chatbots suicide character.ai sora facebook chatgpt openai davidgolumbia 2022 libertarianism anarchocapitalism bitcoin crypto cryptocurrencies regulation deregulation cyberlibertarianism innovation siliconvalley platforms technology democracy software amazon workers class race racism datasilos law legal fear governance government wearables chrisgilliard genai</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:622988fa7e85/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:luxurysurveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flock"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasonkoebler"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facialrecognition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cameras"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flocksafety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:frictionlessness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ubereats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grubhub"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dehumanization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:efficiency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:videodoorbells"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:airtravel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protests"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:licenseplatereaders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:smartglasses"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:delivery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deliveries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generativeai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatbots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suicide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:character.ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sora"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatgpt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidgolumbia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchocapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bitcoin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crypto"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cryptocurrencies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deregulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyberlibertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:innovation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:siliconvalley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:platforms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:datasilos"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:law"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wearables"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chrisgilliard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genai"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY">
    <title>Against Brainrot — how to read &amp; write more online - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-17T19:36:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LnHruJPPsY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["People are panicking about the literacy crisis, about waning attention spans and why technology is making everything worse. But some people — like writer, software designer, and literary critic Celine Nguyen — have managed to not only retain their engagement with art and culture and literature, but actually deepen it with the help of the internet and social media.

In this conversation, Celine talks through how she went from tech to art school, taught herself to be a literary critic, and learned to love social media, Substack, and AI. 

[00:00:00] Jumping from Silicon Valley to the art world
[00:11:00] The internet and “research as leisure activity”
[00:26:34] Contrarian optimism about AI and art
[00:48:57] How can we measure progress in culture?
[01:04:47] Celine’s personal tech/media habits

Follow Celine's work at personalcanon.com and Jasmine at jasmi.news."

[transcript:
https://jasmi.news/p/celine-nguyen

notes here too:
https://www.personalcanon.com/p/ten-thousand-takes-on-tech-culture ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>celinenguyen jasminesun art literacy literature technooptimism siliconvalley optimism contrarianism ai artificialintelligence progress culture media technology internet web online substack socalmedia literarycriticism humanities philosophy compsci walterbenjamin specialization howweread howwewrite karlmarx dialecticalmaterialism davidharvey reading education learning howwelearn criticaltheory stanford communication access accessibility sensemaking makingsense generalists lingo translation jargon ideology worldview disruption information knowledge abstraction decontextualization algorithms amateurs research amateurism zeyneptufekci extremism context discovery writing geography radicalization venkateshrao consciousness metrics analytics socialmedia discourse conversation attention creativity forums hierarchy llms slop aislop economics ecosystems commercialart culturalproduction publishing excess</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b841824b184c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:celinenguyen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasminesun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technooptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:siliconvalley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:contrarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:substack"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socalmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literarycriticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:compsci"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walterbenjamin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:specialization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:karlmarx"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dialecticalmaterialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidharvey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criticaltheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stanford"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communication"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accessibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sensemaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:makingsense"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generalists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lingo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:translation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jargon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ideology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:worldview"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:information"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abstraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decontextualization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amateurs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:research"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amateurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zeyneptufekci"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extremism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:context"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discovery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:geography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:venkateshrao"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consciousness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:metrics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:analytics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discourse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conversation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attention"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:creativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:forums"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hierarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:llms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slop"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aislop"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecosystems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:commercialart"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culturalproduction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:excess"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.koozarch.com/columns/sonic-kinships-5-violeta-parra-por-la-maanita-1961">
    <title>Sonic Kinships #5. Violeta Parra, Por la mañanita (1961) – KoozArch</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-16T21:34:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.koozarch.com/columns/sonic-kinships-5-violeta-parra-por-la-maanita-1961</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Violeta Parra’s recording of the Chilean folk song ‘Por la mañanita,’ was not released during her lifetime, yet since its posthumous release, hers has swelled to become the definitive version. In the penultimate column of Ivan L Munuera’s series Sonic Kinships, he pays tribute to the political resonance of Parra’s voice, its emotion raw against Allende’s vision of technocratic socialism that followed her death."

...

"You can listen to ‘Por La Mañanita’ and the rest of the Sonic Kinships soundtrack here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VN82IJHfhN52qBdJbDGXW

Track 05, Violeta Parra, Por la mañanita (1961)

Violeta Parra was never just a singer. She built structures. Songs where people could gather, where solidarity could live. Through her Peña de los Parra, she created a community arts center where students, workers, and Indigenous musicians gathered to reclaim Chile’s folk traditions. This was an insurgent pedagogy. By placing Mapuche and other Indigenous voices at the heart of Chile’s identity, Parra confronted the silences of colonial erasure and neoliberal destruction. Her verses braided grief, activism, and love, ensuring that song could be a practice of collective survival. “Por la mañanita” is an everyday hymn — of mornings and awakenings, but also of vigilance and endurance.

The Chile that Parra sang into being was also the Chile of Salvador Allende that came after her death: socialism by transparency. One of its most daring projects was Cybersyn, or Proyecto Synco, a cybernetic network of telex machines, predictive software, and the Opsroom — a futuristic control centre designed by Stafford Beer, Jorge Barrientos, Gui Bonsiepe, Pepa Foncea, and Lucia Wormald among an extensive team of architects, engineers, and designers. Its aim was audacious: to make socialism efficient, adaptive, and accountable. Open to the whole population of Chile. Architecture here was political science. As Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Hugo Palmarola, and Eden Medina have shown, Cybersyn was not simply technology but scenography: hexagonal chairs arranged in a circle, information screens surrounding their users, a stage where knowledge was shared rather than hoarded. Accountability was performed spatially. To sit in the Opsroom was to inhabit an architecture that refused secrecy; one where flows of production, shortages, and worker reports became visible and actionable. Cybersyn, like the lives of Allende and thousands of Chileans, was cut short by the brutal regime of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, under neocolonial extractive powers that wanted to maintain and even accelerate the dispossession of the country.

But Parra’s song and Cybersyn’s design still pulsates, drawing one to the same challenge: how to dismantle opacity. The song illuminated what the previous and later governments tried to repress — memory, grief, dispossession. Cybernetics illuminated what capitalism would hide — data, flows, the collective pulse of production. Both enacted forms of accountability, through melody and through coding. Yet, as Marina Otero has argued, infrastructures of data are never innocent. Today’s data centres mourn not only the information they guard but also the bodies, ecologies, and energies consumed in their upkeep. Technology is extractive, fed by cobalt mines, rare earth minerals, and precarious labour. Cybersyn’s optimism, read against this horizon, reveals the double edge of data: its emancipatory promise and its material violence. To build a nervous system for society is also to expose the fragility and exploitation on which it depends.

This reckoning with technological infrastructures continued in Inteligencias Reflexivas, curated by Serena Dambrosio, Nicolás Díaz Bejarano, and Linda Schilling Cuéllar. Their project reframed artificial intelligence not as disembodied or immaterial, but as rooted in ecologies of extraction, cultural memory, and social struggle. It argues that intelligence — whether folk, cybernetic, or artificial — is always situated, collective, and entangled with relations of care and exploitation. In dialogue with Parra’s insurgent pedagogy and Cybersyn’s scenography, Inteligencias Reflexivas insists that to speak of intelligence is also to speak of accountability and mourning.

As in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, intimacy can be symbiosis, even to the point of parasitism: to survive, bodies must surrender autonomy and share vulnerability. Parra’s music, Cybersyn’s architecture, Otero’s reflections on data mourning, and the Inteligencias Reflexivas pavilion: all of these resonate in a similar key. They suggest that survival depends on porosity, on opening to others, on acknowledging dependence rather than denying it. “Por la mañanita” reminds us that mornings begin with exposure, with light falling across bodies. Cybersyn made Chile’s industrial body porous, visible, accountable; Otero reminds us that the infrastructures we inherit today are entangled with mourning, their very functioning haunted by the exhaustion of the earth; and Inteligencias Reflexivas reframes intelligence itself as a situated, fragile practice. They insist that accountability means not just making flows visible but reckoning with the cost of keeping them alive. To design is always to decide what becomes visible, what remains opaque, and what is sacrificed along the way.

[images: Albumn cover of Toda Violeta Parra: El folklore de Chile vol. VIII by Violeta Parra]

Tracklist: You can listen to the songs accompanying this column below and the complete Sonic Kinships soundtrack here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VN82IJHfhN52qBdJbDGXW

Por la mañanita, Violeta Parra
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Dq77dkp5HGVkscqbTQciq

El apagón, Bad Bunny
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UvZcEfpzVyx47QsRbjyBz

Puro Teatro, La Lupe
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ov5KuLiPEqYMluzZTmS2M

Bio

Ivan L. Munuera is a New York-based scholar, critic, and curator working at the intersection of culture, technology, politics, and bodily practices in the modern period and on the global stage. He is an Assistant Professor at Bard College; his research has been generously sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. In 2020, Munuera was awarded the Harold W. Dodds Fellowship at Princeton University. Munuera has presented his work at various conferences and academic forums, from the Society of Architectural Historians and the European Architectural History Network to Columbia GSAPP, Princeton University, Het Nieuwe Instituut, CIVA Brussels and ETSAM, among many others. He has also published widely, from the Journal for Architectural Education (JAE), The Architect’s Newspaper to Log and e-flux."]]></description>
<dc:subject>chile music sound songs cyberyn salvadorallende 2025 violetaparra badbunny lalupe ivanmunera 1961 mapuche indigeneity indigenous folkmusic proyectosynco staffordbeer jorgebarrientos guibonsiepe pepafoncea luciawormald pedroignacioalonso hugopalmarola edenmedina scenography pinochet dictatorship optimism marinaotero emancipation society serenadambrosio nicolásdíazbejarano lindaschillingcuéllar ai artificialintelligence octaviabutler inteligenciasreflexivas intelligence ecology ecologies extraction culturalmemory socialstruggle care exploitation accountability mourning liberation materialviolence science fragility government governance dispossession neocolonialism colonialism colonization identity peñadelosparra erasure neoliberalism grief activism love survival collectivism collectivity vigilance endurance socialism transparency predictivesoftware software adaptability efficiency information secrecy visibility actionability repression infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e6529c075c3/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chile"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sound"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:songs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyberyn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:salvadorallende"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:violetaparra"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:badbunny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lalupe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ivanmunera"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1961"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mapuche"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:folkmusic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:proyectosynco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:staffordbeer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jorgebarrientos"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:guibonsiepe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pepafoncea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:luciawormald"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedroignacioalonso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hugopalmarola"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edenmedina"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scenography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pinochet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dictatorship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marinaotero"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emancipation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:serenadambrosio"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nicolásdíazbejarano"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lindaschillingcuéllar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:octaviabutler"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inteligenciasreflexivas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:intelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecologies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culturalmemory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialstruggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accountability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mourning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:materialviolence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fragility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dispossession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neocolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:peñadelosparra"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:erasure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grief"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vigilance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:endurance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transparency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:predictivesoftware"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adaptability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:efficiency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:information"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:secrecy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:visibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:actionability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastructure"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc">
    <title>The Ensh*ttification of Everything - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-08T19:14:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The internet is getting shittier. Hell, the whole world is getting shittier. The thing is, it’s no accident—it’s by design. The tech giants who run the internet have figured out how to make bank off of making our everyday experience with the internet worse, and this process is bleeding over into the physical world. This process is called “enshittification”, a term coined by the massively influential tech writer Cory Doctorow. In this episode, Adam sits with Cory to discuss where everything went so wrong as well as Cory’s new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It."]]></description>
<dc:subject>corydoctorow adamconover enshittification facebook meta technology bigtech google android search ai artificialintelligence labor unions internet web online eff drm law legal tariffs us donladtrump sideloading firefox mozilla ads advertising instagram johngruber apple eu interoperability platforms smarthphones economics behavior security data surveillance capitalism shoshanazuboff privacy markets china vpn appstore icloud elonmusk tesla airdrop icc microsoft foreignpolicy policy bradstone spying surveillancecapitalism edwardsnowden jailbreaking microsoftoffice canada regulation deregulation regulatorycapture competition mergers rohitchopra jonathankanter antitrust sarawynn-williams amazon pricing prices monopolies edzitron righttoexit bluesky mastodon fediverse numberporting repair righttorepair web2.0 thatcherism access accessibility netflix video humility disabilities disability ip intellectualproperty workers processknowledge danwang manufacturing factories vulgarthatcherism pessimism optimism fatalism hope</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:796a20a7dca7/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corydoctorow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adamconover"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:enshittification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:android"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:search"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:drm"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:law"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tariffs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donladtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sideloading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:firefox"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mozilla"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ads"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:instagram"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johngruber"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apple"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interoperability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:platforms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:smarthphones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shoshanazuboff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vpn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:appstore"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:icloud"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tesla"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:airdrop"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:icc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microsoft"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:foreignpolicy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bradstone"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillancecapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edwardsnowden"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jailbreaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microsoftoffice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:canada"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deregulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regulatorycapture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mergers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rohitchopra"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jonathankanter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antitrust"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sarawynn-williams"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pricing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prices"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:monopolies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edzitron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:righttoexit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bluesky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mastodon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fediverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:numberporting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:righttorepair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web2.0"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thatcherism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:access"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accessibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:netflix"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:video"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disabilities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ip"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:intellectualproperty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:processknowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:danwang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:manufacturing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:factories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vulgarthatcherism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fatalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaxixDC-o4">
    <title>The China Model (AI, Politics, Media) ft. Tianyu Fang - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-06T06:20:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCaxixDC-o4</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My guest today is  Tianyu Fang! Tian is a writer and researcher focused on tech policy and US-China relations. He’s currently a Tech and Democracy fellow at New America, and is a cofounder of the iconic Chinese internet newsletter Chaoyang Trap.

Topics: 
01:16 the death of China journalism
13:02 Tian as "poster child of the Arab Spring"
20:47 the "China model" (large language)
34:00 Manhattan Projects for everything
42:44 the "China model" (political system)
50:50 Falun Gong internet

Transcript:
https://jasmi.news/p/tianyu-fang ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>jasminesun tianyufang china journalism arabspring llms ai artificialintelligence machinelearning manhattanproject politics falungong xijinping technology internet web online siliconvalley policy economics finance business cybernetics greatfirewall vpns ethanzuckerman socialmedia twitter opeanai deepseek chatgpt danhendycks zhangyiming bytedance arjunramani networkstate crypto cryptocurrencies venturecapital timhwang technonationalism palantir anduril joebiden donaldtrump elonmusk larrryellison jdvance surveillance authoritarianism rightwing darpa jessicanchenweiss autocracy democracy investment research development marcorubio globalsouth liberalism pessimism optimism envy values chongqing infrastructure capitalism taipei billclinton shenyun balajisrinivasan ganjingworld epochtimes fredturner johnperrybarlow libertarianism vc</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b415cf18914/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasminesun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tianyufang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arabspring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:llms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:machinelearning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:manhattanproject"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:falungong"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:xijinping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:siliconvalley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:business"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cybernetics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatfirewall"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vpns"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethanzuckerman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:opeanai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deepseek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatgpt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:danhendycks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zhangyiming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bytedance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arjunramani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:networkstate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crypto"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cryptocurrencies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:venturecapital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timhwang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technonationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palantir"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anduril"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joebiden"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:larrryellison"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jdvance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rightwing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:darpa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jessicanchenweiss"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:autocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:research"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:development"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marcorubio"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalsouth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:envy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:values"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chongqing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastructure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taipei"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:billclinton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shenyun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:balajisrinivasan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ganjingworld"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:epochtimes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fredturner"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnperrybarlow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vc"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/">
    <title>Make Fun Of Them</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-30T20:51:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It’s tempting to believe that there is some sort of intellectual barrier between you and the powerful — that the confusing and obtuse way that they speak is the sound of genius, rather than somebody who has learned a lot of smart-sounding words without ever learning what they mean.

“But Ed, they’re trained to do this!”

...

"I know some of you might read this and say “these people can’t be stupid! These people run companies! They make huge deals! They read all these books!” and my answer is that some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met have read more books than you or I will read in a lifetime. While they might be smart when it comes to corporate chess moves or saying “this product category should do this,” none of these men — not Altman, Pichai or Nadella — actually has a hand in the design or creation of any of the things their companies make, and they never, ever have. 

Regardless, I have a larger point: it’s time to start mocking these people and tearing down their legends as geniuses of industry. They are not better than us, nor are they responsible for anything that their companies build other than the share price (which is a meaningless figure) and the accumulation of power and resources. 

These men are neither smart nor intellectually superior, and it’s time to start treating them as such."

As someone who has media trained hundreds of people, there is only so much you can do to steer someone’s language. You cannot say to Sundar Pichai “hey man, can you sound more confusing?” You can, however, tell them what not to talk about and hope for the best. Sure, you can make them practice, sure, you can give them feedback, but people past a certain stage of power or popularity are going to talk however they want, and if they’re a big stupid idiot pretending to be smart, they’re going to sound exactly like this.

Why? Because nobody in the media ever asks them to explain themselves. When you’ve spent your entire career being asked friendly-or-friendly-adjacent questions and never having someone say “wait, what does that mean?” you will continue to mutate in a pseudo-communicator that spits out information-adjacent bullshit. 

I am, to be clear, being very specific about that question. Powerful CEOs and founders never, ever get asked to explain what they’re saying, even when what they’re saying barely resembles an actual answer. 

Pichai, Altman and Nadella have always given this kind of empty-brained intellectual slop in response to questions because the media coddles them. These people are product managers and/or management consultants — and in Altman’s case, a savvy negotiator and manipulator known for “an absenteeism that rankled his peers and some of the startups he was supposed to nurture” as an investor at yCombinator, according to the Washington Post."

...

"The reality is far simpler: we have an industry that has spent nearly half a trillion dollars between its capital expenditures and venture capital funding to create another industry with the combined revenue of the fucking smartwatch industry. What I’m writing isn’t inflammatory — in fact, it’s far more deeply rooted in reality than those claiming that OpenAI is building the future."

...

"And while I complain about the state of media, what I’ve seen in the last year is that there are many, many people like me — both readers and peers — that resent things in the same way. I conflated being different with being alone, and I couldn’t be more wrong. For those of you that don’t wish to lick the boots of the people fucking up every tech product, the tent is large, it’s a big club, and you’re absolutely in it.

A better tech industry is one where the people writing about it hold it accountable, pushing it toward creating the experiences and connectivity that truly change the world rather than repeating and reinforcing the status quo. 

Don’t watch the mouth, watch the hands. These companies will tell you that they’re amazing as many times as they want, but you don’t need to prove that — they do. I don’t care if you tell a single human soul about my work, but if it helps you understand these people better, use it to teach other people. 

These people may seem all-powerful, but they’ve built the Rot Economy on a combination of anonymity and a placant press, but pressure against them starts with you and those you know understanding how their businesses work, and trusting that you can understand because you absolutely can. Millions of people understanding how these people run their companies and how poorly they’ve built their software will stop people like Sundar Pichai from being able to quietly burn Google Search to the ground. 

People like Sam Altman are gambling that you are easily-confused, easily-defeated and incurious, when you could be writing thousands of words on a newsletter that you never, ever edit for brevity. You can understand every fucking part of their business — the economics of OpenAI, the flimsy promises of Salesforce, the destruction of Google Search — and you can tell everybody you know about it, and suddenly it won’t be so easy for these wretched creeps to continue thriving.

I know it sounds small, and like your role is even smaller, but the reason they’ve grown so rapaciously is driven by the sense that the work they do is some sort of black magic, when it’s really fucking stupid and boring finance stapled onto a tech industry that’s run out of ideas. 

You are more than capable of understanding this entire world — including the technology, along with the finances that ultimately decide what technology gets made next.

These people have got rich and famous and escaped all blame by casting themselves as somehow above us, when if I’m honest, I’ve never looked down on somebody quite as much as I do the current gaggle of management consultant fucks that have driven Silicon Valley into the ground."]]></description>
<dc:subject>edzitron satyanadella samaltman ai artificialintelligence openai chatgpt microsoft google dwarkeshpatel sundarpichai technology journalism niksuresh darioamodei anthropic amazon copilot mollywhite edwardongwesojr brianmerchant allisonmorrow critcism optimism pr markzuckerberg saleai meta alexandrwang tanlecun mediocrity elonmusk edwardongweso</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b51234581f2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edzitron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:satyanadella"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samaltman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatgpt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microsoft"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dwarkeshpatel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sundarpichai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:niksuresh"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:darioamodei"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:copilot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mollywhite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edwardongwesojr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brianmerchant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:allisonmorrow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:critcism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markzuckerberg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saleai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alexandrwang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tanlecun"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mediocrity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edwardongweso"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Pmy2_4jlk">
    <title>What’s Really Happening in Palestine — with Mohammed El-Kurd &amp; Yanis Varoufakis - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-06T06:12:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Pmy2_4jlk</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza. Entire families are being wiped out, famine is spreading, and airstrikes are targeting shelters and schools. In the West Bank, killings and settler violence are surging as Israel tightens its grip on the territory. 

Yet despite these atrocities, international media coverage has diminished. While a handful of European governments have begun to question their complicity, meaningful action is still missing.

In this livestream, Palestinian writer and organiser Mohammed El-Kurd joins Yanis Varoufakis to cut through the noise: What’s really happening on the ground? Why has the West been so slow, or unwilling, to act? And what can we, as citizens, do about it?

Hosted by Mehran Khalili. Tune in live and put your questions to the panel."]]></description>
<dc:subject>palestine israel gaza genocide ethniccleansing mohammedel-kurd yanisvaroufakis mehrankhalili zionism antizionism apartheid bds boycott divestment sanctions eu europe history australia settlercolonialism colonialism colonization settlements settlers jerusalem westbank eastjerusalem greece politics optimism resistance collaborators alliance policy arms weapons germany uk maersk denmark italy italia france algeria namibia southafrica academia highereducation highered legitimacy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbadcff927c4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gaza"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genocide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethniccleansing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mohammedel-kurd"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yanisvaroufakis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mehrankhalili"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antizionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apartheid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boycott"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:divestment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sanctions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:europe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:australia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:settlercolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:settlements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:settlers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jerusalem"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:westbank"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eastjerusalem"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greece"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collaborators"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alliance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weapons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:germany"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maersk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:denmark"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:france"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:algeria"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:namibia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:southafrica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legitimacy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-love-internet-you-hate-it">
    <title>Podcast Episode: Love the Internet Before You Hate On It | Electronic Frontier Foundation</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-27T00:38:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-love-internet-you-hate-it</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics hate movies? Do food critics hate food? No! The most effective, insightful critics do what they do because they love something so deeply that they want to see it made even better. The most effective tech critics have had transformative, positive online experiences, and now unflinchingly call out the surveilled, commodified, enshittified landscape that exists today because they know there has been – and still can be – something better.

That’s what drives Molly White’s work. Her criticism of the cryptocurrency and technology industries stems from her conviction that technology should serve human needs rather than mere profits. Whether it’s blockchain or artificial intelligence, she’s interested in making sure the “next big thing” lives up to its hype, and more importantly, to the ideals of participation and democratization that she experienced. She joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss working toward a human-centered internet that gives everyone a sense of control and interaction – open to all in the way that Wikipedia was (and still is) for her and so many others: not just as a static knowledge resource, but as something in which we can all participate.

