Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Umyazu - A Working Library 2026-06-25T07:06:53+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu robertogreco[O]n Aka, reward, whether spiritual or fiscal, was immediate. By his performance of a maz’s duties, Siez was not building up a bank account of virtue or sanctity; in return for his story-telling he would receive praise, shelter, dinner, supplies for their journey, and the knowledge that he had done his job. Exercises were performed not to attain an ideal of health or longevity but to achieve immediate well-being and for the pleasure of doing them. Meditation aimed toward a present and impermanent transcendence, not an ultimate nirvana. Aka was a cash, not a credit, economy. Therefore their hatred of usury. A fair bargain and payment on the spot. Le Guin, The Telling, page 171 By contrast, the attention economy is all credit: the user pays twice. There’s a prevailing narrative that says we’ve lost our ability to pay attention, that we need drugs or discipline or sternly-worded warnings about the dangers of social media to deal with this growing public health threat. This narrative completely obscures the fact that annihilating attention is a political project with clear benefits for the billionaire class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and therefore to remake—the world around us. The abrupt emergence of the Akan capitalist state turns out to be the Terran’s doing: a religious-fundamentalist sect from Earth visited Aka and shared technological knowledge that triggered rapid industrialization, and the equally rapid rejection of all the old ways. The technology included the book banning, the patriarchal order, the authoritarian surveillance. To receive the technology was to receive the worldview it reproduced. (This is of course how all technology works.) That worldview depended on a people too busy working and shopping to be curious about how things are and how they came to be. Because once you are curious about capitalism you must reject the bargain: if the price of the comfort of the few is the immiseration of the many than the price is too damn high. It is the skill of reading that hones that curiosity, sharpens our ability to notice what is before us, what is real and what is not, which bargains are fair and which are usurious. Reading is how we attend the world, which is also how we change it. I want to posit that the reading economy, like the umyazu—places where the Telling took place—still exists, hidden amidst the ruins of capitalism. It isn’t captured in GDP, of course, but then neither is housework, and yet everyday millions of people do the dishes, make the bed, dust the shelves. It overlaps with capitalism, in the form of large, commercial publishers who often care more for profit than words, but who still manage to publish a good many good books; and it escapes capitalism with worker-owned publishers, anarchist collectives, infoshops, personal blogs, radical literary magazines, neighborhood bookstores, used books given and sold and given again, libraries big and small and free, and with every pen put to paper or keyboard to verse, and every reader who reads and creates the text anew. Every contribution to the reading economy—every dollar snatched from anesthetizing streaming services, from platforms that siphon money away from artists in order to fuel machines of war; every dollar given in exchange for a book or zine or illustration made with hand and heart and eye; every gaze diverted from the slop and turned instead to the gifts of the artist and the writer and the painter and so on—is not only a contribution taken from the attention economy but a repudiation of it, whole and entire. Every contribution to the reading economy is two less for its nemesis: once in cash, a second time in the resurrection of attention, in the art of reading, in the gift paid in return for the gift. A fair bargain, and payment on the spot. ————— 1. Le Guin, The Telling, page 109 ↩︎"]]> 2026 reading howweread attention ursulakleguin ursulaleguin virginiawoolf peterkropotkin laotzu shaekespeare attentioneconomy capitalism mandybrown https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2d33283637b2/ A Discussion on the New Novel 'Palaces of the Crow' (with Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report 2026-05-23T05:19:01+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-discussion-on-the-new-novel-palaces robertogreco raynayler chrishedges war poland wwii ww2 crows corvids humannature humans human caring community fiction literature togetherness interconnected interconnectedness ussr nazigermany germany cooperation nonviolence mutualaid survival peterkropotkin totalitarianism