In this episode you’ll learn about:

- Why blockchain technology has built-in incentives for grift and speculation that overwhelm most of its positive uses

- How protecting open-source developers from legal overreach, including in the blockchain world, remains critical

- The vast difference between decentralization of power and decentralization of compute

- How Neopets and Wikipedia represent core internet values of community, collaboration, and creativity

- Why Wikipedia has been resilient against some of the rhetorical attacks that have bogged down media outlets, but remains vulnerable to certain economic and political pressures

- How the Fediverse and other decentralization and interoperability mechanisms provide hope for the kind of creative independence, self-expression, and social interactivity that everyone deserves  

Molly White is a researcher, software engineer, and writer who focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, blockchains, web3, and other tech in her independent publication, Citation Needed. She also runs the websites Web3 is Going Just Great, where she highlights examples of how cryptocurrencies, web3 projects, and the industry surrounding them are failing to live up to their promises, and Follow the Crypto, where she tracks cryptocurrency industry spending in U.S. elections. She has volunteered for more than 15 years with Wikipedia, where she serves as an administrator (under the name GorillaWarfare) and functionary, and previously served three terms on the Arbitration Committee. She’s regularly quoted or bylined in news media, speaks at major conferences including South by Southwest and Web Summit; guest lectures at universities including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford; and advises policymakers and regulators around the world."

[also here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-the-internet-before-you-hate-on-it/id1539719568?i=1000709237056
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EzTnzhlp17EkieCahwCG4 ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet web online 2025 mollywhite eff crypto cryptocurrencies blockchain web3 criticism technology grift speculation decentralization community collaboration wikipedia creativity freedom knowledge equity fediverse interoperability incentives enshittification commodification economics surveillance via:javierarbona memecoins neopets politics self-expression social socialmedia independence rugpulls centralization democracy democratization encryption cryptography anonymity ai artificialintelligence marketing bigtech cindycohn jasonkelley technologies exploitation workers labor work profits business walledgardens platforms twitter algorithms optimism computing computation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:31536f9ec7eb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mollywhite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crypto"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cryptocurrencies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blockchain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web3"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grift"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decentralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wikipedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:creativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:equity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fediverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interoperability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:incentives"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:enshittification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:commodification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:via:javierarbona"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memecoins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neopets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-expression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:social"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:independence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rugpulls"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:centralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democratization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:encryption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cryptography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anonymity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marketing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cindycohn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jasonkelley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technologies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:profits"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:business"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walledgardens"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:platforms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computation"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://psyche.co/ideas/we-can-live-well-even-though-we-dont-have-a-higher-purpose">
    <title>We can live well, even though we don’t have a higher purpose | Psyche Ideas</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-15T16:38:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyche.co/ideas/we-can-live-well-even-though-we-dont-have-a-higher-purpose</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom"

...

"In her fiction and theory, Le Guin rejects both nihilism and optimism on the grounds that both defer to a ‘higher purpose’. For her, living without a higher purpose means assuming a few things:

1. There is no deity or force in the Universe with a specific plan for our life.

2. How society is currently organised is not inevitable; the hierarchies we are born into can be changed.

3. We have no specific biological nature that has preprogrammed what it is to be human.

4. The people who raised us and the things we’ve been subjected to do not dictate our life’s path.

Le Guin offers a way to choose, act and do without aiming for control. Her work is a model for responding to existentially demanding conditions. She thinks we should not give up on responsibility, even as we jettison the idea that our personal actions control the fate of the world.

We should take seriously how bad things are, and tell the truth about the limits of our personal power. And then we should ask, as one character in her monumental book Always Coming Home (1985) does: ‘How shall a human being live well, then?’ Given this situation and these limitations, what should we do with our life? If we follow Le Guin, we too start to ask how a human being should live well."

...

"For Le Guin, there is something wrong with attempting to step outside the world as though we were not part of it. Thinking that our human purpose on this Earth is to do things, change things, and run things requires this sense of separation, but also involves the posture towards the world that we should have mastery of it."

...

"So what happens when we come to understand that no personal power, capacity or choosing will get us out of the plunge toward water wars, species eradication and neofeudal warlords driving souped-up cars across the desert? Or, in a less dystopian mode, what happens when we come to believe that there is no way that any of us personally can control the immense complexity we confront, and that this is actually a beautiful thing, because we realise that we are just one evanescent part of the humming, buzzing world?

For Le Guin, we find a different source of purpose. Because we are a social species, our strength lies in collectivity, in being part of a whole, in exercising a human capacity to collectively shape our shared world. The way out of despair lies not in optimism without foundation, and not in divesting ourselves of the responsibility of choosing to act. Perceiving that things are very bad and doing something that might change the world anyhow comes out of our being both the grass and the wind, taking our purpose and our power from being part of this world.

It could induce despair to give up the idea that we humans come into the world with a preset reason for living or a blueprint for how to make meaning with our lives. Taking this orientation means that there is no reason to live other than the reasons we give ourselves; we have only self-generated purposes to pursue. Instead of evoking despair, I find this idea quite beautiful. While existentially demanding, it is also ethically and politically satisfying to have no fate but what we make. We have no higher purpose. But we do have many ground-level, basic, human-scale, situated, soft, sweet, lower purposes. Indeed, the ordinary purposes that make up our lives are very much worth making our life’s work. There’s nothing better that we could possibly do than attempt to live well, on this good Earth, together.

If we have no higher purpose in the sense of a preset destiny or fate, there is no higher purpose for our lives than practising collective freedom – making meaning from the middle of what we’ve been flung into, in all its mess."]]></description>
<dc:subject>ursulaleguin alexisshotwell life living nihilism purpose optimism freedom liberation anarchism 2025 change society control meaning meaningmaking everyday ordinary despair humanism humans collectivism community ursulakleguin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:14202fa973a0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ursulaleguin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alexisshotwell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:control"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meaning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meaningmaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:everyday"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ordinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ursulakleguin"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/in-praise-of-floods-james-c-scott-book-review">
    <title>James C. Scott’s “In Praise of Floods,” Reviewed | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-20T22:00:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/in-praise-of-floods-james-c-scott-book-review</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["James C. Scott and the Art of Resistance
The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards but in acts of quiet disobedience."

...

"“Seeing Like a State” was published in 1998, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decline of socialism, and after the United States had lost its taste for New Deal-style economic planning. Perhaps as a result, the book appeared more conservative than Scott meant it to be. The political scientist Francis Fukuyama gave it an approving notice in Foreign Affairs, and, a year after it was published, the head of the libertarian Cato Institute invited Scott to address its annual convention, much to his dismay. Many on the left concurred with their libertarian colleagues that Scott had made, however inadvertently, a pro-market case against state power. In a review, the liberal economist Brad DeLong noted the striking similarities in argument between Scott’s brief against planning and the libertarian Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek’s praise of the “spontaneous order” of market economies. Scott, unlike Hayek, was an avowed skeptic of free markets; in “Seeing Like a State,” he had argued, albeit briefly, that “market-driven standardization” was susceptible to many of the flaws of modern social engineering. But his critics on the left weren’t wrong to compare his arguments to Hayek’s: so intently and thoroughly did Scott make his case against the modern state that, once you’ve read “Seeing Like a State,” it’s difficult to imagine the virtue of any state action, even of the incremental and meliorist variety. After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Years later, it’s possible to look at Scott’s book less as an isolated broadside against the state and more as a way of seeing, through extreme examples, the extent to which planning ignores local knowledge at its peril. Still, even in those instances, Scott offers equivocal lessons. When it comes to contemporary debates on how best to solve our nationwide housing crisis, for instance, he can be read as an ally to movements attempting to protect neighborhoods against large-scale development. He asks planners to “prefer wherever possible to take a small step, stand back, observe, and then plan the next small move.” He makes special pleas for “context and particularity.” At the same time, he asks to make room for “human inventiveness” and “surprises,” which might suggest removing constraints to development—for example, restrictive zoning—that stifle initiative and drive. If you need room to build, better for the state to get out of the way. Both stances are conceivable within the capacious framework of the book, and that is perhaps why radicals and conservatives alike have found support for their arguments in its pages.

“Seeing Like a State” offers an even more complex (or blurry) lens through which to view the climate crisis. Scott’s study of how states reordered the natural world to generate maximum revenue may help to explain our own landscapes of fracking pads and pipelines. But it’s difficult to extract from the book a coherent strategy to fight climate change. To avoid the worst of the devastation from rising global temperatures will undoubtedly require not just state action but multistate coöperation on an unprecedented scale. Governments may need to override city and country alike to produce solar arrays and wind farms, shut down coal- and gas-fired power plants, unearth minerals for large-scale battery storage, and retrofit millions of houses, offices, and schools with electric cooling and heating systems. With Scott in mind, it’s possible to hope that states engaged in this collective project will overcome the blindness of the past. Still, if they—and we—are to succeed, Scott’s advice that planners pause before making their “next small move” will likely be discarded.

It’s an irony of Scott’s career that, though he pleaded for respecting local knowledge, his own writing began to take on imperial proportions in the later decades of his life. The last major works that he published before his death, “The Art of Not Being Governed” and “Against the Grain,” both cover centuries of history, confidently summing up many shelves’ worth of research and surveying wide tracts of geography. Scott examines how ancient states formed around sedentary agricultural practices—growing rice in medieval Southeast Asia, and wheat in ancient Mesopotamia—not because such farming had any intrinsic or inevitable value but because it was an important step in creating a “legible” and “manageable” state. Outside the rice “padi-state” and “grain states,” in Scott’s view, intrepid rebels engaged in more mobile, nomadic forms of agriculture, trying to escape taxation and forced labor.

Scott saw each step in the civilizing process, from farming cereals to working on an assembly line, as a loss of complexity, a diminishing of the “great diversity of natural rhythms” to which our ancestors were attuned. “It is no exaggeration to say,” he writes, before arguably risking just such an exaggeration, “that hunting and foraging are, in terms of complexity, as different from cereal-grain farming as cereal-grain farming is, in turn, removed from repetitive work on a modern assembly line. Each step represents a substantial narrowing of focus and a simplification of tasks.” From this perspective, a civilization’s collapse, rather than something to be lamented, might be experienced, at least by those at the edge of a state, as “an emancipation.” Scott acknowledged that so-called dark ages offer “fewer important digs for archaeologists, fewer records and texts for historians, and fewer trinkets—large and small—to fill museum exhibits.” But he argued that “such ‘vacant’ periods represented a bolt for freedom by many state subjects and an improvement in human welfare.” Anarchic social orders erect no monuments, and leave no ruins to be bleached over the centuries in the desert sand. Instead they offer alternative visions of how society might have developed had states not formed, concentrating manpower and crops, homogenizing landscapes, and taming rivers.

Some critics have called Scott a romantic, in part for seeming to indulge the lawlessness of non-state peoples. In “Against the Grain” and “The Art of Not Being Governed,” there is an ineluctable charisma to the frontier nomads, with their state-repelling egalitarianism and their sense of freedom. “In Praise of Floods” extends the forms of resistance Scott celebrates to nonhuman subjects. Laboring to evoke the sheer variety of what gets lost when rivers are subjugated by humans, he devotes a questionable chapter to ventriloquizing the voices of riverine animals—mollusks, river dolphins, snow carp, Asian hairy-nosed otters—speaking out against human intervention. But his work, even at its most tendentious, speaks uncannily to our current political mood of gnawing anxiety, fleeting optimism, and partial resignation over the future of the human project. To read Scott is to feel the fatalistic sense that civilization may have been botched from the beginning. But it is also to be hopeful—that what seems to be a runaway ecological crisis and a global drift toward authoritarianism contains within it the potential for political transformation, if you look closely enough.

At Scott’s memorial service, last October, organizers handed out tote bags with the slogan “Become Ungovernable.” Disobedience was, in certain respects, the watchword of all his work. In “Two Cheers for Anarchism,” a short book published in 2012, he testifies, like a latter-day Henry David Thoreau, to insubordination as an animating principle of all social change. He describes the desertion of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War as potentially a key factor in the overthrow of slavery, and even lauds the Vietnam War-era practice of “fragging,” in which infantrymen supposedly used live grenades to eliminate their commanding officers. Authoritarianism, in Scott’s view, dies this way: not through “revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs” but through “the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people.” Just as “millions of anthozoan polyps create, willy-nilly, a coral reef,” he writes, “so do thousands upon thousands of acts of insubordination and evasion create an economic or political barrier reef of their own.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>jamescscott resistance 2025 nikilsaval authoritarianism disobedience seeinglikeastate ungovernable ungovernability illegibility legibility 1998 socialism ussr sovietunion politics francisfukuyamna braddelong economics friedrichhayek markets standardization meliorism modernity modernism state small slow context local zoning development climatechange climatecisis globalwarming nature environment cooperation management complexity farming agiculture rural anarchism anarchy freedom liberation archaeology anthropology rivers optimism humans humanism transformation 2012 socialchange desertion civilwar fragging vietnamwar withdrawal truculence insubordination evasion civilization ecology thoreau friedrichvonhayek</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:081334ae110f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jamescscott"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nikilsaval"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disobedience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:seeinglikeastate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ungovernable"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ungovernability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:illegibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1998"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ussr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sovietunion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:francisfukuyamna"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:braddelong"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:friedrichhayek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:standardization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meliorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:state"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:small"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:context"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zoning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:development"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatecisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cooperation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:farming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agiculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rural"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:archaeology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rivers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2012"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialchange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:desertion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilwar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fragging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vietnamwar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:withdrawal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:truculence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:insubordination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:evasion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thoreau"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:friedrichvonhayek"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt7swnEb3g">
    <title>Meeting Gary's favourite economist: Ha-Joon Chang - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-06T18:18:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGt7swnEb3g</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ha-Joon Chang is best selling author of '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism'. If you want to understand how our economic system is failing us, this is the economist to study.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to the Guest and the Channel's Focus
02:11 Ha-Joon Chang's Background and Inspiration
07:19 Parallels Between South Korea's Growth and Modern Urban Challenges
08:32 Reflections on Housing and Early Education in Korea
10:07 Economic Upheaval and the Search for Alternatives
14:38 Exploring Diverse Economic Theories at Cambridge
17:46 The Dominance of Neoclassical Economics
19:14 Advice for Aspiring Economists
20:33 The Disconnect Between Economics Education and Real-World Issues
24:12 Challenges in Economics Education
25:55 Disconnect Between Economics Training and Real-World Application
30:33 Economics as a Modern Theology
31:40 Historical Justifications and Economic Narratives
32:37 Wealth Inequality and Exclusion of the Poor
36:21 Taxation, Financial Markets, and Political Reluctance
38:30 Historical Taxation and Economic Growth
39:40 COVID-19 Economic Response and Distribution Inequality
41:12 Taxing the Wealthy: Historical and Modern Perspectives
42:25 Challenges in Addressing Economic Inequality
44:15 Strategies for Economic Change
46:14 Hope for Economic and Social Progress"]]></description>
<dc:subject>ha-joonchang economics garystevenson inequality covid-19 coronavirus pandemic finance taxes taxation history education wealth weatlhinequality redistribution progress society change changemaking 2025 yimby yimbys yimbyism regulation housing deregulation korea southkorea math mathmatics greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis policy neoclassicaleconomics marxism rationalism socialsciences behavior neoliberalism motivation statistics johnmaynardkeynes keynesianism economy greatdepression us uk statusquo costofliving robertrowthorn highered highereducation academia curriculum tonyatkinson joanrobinson lse brainwashing tunnelvision criticalthinking theology dogmy theory voltaire candide politics culturaldarkmatter gatekeeping exclusion groupthink wealhdistribution awareness crisis crises workingclass labor work growth government governance eaththerich elite elitism elonmusk power media control margaretthatcher ronaldreagan labourparty counternarrative zoominginandout bigpicture billionaires messaging ww2 wwii produc</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:84a50c7a2856/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ha-joonchang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:garystevenson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pandemic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wealth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weatlhinequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redistribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:changemaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yimby"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yimbys"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yimbyism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:housing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deregulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:korea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:southkorea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:math"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mathmatics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatrecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalfinancialcrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoclassicaleconomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialsciences"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:motivation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnmaynardkeynes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:keynesianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatdepression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:statusquo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:costofliving"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robertrowthorn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:curriculum"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tonyatkinson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joanrobinson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brainwashing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tunnelvision"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criticalthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dogmy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:voltaire"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:candide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culturaldarkmatter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gatekeeping"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exclusion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:groupthink"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wealhdistribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:awareness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workingclass"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eaththerich"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:control"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:margaretthatcher"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ronaldreagan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labourparty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:counternarrative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zoominginandout"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigpicture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:billionaires"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messaging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ww2"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wwii"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:produc"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/">
    <title>The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-24T20:14:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>2025 ai artificialintelligence edwardongwesojr caseynewton kevinroose nfts technology web3 metaverse technooptimism technosolutionism agi openai deepresearch chatgpt ftx optimism garymarcus roteconomy siliconvalley generativeai coreweave aioptimism anthropic nvidia facebook meta google googlesearch microsoft microsoftoffice googledocs growth crypto cryptocurrencies appleintelligence apple datacenters computers computing skepticism neoluddism luddism luddites neoluddites softbank edzitron edwardongweso artificialgeneralintelligence genai</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff422859c26a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edwardongwesojr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:caseynewton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kevinroose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nfts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web3"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:metaverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technooptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technosolutionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deepresearch"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatgpt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ftx"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:garymarcus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:roteconomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:siliconvalley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generativeai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coreweave"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aioptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nvidia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:google"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:googlesearch"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microsoft"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microsoftoffice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:googledocs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crypto"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cryptocurrencies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:appleintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apple"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:datacenters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:skepticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoluddism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:luddism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:luddites"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoluddites"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:softbank"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edzitron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edwardongweso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialgeneralintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genai"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogies-of-collapse-9781350400498/">
    <title>Pedagogies of Collapse: A Hopeful Education for The End of The World as We Know It: Ginie Servant-Miklos: Bloomsbury Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-15T02:06:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogies-of-collapse-9781350400498/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Climate change, biodiversity collapse, pandemics, wars, resource shortages, inflation, socio-economic inequality… after decades of progress and prosperity, the world has hit the limits to growth predicted by the Meadows report of 1972. How do we talk to and teach young people about collapse without triggering defence mechanisms of denial and depression? The simple answer is that we mostly don't.

This urgent, and radically honest, open access book looks collapse in the face, acknowledges the temptation for denial and despair, but chooses hope. Pedagogies of Collapse makes a dire, fact-packed case for the urgency of action, but resists the urge to fall into the usual categories of environmental discourses. It rejects both the unwarranted optimism of progress narratives and the unhelpful despair of extinction narratives. Instead, Ginie Servant-Miklos makes the case for facing hard truths about the present and future with imperfect, trauma-informed learning practices and space for experimental pedagogies. The book takes the reader on a journey through the life sciences, political economy, psychology and philosophy with humour and accessible explanations. It weaves the authors' experiences as an educator, humanitarian and public speaker through a hopeful search for existential meaning through learning in times of collapse. The book includes a preface by Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics at SOAS, University of London, UK."]]></description>
<dc:subject>ginieservant-miklos pedagogy 2024 climatechange collapse learning howwelearn education 1972 denial depression politicaleconomy psychology philosophy humanism environment despair optimism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c35c57af7adc/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ginieservant-miklos"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collapse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1972"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:denial"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:depression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politicaleconomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc">
    <title>Steven Pinker and the Failure of New Optimism ft. We're in Hell - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-26T22:36:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’ve been gone for a while, and this is why! Hope you enjoy my critique of Pinker’s economics.

0:00 Intro
3:11 Part 1 (i) Poverty and Prosperity: Should We Trust the Data?
19:16 Part 1 (ii) Poverty and Prosperity: Understanding Poverty Measures
40:01 Part 2 (i) Inequality and Distribution: Why Distribution Matters
55:59 Part 2 (ii) Inequality and Distribution: the Dynamics of Inequality
1:13:46 Part 3 The Failure of New Optimism

Check out We’re in Hell’s video:
"The Cruel Optimism of Steven Pinker (Featuring Unlearning Economics)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXV71hF7cs "]]></description>
<dc:subject>unlearningeconomics 2021 stevenpinker inequality prosperity economics poverty data newoptimism optimism billgates capitalism cahalmoran</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b878cf8fba1/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unlearningeconomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stevenpinker"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prosperity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poverty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newoptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:billgates"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cahalmoran"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4948/">
    <title>Hope without Optimism - UVA Press</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-11T21:27:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4948/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one’s temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future? Finally, Eagleton broaches a new concept of tragic hope, in which this old virtue represents a strength that remains even after devastating loss has been confronted.

In a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses Shakespeare’s Lear, Kierkegaard on despair, Aquinas, Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Kant, Walter Benjamin’s theory of history, and a long consideration of the prominent philosopher of hope, Ernst Bloch, Eagleton displays his masterful and highly creative fluency in literature, philosophy, theology, and political theory. Hope without Optimism is full of the customary wit and lucidity of this writer whose reputation rests not only on his pathbreaking ideas but on his ability to engage the reader in the urgent issues of life."]]></description>
<dc:subject>terryeagleton 2015 hope optimism shakespeare kierkegaard thomasaquinas wittgenstein staugustine augustine saintaugustine kant walterbenjamin history philosophy literature theology politics politicaltheory augustineofhippo immanuelkant</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:01b57eafc282/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:terryeagleton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2015"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shakespeare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kierkegaard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thomasaquinas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wittgenstein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:staugustine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:augustine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saintaugustine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walterbenjamin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politicaltheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:augustineofhippo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:immanuelkant"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcoi4camxI">
    <title>E104: Is 2025 Europe’s Last Chance? Yanis Varoufakis and Srećko Horvat on Palestine, Syria and more - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-11T20:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcoi4camxI</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["2024 has been a year of upheaval and awakening, marked by climate disasters, rising inequality, and a geopolitical landscape in turmoil. From the ongoing war in Ukraine to the genocide in Palestine and widespread protests across Europe, it's been a tough year for many. Meanwhile, political paralysis and a sense that decisions about our future are being made behind closed doors have left citizens feeling powerless.

In this live conversation, Yanis Varoufakis and Srećko Horvat, together with host Mehran Khalili, will reflect on the defining moments of 2024, and look ahead to 2025. 

And we'll be asking: How can we build a Europe that works for everyone, not just the powerful few? And how can we ensure that 2025 becomes a turning point for democracy, peace, and justice everywhere?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>yanisvaroufakis srećkohorvat palestine syria israel mehrankhalili 2024 2025 eu europe germany france economics geopolitics russia vladimirputin war weapons china brics india climatechange globalwarming gaza genocide ethniccleansing eastjerusalem jerusalem fascism donaldtrump iran suadiarabia southafrica icj icc warcrimes progressivism diem25 greenparty newgreendeal emmanuelmacron giorgiameroni turkey sertbia erdoğan exclusion liberalism liberaldemocracy greece italy egypt libya imperialism dollar currencies democracy kurds autonomy directdemocracy communalism confederationallism self-governance politicalecology politics isis inequality investment industry labor work workers elections kamalaharris joebiden mera25 muslimbrotherhood mutualaid mafia italia state anarchism parallelinstitutions institutions antisemitism colonialism colonization settlercolonialism zionism climatecrisis resilience conferationalism markets left technofeudalism movements infrastucture lebanon socialmedia organizing elonmusk bill</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40a60cdd588c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yanisvaroufakis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:srećkohorvat"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:syria"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mehrankhalili"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2025"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:europe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:germany"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:france"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:geopolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:russia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vladimirputin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weapons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:india"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gaza"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genocide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethniccleansing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eastjerusalem"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jerusalem"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:iran"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suadiarabia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:southafrica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:icj"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:icc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:warcrimes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:diem25"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greenparty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newgreendeal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emmanuelmacron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:giorgiameroni"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:turkey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sertbia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:erdoğan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exclusion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberaldemocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greece"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:egypt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dollar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:currencies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kurds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:autonomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:directdemocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:confederationallism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politicalecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:isis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:investment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:industry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kamalaharris"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joebiden"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mera25"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:muslimbrotherhood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mafia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:state"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parallelinstitutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antisemitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:settlercolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatecrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resilience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conferationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technofeudalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastucture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lebanon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bill"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA">
    <title>2024 Election was the Oligarchic Elite vs. Corporate Elite (with Chris Hedges) - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-15T17:00:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author, and minister Chris Hedges returns to Bad Faith for a left-focused deep dive into what happened on election night, what's next for the left, and the role spirituality may play in creating a sense of community that some are finding in the Joe Rogan media environment."]]></description>
<dc:subject>chrishedges 2024 institutions elections briahnajoygray kamalaharris donaldtrump oligarchy joebiden us society greenpart cornelwest joerogan media mainstreammedia politics democracy fascism israel palestine genocide ethniccleansing left leftism resistance unions organizing morality activism church churches spirituality community labor work capitalism feudalism journalism press celebrities noamchomsky gaza lebanon corporations corporatism democrats republicans berniesanders hillaryclinton barackobama jillstein ralphnader socialism marxism sheldonwolin hierarchy totalitarianism privateequity kkr harvesting finance simonandschuster elonmusk taxation taxes deregulation stevebannon norms decorum civility michelmoore robertreich billclinton demagogues cults cultofpersonality angeladavis voting credibility workers 1996 nafta layoffs unemployment workingclass betrayal 1994 reform kshamasawant civilrightsmovement pressure liberalism liberals neoliberals religion belief war jordanpeterson marxists christianright zionism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52b4b2226784/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chrishedges"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:briahnajoygray"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kamalaharris"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oligarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joebiden"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greenpart"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cornelwest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joerogan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mainstreammedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genocide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethniccleansing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:leftism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:church"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:churches"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spirituality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feudalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:press"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:celebrities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:noamchomsky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gaza"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lebanon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corporations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corporatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:republicans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:berniesanders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hillaryclinton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:barackobama"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jillstein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ralphnader"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sheldonwolin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hierarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:totalitarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privateequity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kkr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:harvesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:simonandschuster"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deregulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stevebannon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decorum"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michelmoore"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robertreich"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:billclinton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:demagogues"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cults"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cultofpersonality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:angeladavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:voting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:credibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1996"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nafta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:layoffs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unemployment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workingclass"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:betrayal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1994"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reform"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kshamasawant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilrightsmovement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pressure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:belief"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:war"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jordanpeterson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christianright"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zionism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/09/work-repair-and-reading/">
    <title>Work, Repair, and Reading - Front Porch Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-21T20:19:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2024/09/work-repair-and-reading/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“In Defiance of All Powers.” [https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/in-defiance-of-all-powers ] Peter Mommsen introduces Plough’s new issue on Freedom. It looks quite promising, but my physical copy hasn’t arrived yet, so I’m exercising restraint: “as my teenage son is now tired of hearing because he just wants to go fishing, freedom to play the violin comes from commitment. It is won through submitting oneself to what may initially seem like freedom’s opposite: lessons, practice, discipline. The renowned conductor Serge Koussevitzky, though he was remembered by his protégé Leonard Bernstein as ‘a very kind, gentle man,’ used to tell players, ‘You must suffer. Why don’t you suffer more? Only then will the music be beautiful.’”

“Productivity Is a Drag. Work Is Divine.” [https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/work-labor-artificial-intelligence-jewish-text/679912/ ] Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld distinguishes among different types of work and explains why we shouldn’t cede all work to machines: “Jewish tradition says nothing of ChatGPT, but it is adamant about work. According to the ancient rabbis, meaningful, creative labor is how humans channel the divine. It’s an idea that can help us all, regardless of our faith, be discerning adopters of new applications and devices in a time of great technological change.”

“The People Who Rage Against the Machine.” [https://www.thefp.com/p/the-people-who-rage-against-the-machine ] Suzy Weiss hangs out with the Doomer Optimists at the Wagon Box. What’s doomer optimism? “It appeared to be many things, all at once. There were homesteaders; there were doomsday preppers. A long-haul trucker, a radiologist, law students, veterans, activists, ecologists, minor Twitter celebs, and a self-described ‘would-be professional cell tower toppler.’ A digital artist couple and a venture capitalist couple and a traditionalist Catholic couple.”

“A Vision for Repair.” [https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/09/vision-for-repair-division-unity/ ] Bonnie Kristian speaks in favor of repair: “Mending may be visible—an embroidery of flowers over moth-eaten holes instead of a seamless weave. To oppose the tendency against repair is not to reject everything new, prescribe a universal solution, or deny the reality of brokenness. It is rather to have a bias toward the restoration of good things. It is a tendency toward repair over replacement, resolve over resignation, conservation over chaos, staying over leaving, and building up over tearing down.”

“Words for Conviviality.” [https://currentpub.com/2024/09/19/words-for-conviviality/ ] I sketch part of the argument in my new book for Current: “Using powerful verbal tools in a convivial manner requires shifting away from the industrial mode or the device paradigm and taking up verbal work in the more disciplined manner of those who engage in focal practices. . . . While the device paradigm situates persons as passive consumers who simply have to master a technique or purchase a machine to achieve their desired outcome, convivial modes of engagement require disciplined, skillful persons and, in turn, enable these people to exercise freedom and responsibility as they deepen their relationships with one another and the world.”

“Impossible Burger Maker Drives Rival out of Business with “incredibly bitter” Lawsuit.” [https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20456 ] Jonathan Matthews describes the dangers of manufactured proteins: “new evidence has emerged confirming that ‘precision fermentation’ as a means of mass food production would also be disastrous for efforts to break free from fossil energy. Factory-scale data show that the real figure for how much electricity is needed to generate the precision-fermented food Monbiot champions is nearly four times greater than Monbiot claimed in Regenesis, making it a complete non-starter for feeding the world. But even if that weren’t the case, the anti-competitive behaviour of Impossible Foods in shutting down an emerging rival bears witness to the kind of corporate padlock on our food chain that Monbiot’s ‘Counter Agricultural Revolution’ would lock into place.”

“College Students Not Reading Is an Issue, So Teachers Are Adjusting How Classes Look.” [https://www.teenvogue.com/story/college-students-not-reading ] Marie-Rose Sheinerman talks with teachers who are trying out different approaches to the problem of students not reading long or difficult texts assigned for class: “[Jennifer] Frey feels that the core ingredient in fostering a commitment to reading in her classes is creating a culture around the practice. That starts with professors actively helping students “understand what’s at stake,” she says. ‘The biggest problem that students have is a problem of imagination. They’re just not sure how they can do this. You have to help them imagine themselves getting it done.’”

“You Can Turn Off the News and Still Be a Good Citizen.” [https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/09/election-season-news-overwhelm-vote-trump-harris-politics/ ] In this story for Christianity Today, Harvest Prude talked to some people, including yours truly, about how to handle the influx of news during an election cycle: “Ultimately, Christians interested in news should proceed with discernment, while others should not feel guilty for taking several steps back.”

“The Author’s Corner with Jeremy Beer.” [https://currentpub.com/2024/09/18/the-authors-corner-with-jeremy-beer/ ] Jeremy Beer’s new book is out, and it looks fascinating. His conversation with John Fea gives a taste: “Although he is utterly obscure outside the specialized field of Borderlands Studies, Francisco Garcés was one of the most courageous—and likeable—pathfinders in the history of the American continent. His unparalleled journeys played a key role in the Spanish settlement of California, provided us with precious ethnological data, and anticipated a more humane and effective missionary methodology.”

“Roads, Dead Ends, and Endings.” [https://currentpub.com/2024/09/18/roads-dead-ends-and-endings/ ] Nadya Williams goes to Maine and reflects on the brilliant Sarah Orne Jewett: “As she sits in the schoolhouse watching the town’s life pass by her, she gradually realizes that the distractions of friendships are the point of life; words composed apart from the love of people and places are sterile. A stranger to the region, she finds herself slowly falling in love with these strange and wild people and writing portraits of their lives. It is the people of this place, inseparable from each other, who ultimately inspire her to break through the writer’s block that brought her here.”

“The Supreme Contradictions of Simone Weil.” [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/09/simone-weil-a-life-in-letters-robert-chenavier-andre-a-devaux-book-review ] This isn’t the most sympathetic treatment of Weil, but Judith Thurman’s consideration of a new edition of Weil’s letters for the New Yorker is still worth reading: “The ability to see what others couldn’t was a gift of Weil’s supreme intelligence, and also probably of what Elizabeth Hardwick calls her ‘spectacular and in many ways exemplary abnormality.’”

“New App Lets You Interact With Millions of AI Bot Profiles.” [https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-app-interact-with-millions-ai-bot-profiles/727451/ ] Andrew Hutchinson reports on a new social media platform that embeds you in a virtual world of AI bots. Sounds like the panacea to all our woes: “Are you sick of posting updates to social media platforms only to get zero response? This could be the answer, with a new platform entirely populated by AI bots, which will each reply to your updates with relevant, contextual replies and info.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>2024 jeffreybilbro work repair reading petermommsen saratillingerwolkenfeld doomeroptimists optimism suzyweiss bonniekristian jonathanmatthews marie-rosesheinerman harvestprude jeremybeer franciscogarcés nadyawilliams saraornejewett simoneweil andrewhutchinson ai artificialintelligence chatgpt teaching pedagogy change adaptation judiththurman friendship place christianity news media citizenship howweteach georgemonbiot regenesis responsibility replacement conservation staying lessons practice discipline sergekoussevitzky freedom catholicism traditionalistcatholicism traditionalism tradcatholicism vc venturecapital</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:98e79c7efe3f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeffreybilbro"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:petermommsen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saratillingerwolkenfeld"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:doomeroptimists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suzyweiss"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bonniekristian"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jonathanmatthews"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marie-rosesheinerman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:harvestprude"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeremybeer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:franciscogarcés"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nadyawilliams"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saraornejewett"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:simoneweil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:andrewhutchinson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chatgpt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adaptation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:judiththurman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:friendship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:place"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christianity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:news"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:citizenship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgemonbiot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:regenesis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:responsibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:replacement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conservation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:staying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lessons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discipline"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sergekoussevitzky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:catholicism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:traditionalistcatholicism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:traditionalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tradcatholicism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:venturecapital"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/forget-what-the-ruling-class-deems-unacceptable-revolution-is-illegal-ed-mead-on-a-life-in-struggle">
    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: &quot;Forget What The Ruling Class Deems Unacceptable. Revolution Is Illegal&quot; - Ed Mead On A Life In Struggle</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-16T16:21:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/forget-what-the-ruling-class-deems-unacceptable-revolution-is-illegal-ed-mead-on-a-life-in-struggle</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we interview Ed Mead. Mead is a veteran of the revolutionary underground organization the George Jackson Brigade which operated in solidarity with prisoner, anti-racist, and anti-imperialist struggles. A prolific organizer and participant of prisoner struggles both inside and outside of prisons, Ed also co-founded the prisoner organization Men Against Sexism.

He also worked with a number of other organizations and struggles over the years including work with the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, Prison Legal News, and California Prison Focus. 

In this conversation we talk about some lessons along the way of Ed’s political development, from social prisoner to jailhouse lawyer to organizer to revolutionary to political prisoner. 

Ed offers unvarnished reflections from a life in struggle, characteristically with no holds barred for what he refers to as “the tamed left.” 

Our conversation was informed by Ed Mead’s autobiography Lumpen and by Daniel Burton-Rose’s books on the George Jackson Brigade. We will include a full list of sources in the show notes.

Links:

Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead

Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest: A Historical Analysis
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/the-theory-and-practice-of-armed-struggle-in-the-northwest-a-historical-analysis

Creating A Movement With Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/creating-a-movement-with-teeth-a-documentary-history-of-the-george-jackson-brigade

Guerilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970's
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520264298/guerrilla-usa

Sundiata Acoli's Support Fund
[broken link]

Washington Prison History Project Oral Histories
https://waprisonhistory.org/stories/oral-histories/ "]]></description>
<dc:subject>millennialsarekillingcapitalism edmead revolution rulingclass freedom liberation struggle politics georgejacksonbrigade anticapitalism capitalism 1970s danielburton-rose washingtonstate sundiataacoli underground guerillas antiracism antiimperialism imperialism us prisons jaredware vietnamwar seattle alaska symbioneseliberationarmy bayarea sanfrancisco newworldliberationfront cheguevara solidarity internationalism trotsky anarchism communism marxism sabotage organizing revolutionaries power georgejackson identitypolitics iraq iraqwar race sexuality pineridge class armedstuggle massstruggle bobrown sexism homophobia prisonrape patriarchy prisonabolition abolition education feminism masculinity 1917 history revolutions armedstruggle georgiplekhanov georgeplekhanov ethiopia algeria angola elsalvador nicaragua usimperialism hochiminh vietnam ronaldreagan progressivism neoliberalism china lenin financecapital capital finance russia ww1 wwi japan ww2 wwii italy expansion mussolini socialism climatechange environment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:791a3f0608b4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:millennialsarekillingcapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edmead"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rulingclass"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:struggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgejacksonbrigade"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anticapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1970s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:danielburton-rose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:washingtonstate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sundiataacoli"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:underground"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:guerillas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antiracism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antiimperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jaredware"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vietnamwar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:seattle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alaska"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:symbioneseliberationarmy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bayarea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sanfrancisco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newworldliberationfront"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cheguevara"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trotsky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sabotage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolutionaries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgejackson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identitypolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:iraq"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:iraqwar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sexuality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pineridge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:armedstuggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:massstruggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bobrown"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sexism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:homophobia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonrape"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patriarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonabolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:masculinity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1917"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:armedstruggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgiplekhanov"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgeplekhanov"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethiopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:algeria"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:angola"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elsalvador"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nicaragua"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:usimperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hochiminh"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vietnam"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ronaldreagan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lenin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:financecapital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:russia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ww1"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wwi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:japan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ww2"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wwii"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:expansion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mussolini"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/">
    <title>How to Keep Time - The Atlantic [bookmarking for Season 5, &quot;How to Keep Time&quot; - this podcast covered other topics before that.]</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-23T05:11:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Direct link to Season 5:
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/?season=5 ]

"A series exploring our complex relationship with the clock"

...

"About How to Keep Time

On this season of How to Keep Time, co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day? Why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people?

Produced by Becca Rashid. Co-hosted by Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost. Editing by Jocelyn Frank. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Rob Smerciak. The executive producer of Audio is Claudine Ebeid; the managing editor of Audio is Andrea Valdez."


[Transcripts:

Episode 1
"How to Keep Time: Try Wasting It
How to Waste Time: Wasting time could be the best way to use it.
In a culture obsessed with productivity, what would it mean to commit to letting it go?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/12/how-to-waste-time/676187/

"Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day? Why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people? [includes interview with Oliver Burkeman]"

Episode 2
"How to Keep Time: Look Busy
If time is a luxury, why don’t we flaunt it?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/12/how-to-look-busy/676195/

"Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on what matters?

According to Neeru Paharia, a marketing professor at Arizona State University, time is a sort of luxury good—the more of it you have, the more valuable you are. But her research also revealed that, for many Americans, having less time and being busy can be a status symbol for others to notice. And when it comes to the signals we create for ourselves, sociologist Melissa Mazmanian reveals a few myths that may be keeping us from living the lives we want with the meaningful connections we crave."

Episode 3
"How to Leave Work Time at Work: Time to Break Up With Your 9-to-5
Sometimes workplace culture requires you to leave the rest of your life at the door. What if there are better ways to structure time?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/12/how-to-leave-work-time-at-work/676196/

"Before laptops allowed us to take the office home and smartphones could light up with notifications at any hour, work time and “life” time had clearer boundaries. Today, work is not done exclusively in the workplace, and that makes it harder to leave work at work.

Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost examine the habits that shrink our available time, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, a professor of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, offers his reflections on American culture and shares suggestions for how to use the time we do have, for life."

Episode 4
"How to Rest. What Is Rest, Anyway?
There’s a difference between leisure and laziness."
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/01/how-to-rest/676197/

"Between making time for work, family, friends, exercise, chores, shopping—the list goes on and on—it can feel like a huge accomplishment to just take a few minutes to read a book or watch TV before bed. All that busyness can lead to poor sleep quality when we finally do get to put our head down.

How does our relationship with rest affect our ability to gain real benefits from it? And how can we use our free time to rest in a culture that often moralizes rest as laziness? Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of several books on rest and director of global programs at 4 Day Week Global, explains what rest is and how anyone can start doing it more effectively."

Episode 5
"Time-Management Tips From the Universe
It could help to examine the cosmos."
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/01/time-management-tips-from-the-universe/676199/ 

"Time can feel like a subjective experience—different at different points in our lives. It’s also a real, measurable thing. The universe may be too big to fully comprehend, but what we do know could help inform the ways we approach our understanding of ourselves, our purpose, and our time.

Theoretical physicist and black-hole expert Janna Levin explains how the science of time can inspire new thinking and fresh perspectives on a much larger scale."

Episode 6
"Can We Keep Time?
Do photos, social posts, and diaries actually help us remember better?
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/01/can-we-keep-time/676198/

It can be tough to face our own mortality. Keeping diaries, posting to social media, and taking photos are all tools that can help to minimize the discomfort that comes with realizing we have limited time on Earth. But how exactly does documenting our lives impact how we live and remember them?

In this episode, diarist and author Sarah Manguso reflects on the benefits and limitations of keeping track of time, and Charan Ranganath, a professor of psychology and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience, discusses what research reveals about how memories work and how we can better keep time."]]]></description>
<dc:subject>time clocks ianbogost beccarashid 2023 2024 podcasts psychology productivity us age aging social rest work busyness control future anxiety idleness oliverburkeman hobbies kieransetiya listening zen mindfulness happiness presence leisure laziness neerupaharia melissamazmanian ignaciosánchezprado waiting slow slowness culture society alexsoojung-kimpang downtime boredom jannalevin patience charanranganath sarahmanguso behavior addiction actions neuroscience mentalhealth luxury scarcity status italy humblebragging thorsteinveblen veblengoods socialmobility diamonds money self-worth self-importance compulsion overscheduling plans planning spontaneity avoidance multitasking taskswitching unschooling schooliness balance presentationofself guilt parenting timemanagement capitalism overwork stress success failure deadlines life living anticipation optimism pleasure satisfaction erinreid west burnout gender eviatarzerubavel mothers benedictinemonks monks spirituality industrialrevolution freetime scheduling calenda</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:536b77c372f2/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:clocks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ianbogost"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:beccarashid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:podcasts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:productivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:age"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:social"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:busyness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:control"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anxiety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:idleness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oliverburkeman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hobbies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kieransetiya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:listening"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mindfulness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:happiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:leisure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:laziness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neerupaharia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:melissamazmanian"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ignaciosánchezprado"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:waiting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slowness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alexsoojung-kimpang"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:downtime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boredom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jannalevin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:charanranganath"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sarahmanguso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:behavior"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:addiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:actions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neuroscience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mentalhealth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:luxury"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scarcity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:status"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:italy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humblebragging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thorsteinveblen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:veblengoods"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmobility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:diamonds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-worth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-importance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:compulsion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:overscheduling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:plans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spontaneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:avoidance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multitasking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taskswitching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schooliness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:balance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presentationofself"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:guilt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parenting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timemanagement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:overwork"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:success"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:failure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deadlines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anticipation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pleasure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:satisfaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:erinreid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:west"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:burnout"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gender"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eviatarzerubavel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mothers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:benedictinemonks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:monks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spirituality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:industrialrevolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freetime"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scheduling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:calenda"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/">
    <title>The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T03:44:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The new year offers many of the promises of an online moment we haven’t seen in a quarter-century"

...

"Consider the dramatic power shift happening right now in social media. Twitter’s slide into irrelevance and extremism as it decays into X has hastened the explosive growth of a whole host of newer social networks. There’s the nerdy vibes of the noncommercial Mastodon communities (each one with its own set of Dungeons and Dragons rules to play by), the raucous hedonism of Bluesky (like your old Tumblr timeline at its most scandalous), and the at-least-it’s-not-LinkedIn noisiness of Threads, brought to you by Instagram, meaning Facebook, meaning Meta. There are lots more, of course, and probably another new one popping up tomorrow, but that’s what’s great about it. A generation ago, we saw early social networks like LiveJournal and Xanga and Black Planet and Friendster and many others come and go, each finding their own specific audience and focus. For those who remember a time in the last century when things were less homogenous, and different geographic regions might have their own distinct music scenes or culinary traditions, it’s easy to understand the appeal of an online equivalent to different, connected neighborhoods that each have their own vibe. While this new, more diffuse set of social networks sometimes requires a little more tinkering to get started, they epitomize the complexity and multiplicity of the weirder and more open web that’s flourishing today.

What’s more, the people who had been quietly keeping the spirit of the human, personal, creative internet alive are seeing a resurgence now that the web is up for grabs again. Take someone like Everest Pipkin, an award-winning digital artist and activist who has been making games, videos, interactive sites, and video streams all exploring the boundaries of digital culture. They evoke the open-endedness of the Nineties internet, but with the modern sensibility that comes from someone who wasn’t even born when the web browser was first invented. Or check out the Society for Poetic Computation. It’s an eccentric, deeply charming, self-organized school for people who want to combine art and technology and a social conscience to make things that are completely different from the generic output of the trillion-dollar titans. Just one extraordinary example is Neta Bomani, one of the co-directors of the SFPC, whose unique and arresting digital works could never be built on the template of the last generation of homogenous social media tools. Then there’s Mask On Zone, a collaboration with the artist and coder Ritu Ghiya, which gives demonstrators and protesters in-context guidance on how to avoid surveillance before, during, and after attending a protest. And Bomani’s work often circles back to another staple of Nineties fan culture: printed zines. Often taking the form of workshops on zine-making, it’s an example of taking online culture back offline, showing young creators how their digital relationships inform real-world creativity now, just as it did a generation ago. It seems likely that nearly everyone’s daily digital diet will include some smattering of these kinds of wonderfully idiosyncratic creations, right alongside the latest memes on their For You page.