williamgolding rootlessness evil trauma childhood human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships 2026 lordoftheflies danielberrigan faith birds siberia morethanhuman multispecies krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ We cooperate to survive. But, if no one’s looking, we compete | Aeon Essays 2026-02-16T00:14:08+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/we-cooperate-to-survive-but-if-no-ones-looking-we-compete robertogreco cooperation competition jonathangoodman 2026 psychology anthropocene mutualaid charlesdarwin evolution human humans morality intelligence environment sociobiology peterkropotkin anthropology ernstfehr lamelara indonesia aché interdependence gathering culture society agriculture kenya tanzania maasai osotua connectedness kalahari pollywiessner selfishness identity individualism prisoner'sdilemma ethics jasondana opportunism social cohesion inequality exploitation freeriding nicholashumphrey fairness fairmindedness pessimism behavior elinorostrom noreenahertz greed cheating education self-knowledge temptation equality knowledge capitalism darwin hunter-gatherers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07dd795faf38/ Dying to Work | Commonweal Magazine 2025-11-28T23:23:44+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/dying-work robertogrecoCapital is the pure form of activity. It is the transcendence that takes hold of the immanence of life and exploits it completely. From life, it separates bare life, life that works. The human being is degraded into an animal laborans. Freedom is exploited, too. According to Marx, free competition is nothing but “the relation of capital to itself as another capital”…. The politics of inactivity [by contrast] liberates the immanence of life from the transcendence that alienates life from itself. Only in inactivity do we become aware of the ground on which we rest. Inactivity, in this sense, is what distinguishes those noneconomic practices that make life truly human. Catholic Workers’ lives are fundamentally playful and celebratory, heedless of the conventional (factory) wisdom of maximizing control, optimizing efficiency, and living by holding off death. Of course, Day’s life simply was her practice of Catholicism, living the age-old but radical precepts of the Gospel. It’s important not to construe her faith, as is sometimes done, as an instrument for reforming the social order or the economy. That would be to reinscribe it within totalized capitalism, to place it in the service of an order in constant retreat from death. Rather than flight from death, the Gospel represents an embrace of death. Together, Day and Han help us remember that this embrace structures Christianity from top to bottom. In her journals and chronicles of her daily life and travels, Day regularly refers to the martyrs, to the need to put ourselves to death, and to the embrace of the cross itself. With Han’s help we can see that Day’s prodigal practices—voluntary poverty and the sharing of possessions—are intelligible only as part of a community constituted by its liberation from the hegemony of death. The radical precepts of the Sermon on the Mount are just the “economic” application of the way of the cross. The radical forms of economic life Day encouraged are the concrete and quotidian way Christians go about believing in the Resurrection. In other words, by being “irresponsible” with her money and her physical safety, Day was refusing the lie that we must try to ensure our lives turn out right by submitting to the current economic order. Her refusal to abide by the dictates of economic efficiency and to let her life be run by “risk” are training in martyrdom. She reminds us that the early Christians were not simply martyred for a “religious belief” detachable from their daily lives; they went to their deaths prepared by an alternative social life that spurned the fear of death. Han’s work thus not only demonstrates the continued—and even heightened—relevance of the Catholic Worker’s philosophy of labor for a digital age. He also unearths the intimate connection between radical Christian social practices and the very center of our faith—the Paschal Mystery. If those practices sometimes seem a little too radical for us ordinary Christians, it’s worth recalling that Day herself often pointed out that the way she lived was not for the religious elite, but for everybody. Her own inspiration came from the simple truths Christians share and with which we are marked in our baptism: we have already died, and so we have nothing to lose; we have already risen, and so we can live without fear. "]]> byung-chilhan catholicism catholicworker colinmiller religion catholicchurch christianity