There are many more. Stefan Bohacek has been working for years to enable almost anyone to create simple, automated bots, offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York’s archives of civic data (here’s a map of every Latin cultural organization in the city!) to ones that post obscure and delightful images from the collections of museums around the world. That kind of creativity had been stifled as Twitter fell apart and other platforms like Reddit cracked down on independent developers, but the rise of new networks and alternative platforms has inspired a resurgence in these kinds of creations that hasn’t been seen since the early 2000s. Elan Kiderman Ullendorff has been exploring a similar space, encouraging people to “Escape the Algorithm” through a series of tools and websites which show regular internet users that another digital world is possible, with examples like “Youtune”, which lets users explore original songs that have been streamed very few times, helping you find music that might have been ignored by the algorithm but might still be worth hearing.

And then there’s someone like Darius Kazemi, a computer programmer and community organizer who has been patiently toiling away building tools that let others build healthy, constructive, human-scale online communities — the sort that are full of acts of kindness and genuine connection, instead of incessant fights about hate speech. There’s been a huge uptick in interest in Darius’ work as networks like Twitter have fallen apart, and a new generation discovers the joys of an internet that’s as intimate and connected as a friendly neighborhood. And this hearkens back to that surprising, and delightful, discovery that often underpinned the internet of a generation ago — sometimes the entire platform you were using to talk to others was just being run by one, passionate person. We’re seeing the biggest return to that human-run, personal-scale web that we’ve witnessed since the turn of the millennium, with enough momentum that it’s likely that 2024 is the first year since then that many people have the experience of making a new connection or seeing something go viral on a platform that’s being run by a regular person instead of a commercial entity. It’s going to make a lot of new things possible.

I’m not a pollyanna about the fact that there are still going to be lots of horrible things on the internet, and that too many of the tycoons who rule the tech industry are trying to make the bad things worse. (After all, look what the last wild era online lead to.) There’s not going to be some new killer app that displaces Google or Facebook or Twitter with a love-powered alternative. But that’s because there shouldn’t be. There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird."]]></description>
<dc:subject>anildash 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 openweb</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7cfecff95f5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anildash"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decentralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blogs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blogging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:platforms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tumblr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:threads"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:instagram"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bluesky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meta"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:everestpipkin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:netabomani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sfpc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schoolforpoeticcomputation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ritughiya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zines"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stefanbohacek"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elankidermanullendorffyoutune"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dariuskazemi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kindness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:social"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:connection"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2024"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reddit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fediverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanweb"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2000"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elonmusk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mastodon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openweb"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo">
    <title>Boots Riley on Labor, Palestine &amp; I'm A Virgo - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-06T05:32:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siZgRBQtCRo</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this livestream we'll talk to Boots Riley about the recent strike wave, solidarity with Palestine, his recent series I'm A Virgo and getting anti-capitalist film/tv made in Hollywood.

Activist, filmmaker, and musician, Boots Riley studied film at San Francisco State University before rising to prominence as the frontman of hip-hop groups The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. His debut feature film Sorry to Bother You premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was acquired by Annapurna Pictures, and was released to resounding box office success and widespread critical acclaim.

Fervently dedicated to social change, Boots was deeply involved with the Occupy Oakland movement and was one of the leaders of the activist group The Young Comrades. His book of lyrics and anecdotes, Tell Homeland Security-We Are The Bomb, is out on Haymarket Press. 

He is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature Film, and SFFILM's Kanbar Award. His most recent work, I'm a Virgo, is available on Amazon and was recently nominated for a Gotham Award."

[See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--hMr318t0

"This is the slightly edited version of our December 5th livestream with film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist Boots Riley. He is the lead vocalist of the musical groups The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He wrote and directed the film Sorry to Bother You and is the creator and director of the television series I’m A Virgo. 

 We talked to Boots Riley about the recent labor upsurge, including the wave of strikes and increasing militancy among workers in the US. We briefly discuss United Auto Workers’ call for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and establishment of a Divestment and Just Transition working group. 

 We also discuss navigating the capitalist film and television industry as a communist and possibilities for organizing among creatives. Boots also answers some questions about making anticapitalist art including some behind the scenes insights from I’m A Virgo.

 We want to shout-out Boots Riley for joining us for this discussion and definitely recommend I’m A Virgo if people haven’t watched it yet. I also want to say there’s some really special content we released in the month of December on our YouTube channel. Including our conversation with Steven Salaita and our conversation on Kuwasi Balagoon with several comrades of his and movement elders including Ashanti Alston, David Gilbert, dequi kioni-sadiki, Matt Meyer, Meg Starr, &amp; Bilal Sunni-Ali so if you haven’t checked that out yet, make sure you do at youtube.com/@makcapitalism.

 This will be our final episode released in 2023. We have a ton of stuff already being edited for release for 2024. This year we released 67 audio episodes, 26 livestreams and our content was listened to or watched over 640,000 times. We’re proud of that, and we’re also proud that our programs are still entirely dependent upon regular folks like yourself who listen and watch the work we put out. Today is your last day of 2023 to support us and that would be much appreciated, but also we hope many of you who have not become patrons of the show yet will do so in 2024. And we want to profusely thank everyone who supported us in 2023 for making the show possible for another year. You can support us at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism

 This episode was co-edited and co-produced by Aidan Elias and Jared Ware"]]]></description>
<dc:subject>bootsriley 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 zoomers generationy generationx</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f57dbce186e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bootsriley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:strikes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:general"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:strike"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:occupywallstreet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ows"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:teachers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fastfood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ilwu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uaw"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:classstruggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:i'mavirgo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:occupyoakland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1999"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2012"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1960s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1980s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:southafrica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genocide"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apartheid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sovietunion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ussr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilrightsmovement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hippies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:babyboomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genx"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:genz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:millennials"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:geny"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:boomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:longshoremen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sorrytobotheryou"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repetition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:goals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inspiration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jacksonpollock"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parisreview"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwework"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wga"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sag"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generationz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zoomers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generationy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generationx"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnzkjUAZnQ">
    <title>Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-11-12T04:49:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWnzkjUAZnQ</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fred Moten will join live to talk about Palestine, decolonization, settler colonialism, and the nation-state of Israel. 

Fred Moten is a cultural theorist, poet, and scholar whose work explores critical theory, black studies, and performance studies. Moten is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside. He along with Stefano Harney co-authored The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study and All Incomplete with Stefano Harney. He is the author of the Consent not to be a single being trilogy and numerous volumes of poetry among other work."

[cleaned-up audio-only version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avrGDvwKhM0
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/a-dam-against-the-motion-of-history-fred-moten-on-palestine-the-nation-state-of-israel
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XaYJuf8MnRm8rB4MS10bB
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-dam-against-the-motion-of-history-fred/id1292638162?i=1000634483115

"This is the slightly cleaned-up audio of our most recent conversation with Fred Moten.

 This was recorded on October 25th. Given the evolution of this struggle and the increasingly genocidal character as well as the ongoing resistance, our comments if we were to hold this discussion today on November 11th would undoubtedly be different. 

 Nonetheless I think a lot of what we cover remains important and we wanted to try to create an audio version of this conversation which held true to the character of the original which we will link in the show notes, but also share it with our broader audience, much of whom prefer the audio format. The audio quality of this version is hopefully also slightly better than the original YouTube version.

 I would note that we now have fourteen of these livestreams up on our Youtube channel which everyone can check out. All of them are related to this current struggle for Palestinian liberation as well as the struggle against the genocidal settler violence we see unleashed on Gaza with full support material, ideological, military of the US as a settler empire in particular and the institutions and governments so-called Western World writ large. 

 I want to acknowledge and shout-out everyone who is taking action and trying to deepen and expand their own anticolonial practices in these times until Palestine is free, until we all are free.

 Once again thank you to Fred Moten for this conversation

 If you like our work of course you can as always support our work on patreon or by becoming a member of our YouTube channel. Thank you for listening and I hope you are finding new comrades in the streets every day.

 Fred Moten's conversation with Robin DG Kelley, Aqua Cooper & Rinaldo Walcott that is mentioned in the episode

 Previous episodes with Fred Moten &amp; Stefano Harney, and his conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib that we've hosted."]]]></description>
<dc:subject>fredmoten 2023 palestine israel statements rhetoric language discourse humanity rights rightstoexist manolocallahan humanism history context states state humans brutality collectivepubishment colonialism settlercolonialism colonization antisemitism us uk zionism christianzionism via:javierarbona conviviality study human philosophy jaredware whiteness unfinished imperfection sylviawynter frantzfanon complexity morality ethics others othering anticolonialism decolonization conversation thinking howwethink foucault michelfoucault coloniality nyu guggenheim detachment work labor colonialintent malcolmx howweread reading grades grading classroom highered highereducation academia art artworld practice praxis solidarity westbank gaza indigeneity indigenous nationstates blackstudies robinkelley robindgkelley rinaldowalcott indeterminacy surveillance suppression resistance optimism jazz teaching howweteach education learning howwelearn organizing organization generalstrike petitmarronage webdubois walterbenjamin saidi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1255d5765dd8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fredmoten"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:palestine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:statements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rhetoric"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discourse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rights"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rightstoexist"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:manolocallahan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:context"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:states"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:state"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brutality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivepubishment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:settlercolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antisemitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christianzionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:via:javierarbona"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conviviality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:study"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jaredware"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:whiteness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unfinished"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imperfection"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sylviawynter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:frantzfanon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:others"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:othering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anticolonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conversation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwethink"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:foucault"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michelfoucault"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coloniality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nyu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:guggenheim"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:detachment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialintent"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:malcolmx"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grades"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:classroom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artworld"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:praxis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:westbank"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gaza"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nationstates"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackstudies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robinkelley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robindgkelley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rinaldowalcott"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indeterminacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surveillance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suppression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jazz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generalstrike"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:petitmarronage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:webdubois"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walterbenjamin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saidi"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyIi9ga4n4">
    <title>Solarpunk your campus - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-04T02:37:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyIi9ga4n4</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How can we redesign higher education for the climate crisis future?

This week the Future Trends Forum embarks on an experiment which might be the first of its kind. Our session is a workshop, where we will together rethink and envision colleges and universities in the light of the solarpunk movement, imagining a positive, ecologically connected, and just way of conducting our academic enterprise.

We'll begin with an introduction to solarpunk, followed by two design exercises, during each of which we'll break into groups, then gather to share our findings. By the end we'll have a collective, grass roots, and hopeful vision of where higher education might be headed.

For more information see this blog post.  And please join us!
https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/solarpunk-as-a-way-of-redesigning-higher-education-for-the-climate-crisis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk

This event is powered by Shindig, the video chat event provider. On Shindig, audiences all can see one another and engage in private video chats sharing and discussing the content of the presentation. Event hosts may also bring selected audience members to the stage to ask questions or otherwise interact with guest speakers. Shindig; the dynamics of in person events, online."]]></description>
<dc:subject>bryanalexander 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 recycling well-being</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c17e5c0b5064/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bryanalexander"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solarpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatecrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colleges"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mitigation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:changemanagement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:biophilia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:plants"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:curriculum"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:administration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edupunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:horizontality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:altgdp"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decentralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:remotelearning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:travel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transportation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyberpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wellbeing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reuse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sharing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repurposing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:recycling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:well-being"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/173934/bear-starts-new-season-fx-tv-review">
    <title>Why “The Bear” Starts Over In Its New Season | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2023-07-18T06:56:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/173934/bear-starts-new-season-fx-tv-review</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["TV has never done the classroom terribly well. For all the vaunted—even inaccurate!—specificity contemporary television has brought to the courtroom or the emergency room or the police station, sites of learning remain vaguely fantastical, blank spaces. There’s lots of fun dramatic material to be mined in the social networks that surround schools and campuses, but the actual work of learning is rarely deemed interesting enough to spend too much time on. Even Netflix’s campus dramedy The Chair, for example, which nailed the pratfalls of academic bureaucracy, the small-stakes warfare of faculty argument, and, importantly, the soft marginalization of women and people of color in the academy, couldn’t manage to nudge its classroom scenes beyond cartoonish generality.

But recently that’s begun to change. Right now, we can watch the chaos of pedagogy in Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary, the leftist moral education of Boots Riley’s I’m a Virgo, and the queer odes to adult education—in both singing and agriculture—of Somebody, Somewhere. In and out of the classroom, the day-to-day drama of education is, all of a sudden, not just a backdrop but a central concern of contemporary TV.

And then there’s FX’s The Bear, whose second season dropped earlier this week on Hulu. The Bear is not a show about academia or high school or college or even culinary school. It is, however, one of the best shows on television about learning—a raucous, romantic meditation on what it means to teach and to be taught."

...

"Even a superficial accounting of what happens in the new episodes reveals this thematic core: Line-cooks Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) and Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) are sent to a crash course at culinary school to help them both prepare for new responsibilities—Tina’s been promoted to sous chef—in the new restaurant’s haute-cuisine environment; Marcus (Lionel Boyce) travels to Copenhagen to study under Carmy’s former rival so that he can return to become The Bear’s pastry chef; Richie stages at an Alinea-esque fine dining restaurant where he discovers how to blend his natural charm with the complexities of upscale service.

But it’s not just schools and apprenticeships. Richie and Fak (Matty Matheson) watch YouTube videos to learn how to hang drywall and do electrical work; Sydney combs through Coach K’s leadership memoir for tips on how to be a leader and create a positive and efficient team culture; Carmy, in a new romantic relationship, has to figure out how to be in a romantic relationship for the first time. He doesn’t know how, he tells his girlfriend, Claire (Molly Gordon), because he skipped college to go to Copenhagen himself. Nobody knows the skills they need to grow, to survive. They all have to learn those skills wherever they can.

The Bear is now rightly famous for its operatic argument scenes—I won’t belabor this review with an accounting of the epic, cameo-heavy Feast of the Seven Fishes episode of this season. Suffice it to say that if it’s yelling you’re looking for, The Bear has a special on it this season. But the show’s best and most special work, I’ve always thought, has been done in its quiet moments. These scenes of instruction are almost all pitched at a low volume. Richie’s apprenticeship and Carmy’s romantic education are characterized mostly by whispered lessons between intimates. Tina’s schooling and Sydney’s odyssey through the culinary world of Chicago are near-silent, scored mostly by the sound of sharp knives slicing fish and vegetable and delicious baked goods being crunched by hungry mouths. Marcus’s study-abroad trip is notable not just for the soft talk between him and his tutor, Luca (Will Poulter), but also for the fact that the show’s overactive iPod shuffle of dad rock deep cuts is paused for much of the stand-alone episode that’s focused on the Copenhagen apprenticeship. The show gives not only narrative but aesthetic space to these moments of learning, some of which are so beautiful and simply profound that they might bring tears to your eyes. The overactive camera stays put, the overactive soundtrack settles down, the characters stand still, they listen, they see.

***

Contemporary TV can sometimes seem to move back and forth between a fascination with competence and a leering obsession with incompetence. It’s rare that a show can dwell in between these two poles of knowledge for long. The drama of development, the narrative of education, despite being an obvious structural fit for serialized television, can sometimes fall by the wayside in favor of tall tales of virtuosity and short tales of stupidity. On Succession, the show that handed the discourse off to The Bear when it ended a few weeks ago, you are either an omnipotent titan or a sniveling boob. Nobody gets better, nobody learns anything, all opportunities or suggestions for improvement are refused as insults.

The Bear refuses this polarity, even as it would be easy, perhaps, to transform into a Mad Men–style exploration of the vicissitudes of creative genius. This show, instead, embraces the humility and the humanity of the act of learning, the self-awareness and self-abnegation it requires for even the talented to admit that they don’t know everything, that there’s always more to learn. What you need, in order to dramatize this type of education, is patience. (For that reason, it was a strange choice to dump all 10 episodes at once, rather than course them out weekly over the rest of the summer.) As Luca tells Marcus, the best way to learn is to “fuck up.” And while contemporary TV shows are supposed to be “patient” at an aesthetic level, with their bottle episodes and their slow-burn plots, there are incentives to rush things along. What if the audience gets bored? What if the show doesn’t get renewed? The very idea that this show, so defined by the electricity of its kitchen, would set nearly the entire second season in a building that very conspicuously doesn’t even have its gas on, is a staggering feat of televisual derring-do. That the new season ends before the new restaurant’s official first service is as bold a storytelling gambit as I can think of.

It’s hard to imagine that a show this good at what it does—and this buzzy—will be canceled, but anything is possible. So the risk is great that The Bear might have taken the leisurely way to The Bear and cost itself the opportunity to tell the full story. But the show’s second season is an optimistic one regardless. Everybody trying to learn, everybody trying to get the gas turned on. The Bear is a narrative of education, a story of shaky masters and streaking apprentices, and the lesson is this: Stay open."]]></description>
<dc:subject>learning 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 instruction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c76a01cf24ce/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pedagogy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:television"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thebear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:youtube"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tv"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:competence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:expertise"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-improvement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:talent"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-awareness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philipmaciak"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:classroom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schoolhouse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:skills"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apprenticeships"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lessons"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:beauty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mistakes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:failure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-abnegation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:instruction"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067">
    <title>Near Future Laboratory Podcast: N°063 - Imagining the Future of the Imagination Academy with Will Richardson on Apple Podcasts</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-01T18:59:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Will Richardson is a life-long educator and co-founder along with Homa Tavangar of The Big Questions Institute, was was created to help educators use 'fearless inquiry' to make sense of the complex moment and uncertainty felt around the future. In this episode we focus specifically on the ebook he and his co-founder recently created called 'One Foot In The Future' containing new frameworks, tools, and lenses to help educators imagine what comes next.


https://bigquestions.institute/


https://bigquestions.institute/onefootebook/


Please consider supporting the podcast over on Patreon at https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory. Your support goes a long way towards keeping these episodes going, largely by signaling to me that you find value in what's being discussed in here. Support is pretty easy, and generally affordable — there are two tiers at the moment: $8/month ($2 per week!) or $25 for those who can afford more. Every patron gets an invitation to the Near Future Laboratory Discord, where the magic seems to happen daily!

Thanks!

Julian"]]></description>
<dc:subject>nearfuturelaboratory 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-publishing liminal</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b9a597be330c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nearfuturelaboratory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:julianbleecker"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:willrichardson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solarpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:edupunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pandemic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:designfiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:designthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2023"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:creativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antidisciplinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transdisciplinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:punk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:statusquo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigquestionsinstitute"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:midjourney"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:artificialintelligence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:narrative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:selfpublishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zachstein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liminality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discord"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:compulsory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-directed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-directedlearning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:youtube"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tiktok"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:margaretmead"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zakstein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zacharystein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:drélabre"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ebooks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futuree"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futurists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyberpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neuralimplants"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-publishing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liminal"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/">
    <title>Wendell Berry: The Work of Local Culture | The Contrary Farmer</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-21T22:04:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/wendell-berry-the-work-of-local-culture/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>wendellberry 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 home meritocracy conservation environmentalism green ecology landscape garbage methods agesegregation government salaries income love memories collectivism ch</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46a2ab19fd3d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wendellberry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rural"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:small"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:centralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decentralization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2011"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:farming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:storytelling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:professionalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:professionals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:standardization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:standards"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extractivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:urban"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:urbanization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suburbs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suburbia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:homogenization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:entertainment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:distraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:belonging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:land"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:soil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:enrichment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:canon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:insurance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corporations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corporatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corporatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sales"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gdp"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pollution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:degradation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poverty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parenting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:television"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tv"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:classics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bible"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:shakespeare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:williamwordsworth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kinship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:institutionalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:publicschools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indocrtrination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:careerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:professionalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:careers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:place"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:home"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meritocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conservation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environmentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:green"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:landscape"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:garbage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:methods"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agesegregation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:salaries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:income"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ch"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mike-davis-could-see-the-future">
    <title>Mike Davis Could See the Future | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-03T04:18:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mike-davis-could-see-the-future</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Often misread as a “prophet of doom,” Davis was actually an optimist and a dreamer. He wasn’t gloating about the end of the world, so much as he was compelling us to imagine a new one. “What keeps us going, ultimately,” he explained to the Guardian in an interview earlier this year, “is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.”

Davis had been battling cancer for more than five years when, this summer, he decided to stop chemotherapy and enter palliative care. Admirers and acolytes began sharing tributes to his influence and generosity, the way he opened his home to local activists, aspiring journalists, graduate students. He was a firebrand, cantankerous at times, funny in private, unflagging in his faith. A leftist and a Californian. He told the Los Angeles Times that he regretted dying this way, rather than “in battle or at a barricade as I’ve always romantically imagined.” His books were so prophetic about the nature of terror. We must also trust that he was right to have faith in the future—in those who followed.

Around the time I first started reading Davis, I went to Los Angeles for spring break. Berkeley was—and probably always will be—the type of school where students routinely spend these breaks organizing rather than going to the beach, and mine was spent with other members of a recruitment-and-retention group, driving around Los Angeles in a rental van talking to high-school students about their futures. One night, driving around a city few of us knew, I sensed we were in Beverly Hills. There was the police station that Davis had mentioned in his lecture. It was sublime, the gleaming fortress in the dead of night. You wanted to tear it all down, only where to begin. We admired it for a moment and ran back to the van to keep driving, because we had places to go, things we had to do."]]></description>
<dc:subject>mikedavis 2022 losangeles huahsu california optimism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c27ad5a5b5b0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mikedavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:losangeles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:huahsu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:california"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury">
    <title>Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury - New Statesman</title>
    <dc:date>2022-10-24T21:23:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>rebeccasolnit hope despair climatechange globalwarming 2022 climatedespair fatalism optimism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:183295d45ba5/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rebeccasolnit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatedespair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fatalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYgY9yO5gc">
    <title>The Un-Private Collection: Hank Willis Thomas + Robin D. G. Kelley - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-20T01:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYgY9yO5gc</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Artist/activist Hank Willis Thomas will speak with his mentor and former teacher, UCLA professor and noted author Robin D. G. Kelley about Thomas’s art practice and his activism as co-founder of the organization For Freedoms. The Broad recently acquired  America (2021) by Thomas, which is on view along with his work 15,580 (2017), 2018 in The Broad’s special exhibition This is Not America’s Flag from May 21 through September 25, 2022. In America, Thomas dismantles the US flag, reforming its red and white bars to spell “America,” prodding the inequity present in the fabric of the nation, past and present. In 15,580 (2017), Thomas commemorates victims of gun violence, each star representing a life lost in the United States in 2017."]]></description>
<dc:subject>hankwillisthomas 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 abolitionism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f64bad1989d9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hankwillisthomas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robindgjelley"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flags"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poetry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:storytelling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:creativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:healing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dreaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedomdreaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwething"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jimcrow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilwar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:confederacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inclusivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inclusion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:branding"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nuance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civicengagement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:engagement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politicaldiscourse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:museums"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libraries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lcproject"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:openstudioproject"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messaging"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stewardship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attention"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stillness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:noticing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:awareness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:awakeness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:now"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thenow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:appreciation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:being"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brands"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nike"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patagonia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nfl"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sports"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accountability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:critique"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ajamonet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rationalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:surrealism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:andrébreton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decolonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markerting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativedesign"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ownership"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wealth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:virtuesignaling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reparations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bayarea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sanfrancisco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interdependence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalimagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rationality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aimécésaire"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dereckapurnell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolitionism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio">
    <title>Cronopio - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-10T17:50:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Los cronopios son personajes de una serie de cuentos del libro Historias de Cronopios y de Famas (1963) del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar. "Un cronopio es un dibujo fuera del margen, un poema sin rimas", en palabras de autor. Junto con los famas y las esperanzas, integran el universo de este libro.