philosophy labor work workers politics dorotyhday petermaurin communism capitalism industrialism society efficiency ideology morality arthurpenty technocracy colonization slavery self-oppression self-slavery influencers working neoliberalism optimization gkchesterson hilairebelloc culture howwework capital life living socialmedia ai artificialintelligence virtualreality vr emmanuelmounier peterkropotkin nikolaiberdyaev inactivity play celebration control death karlmarx accumulation divineprovidence voluntarypoverty poverty collectivity gandhi survival giorgioagamben https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ed5d245a474/ The Anarchist Ethics of Ricardo Flores Magón - YouTube 2025-10-03T04:16:08+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLq-WE157NQ robertogreco ricardofloresmagón 2025 anarresproject sergiogallegos anarchism anarchy ethics revolution labor mexico us theory politics inequality liberty socialmovements mikhailbakunin porfiriodíaz pierre-josephproudhon peterkropotkin proudhon anarchosocialism indigenous indigeneity work workers ideals border borders zapatistas ezln privilege kant aristotle poverty liberation socialchange slavery freedom care caring responsibility radicalism johnstuartmill mutualaid mobility survival justice duties rights insurrection leonardharris leemcbride insurrectionistethics resistance defiance animosity oppression liberalism egalitarianism zapatismo emilianozapata maya chiapas autonomy immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:37c54629e73b/ Ursula Le Guin's Anarchist Alternative - YouTube 2025-10-02T16:10:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73s-YMcNTI robertogreco anarchism ursulaleguin 2025 alexisshotwell emmagoldman peterkropotkin anarresproject josephorosco futures philosophy thedispossesed utopia politics politicalphilosophy purity feminism gender race ethics angusmaguire jamesrowe sciencefiction scifi octaviabutler marionzimmerbradley robertheinlein activism buddhism omelas samueldelaney horizontality hierarchy hierarchies power williammorris erricomalatesta humannature mutualaid collectivity collectivism alexanderberjman taoism daoism imagination society exploitation misery horror odo nkjemisin relationships oppression critique speculativefiction anarres politcalphilosophy humans human property organizing anarcho-communism cooperation solidarity libertarianism nonownership capitalism anticapitalism sociability ammari comradeship kinship togetherness antoniogramsci vulnerability patriarchy humility charity difference deviance sameness individualism individuality kathrynnorlock stoicism murraybookchin unfinshed ongoingness staffordbeer lifestyle infrastructure inst https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe77f9b848a5/ Ranking the Myths of the System - YouTube 2025-08-06T02:39:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTp7TILYfkE robertogreco andrewism 2025 myths stausquo sex gender scarcity humannature universalism endtimes separation authority hierarchy work labor capitalism neoliberalism schools schooling education trickledowneconomics economics society civilization freedom ethnosupremacy ethnonationalism law legal international neutrality peace resistance oppression zionism antizionism moderates centrism centrists politics policy colonialism colonization settlercolonialism hierarchies wealth inequality billionaires government governance democracy repression exploitation gaza palestine unschooling deschooling genocide ethniccleansing warcrimes ecososystems latecapitalism elitis statusquo meritocracy merit patriarchy sexism systems systemsthinking ecosystems change revolution deprogramming anarchism anarchy rights civilrights power state stateviolence violence resources inequity police policing property choice liberation collectivism productivity bullshitjobs expertise influence coercion courts rulers subordination supremacy conflict competition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9569e706c5d3/ Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism - JSTOR Daily 2025-06-18T16:08:04+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/ robertogrecothe earth is no man’s; it is God’s…. The land is common to all. All have the same right to it, but there is good land and bad land, and every one would like to take the good land. How is one to do in order to get it justly divided? In this way: he that will use the good land must pay those who have got no land the value of the land he uses. Such a project was for Tolstoy intrinsically religious, moreover, and, as Wenzer states, “[t]he Georgist commune was to eventually develop into what Tolstoy envisioned as a mirror image of heaven on an earth with man and all creatures living in concord.” Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society in accordance with Georgist principles, Tolstoy believed that the Christian task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality. In the decade leading up to Tolstoy’s death, Russian society spiraled in ever-greater unrest. Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace. “Tolstoy’s fears had become a monstrous reality,” writes Wenzer. “People were suffering even more, and blood was pouring in the streets.” Tolstoy, then in his late seventies, continued writing at a furious pace in a desperate effort to save his country. He went so far as to write letters to Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich advocating for Georgist land reform. He scorned socialist and democratic solutions, believing that only the tsar could solve the situation by unilaterally going above government hierarchy to implement the reforms that could save Russia before it was too late. Tolstoy died, at eighty-two, in a railway station on November 20, 1910, his words unheeded. Within the decade, Russia slipped into full-scale revolution, culminating in the Bolshevik seizure of government and the violence of the Soviet regime. The cycles of oppression led only to more bloodshed, with one government replacing another while the people suffered. Yet it’s unlikely that Tolstoy’s reforms would have proved the panacea to Russia’s ills, as complicated and systemic as they were. It’s equally questionable to what extent his positions can be implemented today. As commentators have pointed out, many of Tolstoy’s ideas about economics and politics are shallow, even incoherent. Higgs, for instance, though admiring Tolstoy’s critiques of the state, calls his understanding of economics “abysmal.” Tolstoy’s approach is frequently emotional, moreover, literary rather than intellectual. And yet it’s precisely Tolstoy’s appeal to the heart as well as the head, to the conscience as the spark of divinity in every person, that makes his words reverberate down to the present. While we might question the specifics of his platform, his criticisms of injustice and vision of an equitable society retain much of their relevance and power. Few have cared so deeply for the poor and exploited or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously than he, and harmony can’t be achieved otherwise. History will go on; not even a Tolstoy could shift its bloody wheels. But we can always seek truth. As Tolstoy wrote, “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth.”"]]> anarchism tolstoy christianity christiananarchism 2025 life society economics politics benwoollard inequality rural nikolaimikhailovich henrygeorge georgism power government kennethwenzer irinapaperno milivoystanoyevich freedom autonomy roberthiggs love truth rbfowler liberalism liberty anarchy peterkropotkin rousseau pierre-josephproudhon proudhon charlesfourier poverty homelessness russia norms civilization doctrine church orthodoxy participatory participation work workers labor eattherich wealth wealthaccumulation accumulation exploitation taxation taxes property gandhi idleness class thekingdomofgodiswithinyou nicenecreed injustice justice production institutions deceit ethics pacifism violence state suppression conscription resistance landreform land tsarnicholasii socialism democracy hierarchy reform reforms equity charity suffering 1886 nature humannature governance hamony sermononthemount reason consience loveofall liberation materialism parasites agriculture science art castes hierarchies intellectua https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0062d50c51d/ James C. Scott, the Ambivalent Anarchist | The Nation 2025-05-02T03:49:43+00:00 https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-c-scott-the-ambivalent-anarchist/ robertogreco jamescscott cia anarchism anarchy 2024 benmauk state marxism capitalism southeastasia anthropology socialsciences socialscience economics michaelpolanyi samuelpopkin politicaleconomy politics infrapolitics footdragging dissimulation sabotage slander arson falsecompliance pilfering feignedignorance resistance everyday confrontation seeinglikeastate theartofnotbeinggoverned zomia malaysia vietnam india history pastoralism foraging secondaryadaptation self-barbarization mesopotamia civilization society moraleconomy power statepower writing legibility illegibility alfredradcliffe-brown marcelmauss ows occupywallstreet davidgraeber imperialism anarchistanthropology anarchistarchaeology peterkropotkin 2014 leviathan hobbes malcolmharris liberalprogressivism progressivism progressive states revolution edwardfriedman pierreclastres 1999 brasilia brasília reform equality anwaribrahim weaponsoftheweak thomashobbes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f14a793c2a24/ To survive the Chaoscene, we will need resilient communities | Aeon Essays 2025-04-25T05:14:41+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/to-survive-the-chaoscene-we-will-need-resilient-communities robertogreco 2025 rupertread climatechange climate globalwarming resilience community communities local environment earthscience meaning meaningmaking life living davidgraeber davidwengrow togetherness solidarity peterkropotkin socialdarwinism mutualaid renégirard othering others adaptation adaptionism humanism humans preparedness presilience collectivism climatemovement climatecrisis flooding policy globalsouth https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d763a47aae1/ The Anarchist Imaginary: Nicolas de Warren on Glissant, Levinas, and a New Radical Ethics - YouTube 2025-03-25T18:54:09+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXD5h88_xo robertogreco nicolasdewarren anarchism 2025 pedagogy publicpedagogy anarchy institutions unthinking thinking howwethink power otherness monolingualism multilingualism bilingualism authority ethics philosophy emmanuellevinas édouardglissant acidhorizon colonialism colonization decolonization postcolonialism difference surrealism literature art pierre-josephproudhon proudjon peterkropotkin state sovereignty human humancondition language languages utopia catherinemalabou foucault michelfoucault heterotopia michaelhardt translation greatbooks hermeneutics hospitality guests jacquesderrida reciprocity indirectreciprocity giftgiving gifts saulnewman maxstirner donaldtrump elonmusk markfisher canon reading howweread intentionallyephemeral ephemerality formsofbeing nogodsnomasters ethic humanities anarchistimaginary ai artificialintelligence chatgpt education illiteracy literacy lcproject openstudioproject craiglaubach proudhon ephemeral https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:815226860567/ Peter Thiel Unmasked: From Lapsed Libertarian to Architect of the New Right - YouTube 2025-03-16T23:00:11+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKRNbe9Wxs robertogreco acidhorizon peterthiel libertarianism paypal paypalmafia siliconvalley rightwing farright palantir gregorysadler ideology politics influence power technosolutionism technooptimism surveillance corporations corporatism newright democracy welfarestate redistribution capitalism suffrage government governance cybernetics seasteading individualism liberty decentralization elonmusk 2025 labor regulation deregulation monarchism freedom conservatism 2009 2016 donaldtrump reactionaries 2024 westernchauvinism westernsupremacy military cia ai artificialintelligence kimstanleyrobinson cyberspace mars greenland jdvance death posthumanism spacecolonization colonialism colonization robertnozick rights oligarchs billionaires leostrauss renégirard modernity liberalism pierremanent oswaldspengler antipolitics maga alasdairmacIntyre johnhospers johnlocke hegel kant rousseau voltaire immanuelkant thomashobbes greatdepression robberbarons coercion enslavement eugenics race racism libertarians values whig history alexanderdugin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:046dc72ae66e/ E104: Is 2025 Europe’s Last Chance? Yanis Varoufakis and Srećko Horvat on Palestine, Syria and more - YouTube 2024-12-11T20:42:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKcoi4camxI robertogreco 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 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40a60cdd588c/ Real Anarchism Has Never Been Philosophized: An Interview with Catherine Malabou - YouTube 2024-11-14T01:05:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxHeRqphOzg robertogreco 2021 acidhorizon anarchism philosophy reinerschürmann order heidegger being acting foucault michelfoucault deleuze artistotle agamben proudhon karlmarx hegel rancière jacquesrancière gillesdeleuze jacquesderrida louisalthusser althusser maxstirner wilhelmreich nothingness ignorance praxis theory marxism étiennebalibar state politics polis ows occupywallstreet oligarchy nietzsche government governance power democracy communities rules monasticism monasticcommunities norms franciscans freedom liberation pleasure peterkropotkin éliséereclus death freud thomashobbes hobbes tiqqun blotinus mikhailbakunin zapatistas rojava humanism ideology postanarchism postanarchists authority revolution resistance insurrection obedience domination citizenship communes consensus principle principles fluidity catherinemalabou pierre-josephproudhon craiglaubach zapatismo emilianozapata chiapas mexico autonomy indigenous indigeneity ezln https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b1eba471bc4c/ Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance - YouTube 2024-09-18T02:54:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpt28mQQRIw robertogreco chrishedges resistance revolution 2024 rogerhallam extinctionrebellion michelforst revolt history oligarchy socialtransformation repression fossilfuels climatechange globalwarming agriculture juststopoil petroleum bigoil environment firstintifada palestine israel tunisia rosaluxemburg abolitionists abolition abolitionism slavery change changemaking fanatics nietzsche lenin vladimirlenin isolation dissidents 1989 easterneurope communism ideology václavhavel protest protests clivehamilton slobodanmilosevic centralamerica algeria yemen sudan punjab media oppression power government iraq afghanistan wikileaks climatecrisis governance alexanderkerensky russia ussr sovietunion jabalia politics politicians law legal ericfoner abrahamlincoln julianassange lindalakhdhit imprisonment journalism sarahwilkinson richardbarnard richardmedhurst craigmurray uk us reform greece españa spain egypt bahrain syria libya turkey brasil brazil ukraine hongkong chile korea southkorea stateviolence nato zionism neoliberalism mil https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:146405e49fe1/ Printing Anarchy - JSTOR Daily 2024-08-10T03:49:54+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/printing-anarchy/ robertogreco anarchism anarchy printing printers 2024 kathferguson history writing howwewrite publishing publications typesetting linotypes peterkropotkin defiance activism organizing charlottewilson augustspies adolphfischer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae9832ecadd3/ Ukrainian Anarchist | KPFA 2024-07-23T00:29:00+00:00 https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-5-2024/ robertogreco nestormakhno anarchism ukraine russia 2024 2023 charlieallison russianrevolution history peterkropotkin mutualaid modernschools ferrerschools bolshevism leninism stalinism workers authoritarianism marxism federation decentralization anti-authoritarianism prisonabolition state antistate power politics organizing local labor autonomy self-determination horizontality crimea collectives collectivism communes bolsheviks selfdetermination https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cc6aa91bb31e/ What Happened to David Graeber? | Los Angeles Review of Books 2024-01-23T05:26:14+00:00 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-happened-to-david-graeber/ robertogrecodavidgraeber 2024 crispinsartwell economics politics culture anthropology anarchism anarchy peterkropotkin marshallsahlins marcelmauss claudelévi-strauss davidwengrow occupywallstreet ows horizontality thomaspiketty williamgodwin mikhailbakunin emmagoldman morality violence coercion agriculture history kandiaronk voltaire diderot marxism rousseau turgot universalism mollyfischer jeremycorbyn johnmcdonnell claudelevi-strauss denisdiderot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:36fd7fd4d0be/ Anarchism in America (1983) - Documentary on the American Anarchy Movement. - YouTube 2023-12-14T18:32:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHGl9a8BcqI robertogreco us history anarchism anarchy 1983 documentary murraybookchin deadkennedys karlhess punk film murrayrothbard emmagoldman aynrand mollysteimer mikhailbakunin peterkropotkin marxism leninism vladimirlenin russia ussr italy mexico communism karlmarx stalinism left ww2 wwii austria spain españa spanishcivilwar fascism politics class classconsciousness work labor organizing factories revolution capital capitalism regimentation assimilation hierarchy organization liberation freedom economics exploitation industrialization families schools schooling sexuality ethnicity domination gender beaurocracy china 1980s 1930s authoritarianism authority power justice state violence nonviolence consensus decisionmaking edhedaman participatory directaction civildisobedience nuclearpower society resistance academia tradeunions petitbourgeois socialism libertarianism edclark benjamintucker property josiahwarren individualism mildredloomis homesteading ralphborsodi freelove angelaheywood ezraheywood responsibility education gover https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d64dd550add/ Plan de Contingencia: Nota al Calce 171: "Ni dios ni amo" ft Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo on Apple Podcasts 2023-10-27T21:32:12+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nota-al-calce-171-ni-dios-ni-amo-ft-jorell-a-mel%C3%A9ndez-badillo/id1373561170?i=1000632567226 robertogreco via:javierarbona anarchism history plandecontingencia labor workers work organizing estebangómez garygutiérez jorellmeléndezbadillo puertorico palestine israel media socialmedia