Descripción
Cortázar utilizó por primera vez la palabra cronopio en un artículo publicado en Buenos Aires Literaria en 1952, comentando un concierto dado por Igor Stravinsky en noviembre de ese año en el Théâtre des Champs-Élysées de París. El artículo se titulaba Louis, enormísimo cronopio. Cortázar explicó después en varias entrevistas cómo el nombre cronopio se le había ocurrido por primera vez poco antes en el mismo teatro, como resultado de una visión fantástica de pequeños globos verdes flotando alrededor en el semivacío teatro.1​ Dejó en claro también que la palabra "cronopio" no tiene relación con el concepto del tiempo (prefijo: crono-), sino que meramente la concibió en el acto.

En sus relatos, Cortázar evita dar una descripción física precisa de los cronopios. Solo se refiere tangencialmente a ellos como "objetos verdes y húmedos". 2​ Los relatos proporcionan claves acerca de la personalidad, los hábitos y las inclinaciones artísticas de los cronopios. En general, los cronopios se presentan como criaturas ingenuas, idealistas, desordenadas, sensibles y poco convencionales, en claro contraste con los famas, que son rígidos, organizados y sentenciosos; y las esperanzas: simples, indolentes, «bobas», ignorantes y aburridas.

Sobre la apariencia de los cronopios, Cristina Peri Rossi, gran amiga del escritor, relata que alguna vez Julio recibió, de parte de un grupo de exiliados chilenos, un muñeco hecho a mano, con cabeza de rana, cuerpo de perro y de color verde. Tras recibir el regalo, Cortázar hizo una observación acerca del color, a él nunca se le habría ocurrido que los cronopios eran verdes[cita requerida].

La mayor parte de las referencias a cronopios en la obra de Cortázar se encuentra en las 20 historias que forman la última sección de su libro Historias de Cronopios y de Famas. Algunos críticos literarios han buscado en este libro significados metafísicos ocultos, o una taxonomía universal de los seres humanos. El propio autor se refirió a estos relatos como una especie de juego y aseguró que le había producido un gran placer escribirlos.

El término "cronopio" terminó por convertirse en una especie de tratamiento honorífico, aplicado por Cortázar (y otros) a amigos, como en la dedicatoria de la traducción inglesa de 62: Modelo para armar, donde se dice: "Esta novela y su traducción están dedicadas al cronopio Paul Blackburn..."

Impacto
Cortázar fue llamado en ocasiones Grandísimo Cronopio Mayor por sus admiradores y la denominación inspiró a muchos autores y artistas que bautizaron así a sus grupos musicales o teatrales. Las alusiones a los cronopios son múltiples, en obras artísticas plásticas, así como en álbumes, canciones, coreografías, obras dramáticas y poemas dedicados o inspirados en los cronopios. Cabe mencionar especialmente la denominación de un extinto género de mamíferos, encontrado en el sitio fosilífero de La Buitrera, descrito en 2011 por Rougier, Apesteguía y Gaetano y cuya especie tipo es el Cronopio dentiacutus.3"

[See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio_(literature)

"A cronopio is a type of fictional person appearing in works by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914–February 12, 1984).

Together with famas (literally fames) and esperanzas (hopes), cronopios are the subject of several short stories in his 1962 book Historias de cronopios y de famas and Cortazar continued to write about cronopios, famas, and esperanzas in other texts through the 1960s.

Characteristic
In general, cronopios are depicted as naive and idealistic, disorganized, unconventional and sensitive creatures, who stand in contrast or opposition to famas (who are rigid, organized and judgmental if well-intentioned) and esperanzas (who are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull).

In his stories Cortázar describes few physical features of cronopios. He does refer to them (in one of the early stories Costumbres de los famas) as "those greenish, frizzly, wet objects," but this description is just the initial author's vision of the invented character. In a letter to Paul Blackburn on 1959-03-27 [1] Cortázar writes that human characteristics of cronopios appeared later, while writing other stories. These demonstrate aspects of cronopios' personalities, habits, and inclinations.

Uses of the term
Cortázar first used the word cronopio in a 1952 article published in Buenos Aires Literaria reviewing a Louis Armstrong concert given in November of that year in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The article was entitled Louis, Enormísimo Cronopio ("Louis, Enormous Cronopio"). Cortázar would later describe in various interviews how the word cronopio first came to him in that same theater some time before this concert in the form of an imaginary vision of small green globes floating around the semi-deserted theater.

References to cronopios in Cortázar's work occur in 20 short sketches that make up the last section of Historias de Cronopios y de Famas as well as in his "collage books," La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos and Ultimo Round, which were collected in a French edition he considered definitive. Some literary critics consider Cortazar's cronopios stories as lesser works compared to other of the author's novels and short stories. Others have looked for hidden metaphysical meanings in these stories or for a universal taxonomy of human beings. Cortázar himself described these stories as a sort of "game" and asserted that writing them gave him great joy.

The term cronopio eventually became a kind of honorific, applied by Cortázar (and others) to friends, as in the dedication to the English-language edition of 62: A Model Kit: "This novel and this translation are dedicated to Cronopio Paul Blackburn ..." (Blackburn translated several of Cortazar's early stories under the title The End of the Game.)

A fossil dryolestoid mammal found in Argentina has been named Cronopio dentiacutus.[2]"]]]></description>
<dc:subject>cronopios 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 humans</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c242e86daf9a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cronopios"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:juliocortázar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cristinaperrirossi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:words"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:language"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cv"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:idealism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:naivite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:naivité"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rigidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:creativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hopefulness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:paulblackburn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spanish"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neologisms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:español"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:louisarmstrong"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:igorstravinsky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:margins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:litoralzone"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:personalities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxonomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism">
    <title>Mike Davis, California’s ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’ | California | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-01T02:54:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/mike-davis-california-writer-interview-activism</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated"

...

"Republicans are doing a splendid job of combining protest movements with electoral politics. It’s not only that Republicans have mastered low-intensity street-fighting, it’s that they’ve also been able to sustain a dialectic between the outside and the inside in a way that progressive Democrats haven’t been able to do.

Both of our kids [the couple’s now 18-year-old twins], all their friends turned out for Black Lives Matter. So much attention was given to the participation of whites in the protests, but I think the most exciting part was the number of new immigrant kids, Latinos, who were in the thick of it. After summer 2020, they kind of became orphans. What to do, where to protest, what to join, how to conceive of the possibility of a life dedicated to struggling for social change – all of that went unanswered.

The base for a more activist, more aggressive, but also more strategic left politics exists. Students in inner-city high schools in California are a sleeping dragon. If you measure things by opinion polls, this generation is more leftwing than the 1930s. A huge number of people under 30 say they’re in favor of socialism or they’re prepared to listen to arguments for socialism. That’s astonishing."

...


"Can you share some of the messages you’ve received? [Davis picks up one stack of papers from his printer, and opens a drawer and pulls out another stack, and begins to read passages aloud.]

“We’ve never met but like many people out there I’ve been changed by your work. I’m a brown kid from Orange county who spent many years trying to understand and articulate the complex but unshakable love I have for our home, its haunted uncanniness, its beauty, its cruelty …”

“I hear you are in the final stretch of, well, all of this. I write to you from Paris a few hours before I fly back home to LA, and I know that when we make the final descent into the LA basin this afternoon, I will cry softly, as I always do, so in love with the place I call home …”

“You came on my podcast back in late 2020 and we talked a lot about rural America. Right now my community is in shambles, because last week eastern Kentucky was hit really bad by a one-in-a-thousand-year flood. I’m having a real hard time time finding any hope anywhere. But I read this interview you did, and it made me feel, not necessarily more hopeful, but more at peace ...”

“It is pretty common for people to underestimate their own legacy. So allow me just to say that I’m glad that you did not die on the barricades too soon, before we had your wonderful books. After all, aren’t they a kind of barricade for the ages?”

There is so much unmobilized love out there. It’s really moving to see how much.

What are you and your family doing with the time you have left?

Avoiding this trap where writers feel they must weigh in with famous last words or a long essay on dying. We’re watching a lot of Scandinavian noir on HBO. In the last month, I’ve started consuming immense amounts of military history, an infantile throwback. I find the counterfactuals – this battle, what did it decide, what was the alternative – deeply fascinating.

You can’t expect to die at a very heroic moment. It’d be nice to die in 1968, or with the liberation of Europe in 1945. You’re on the barricades in 1917, 1919. Go out of life with the red flags flying. But despair is useless."]]></description>
<dc:subject>mikedavis 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 globalwarming latestagecapitalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62087a0fec0a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mikedavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:latecapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:california"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:loisbeckett"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:republicans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blacklivesmatter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialchange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:struggle"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:electoralpolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:losangeles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:illness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greenwashing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:electriccars"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:evs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fire"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:latestagecapitalism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/mike-davis-conversation-doom-hope">
    <title>Column: Mike Davis has terminal cancer. But his big worry is what is happening to our world - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-23T06:34:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-22/mike-davis-conversation-doom-hope</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>mikedavis gustavoarellano 2022 pessimism optimism socal losangeles sandiego elcajon race racism class climatechange marxism environment california</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:765f32fbc124/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mikedavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gustavoarellano"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:losangeles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sandiego"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elcajon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:california"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptNFZ-mKNg">
    <title>Shari Frilot - Sundance Film Festival &amp; New Frontier 2022 AD 225 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-08T23:07:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MptNFZ-mKNg</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Shari Frilot is a filmmaker who has produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films, including Strange & Charmed, A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the feature documentary, Black Nations / Queer Nations? She is the recipient of multiple grants, including the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Media Arts Foundation. She is presently working on a feature film project about the crisis in water supply with producer Effie Brown's production company, Duly Noted Inc.

In tandem with filmmaking, Shari also maintains a career in festival programming, occupying a distinguished position on the curatorial vanguard through her pioneering development of immersive cinematic environments. As the Festival Director of the MIX Festival in New York (1992-1996) she co-founded the first gay Latin American film festivals, MIX BRASIL and MIX MEXICO film festivals. As Co-Director of Programming for OUTFEST (1998-2001), she founded the Platinum section which introduced cinematic performance installation and performance to the festival. She is presently in her 22nd year as a Senior Programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She is the curator and driving creative force behind New Frontier, an exhibition and commissioning initiative that focuses on cinematic work being created at the intersections of art, film, and new media technology.

New Frontier 2022 Projects Discussed:
“On The Morning You Wake (To The End of The World)” by Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart, and Pierre Zandrowicz
“The State of Global Peace” by Daanish Masood Alavi
“Gondwana” by Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts
“Suga” by Valencia James
“The Inside World” by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
“Web 3.0 / NFT Meetups” by Amelia Winger-Bearskin and Jesse Damiani
“32 Sounds” by Sam Green
“Seven Grams” by Karim Ben Khelifa

Other Topics Discussed:
Transhumanism
Identity
Futurism
“Notes on Blindness - Into Darkness” @ New Frontier 2016
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan
Projects on climate and social change
NFTs and Web 3.0
Handling hardship and pain
Finding vitality in community
Finding reasons to be optimistic
Conscious and positive use cases for technology
Systemic issues artists face in the US
Building the immersive experience of Sundance’s spaceship through XR and VR with the creative studio Active Theory"]]></description>
<dc:subject>sharifrilot 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 bodies</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:12ca0c56512e/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sharifrilot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2022"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sundance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newfrontier"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transhumanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futurism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hardship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:filmmaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:immersion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web3"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nfts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialchange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jamaicaheolimeleikalaniosorio"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mikebrett"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stevejamison"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arnautcolinart"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pierrezandrowicz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:daanishmasoodalavi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:benjosephandrews"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emmaroberts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:valenciajames"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samgreen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:karimbenkhelifa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jessedamiani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kevinmccoy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jennifermccoy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:perception"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:digital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adaptation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nonbinary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:queer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:performance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:empathy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blindness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialconsciousness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bodies"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-22/essays/we-found-love-in-a-hopeless-place/">
    <title>We Found Love in a Hopeless Place | Issue 22 | n+1</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T15:02:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-22/essays/we-found-love-in-a-hopeless-place/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Affect theorists following Sedgwick are distinguished from many of their feminist and queer forebears because they do not argue that identity or desire has been repressed (a key term in the old theory of agency). Their work approaches the decisions and desires of the apparently obedient victims of domination not through comparison to a presumed true self, but through a much more immediate kind of sympathy, one that need not propose a hidden self in order to acknowledge the humanity of even the most downtrodden. What follows is also a new sensitivity, an openness to surprise, since sympathy may well lead not to a return to the “true self” but to the production of new selves altogether."

...

"Having to spend one’s own inner reserves to restitch the fraying fabric of society is exhausting, and poses all sorts of obstacles to collective organization and self-assertion. After a long day spent caring for others, it’s hard enough to care for a family, let alone comrades. The spread of capital’s reach across all social life has also turned many kinds of human relationships into empty market transactions. Click “Like”; have a good attitude; smile at the customer; establish a real connection with the patient; be an ambassador for the corporate brand. It’s exhausting, how the growing immateriality of the economic system depends ever more on the endless work of self-invention. Then there’s outright oppression. The shattering of political constraints on the market has seriously wounded democracy, replacing it in part with vicious forms of repressive social control that often act through affective mechanisms: Eric Garner was murdered, recall, for reacting with visible negative feeling to police harassment. It is the interaction of these two dynamics — Facebook and Ferguson — that makes affect so central to the neoliberal order. Capital issues two commands at once: Do what you love, and keep your head down.

The enforcement of these simultaneous imperatives — to both actualize and minimize one’s selfhood — depends on a vast, uncoordinated apparatus of powers that regulates contemporary emotional life. Such powers can take the form of institutional authority figures like bosses and police, of course, but also parents, children, friends, and lovers. What’s insidious about a system of affective rule is that it doesn’t need a center of power. It banks on the fact that it’s hard to be defiant when you hear a warning from your parents, feel a chill from your colleagues, or sense sudden distance from your loved ones, who — fearful themselves — are made uneasy by your dissent."

...

"You know the line: “Why do you have to bring race into this?” Comfort and happiness, in this scenario, are the result of aligning properly with the atmosphere you’re in. In other words, they’re the affects of obedience: happiness is the feeling that proper behavior generates. “To be willing to go against a social order, which is protected as a moral order, a happiness order, is to be willing to cause unhappiness, even if unhappiness is not your cause.”"

...

"WHAT BERLANT OBSERVES in her cultural criticism is visible in another strain of social theory. The German economic sociologist Wolfgang Streeck, in Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (2014), proposes that the wealthy democracies of Europe and North America have been engaged in a delaying operation since the economic crisis of the 1970s. Again and again, these states have pushed forward in time the reckoning building up inside the capitalist order, manipulating the money supply and relying on asset price bubbles to generate “illusions of growth and prosperity.”

Streeck’s analysis goes like this: As the postwar economic-growth machine sputtered in the 1970s, the legitimacy it had bought for capitalism fell into arrears. Streeck says that from this point, the wealthy capitalist democracies went through three stages of postponement. Each was designed to sustain public legitimacy the easy way, by putting off a resolution of fundamental questions. The first phase came with the great inflation of the 1970s. So long as labor could keep bidding up wages and capital could keep raising prices, both sides could avoid — for a time — the absorption of the underlying losses the economy as a whole had sustained. But this process could go only so far. When the inflationary spiral wore on for a full decade, central banks moved to put it to a halt by hiking interest rates, flatlining economies, and throwing hundreds of thousands of factory workers into unemployment. This initiated the next episode of postponement: the growth of public debt. In the early ’80s, high interest rates multiplied the value of the public debt. Meanwhile, the global 1979–81 recession produced large-scale unemployment, forcing governments to take on deficits to finance the social safety net. To escape the recession, the capitalist democracies borrowed, and cut taxes for the rich to spur growth. The state, in other words, took the legitimacy problem onto its own balance sheet. But ballooning public deficits began to spook markets, triggering the retrenchment of the 1990s. The shredding of the welfare state was, of course, largely presided over by center-left social democrats — Blair, Clinton, Schröder, and their ilk. With financial markets liberalized in the ’80s and ’90s, the state finally offloaded the burden of buying legitimacy onto private creditors. An essentially privatized Keynesianism resulted, in which policy makers encouraged a series of asset-price bubbles — culminating in the housing bubble — in order to maintain overall growth and the consumption levels of individual households. “The securing of a mass base for modern capitalism thus shifted from the sphere of politics to the market, understood as a mechanism for the production of greed and fear,” Streeck writes.

Although Streeck’s argument is as straightforward as that of any other economic historian, we might think of the story he tells, under the sign of affect theory, as a neurotic and incomplete mourning process for the postwar boom — an anguished refusal to say goodbye and move on. Rather than change the organization of our society in response to stagnation and inequality, the wealthy democracies have relied on monetary policy and financialization to delay a reckoning. The consequences are clear in our everyday experience of those markets in which mass participation has been sustained only by the expansion of credit, the debt-financed commodities that we can neither afford nor imagine living without: cars, college, health care, and, above all, houses.

What better represents Berlant’s archaic “good life” fantasy than homeownership? At the core of the 2008 financial crisis we find this contradictory arrangement: American society is unwilling to pay enough to significant numbers of its citizens for them to buy houses, yet also unwilling to live with the idea of itself as anything other than an “ownership society,” as George W. Bush’s 2004 slogan put it. Individuals and households, for their part, cannot bear to break with their aspirations to participate in this version of the good life. The problem, then, is that we are too straight — too bound to failing norms — to attack the forces disfiguring our lives. Desire for the kinds of stability and comfort neoliberalism has dissolved is precisely what makes the neoliberal advance possible."

...

"Elizabeth Freeman comes closer still to synthesizing queer theory with a sense of political-economic agency in her 2010 book Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Freeman employs the concept of “chrononormativity,” the way that bare and chaotic human bodies are ordered into directional, choreographed lifetimes. This is done through the chronological signposts of an individual biography: “marriage, accumulation of health and wealth for the future, reproduction, childrearing, and death and its attendant rituals.” To fail to proceed through the proper stages is, in Freeman’s view — an extension of Sedgwick’s reading of Proust — a violation of normativity and thus a kind of queerness. To reject marriage, or the future orientation of parenting, or the time discipline of the work ethic, to pursue self-discovery instead of self-denial, is then to refuse capital and heteronormativity at the same time."

...

"WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if we could take charge of our own affects? It might be possible to send an impulse back in the other direction; perhaps capitalist institutions are vulnerable at the level of affective struggle.

This possibility gets at one of the strangest and most appealing aspects of academic affect theory: its resemblance, at the level of tone and form — direct appeals to the reader, memoir — to self-help. While odd in the pages of an academic press book, these characteristics shouldn’t be all that surprising. For if a downcast affect is a structural component of late capitalism’s triumph, one would expect the most depressive of all to be the most defeated people — those who identify with the left. And what is generally the case for radicals should hold doubly for radical academics, who are disempowered twice over: not only identified with a defeated political movement but relegated to doting over the memory of the left and tinkering endlessly with its shrine. The affect of university life — mournful and defensive — would seem to forbid leaps of radical imagination."

...

"The reparative impulse of affect theory — easily written off as individualist — can in this way give shape to a collective movement. To mount effective challenges the left will have to withstand not only the punishing opposition that descends on any attempt at social transformation but also the more vicious internal mechanism by which power speaks to each of us in our own voice. There may be no authentic self buried deep down, waiting to be discovered, but it might be possible to invent new selves in the crucible of shared struggle. For this, the left may need less of the antinomian radicalism of Foucault and Deleuze, and more of a loving discipline of its own — the kind of social organization that keeps you coming back to the same slammed-shut door, again and again, because you love your comrades more than you’re afraid."]]></description>
<dc:subject>2015 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 wolfgangstreeck latestagecapitalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:225f81f5e304/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2015"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gabrielwinant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:affecttheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feeling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crueloptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:laurenberlant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wendybrown"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elizabethfreeman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:latecapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multiplicity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:evekosofskysedgwick"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:homeownership"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ownership"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:normativity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:queer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:queerness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:queertheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotionallabor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saraahmed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anncvetkovich"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:williamdavies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:happiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wolfgangstreeck"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:latestagecapitalism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM">
    <title>Miyazaki's Marxism - The Politics of Anime's Legendary Director - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-06T04:11:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMXN6B-tqZM</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hayao Miyazaki began his career as a Marxist, but by the mid-90s, that all had faded away. What impact have those politics had on his works, what do his works say politically past his Marxism, and what are the themes that anime's legendary director always returns to? I'd hope that with a video this long, I'd be able to find that out."

[Transcript:
https://floatingintobliss.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/miyazakis-marxism-the-politics-of-animes-legendary-director/ ]

"Sources:
Benjamin, Walter. “On the Concept of History.” Frankfurt School: On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/benjamin/1940/history.htm
Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Foster, John Bellamy. Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature. Braille Jymico Inc., 2012.
Horkheimer, Max, and Theodor W. Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford Univ. Press.
Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious. Cornell University Press, 1981.
Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. Translated by Brett De Bary, Duke University Press, 1998.
LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
Löwy, Michael. Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamins "On the Concept of History". Verso, 2016.
Miyazaki, Hayao. Starting Point: 1979-1996. VIZ Media, 2014.
Miyazaki, Hayao. Turning Point: 1997-2008. VIZ Media, 2014.
Napier, Susan. Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art. Yale University Press, 2018.
Rocca, A. J. “Miyazaki's Haunted Utopia: The Ghost of Modernity in 'Kiki's Delivery Service'.” PopMatters, PopMatters, 24 Feb. 2018, https://www.popmatters.com/miyazakis-haunted-utopia-ghost-modernity-kikis-delivery-service-2495410503.html
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Wegner, Phillip E. “An Unfinished Project That Was Also a Missed Opportunity: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazakis My Neighbor Totoro.” http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/arch....
“Magical Maturity and Motherly Modernity - Nausicaäst #05 - Kiki's Delivery Service.” Youtube, 12 Nov. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IlQYr6sYhU "]]></description>
<dc:subject>2019 film studioghibli politics economics environment marxism capitalism walterbenjamin ecology apocalypse history future annalowenhaupttsing phillipwinger redemption animism michaellöwy ajrocca tomaslamarre kōjinkaratani maxhorkheimer theodoradorno johnbellamyfoster gillesdeleuze 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 annatsing deleuze guattari félixguattari totoro</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446297b837f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:studioghibli"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:walterbenjamin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apocalypse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:annalowenhaupttsing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:phillipwinger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redemption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:animism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michaellöwy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ajrocca"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tomaslamarre"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kōjinkaratani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maxhorkheimer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theodoradorno"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnbellamyfoster"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gillesdeleuze"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:enironmentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:utopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:land"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:idealism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:industrialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:forests"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:modernity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oppression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spiritedaway"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:princessmononoke"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nausicaaofthevalleyofthewind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:materialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:earth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flight"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:childhood"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:futureboyconan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hayaomiyazaki"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:steampunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fredericjameson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:windpower"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:castleinthesky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dignity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:romanticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:japan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:myneighbortotoro"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:empowerment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:child"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agesegregation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:graveofthefireflies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kiki'sdeliveryservice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meaning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:annatsing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deleuze"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:guattari"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:félixguattari"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:totoro"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/">
    <title>The Trap of Climate Optimism | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-24T15:36:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So how do we live? How do we live with ourselves, and what is incumbent on us to do? For me, this book was a way to deepen and expand what organizing means beyond raw leftist materialism or numb scientific empiricism. People aren’t just political actors; we’re not just rational automatons. We need narrative, and we need emotional sustenance, and we need to feel meaning and location in the universe in order to survive. We should be scouring our cultural history and talking with each other, and reading and thinking and processing and emoting, to try to create the cultural and spiritual resources that will see us through the crisis.

That said, I’m wary of the ways that faith doctrines don’t actually map onto the crisis. One of the challenges posed by the climate crisis is that it’s very resistant to narrative. But we love a good narrative! Think about how conspiracy theories work: They give people these sort of lizard brain sublimations of the kinds of non-narrative political and economic precarity that’s always bubbling at the peripheries of their worldviews. Things we can feel, but a narrative can’t encompass. When you’re handed this incredibly sexy and compelling messianic narrative that seems to explain everything very simply, that becomes a seductive alternative to reality.

But messianic narratives dangle the carrot of an ending in front of us, promising some final reckoning. The cookie will crumble, and we’ll finally know how it all turned out. But with the climate crisis, that’s a red herring. This thing will never end. We have to keep living with it, and through it, for the rest of our lives and probably for many centuries to come. I’m interested in how we do that."

...

"But apocalypse narratives tend to force people into one of two directions, both of them bad. On the one hand, there’s the fatalism of “Well, we’re doomed, so why bother?” And I struggle with that myself sometimes! But there’s also complacency, where we’ve seen the end of the world so many times on TV that we look out our window, and it doesn’t really look like that. The world appears mundane and normal. So that leads us to assume that we’ll just jump into action when the time comes. But the time is now!

Neither of those things is what we need, politically. What we need is something that balances patience with urgency. What we need is to feel real possibility without being blinded by facile optimism or crushing despair."

...

"The other reason that I called it “the problem” is that in some ways the materiality of the climate crisis—the accumulation of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere—is more of a symptom, an emergent property of a deeper problem. We’ve created a civilization that, to its own severe detriment, has devalued and withdrawn attention from certain kinds of people and from large swaths of the natural world. We’ve blinded ourselves—or capitalism has blinded us—to how critical to our survival it is to pay attention to those things, and care for them."

...

"In most investment models, there’s something called the “discount rate,” which is when investment calculations presume that future generations are going to be smarter and more technologically advanced than us. So that means that a problem of a certain scale in this generation is going to weigh proportionately less on future generations. As a form of can-kicking, neoliberal magical thinking, this allows us to say that a small benefit to our generation is worth potentially massive costs to future generations. In that way, we convince ourselves that it won’t be such a big cost. But it devalues future generations in a way that makes no sense, if you believe—as most major religions do—that every human life is equally inherently valuable.

Or think about how the fossil fuel industry fuels a certain kind of lifestyle, but only for a certain portion of the globe. That’s a massive wedge driven between the rich and poor people on this planet. You can see it at the extraction sites—the immense harm to the environment, from the Amazon to the Bight of Biafra to West Virginia—and in the way the global climate crisis will, first and foremost, impact people who have been made invisible or otherwise devalued politically. Chevron and Exxon have been given free rein to just bulldoze their rights and economies and livelihoods completely.

We’ve also radically devalued those species that we don’t rely on for protein. The ratio between the living biomass represented by cows and chickens and literally every other species is a frightening statistic.

I could go on. But we have this myopic worldview that has tried to squeeze the world through the tiny little bottleneck of monetization. And as it turns out, that works incredibly poorly. Certain Indigenous civilizations have sustained themselves for tens of thousands of years, but after only a few hundred years, the civilization created by the Industrial Revolution is collapsing in on itself. We have the wrong model.

I was very averse to landing on a “take” in this book, but if I were to extract one now, it would be that what the climate crisis requires of us—morally, but also for survival—is to massively expand the bounds of our attention and our love. This isn’t a woo-woo thing; it’s the deepest pragmatism. We have an ecological gun to our head. If we’re not able to pay attention, as a polity, to those people who have been made invisible, and to the many species that have been made invisible—let alone the inorganic circuitry that runs our environment, like the seasons, the oceans, and even things like rates of sedimentation—if we’re not able to encompass all of that in the sphere of what we really do care about and treat it all not as externalities to be sacrificed or saved, but as indivisible and constituent parts of what we are, then we’re going to go down in flames.

The climate crisis presents us with a spiritual and intellectual crucible. We can choose to move through that and come out with a radically rebuilt world, or we can choose to cling to the world that got us into this mess in the first place and just go down with the ship. And it seems like much of the conservative right wants to do exactly that, or can’t imagine doing anything but that."

...

"Optimism is the feeling that things are going to work out in the end, and I don’t have that feeling—at all. I think we have to be real with ourselves about the possibility that political systems could fail to rise to the occasion and climatic feedback loops could start to set in, and the 21st century could become very, very scary.

But hope, for me, is equivalent to indeterminacy or anti-fatalism. What I outlined above is one potential pathway, but we really don’t know how this thing is going to go. There are a range of possible outcomes between 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and 4 or 5 degrees, and the difference between those two worlds is night and day. But we do still have the ability to shape where the dial lands between those two poles. That is hope: the ongoing feeling that the future is not predetermined and that we can help shape it. There’s a truism in the climate movement that says hope is a discipline, and you have to actively cultivate it. Hope isn’t “Liquid hydrogen will come in and save us all.” Hope is knowing that every increment we move the thermometer in one direction or the other saves or consigns millions of people to life or death. I can’t imagine higher stakes than that. And I can’t imagine anything that would invest a human life with more meaning than that struggle."

...

"In part, I did write this book because the window in which I could call myself a youth activist was closing. I needed some new story that would carry me into the second phase of my life. Nobody invokes “the middle-age climate activist”; it’s only “the youth climate movement.” The climate movement of my dreams would support people moving through each stage of their life. There would be infrastructure to organize parents around this, infrastructure to organize empty nesters and retirees, each as meaningful and vivid as what it means to be a high schooler in Sunrise right now. The idea that only the youth have the energy and the idealism to take this thing on, while the rest of us fade into the background as we age—that’s just not a good model for intergenerational solidarity, for movement sustainability, or for movement power. But the same stories that sustained me in my teens and 20s—and I just recently turned 30—are not going to sustain me as I consider having children, starting a family. And it’s going to be a long, messy century of two steps forward, one step back. There’s not going to be a point at which we can demobilize."]]></description>
<dc:subject>dansherrell 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 power</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92e2f8b07984/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dansherrell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aaronbady"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:present"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sunsrisemovement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gretathunberg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:youth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:andreasmalm"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:justicedemocrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extreamweather"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weather"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collapse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:faith"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:belief"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:judaism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uncertainty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:urgency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fatalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anxiety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pragmatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spirituality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:worldview"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatecrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discountrate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:externalities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fossilfuels"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extractivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meat"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conservatism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agesegregation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sustainability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16xz_tXWC4">
    <title>Goodbye Internet: Infinite Detail - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-25T19:55:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D16xz_tXWC4</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Tim Maughan’s (UK/CA) science fiction novel Infinite Detail (2019) tells the story of a near future Bristol where activists and artists have set up their own alternative digital network in the area of Stokes Croft, cutting off all connections to Big Tech. But when an anonymous group of hackers pulls out the plug of the internet worldwide, chaos ensues. In Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan outlines a possible future when the internet stops working and the impact it has on our hypernetworked world.  

During this event, the author will get into conversation with artist and researcher Ingrid Burrington (US). Ingrid Burrington’s work focuses on mapping, documenting and identifying digital networks while pointing out hidden elements of the internet. By researching the geographical context and material reality of the network she wants to unravel this system as well as underlying power structures. In 2016 she published Networks of New York, exploring the question of what the internet actually looks like.  

Together they will discuss science fiction, hidden digital infrastructures and the impact of unmeasurable late capitalist systems."]]></description>
<dc:subject>timmaughan 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 metaverse ursulakleguin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7aa98f73056b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timmaughan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ingridburrington"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liekewouters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infinitedetail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:infrastructure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meshnetworks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capital"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systemsthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:expectations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:entitlement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jgballard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:williamgibson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidgraeber"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brucesterling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nearfuture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:present"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adjacentfuture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parallelfuture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:utopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dystopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:superflux"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anabjain"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cyberpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:snowcrash"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neuromancer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nealstephenson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:play"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:networkedculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:grief"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brendanbyrne"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwethink"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alternatehistory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inevitability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:malleability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativedesign"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:supplychains"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bleakness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:precarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resilience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:astrataylor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politicalchange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:smartphones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corydoctorow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidbyrne"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:narrative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ursulaleguin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hopefulness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigtech"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:metaverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ursulakleguin"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html">
    <title>What David Graeber, ‘Dawn of Everything’ Author, Left Behind</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-12T23:15:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Dawn of Everything author left behind countless fans and a belief society could still change for the better."]]></description>
<dc:subject>davidgraeber 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 davidwengrow abdullahöcalan</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc50348031b0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidgraeber"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mollyfischer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:horizontality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hierarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ows"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:occupywallstreet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:astrataylor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:biography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:directdemocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marshallsahlins"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:madagascar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:malagasy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackbloc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:human"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kamariclarke"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thomasblomhansen"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:laurenleve"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:debt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meetings"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unclubbable"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:workingclass"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:roots"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1999"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:seattlewtoprotests"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:michelfoucault"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:foucault"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christinamoon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dyanneary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bartering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thomasgokey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatrecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalfinancialcrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:andrewross"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nicholasmrzoeff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:strikedebt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:braddelong"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:berniesanders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeremycorbyn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rojava"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kurds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abdullahocalan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:murraybookchin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:quarantine"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pandemic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fireisland"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scholarship"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nikadubrovsky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:durbachattaraj"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ayçaçubukçu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:directactionnetwork"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethnography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:participation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:participatory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:debtjubilee"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thedawnofeverything"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidwengrow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abdullahöcalan"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://groundedfutures.com/shows/silver-threads/silver-threads-episode-25-antonio-buehler/">
    <title>Silver Threads Episode 25: Antonio Buehler - Grounded Futures</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-10T17:44:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://groundedfutures.com/shows/silver-threads/silver-threads-episode-25-antonio-buehler/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“We’re not trying to hack the system in our unschooling – we’re trying to burn it down.”




[transcript also here:
https://www.self-directed.org/tp/seeding-liberated-futures/ ]

“There is a real risk of people confusing their sort of individual freedom with a sense of liberation for everyone.” 

“young people are awesome. …they’re so much better than us old people if for no other reason than they just haven’t been conditioned into some of the worst aspects of society, they’re young enough to believe that that the way things are don’t have to stay the same… they’re young enough to believe that there’s something better and so I certainly have hope.”

“I do believe that the effort that people put in now, and have been putting in for generations, is seeding a potential future wherein something will happen that finally gets people to collectively come together and try to tear down these harmful institutions.”

“I used to be of the opinion that I had to be the hero that did it. … a lot of especially male activists probably think like, “I’m that guy, I’m gonna be the one that everyone rallies behind, and we’re gonna do this.” And so I certainly don’t believe in that anymore. It’s the organizers who’ve been doing this forever, who do it in a way in which they’re not asking for attention or money or anything that have been planting those seeds that will allow people recognize that there are real alternatives … alternative approaches that we can take, instead of just trying to manage within the system that we that we live in.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>antoniobuehler 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 scottcrow georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising carlajoybergman</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dbbb31873e5a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antoniobuehler"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:carlabergman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eleanorgoldman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interviews"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schools"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:homelessness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poverty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolitionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:austin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:children"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abrome"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emancipation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonabolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:schoolabolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:franksmith"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mariamekaba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nkjemisin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:octaviabutler"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:adriennemariebrown"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:akilahrichards"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:robinwallkimmerer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:facebook"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:braidingsweetgrass"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:flyingsquads"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unlearning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alternative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:texas"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgefloyd"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:acabspring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pandemic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:homeschool"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:youth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:patience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reform"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reformism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweteach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bobbyseale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackpanthers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackpantherparty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brownberets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alcs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agilelearningcenters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scottcrow"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgefloydprotests"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgefloyduprising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:carlajoybergman"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://lithub.com/into-the-feel-tank-remembering-lauren-berlant-and-her-concept-of-cruel-optimism/">
    <title>Into the Feel Tank: Remembering Lauren Berlant and Her Concept of “Cruel Optimism” ‹ Literary Hub</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-01T03:28:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/into-the-feel-tank-remembering-lauren-berlant-and-her-concept-of-cruel-optimism/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“This mood we’re in: stuck, anxious, alone, desperate for an exit ramp, even to another bad stop on the same old highway. COVID, climate, chaos—or is it capitalism that’s trapped us? We meet broken institutions with our same old behaviors, expecting a different result, the Einstein definition of insanity. And still we say: keep hope alive. Hope! The one word on the Obama posters: it’s more urgent than experience; it was Oscar Wilde’s explanation of second marriages. Recovery, then repetition, from our Vietnam war to Iraq to Afghanistan. Disaster nostalgia. Feelings more powerful than reason. The charismatic Chicago scholar Lauren Berlant called it Cruel Optimism.

Donald Trump’s Emotion Machine is taking a dip this radio hour in Lauren Berlant’s Feel Tank. Not Think Tank, because the late Professor Berlant in a famous and influential hot-house of emotional studies at the University of Chicago decided that our politics—and our personal relationships, our path to happiness, are all fogged in by feelings we mostly misread. Our stumbling blocks are past attachments to fantasy and false hopes. Recovery, if it comes, is in saying goodbye, and moving on.

Welcome to Affect Theory, as Lauren Berlant embodied it: it’s touchy-feely and literary, not scientific. Above all it’s intuitive: akin to reading a roomful of people for emotions like anger or affection before anyone’s spoken, identifying a mood or movement in the crowd. Our three guests—Maggie Doherty, Anahid Nersessian, and Zachary Samalin—fell under Lauren Berlant’s spell as students, years before Berlant’s death this summer of a rare cancer, at the age of 63. What the students typically remember is the moment when they felt Lauren Berlant was getting personal: writing, or talking to them, about them.

One of the ways that we develop our fantasies or our visions of the good life, you know, comes from history. And there were moments in the United States when working in various industries, intellectual industries, literary industries like journalism, media, academia, could result in what we tend to think of as a good life. And that might mean security, economic security, a home, stability, a community. And this was kind of facilitated by some of the policies of the mid-century, the ways that the state, the welfare state was available for more people in more ways.

Those conditions no longer obtain. We don’t have a robust welfare state. We don’t have protections for people in their workplaces. The labor movement has decreased in power. Venture capital now owns a ton of media organizations and is selling them whenever it’s convenient. And so these routes toward a kind of American good life, an American style of good life, are really closed off to us.

But that often doesn’t prevent people from working in media, from becoming journalists or becoming writers, from making podcasts, from doing this kind of work that we feel attached to or we feel compelled to do. And I guess the question is: how much of our attachment ends up really, really destroying us or hurting us?”]]></description>
<dc:subject>laurenberlant 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 buddhism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:078acf75c528/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:laurenberlant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:christopherlydon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maggiedoherty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anahidnersessian"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zacharysamalin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:crueloptimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:affecttheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vibes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sensing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychoanalysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anxiety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:paradigmshifts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markfisher"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:individualism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systemsthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deathdrive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hatred"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reciprocity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:detachment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attachment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pleasure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:satisfaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accelerationism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stockholmsyndrome"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indulgence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gratification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conspiracytheories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meditation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:buddhism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/affect-theory-0">
    <title>Revolutionary Left Radio: Cruel Optimism: Affect Theory and the Structure of Feeling</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-01T03:23:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/affect-theory-0</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Maggie Doherty teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. She is also the author of The Equivalents: The Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960's.

She joins Breht to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant, Affect Theory, our emotional landscapes in late capitalism, and much more!"]]></description>
<dc:subject>maggiedoherty 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 buddhism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aceeaa055637/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maggiedoherty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:laurenberlant"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:affecttheory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sensing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emotion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychoanalysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anxiety"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:paradigmshifts"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markfisher"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:individualism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systemsthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deathdrive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hatred"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reciprocity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:messiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:detachment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:attachment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pleasure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:literature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vibes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:satisfaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accelerationism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stockholmsyndrome"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indulgence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gratification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:conspiracytheories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meditation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:buddhism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rrU-t1Ncw">
    <title>2021 Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture: 'What we saw. What we made. When we emerge.' - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-14T00:36:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rrU-t1Ncw</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This year’s Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture will be given by award-winning author Dionne Brand. Dr. Brand is a renowned poet, novelist, and essayist known for formal experimentation and the beauty and urgency of her work.

A poet engagé, Dr. Brand’s award-winning poetry books include Land to Light On (the Governor General’s Literary Award and Trillium Book Award); thirsty (The Pat Lowther Award); Ossuaries (the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize). Her latest, The Blue Clerk, an essay poem, won the Trillium Book Award. Theory, her latest of five novels, won the Toronto Book Award. She is the author of the influential non-fiction work, A Map to the Door of No Return. Her most recent non-fiction work is An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading. Brand is a Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph."]]></description>
<dc:subject>dionnebrand 2021 coronavirus covid-19 pandemic poetry resistance optimism hope prisonabolition abolitionism organizing labor work collectivism indigenous indigeneity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e86825e4955c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dionnebrand"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pandemic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poetry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonabolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolitionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigenous"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:indigeneity"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/">
    <title>Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-11T22:32:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>mikedavis 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 peterkropotkin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44f229966343/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mikedavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2021"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:micahuetricht"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatrecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalfinancialcrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:perryanderson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newdeal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1960s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1970s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1980s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:losangeles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cityofquartz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:urbanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:urban"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecologyoffear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:planetofslums"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collectiveaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coronavirus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:covid-19"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slums"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nature"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wildfires"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:earthquakes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:egalitarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redistribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1950s"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:civilization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weather"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jonwiener"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:california"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policestate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackpanthers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackpantherparty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rodneyking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gardening"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:peterkropotkin"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-FUogFD6bY">
    <title>A New Financial Order | Aaron Meets Yanis Varoufakis - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-23T21:45:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-FUogFD6bY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>yanisvaroufakis 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 aaronbastani oligarchy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e43af4d38ca1/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yanisvaroufakis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:predictions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jeremycorbyn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brexit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fascism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:participation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:participatory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apathy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:moderation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:centrism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:eu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialjustice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thatcherism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressivism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oligarchs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greece"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:farright"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:germany"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberaldemocrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidcameron"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:austerity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:propert"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:propertyrights"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:borisjohnson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redistribution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalfinancialcrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatrecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aaronbastani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oligarchy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://believermag.com/jaron-lanier-in-conversation-with-tim-maughan/">
    <title>Jaron Lanier in Conversation with Tim Maughan - Believer Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-02T17:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://believermag.com/jaron-lanier-in-conversation-with-tim-maughan/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>nehalel-hadi timmaughan jaronlanier online data socialmedia tracking cities technology humanity internet web hyperspace 2020 prescience prediction sciencefiction scifi speculativefiction williamgibson capitalism gigeconomy bigdata ethics society slavery disenfranchisement markets money karengregory labor work morality democracy culture privacy twitter blacktwitter tiktok optimism pessimism future resistance complexity generalstrike privilege entitlement</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:35ee16a07579/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nehalel-hadi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:timmaughan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jaronlanier"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:online"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tracking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internet"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:web"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hyperspace"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2020"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prescience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prediction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sciencefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scifi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:williamgibson"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gigeconomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bigdata"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:slavery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:disenfranchisement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:karengregory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blacktwitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tiktok"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generalstrike"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:privilege"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:entitlement"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/17/21182231/halt-and-catch-fire-watch-netflix-amc-tech">
    <title>Stream Halt and Catch Fire, one of the best TV shows of the 2010s - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-28T01:51:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/3/17/21182231/halt-and-catch-fire-watch-netflix-amc-tech</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The series, set in the tech world of the ’80s and ’90s, has the hard-won optimism these times require.

In all the years I’ve been working as a TV critic, no show I’ve recommended has had more people end up digging it than Halt and Catch Fire, the ’80s- and ’90s-set tech world drama that aired on AMC from 2014-2017 that now can be watched in its entirety on Netflix. Invariably, the people I recommend the show to at least like it, and most of them come away loving it. It’s a foolproof people-pleaser with a little bit of something for everyone.

It also absolutely nails a tone that’s tricky to manage: optimism, tempered with a sense of how hard it is to accomplish anything with real meaning in this world. The characters on this show strive and strive and strive to build a better computer, then a better internet experience, and finally a better search engine. And because they live in our world, we know that they will fail to take out the Apples and Googles and Facebooks of the world. But as we watch them fail, we also see them become better people for having known each other — even if they frequently come into bitter conflict with one another.

Really, that above paragraph will let you know if this is the show you need right now. But if you want to know more, read on for more thoughts on why Halt and Catch Fire — one of the best TV shows of the 2010s — should move to the top of your queue. (At 40 episodes, all around 45 minutes in length, it will make for a substantial watch, but not an insurmountable one.) And if you’ve already watched, consider this an invitation to visit it all over again.

You might wonder at first if Halt and Catch Fire knows what it’s doing. It’s worth being patient with the show.

Like so many TV dramas of the 2010s, Halt and Catch Fire has some false starts. Creators Christopher C. Rogers and Christopher Cantwell originally set up the series as a conventional antihero drama about the sneering, self-proclaimed genius Joe Macmillan (Lee Pace), who hijacks a small Texas computer manufacturer in the early 1980s and tries to get it to build his dream machine. He’s joined in this by two computer whizzes who can do the work while Joe offers the Steve Jobs-style bravado — Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy) and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis).

These early episodes struggled to stand out from the glut of other antihero dramas rattling around in the 2010s. Yet they’re also necessary for setting up the series’ larger idea, which is that Joe might think he’s a genius, but the thing he really needs is to be tempered and improved by the people around him. By the show’s ninth episode — which ends with a reveal so good I won’t spoil it, even though it aired in 2014 — it’s clicking on all cylinders. When season two starts, it’s instantly one of the best TV shows of its era.