counternarrative solidarity colonialism colonization endtimes messias protestantism evangelicalchristians deathcults christianity religion catholicism liberation antisemitism zionism occupation settlers settlements settlercolonialism iraq authority authoritarianism josephproudhoun canons marxism socialism order trotsky collectivism hierarchy horizontality power noamchomsky leninism stalinism maoism mikhailbakunin class state mutualaid internationalism praxis malatesta libertarianism capitalism anticapitalism society economics individualism neoliberalism alexandriaocasio-cortez argentina anarcho-capitalism eurocentrism decolonization ideology javiermilei rousseau zapatistas ezln indigeneity indigenous spain españa latinamerica racialcapitalism france us uruguay cuba haiti dominicanrepublic revolution unions luisacapetillo m https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:86ebe2b1d141/ The Decentralist: A look back at the idea that small is beautiful, by John McClaughry 2023-08-15T03:21:38+00:00 https://reason.com/2017/04/22/the-decentralist/ robertogreco small kirkpatricksale 2017 wendellberry billmckibben environment environmentalism peterkropotkin anarchism albertjaynock libertarianism decentralization capitalism johnmcclaughry scale sustainability aristotle lewismumford arnoldtoynbee alexisdetocqueville robertputnam thomasjefferson leopoldkohr government governance state autocracy corruption waste donaldtrump antipathy socialism statesocialism ecocide grwoth famrs farming place local kibbutzim cooperatives rural agriculture communalism communism luddism cooperation consensus self-sufficiency luddites kibbutz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e3049bffd44/ Notes on Anarchism | freedom this time 2023-08-15T03:06:59+00:00 https://freedomthistime.wordpress.com/notes-on-anarchism/ robertogreco anarchism anarchy readinglists davidgraeber pierre-josephproudhon noamchomsky ursulaleguin communism fiction utopia liberalism libertarianism socialism statesocialism capitalism statecapitalism individualism property privateproperty ownership oscarwilde mutualaid peterkropotkin tolstoy civildisobedience thoreau wladen wilhemvonhumboldt anarcho-primitivism rousseau mikhailbakunin mutualism markets governance hierarchy horizontality proudhon ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:073b3a92202a/ Imagina a un anarquista - YouTube 2023-08-10T06:53:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Llg4BoDBVU robertogreco chile 2023 ojoentinta anarchism state authority mutualaid anticapitalism eduardogodoy españa spain latinamerica argentina patagonia labor work organizing socialism marxism solidarity bureaucracy tolstoy pacifism selfmanagement violence revolution horizontality power domination institutions society deschooling unschooling prejudice antiracism education culture autodidacts sindicalism franciscoferrer autonomy selfdetermination feminism pabloespinosa joaquíncontreras marcelduchamp slaviamaggio manuellagos santiago valparaíso indigenous mapuche tolentinaorellana christianferrer liberation counterculture zapatistas workers youth studentmovements 2019 pepecuevas poetry music 1980s 1990s art protests estallidosocial song film politics losprisioneros punk theater activism history dadaism folklore violetaparra atahualpayupanqui collectives collectivism jesússepulveda derrickjensen josédomingogómezrojas editorialeleuterio peterkropotkin internationalism philosophy erricomalatesta emmagoldman self-dete https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:248feafb1b83/ Anarchist Cybernetics by Thomas Swann – The Institute for Anarchist Studies 2023-04-12T05:44:31+00:00 https://anarchiststudies.org/acybernetics/ robertogreco thomasswan anarchism cybernetics decentralization democracy chile staffordbeer 2021 organizing organization vsm viablesystemmodel systemsthinking raulespejo antoniagill allennaleonard control coordination communication intelligence implementation autonomy tolstoy peterkropotkin colinward johnmcewan williamgreywalter occupywallstreet ows angelaespinosa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c786805ce9e/ Anarchist symbolism - Wikipedia [#Black_flag] 2023-04-10T06:33:06+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#Black_flag robertogrecoThe black flag is the negation of all flags. It is a negation of nationhood ... Black is a mood of anger and outrage at all the hideous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of allegiance to one state or another ... But black is also beautiful. It is a colour of determination, of resolve, of strength, a colour by which all others are clarified and defined ... So black is negation, is anger, is outrage, is mourning, is beauty, is hope, is the