A big reason for this dramatic shift was the show’s change of focus from Joe to its two main women characters, Cameron and Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé), who is a genius tech brain in her own right but also Gordon’s wife. The friendship between the two powers the show’s final three seasons, and each season is better than the last for the ways they all examine this professional and personal partnership as it grows, frays, then rebuilds itself.


Beyond the central foursome, the series also builds out a pretty stunning bench of recurring characters, from Toby Huss as the head of the company Joe hijacks, who becomes an unlikely father figure to Cameron, to the folks who work for the early internet company Cameron and Donna found, to Donna and Gordon’s two daughters, who grow up into complicated characters in their own right. And the show’s casting directors have an eye for talent, from burgeoning movie star Davis to Big Little Lies star Kathryn Newton, lots of actors got one of their first major roles on this show.

Halt and Catch Fire is remarkable for how little of its drama is tied to life-and-death stakes but how important it feels all the same. Its most gutting moment occurs during a boardroom meeting in the show’s third season, and the big dramatic question of its final season is “Can these people ever forgive each other and work together again?” The characters are cruel to each other, but in believable ways where you rarely think they’re being cruel for sport. And yet they can be so, so kind to each other as well.

Roger Ebert used to say that he found few things as moving to see depicted onscreen as kindness that is offered in spite of any ulterior motive. Television often forgets that kindness, too, is a muscle we can flex, in addition to all the ones bent on taking as much stuff as we possibly can. Halt and Catch Fire might start out as an antihero drama, but by the end, it’s earnestly engaged in the question of not just how we can better ourselves but how we might, through being kind, help others become better too. There’s never been another show quite like it.

Halt and Catch Fire is streaming in its entirety — all 40 episodes — on Netflix."]]></description>
<dc:subject>haltandcatchfire 2020 emilyvanderwerff optimism vision kindness rogerebert</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a8a95624159d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:haltandcatchfire"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2020"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emilyvanderwerff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vision"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kindness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rogerebert"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Let_Go_of_the_World_and_Love_All_the_Things_Climate_Can%27t_Change">
    <title>How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change - Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2020-04-30T00:26:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Let_Go_of_the_World_and_Love_All_the_Things_Climate_Can%27t_Change</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/what-makes-humanity-worth-saving/ ]

[See also:
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-3-may-june/green-life/review-josh-fox-s-how-let-go-world
http://www.howtoletgomovie.com/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gfCKTKRpC0k ]

[Ella Chao and her comments about moral imagination, how climate change and inequality compound each other, and core values that redefine what it means to be successful away from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, etc. starts at 1:31:00]

“Freedom is meaningless if there is poverty.” –from a student’s notebook in Zambia 1:50:39]]></description>
<dc:subject>joshfox 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 amazonrainforest</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7492a2d7deeb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joshfox"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fossilefuels"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2016"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:documentary"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:film"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fracking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:australia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emissions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pollution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:petroleum"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:moralimagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imagination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecuador"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brasil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brazil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:renewables"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ellachou"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jummycarter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ronaldreagan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:documentation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:forests"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:clearcutting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environmentaldegradation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poverty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:airpollution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corevalues"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:success"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:goldmansachs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mckinsey"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ingenuity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:windenergy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:carbonnegative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:permaculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:topsoil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fossilfuel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:divestment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:innovation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanrights"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mongolia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:vanuatu"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marshallislands"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:zambia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:generosity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progress"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:revolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:development"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:virtues"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:virtue"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:storytelling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:caring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:electricity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:beagoodancestor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:legacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ancestors"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:freedom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:healthcare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gender"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:farming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gardening"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hurricanesandy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samoa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ariadoe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatejustice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:love"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:perú"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:death"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazonia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:amazonrainforest"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/beautiful-losers">
    <title>Beautiful Losers | Commonweal Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-20T22:58:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/beautiful-losers</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders had a bad night. His moderate rival, Joe Biden, riding the strength of his dominating win in South Carolina and boosted by endorsements from Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, swept the South, and beat out Sanders in Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Texas. Sanders won California, Colorado, Utah, and his home state of Vermont, but finished the night trailing Biden by sixty-five delegates. Sanders and his supporters had hoped to rack up a formidable delegate lead, forcing the recalcitrant Democratic establishment to acknowledge him as a palatable nominee and cementing his viability in the minds of primary voters. That didn’t happen.

I watched these results come in—on a pirated MSNBC stream—with a few friends and my roommate, Dan, who is unemployed and spends most of his waking hours calling and texting for Bernie. A pall fell over our living room as state after state went for Biden, a familiar sense of dread and inevitability. Preternaturally upbeat and optimistic in most circumstances, Dan did not conceal his growing despair, pacing the apartment, darkly muttering to himself. A rolling tide of gloom, resignation, and recrimination overtook my Twitter feed. It was over. “The establishment” had conspired against Sanders. Elizabeth Warren had “kneecapped” the progressive movement. Our enemies were too powerful, too nefarious, too corrupt. The forces of capital had won. Again.

The following morning, light crept back through our windows. Plans were made for trips to canvass in Michigan. Dan returned to the auto-dialer. But I couldn’t get the evening’s pre-post-mortems out of my head. It all felt familiar. The left, of which I am doomed to remain a perpetual partisan, has an intimate relationship with defeat. Defeat is our mother: our sustainer and our burden. “The history of socialism,” writes historian Enzo Traverso, “is a constellation of defeats nourished for almost two centuries.” The affective life of the left is defined by nostalgia, belatedness, memory, and mourning. We cherish a serial history of might-have-beens: if the Communards had stormed Versailles, if the work of Radical Reconstruction had been completed, if the Soviet Union had exorcised its totalitarian demons, if the Spanish Republic had survived the civil war, if the Prague Spring had been allowed to flourish, if Allende had survived the coup, if Mitterand had resisted the call of rigueur, if workers had seized power during this or that general strike, if Bernie had won the primary in 2016, if if if…

This mood, I suspect, is familiar to many leftists. It feeds a bitterly hopeful disposition, which Traverso calls “left-wing melancholy.” For Marxists, every generation of militants is doomed to fail, save the last one. We derive strength and purpose, not despair, from the memory of the vanquished and the worlds they envisioned. In January 1919, in the final days of a failed uprising by German communists, Rosa Luxemburg wrote, “The whole road of socialism is paved with nothing but thunderous defeats” from which socialists, nonetheless, must “draw historical experience, understanding, power and idealism.” The final victory, Luxemburg wrote, would be built on a foundation of every preceding failure. The next day, Luxemburg was murdered by the Freikorps, her body tossed into the Landwehr Canal.

In his final speech, delivered inside the besieged Moneda Palace amid a CIA-backed coup, the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, prefigured his own martyrdom: “These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain,” he said, broadcasting the message over Radio Magallanes, “Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society.” Moments later, Allende put an AK-47 between his legs and shot himself under the chin.

In defeat, the radical left’s morbid historical memory serves as a profound (if perverse) source of comfort. In a telegram to his friend Bill Haywood on the occasion of his execution, anarchist labor icon Joe Hill is supposed to have said, “Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!” (He followed up with another message: “Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don't want to be found dead in Utah.”) The phrase—don’t mourn, organize—is repeated on the occasion of major setbacks for labor and the left. I heard it frequently in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. But generations of leftists have tended to do both at once, deriving discipline and determination from mourning, sacralizing not the victims themselves, but their commitments and hopes, their dreams. At its best, writes Traverso, left-wing melancholy “perceives the tragedies and the lost battles of the past as a burden and a debt, which are also a promise of redemption.”

I’ve been a leftist my entire adult life. I know these stories. I’ve participated in failed union drives, failed electoral campaigns, failed social movements. I’ve watched left governments come to power and lose it, or keep it and be corrupted. Many times I’ve sublimated defeat into conviction; mourning into organizing. But when it comes to practical politics, melancholia is not always a helpful disposition. Conditioned by history to expect defeat—to see it as inevitable, the product of malevolent forces beyond our control—we welcome its arrival with something like relief. There is comfort in this sense of fated doom. We lost not because we did something wrong, but because we did something right in a world that’s wrong. When we acknowledge the awesome might and baleful intentions of our enemies, when we point our fingers at the traitors in our midst, what we seek is not a clear-eyed reckoning of the battlefield, but freedom from guilt for failing to win. Lurking behind our dour pessimism is, at times, a desire to evade accountability for our own mistakes.

A corrective can be found in an essay written by Bertolt Brecht in 1934, from exile in Denmark. Never one to wait and see, Brecht fled Germany in February 1933, weeks after Hitler was appointed chancellor. A Marxist and proponent of “distanced” drama, Brecht was notoriously allergic to sentimentality, both the bourgeois and socialist varieties. For Brecht, intimacy and affect obscured reality; only alienation and discomfort could disclose it. His essays, plays, and poems have a meanness about them, a clear-eyed coldness in the face of injustice that feels especially foreign to twenty-first-century-American ears. The journalist and critic Richard Eder summarized Brecht’s rules for himself as “no pity, no terror and, above all, no purgation.” Cleansing absolution, that elemental aspiration of the American psyche, has no place in Brecht’s vision of art or politics.

In “Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties,” Brecht wrote:

<blockquote>[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.</blockquote>

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.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>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 golpemilitar</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3444699a11bf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2020"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elections"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:berniesanders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:defeat"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elizabethwarren"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samadler-bell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:progressive"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nostalgia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:belatedness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:memory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mourning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:spanishcivilawar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:chile"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:salvadorallende"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:marxism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rosaluxemburg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:idealism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coup"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:istory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radiomagallanes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:1973"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accountability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joehill"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:enzotraverso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:melancholy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:redemtion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:melancholia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bertholdbrecht"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:affect"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:intimacy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alienation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discomfort"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:richardeder"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:absolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:weakness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:goodness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:establishment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:egalitarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mariamekaba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:discipline"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicals"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:canon"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:golpemilitar"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/nkoyenkoyenkoye/status/1029849407708164096">
    <title>nsangimwanawange[👻] on Twitter: &quot;“For that is what we will need to do - imagine worlds that defy the ... nightmare that presently holds the world hostage.” — Kamau Brathwaite&quot; / Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2020-02-05T09:09:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/nkoyenkoyenkoye/status/1029849407708164096</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“For that is what we will need to do - imagine worlds that defy the ... nightmare that presently holds the world hostage.” — Kamau Brathwaite]]></description>
<dc:subject>kamaubrathwaite utopia resistance pocketsofresistance optimism hope imagination</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10b47590fa4f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kamaubrathwaite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:utopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pocketsofresistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imagination"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2020/01/22/bernie-sanders-movement-solidarity/">
    <title>The Power of Solidarity Is How Sanders Will Beat Trump</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-23T23:06:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2020/01/22/bernie-sanders-movement-solidarity/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>2020 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 aoc interconnectivity interconnected</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08bd4c889a26/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2020"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:naomiklein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:notmeus"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:governance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:government"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hillaryclinton"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:joebiden"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:individualism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectedness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interdependence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:competition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greennewdeal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:communities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wealth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:trumpism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alexandriaocasio-cortez"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deramdefenders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sunrisemovement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:newdeal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:berniesanders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aoc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnected"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-minneapolis/">
    <title>Why Ilhan Omar Is the Optimist in the Room | The Nation</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-16T04:34:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thenation.com/article/ilhan-omar-minneapolis/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Instead of drawing the attention toward herself and her agenda, she expands the spotlight to those around her. At her core, she’s still a community organizer, building networks across the microcommunities that make up Minneapolis.”

…

“She likes to listen. She asks questions. She spends more time passing the microphone than speaking into it. She cares about the details of policy, especially the ways they might affect vulnerable communities. She is a product of inclusive Midwestern politics, not the result of a localized identity politics.”

…

“Her model of politics as an extension of community organizing helps make people feel empowered to seek transformative change themselves.”

…

“There was no hierarchy in my home, there was no one really smarter than the next person. We could just interject as kids, and whatever adult was in that space would pause and say, ‘You have something to say? Finish your sentence.’ I think it allowed us to grow and feel internal liberation. And it allowed whoever was the leader, the adult in that room, to feel more secure in whatever decision or thought process they were going through, because it wasn’t solely their own.”

…

““I have a complete disdain for gatekeepers, and I try to keep them at a distance,” she said, adding that she has developed “a complete disregard” for “talking to the subcommunities as a voting bloc.””

…

“While she acknowledged that different groups encounter distinct barriers and threats, she insisted that “our core needs as humans” are universal and that universality should govern our politics.”

…

“She said she’s handling the pressure easily enough. Being Somali, she explained, has given her a thick skin because of her community’s habit of good-natured mockery. “I also grew up in a Somali culture, where we are extremely direct and are trained to not take much offense. I mean, 90 percent of our nicknames are based on our abilities or defects that we might have as humans. Somalis call me ‘half-life’ because I’m so tiny. The natural thing for a Somali person when they see me [is] to say, ‘What is happening to you? Why are you dying?’”

What does worry her, though, is that people who identify with her will feel the blow. “I know that if they say something about Muslims or immigrants or refugees, that there is a refugee or an immigrant or a Muslim person who sees themselves in me and who will take it personally.”

Meanwhile, Omar and her team keep working to find new audiences to educate and experts to elevate. She’s always the “optimist in the room,” she said. “I am the kind of person that really isn’t challenged by any circumstances. I will see an opportunity.””]]></description>
<dc:subject>ilhanomar politics organizing 2019 listening hierarchy gatekeepers community subcommunities identitypolitics identity optimism change empowerment minnesota midwest microcommunities universality parenting horizontality feminism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c70015fb0641/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ilhanomar"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:listening"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hierarchy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gatekeepers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:subcommunities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identitypolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:empowerment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:minnesota"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:midwest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:microcommunities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:parenting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:horizontality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feminism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPE9v4O5qPk">
    <title>Empire, Militarization, and Popular Revolt in Africa - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-09T06:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPE9v4O5qPk</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“In what ways does militarization/militarism in the African context enable, extend and depend upon economic, military/’security’ relations with imperialist actors, most importantly the US and Israel? 

What are the new/old justifications and mechanisms of imperialist intervention, war, and policing across the continent (e.g. AFRICOM, drone strikes, outsourcing of regional interventions, joint military trainings and ‘cooperation’ etc.)? How do they criminalize dissent and shape the contexts in which popular mobilization take place? What are the socio-economic, (geo)political structures and dynamics, historical legacies and past forms of mobilization that inform current revolts in Algeria and Sudan? What do they share in common and how do they differ from one another and past mobilizations? What kinds of connections can be made with current anti-colonial/anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist struggles currently underway in Puerto Rico and Haiti, as well as with struggles against racial capitalism and the police/carceral state in the US?  What is the role of the US and its allies (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE) as counter-revolutionary actors? How can we build on past and existing forms of internationalism and contribute to reviving an anti-imperialist left in order to better support popular struggles across the African continent and beyond?”

[https://peoplesforum.org/event/empire-militarization-and-popular-revolt-in-africa/ 

“Empire, Militarization, and Popular Revolt in Africa
August 31 @ 2:00 pm - 5:15 pm

This event explores the themes of imperialism, militarization, police/carceral state,  and resistance across the African continent with the aim of making broader regional and transnational connections with struggles elsewhere in order to build cross-regional solidarity.

2:00-3:30pm
‘Imperialist Interventions and Militarization across Africa and beyond’ 
Yasmina Price
Samar Al-Bulushi
Corinna Mullin
Kambale Musavuli
Khury Petersen-Smith

–BREAK—

3:45-5:15pm
“African Revolts” 
Nisrin Elamin
Brahim Rouabah
Suzanne Adely”

Each panel will consist of short presentations to ensure time for meaningful discussion and the opportunity to share/ learn from our diverse experiences working on these themes in different contexts. Some of the questions that will be addressed include:

In what ways does militarization/militarism in the African context enable, extend and depend upon economic, military/’security’ relations with imperialist actors, most importantly the US and Israel? What are the new/old justifications and mechanisms of imperialist intervention, war, and policing across the continent (e.g. AFRICOM, drone strikes, outsourcing of regional interventions, joint military trainings and ‘cooperation’ etc.)? How do they criminalize dissent and shape the contexts in which popular mobilization take place? What are the socio-economic, (geo)political structures and dynamics, historical legacies and past forms of mobilization that inform current revolts in Algeria and Sudan? What do they share in common and how do they differ from one another and past mobilizations? What kinds of connections can be made with current anti-colonial/anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist struggles currently underway in Puerto Rico and Haiti, as well as with struggles against racial capitalism and the police/carceral state in the US?  What is the role of the US and its allies (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE) as counter-revolutionary actors? How can we build on past and existing forms of internationalism and contribute to reviving an anti-imperialist left in order to better support popular struggles across the African continent and beyond?

Participant BIOS

Suzanne Adely is a long time Arab-American community organizer, with a background in global labor and human rights advocacy. She is a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, National Lawyers Guild board member and co-chair of the NLG international committee and MENA subcommittee. She currently works for the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a bi-national alliance of worker based organizations in the food economy. She is a member of Al-Awda-NY, US Palestine Community Network and a newly launched Arab Workers Resource Center.

Samar Al-Bulushi is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. Her research is broadly concerned with militarism, policing, and the ‘War on Terror’ in East Africa. Previously, she worked with various human rights organizations and co-produced AfrobeatRadio and Global Movements, Urban Struggles on Pacifica’s WBAI in New York City.

Nisrin Elamin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department. Her work explores the relationship between land, belonging, migration and geopolitics in post-secession Sudan. Her current project examines the ways landless and landholding communities are negotiating and contesting changes in land ownership prompted by a recent wave of Gulf Arab corporate investments in Sudanese land. She is affiliated with Girifna, a movement fighting for democracy and a transition to full civilian rule in Sudan.

Corinna Mullin is an adjunct professor at John Jay College and the New School. Her research examines the historical legacies of colonialism and contemporary imperialist interventions in shaping Global South security states in a way that facilitates labor exploitation, natural resource extraction and other forms of Global South value drain, with a focus on Tunisia.

Kambale Musavuli, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the leading political and cultural Congolese voices, is a human rights advocate, Student Coordinator and National Spokesperson for the Friends of the Congo.

Khury Petersen-Smith is an activist and geographer who interrogates US empire.  He is the Middle East Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and a founding member of Black For Palestine.

Yasmina Price is a Black anti-imperialist Marxist committed to the liberation of colonised peoples and the abolishment of police, prisons and all oppressive structures. She has organized locally and led trainings within a socialist group, also participating in panels organized by Verso Books and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung focusing on global mechanisms of injustice. She is currently a PhD student in Black Cinema at Yale.

Brahim Rouabah is an Algerian activist and academic. He is the co-founder of the UK based Algerian Solidarity Campaign. He is currently working on his PhD in Political Science at the CUNY Grad Center. His research focuses on issues related to knowledge production, colonialism and the origins of capitalist property relations.

Co-sponsor by The Polis Project and Warscapes. 
The Polis Project is a hybrid research and journalism organization producing knowledge about some of the most important issues affecting us, and amplifying diverse perspectives from those indigenous to the conflicts and crises affecting our world today. We aim to democratize scholarship, produce in-depth, critical journalism and knowledge for and by communities in resistance.  We look to make sense of the world with its infinite injustices, inequality and violence, with the courage to reveal how existing systems, ideas, ideologies and laws have failed us.  We unpack complexity by understanding that knowledge is power, and like all power, it shouldn’t be owned by a few people or corporations.  And we pursue this by adapting our storytelling, analysis and research to the newest, most innovative ways of spreading work to engaged audiences everywhere.

Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world. Established in 2011, Warscapes publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years, and hosts public conversations, art shows, and film screenings in the United States, Europe and across Africa. Warscapes is motivated by a need to move past a void within mainstream culture in the depiction of people and places experiencing staggering violence, and the literature they produce. Apart from showcasing great writing from war-torn areas, the magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises in various regions and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.]]]></description>
<dc:subject>africa kenya uganda niger tunisia somalia ghana us occupation imperialism africom activism migration blacklivesmatter israel colonization 2019 solidarity saudiarabia refugees dehumanization race racism policy internationalism capitalism donaldtrump military militarization islamophobia egypt history mali humanitarianism funding violence sudan algeria libya criminalization specificity drones economics china burkinafaso militarism people’sforum leftism socialism yasminaprice samaral-bulushi corinnamullin kambalemusavuli khurypetersen-smith nisrinelamin brahimrouabah suzanneadely class liberalism neoliberalism cynicism optimism anticapitalism antiimperialism tuareg anti-imperialism uae antiiimperialism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bb1cc2645bd6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:africa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kenya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uganda"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:niger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tunisia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:somalia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ghana"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:occupation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:africom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:migration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blacklivesmatter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:israel"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:solidarity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:saudiarabia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:refugees"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dehumanization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:race"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:internationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:military"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:militarization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:islamophobia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:egypt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mali"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanitarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:funding"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:violence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sudan"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:algeria"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libya"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criminalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:specificity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:drones"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:burkinafaso"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:militarism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:people’sforum"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:leftism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:yasminaprice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:samaral-bulushi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corinnamullin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kambalemusavuli"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:khurypetersen-smith"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nisrinelamin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brahimrouabah"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:suzanneadely"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:class"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:liberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:cynicism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anticapitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antiimperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tuareg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anti-imperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uae"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:antiiimperialism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://culturesofenergy.com/133-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa/">
    <title>CENHS @ Rice! » 133 – María Puig de la Bellacasa</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-18T20:43:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://culturesofenergy.com/133-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Dominic and Cymene indulge a little post-Pruitt glee on this week’s podcast and speculate about the possibility of six foot tall low carbon lava lamps in the future. Then (16:46) we are thrilled to be joined by star STS scholar and emergent anthropologist María Puig de la Bellacasa to talk about her celebrated new book, Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds (U Minnesota Press, 2017). We start with the importance of care in feminist philosophy and how this work, alongside her own activist background, inspired this project. She asks us to consider how we can make knowledge that takes seriously a politics of care without giving ourselves over to the neoliberal commodification of care. And she asks how a commitment to speculative ethics can lead us to imagine and enact worlds different than the one we inhabit now. Later on, María tells us about what led her to quit philosophy and why appropriation might not actually be such a bad thing. Then we turn to her work with permaculturalists and soil scientists, what it was like to study with Starhawk, changing paradigms of soil ontology and ecology, what are alterbiopolitics, speculative ethics in a time of political crisis, and so much more.”

[See also:

“Matters of Care by María Puig de la Bellacasa, reviewed by Farhan Samanani”
https://societyandspace.org/2019/01/08/matters-of-care-by-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa/

“Reframing Care – Reading María Puig de la Bellacasa ‘Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds’”
https://ethicsofcare.org/reframing-care-reading-maria-puig-de-la-bellacasa-matters-of-care-speculative-ethics-in-more-than-human-worlds/ ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>maríapuigdelabellacasa care maintenance 2018 morethanhuman humanism posthumanism multispecies anthropology ecology alterbiopolitics permaculture caring ethics politics soil philosophy brunolatour work labor activism neoliberalism feminism donnaharaway academia knowledge knowledgeproduction thoughtfulness environment climatechange individualism concern speculation speculativeethics speculativefiction identitypolitics everyday pocketsofutopia thinking mattersofconcern highered highereducation intervention speculative speculativethinking greenconsumerism consumerism capitalism greenwashing moralizing economics society matter mattering karenbarad appropriation hope optimism ucsc historyofconsciousness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8db6f841d3d4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maríapuigdelabellacasa"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:care"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:maintenance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2018"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:morethanhuman"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:posthumanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:multispecies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ecology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:alterbiopolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:permaculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:caring"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:soil"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brunolatour"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:work"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:labor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:neoliberalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feminism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donnaharaway"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledgeproduction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thoughtfulness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:individualism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:concern"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativeethics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativefiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:identitypolitics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:everyday"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pocketsofutopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mattersofconcern"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:intervention"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:speculativethinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greenconsumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greenwashing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:moralizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:matter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mattering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:karenbarad"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:appropriation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ucsc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:historyofconsciousness"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTkoZTFd1k">
    <title>Left of Black with Fred Moten - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-16T18:16:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTkoZTFd1k</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><dc:subject>fredmoten markanthonyneal academia highered highereducation 2018 music history blackness climatechange radicalism activism howwelearn unschooling anarchism afropessimism arethafranklin colleges universities blackstudies collaboration deschooling resistance sareahvaughn ellafitzgerald togetherness studying sharing colloaboration mutualaid capitalism optimism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6b0dcbb1829/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fredmoten"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:markanthonyneal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:academia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highered"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:highereducation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2018"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:radicalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwelearn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:unschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:anarchism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:afropessimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:arethafranklin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colleges"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:blackstudies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:deschooling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:resistance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sareahvaughn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ellafitzgerald"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:togetherness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:studying"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sharing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colloaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mutualaid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://onbeing.org/programs/teju-cole-sitting-together-in-the-dark-feb2019/">
    <title>Teju Cole — Sitting Together in the Dark - The On Being Project</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-13T03:42:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://onbeing.org/programs/teju-cole-sitting-together-in-the-dark-feb2019/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Writer and photographer Teju Cole says he is “intrigued by the continuity of places, by the singing line that connects them all.” He attends to the border, overlap and interplay of things — from Brahms and Baldwin to daily technologies like Google. To delve into his mind and his multiple arts is to meet this world with creative raw materials for enduring truth and quiet hope."

…

"I’m going to go back to a word I used earlier, which is how much help we need. We sometimes think of culture as something we go out there and consume. And this especially happens around clever people, smart people — “Have you read this? Did you check out that review? Do you know this poet? What about this other poet?” Blah blah blah. And we have these checkmarks — “I read 50 books last year” — and everybody wants to be smart and keep up. I find that I’m less and less interested in that, and more and more interested in what can help me and what can jolt me awake. Very often, what can jolt me awake is stuff that is written not for noonday but for the middle of the night. And that has to do with — again, with the concentration of energies in it.

Tomas Tranströmer, the Swedish poet, who died — can’t remember; maybe 2013 he died. He seemed to have unusual access to this membrane between this world and some other world that, as Paul Éluard said, is also in this one. Tranströmer, in his poetry, keeps slipping into that space.

In any case, I just found his work precisely the kind of thing I wanted to read in the silence of the middle of the night and feel myself escaping my body in a way that I become pure spirit, in a way. I remember when he won the Nobel Prize, which was in 2011. We live in an age of opinion, and people always have opinions, especially about things they know nothing about. So people who were hearing about Tranströmer for the first time that morning were very grandly opining that his collected works come to maybe 250 pages, that how could he possibly get the Nobel Prize for that slender body of work? — which, of course, was missing the fact that each of these pages was a searing of the consciousness that was only achieved at by great struggle. I think the best thing to compare him to is the great Japanese poets of haiku, like Kobayashi or Basho."

…

"But I wrote this today, and — for a long time now, but very definitely since January 1 of this year, I’ve been thinking about hospitality, because I wanted a container for some things I didn’t know where to put about the present moment. Who’s kin? Who’s family? Who’s in, who’s out? And just thinking this whole year about the question of hospitality has given me a way to read a lot of things that are very distressing, in this country and in the world, around the border but also around domestic policy. So this one goes against the grain, but I needed to put it down.

“The extraordinary courage of Lassana Bathily, an immigrant from Mali, saved six lives during a terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes in 2015. He was rewarded with French citizenship by the French president, François Hollande.

“But this is not a story about courage.

“The superhuman agility and bravery of Mamadou Gassama, an immigrant from Mali, saved a baby from death in the 18th Arrondissement in May 2018. He was rewarded with French citizenship by the French president, Emmanuel Macron.

“But this is not a story about bravery.

“The superhuman is rewarded with formal status as a human. The merely human, meanwhile, remains unhuman, quasi-human, subhuman. Gassama crossed the Mediterranean in a tiny boat — that was superhuman, but no one filmed that, he remained subhuman, and there was no reward.

“Such is Empire’s magnanimity. Merci, patron. Je suis tellement reconnaissant, patron.

“The hand that gives, it is said in Mali, is always above the hand that receives. Those who are hungry cannot reject food. Not only those who are hungry but those who have been deliberately starved. But soon come the day when the Hebrews will revolt and once and for all refuse Pharaoh’s capricious largesse.

Hospitality.”

Because I wanted to think about this beyond what seemed, to me, too easy — the headlines, the gratitude — “Oh, he was heroic. He was like Spiderman, and the French government did a great thing and made him a citizen.”

How did we get here? Why is this enough? How did we get into the position where he kneels down to receive the crumbs?

If I were still on Twitter and I wrote that, I might get cancelled. You get cancelled when you’re out of step with the general opinion."

…

"I just find that anything really loud and hectic can just last for a moment, but it does not get to that deepest place, that place of self-recognition, which becomes indistinguishable from other-recognition, which is continuous with world-recognition. So I’m attracted, in all the arts, to those places where something has been quietened, where concentration has been established. I think one of the great artistic questions for any practitioner of art is, how do you help other people concentrate on a moment? This photograph, it’s a frontal portrait of a young woman, but it’s not a posed portrait. She’s in a crowd, and he has photographed her. She’s African-American, but her skin is dark, and he has made it darker still in the way he has printed it so that your first thought is, “Oh, could we lighten that a little bit?” And then you think, “No — no, no, no. Why am I feeling this way about this image?” In all the arts, there are those moments that are as though somebody has made the gesture of raising a palm, which is not a stop sign, but a — ”Attend, hush, listen.”

I think those are the moments we really live for in art, the moment where the artfulness falls away, and all that is left is that thing we don’t have a better word for beyond poetry."

…

"This is going to be my worst misquotation of the evening. But Toni Morrison talks about — we die, and that may be the — does anybody know it? — that may be the length of our lives or span of our lives; but we do language, and that may be the meaning of our lives — something in that direction. And I think it is somewhere in there. A frank confrontation with the facts is that between two cosmic immensities of time, you are born, you flare up for a moment, and you’re gone. And within two generations, everybody who knew you personally will also be dead. Your name might survive, but who cares? Nobody’s going to remember your little habits or who you were. So one meaning of our lives might be that we die.

But then the other is this other thing that has nothing to do with the noise out there — advertising, arguing on social media, which we all can get tempted into — or even our personal disputes or even our anxieties, even our struggles — but some other thing that is like this undertow that connects us to everyone currently alive and everyone that has lived and everyone that will live. So I think there’s just the stark, existential fact. It’s not fashionable to take up labels or whatever, but on some level, I’m sort of an existentialist. I don’t think it necessarily has a grander meaning. I certainly don’t believe that God has a wonderful plan to make it all OK. I used to. I don’t believe that anymore. You die; I don’t know what happens. I talk to my dead; I don’t know if they’re anywhere. You die, and it hurts people who love you.

But then, the other thing is that if there’s no grander, larger meaning, in real time there does seem to be a grand and large meaning. Right this minute, this does seem to be something that is real, that might not be meaning but comes awfully close to it: to be sitting together in the dark of this political and social moment, to be sitting together in the dark of what it actually means to be a human being, even if this were a euphoric political moment.

So there’s the grim view of, we’re not here for very long, and LOL no one cares, and then there’s the other thing, which is when your favorite song gets to that part that you love, and you just feel something; or when you’ve had a series of crappy meals and then finally, you get a well-spiced, balanced goat biryani — you know, when the spices are really fresh? Black pepper — a lot of people get black pepper wrong. Really fresh black pepper — and you have this moment.

So these moments of pleasure, of epiphany, of focus, of being there, in their instantaneous way can actually feel like a little nudge that’s telling you, “By the way, this is why you’re alive. And this is not going to last, but never mind that for now.” It happens in art, and it happens in friendship, and it happens in food, and it happens in sex, and it happens in a long walk, and it happens in being immersed in a body of water — baptism, once again — and it happens in running and endorphins and all those moments that psychologists describe as “flow.”

But what is interesting about them is that they happen in real time. As Seamus Heaney says, “Useless to think you’ll park and capture it / More thoroughly. You are […] / A hurry through which known and strange things pass.”

You’re just a conduit for that. But if you are paying attention, it’s almost — I’m not sure if it’s enough, but it’s almost enough. I’m certainly glad for it. I’d rather have it than not have it.

What do you think?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>tejucole stillness 2019 truth hope interconnected jamesbaldwin brahms place borders interstitial tomastranströmer smartness reading poetry wokeness kin family families hospitality photography art silence quietness listening donaldtrump barackobama howwewrite howweread writing tonimorrison socialmedia noise meaning seamusheaney fear future optimism johnberger rebeccasolnit virginiawoolf hopelessness kalamazoo pauléluard primolevi instagram twitter interconnectedness interconnectivity wokeism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63ea3238e235/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tejucole"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:stillness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:truth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hope"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnected"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jamesbaldwin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:brahms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:place"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:borders"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interstitial"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tomastranströmer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:smartness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:reading"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:poetry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wokeness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:family"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:families"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hospitality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:photography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:silence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:quietness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:listening"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:barackobama"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howwewrite"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:tonimorrison"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialmedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:noise"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:meaning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:seamusheaney"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:future"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:johnberger"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:rebeccasolnit"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:virginiawoolf"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:hopelessness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kalamazoo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:pauléluard"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:primolevi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:instagram"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:twitter"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectedness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:interconnectivity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wokeism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-FbtHmZhU">
    <title>The Rebel Alliance: Extinction Rebellion and a Green New Deal - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-24T17:55:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-FbtHmZhU</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Extinction Rebellion and AOC’s Green New Deal have made global headlines. Can their aims be aligned to prevent climate catastrophe?

Guest host Aaron Bastani will be joined by journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot and economist Ann Pettifor."]]></description>
<dc:subject>extinctionrebellion georgemonbiot gdp economics capitalism growth worldbank 2019 greennewdeal humanwelfare fossilfuels aaronbastani climate climatechange globalwarming mainstreammedia media action bbc critique politics policy currentaffairs comedy environment environmentalism journalism change systemschange left right thinktanks power influence libertarianism taxation taxes ideology gretathunberg protest davidattenborough statusquo consumerism consumption wants needs autonomy education health donaldtrump nancypelosi us southafrica sovietunion democrats centrism republicans money narrative corruption diannefeinstein opposition oppositionism emissions socialdemocracy greatrecession elitism debt financialcrisis collapse annpettifor socialism globalization agriculture local production nationalism self-sufficiency inertia despair doom optimism inequality exploitation imperialism colonialism history costarica uk nihilism china apathy inaction learning globalfinancialcrisis</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2eedc9b3b0ac/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:extinctionrebellion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:georgemonbiot"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gdp"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:growth"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:worldbank"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greennewdeal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanwelfare"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fossilfuels"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:aaronbastani"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mainstreammedia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:action"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bbc"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:critique"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:currentaffairs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:comedy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:environmentalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:journalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systemschange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:left"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:right"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:thinktanks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:power"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:influence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:libertarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:taxes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ideology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gretathunberg"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:davidattenborough"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:statusquo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumerism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consumption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:wants"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:needs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:autonomy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:donaldtrump"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nancypelosi"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:us"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:southafrica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:sovietunion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:democrats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:centrism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:republicans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:money"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:narrative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:diannefeinstein"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:opposition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:oppositionism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:emissions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialdemocracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:greatrecession"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:elitism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:debt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:financialcrisis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:collapse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:annpettifor"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:socialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:agriculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:local"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nationalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:self-sufficiency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inertia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:despair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:doom"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:imperialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:colonialism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:history"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:costarica"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:china"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:apathy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:inaction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalfinancialcrisis"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-20-mariame-kaba-and-prison-abolition/">
    <title>Justice in America Episode 20: Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition - The Appeal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-20T19:26:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-20-mariame-kaba-and-prison-abolition/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["On the last episode of Season 2, Josie and Clint discuss prison abolition with Mariame Kaba, one of the leading organizers in the fight against America’s criminal legal system and a contributing editor for The Appeal. Mariame discusses her own journey into this work, provides perspective on the leaders in this space, and helps us reimagine what the future of this system could look like. Mariame’s way of thinking about this system, and the vision of possibilities she provides, is an excellent send-off to our second season."

[full transcript on page]

"I grew up in New York City and came of age in 1980s. So, um, when I was coming of age in the city, it was kind of the early eighties were a fraught moment for many different kinds of reasons. The tail end of deinstitutionalization. So the first time where we actually started seeing homeless people outside on the streets. Michael Stewart was killed by the police in 1983 which was a very big moment for me. I was 12 years old and that really impacted me. My, um, older siblings were very animated by that fact. Um, crack cocaine is coming into being, this is the time of ACT UP. Um, this is when Reagan comes to power. It was a very tumultuous period and moment of time. So coming of age in that time led me to start organizing for racial justice as a teenager. And I also came of age during the time when there was the Bensonhurst case where a young black man was pursued and then killed by a mob of white young people who were close to my age because he supposedly talked to a white girl in a way that people were not happy about. The Howard Beach incident comes up in 1986. There was a lot happening during my teenagers in the city and I did not have an analysis of the criminal punishment system at that time. I just saw a lot of my friends, I grew up on the Lower East Side, so a lot of my friends ending up in juvie and then in prison and I didn’t, and the cops were always in our neighborhood harassing people and I did not really put all these things together, but I had a frame that was a racial justice frame at a very young age, mainly because of my parents. My mom and my dad. Um, my father, who’d been a socialist in the anti-colonial struggles in Guinea. Like I had a politics at home, but all I understood was like they were coming after black people in multiple different kinds of ways. It wasn’t until I was older and I had come back from college, um, I went to school in Montreal, Canada, came back to the city right after, I was 20 years old when I graduated from college, came back to the city and got a job working in Harlem at the, um, Countee Cullen Library and then ended up teaching in Harlem. And it was there that I found out that all of my students were also getting enmeshed in the criminal punishment system. But I still didn’t have a really, like I didn’t have a politic about it. It wasn’t until a very tragic story that occurred with one of my students who ended up killing another one of my students that I became very clearly aware of the criminal punishment system cause they were going to try to, um, basically try him as an adult. The person who did the killing, he was only 16. And it was that incident that kind of propelled me into trying to learn about what the system was, what it was about. And it concurrently, it was also the time when I started to search for restorative justice because it occurred to me, in watching the family of my student who had been killed react to the situation, that they did not want punishment for the person who killed their daughter. They were, uh, they wanted some accountability and they were also talking about the fact that he did not want him charged as an adult."

…

"people who are practitioners of restorative justice see restorative justice as a philosophy and ideology, a framework that is much broader than the criminal punishment system. It is about values around how we treat each other in the world. And it’s about an acknowledgement that because we’re human beings, we hurt each other. We cause harm. And what restorative justice proposes is to ask a series of questions. Mostly the three that are kind of advanced by Howard Zehr, who is the person who about 40 years ago popularized the concept of restorative justice in the United States. He talks about since we want to address the violation in the relationships that were broken as a result of violence and harm, that you want to ask a question about who was hurt, that that is important to ask, that you want to ask then what are the obligations? What are the needs that emerge from that hurt? And then you want to ask the question of whose job is it to actually address the harm? And so because of that, those questions of what happened, which in the current adversarial system are incidental really, you know, it’s who did this thing, what rules were broken? How are we going to actually punish the people who broke the rules? And then whose role is it to do that? It’s the state’s. In restorative justice it’s: what happened? Talk about what happened, share what happened, discuss in a, you know, kind of relational sense what happened. And then it’s what are your needs? Would do you need as a result of this? Because harms engender needs that must be met, right? So it asks you to really think that through. And then it says, you know, how do we repair this harm and who needs to be at the table for that to happen. It invites community in. It invites other people who were also harmed because we recognize that the ripples of harm are beyond the two individuals that were involved, it’s also the broader community and the society at large. So that’s what restorative justice, at its base, is really the unit of concern is the broken relationship and the harm. Those are the focus of what we need to be addressing. And through that, that obviously involves the criminal punishment system. In many ways RJ has become co-opted by that system. So people were initially proponents of restorative justice have moved their critique away from using RJ and talking about instead transformative justice. That’s where you see these breakdowns occurring because the system has taken on RJ now as quote unquote “a model for restitution.”"

…

"Restorative justice and transformative justice, people say they’re interchangeable sometimes, they are not. Because transformative justice people say that you cannot actually use the current punishing institutions that exist. Whereas RJ now is being run in prisons, is being run in schools. Institutions that are themselves violently punishing institutions are now taking that on and running that there. And what people who are advocates of transformative justice say is RJ, because of its focus on the individual, the intervention is on individuals, not the system. And what transformative justice, you know, people, advocates and people who have kind of begun to be practitioners in that have said is we have to also transform the conditions that make this thing possible. And restoring is restoring to what? For many people, the situation that occurred prior to the harm had lots of harm in it. So what are we restoring people to? We have to transform those conditions and in order to do that we have to organize, to shift the structures and the systems and that will also be very important beyond the interpersonal relationships that need to be mended."

…

"I reject the premise of restorative and transformative justice being alternatives to incarceration. I don’t reject the premise that we should prefigure the world in which we want to live and therefore use multiple different kinds of ways to figure out how to address harm. So here’s what I mean, because people are now saying things like the current criminal punishment system is broken, which it is not. It is actually operating exactly as designed. And that’s what abolition has helped us to understand is that the system is actually relentlessly successful at targeting the people it wants and basically getting the outcomes that wants from that. So if you understand that to be the case, then you are in a position of very much understanding that every time we use the term “alternative to incarceration” what comes to your mind?"

…

"You’re centering the punishing system. When I say alternative to prison, all you hear is prison. And what that does is that it conditions your imagination to think about the prison as the center. And what we’re saying as transformative and restorative justice practitioners is that the prison is actually an outcome of a broader system of violence and harm that has its roots in slavery and before colonization. And here we are in this position where all you then think about is replacing what we currently use prisons for, for the new thing. So what I mean by that is when you think of an alternative in this moment and you’re thinking about prison, you just think of transposing all of the things we currently consider crimes into that new world."

…

"It has to fit that sphere. But here’s what I, I would like to say lots of crimes are not harmful to anybody."

…

"And it’s also that we’re in this position where not all crimes are harms and not all harms are actually crimes. And what we are concerned with as people who practice restorative and transformative justice is harm across the board no matter what. So I always tell people when they say like, ‘oh, we’re having an alternative to incarceration or alternative to prison.’ I’m like, okay, what are you decriminalizing first? Do we have a whole list of things? So possession of drugs is a criminal offense right now. I don’t want an alternative to that. I want you to leave people the hell alone."

…

"Transformative justice calls on us to shatter binaries of all different types. Most of the people who currently are locked up, for example, in our prisons and jails, are people who are victims of crime first. They’ve been harmed and have harmed other people. The “perpetrator,” quote unquote, “victim” binary only works if you’re looking at one specific incident at a point in time, because usually the very same people who are victimized in one context have perpetrated in another. Transformative justice lives in the messiness of that and says, it isn’t that easy. We can’t just be like, you were victimized and you’re a victim always. You are a perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator always. But that people are constantly in fluidity moving between those kinds of, which are not identities, but the states, the actions, the behaviors that actually focus on that, so we are very much, when you think about a transformative justice approach and philosophy to addressing harm, you’re constantly doing what the carceral state never does. What the carceral state does is it conspires to obfuscate structural and systemic violence and turns all violence into individual failing. Transformative justice says, actually, we need to illuminate the structural and systemic violence and we need to elevate violence beyond, just quote on quote “the individual” because it’s not just about the individual is embedded in how we actually live, that these are mirrors of each other. The the structural and state violence that exists is a mirror of the interpersonal violence that exists. These things are together. That’s what I appreciate about a transformative justice approach to thinking about harm, is that it explodes those things at all levels and allows us to kind of be in the muck of the messiness of how things are in the world for real. So that you don’t have to be a perfect victim to deserve that somebody pay attention to your harm and you are not a monster for having done a bad thing. You’ve done a bad thing. So we have to be able to talk that way and think that way if we’re really going to try to address harms that have happened in particular instances. So that’s what I appreciate about having a philosophy and ideology and a vision and a framework that allows me to be able to live in those kinds of grays because a lot of this stuff is grey."]]></description>
<dc:subject>mariamekaba clintsmith josieduffyrice prisonindustrialcomplex prisions violence restorativejustice justice prisonabolition punishment 2019 angeladavis howardzehr incarceration community humans transformativejustice harm racism responsibility repair people carceralstate binaries accountability police lawenforcement jails coercion gender criminalization humanism decency humanity transformation survival bodies abolition abolitionists nilschristie ruthiegilmore fayeknopp presence absence systemsthinking systems complexity capitalism climatechange climate globalwarming livingwage education organization organizing activism change changemaking exploitation dehumanization optimism learning</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc9643a616bf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:mariamekaba"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:clintsmith"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:josieduffyrice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonindustrialcomplex"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:violence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:restorativejustice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:justice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:prisonabolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:punishment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2019"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:angeladavis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howardzehr"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:incarceration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humans"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformativejustice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:harm"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:racism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:responsibility"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:repair"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:people"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:carceralstate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:binaries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:accountability"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:police"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:lawenforcement"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:jails"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:coercion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:gender"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:criminalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:decency"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:transformation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:survival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:bodies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:abolitionists"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nilschristie"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:ruthiegilmore"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:fayeknopp"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:presence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:absence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systemsthinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:systems"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:complexity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:capitalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climatechange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:climate"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:globalwarming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:livingwage"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:education"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:organizing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:activism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:changemaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploitation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:dehumanization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:learning"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14">
    <title>Optimistic Nihilism - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-02T20:32:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The philosophy of Kurzgesagt."

[See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt_%E2%80%93_In_a_Nutshell
https://standard.tv/collections/in-a-nutshell/ ]]]></description>
<dc:subject>via:lukeneff philosophy optimism nihilism science kurzgesagt 2017 size scale time life living purpose universe principles humanism humanity exploration feelings utopia knowledge biology consciousness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a5836560569b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:via:lukeneff"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:philosophy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:optimism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:nihilism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:kurzgesagt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:2017"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:size"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:scale"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:time"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:living"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:purpose"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:universe"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:principles"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:humanity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:exploration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:feelings"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:utopia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:knowledge"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:consciousness"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
</rdf:RDF>