fostering and sheltering of new forms of human life and relationship on and with this earth. The origins of the black flag are uncertain. Modern anarchism has a shared ancestry with—amongst other ideologies—socialism, a movement strongly associated with the red flag. As anarchism became more and more distinct from socialism in the 1880s, it adopted the black flag in an attempt to differentiate itself. It was flown in the 1831 Canut revolt, in which the black represented the mourning of liberty lost. The French anarchist paper, Le Drapeau Noir (The Black Flag), which existed until 1882, is one of the first published references to use black as an anarchist color. Black International was the name of a London anarchist group founded in July 1881. One of the first known anarchist uses of the black flag was by Louise Michel, participant in the Paris Commune in 1871. Michel flew the black flag during a demonstration of the unemployed which took place in Paris on March 9, 1883. With Michel at the front carrying a black flag and shouting "Bread, work, or lead!," the crowd of 500 protesters soon marched off towards the boulevard Saint-Germain and pillaged three baker's shops before the police arrested them. Michel was arrested and sentenced to six years solitary confinement. Public pressure soon forced the granting of an amnesty. She wrote, "the black flag is the flag of strikes and the flag of those who are hungry". The black flag soon made its way to the United States. The black flag was displayed in Chicago at an anarchist demonstration in November 1884. According to the English language newspaper of the Chicago anarchists, it was "the fearful symbol of hunger, misery and death." Thousands of anarchists attended Kropotkin's 1921 funeral behind the black flag."]]> anarchism symbols blackflag flags symbolism history howardehrlich solidarity transnationalism internationalism humanism us france chicago peterkropotkin pariscommune louisemichel black colors color meaning death mourning beauty hope negation anger outrage revolution revolt resistance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:01d2fa537ece/ Fight the Power: Cyril Schäublin on Unrest | Interviews | Roger Ebert 2023-02-24T18:41:36+00:00 https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/Cyril-Sch%C3%A4ublin-unrest-interview-2022 robertogreco cyrilschäublin film filmmaking 2022 via:justinpickard watches time watchmaking anarchism anarchy switzerland history labor work organizing gender internationalism peterkropotkin actors acting situationist solidarity mutualaid deframing technology timekeeping society industry china competition struggle capitalism women unions simoneweil erricomalatesta noamchomsky adamsmith karlmarx telegraph hierarchy hierarchies howwework machines us uk generations oralhistory embodiment bodies collaboration decentralization decentralizing stanleykubrick revolution revolutions trains siegfriedkracauer pierre-josephproudhon proudhon florianeitel mikhailbakunin berlin darwin charlesdarwin inequality representation nationalism cooperation storytelling sound music information vascopimentel malatesta juravalley jura valléedejoux https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:003bc5e88865/ Funeral of Peter Kropotkin-1921 [Eng] - YouTube 2023-02-09T06:02:51+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Nm64OOPm8 robertogreco peterkropotkin 1921 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0640faa56e20/ Between Chaos and the Man: How not to become an anarchist, by Alan Jacobs 2022-12-09T10:23:37+00:00 https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/between-chaos-and-the-man-the-dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/ robertogreco anarchism 2022 alanjacobs ursulaleguin davidgraeber waltermosley society civilization primitivism cooperativism anarcho-communism marxism capitalism economics praxis practice politics philosophy mutualaid behavior action calvinism cooperation freedom greed vanity vainglory morality chaos murraybookchin pierre-josephproudhon marshallsahlins thedispossessed socialorder human humans decentralization thomashobbes selfishness pride peterkropotkin reciprocity competition dominance power politicalphilosophy nikilsaval sigfriedgiedion nietzsche us marginalization humannature utopia orthodoxy sciencefiction scifi discomfort hunter-gatherers socialdevelopment arthurcclarke loreneiseleyinequality injustice efficiency productivity exploitation solidarity possession dispossession ownership governance order hierarchy rule complexity corruption evil authority obstructionism anthropology originalsin centralization standards canons enough structure expectation tradition traditions expectations conventions language state custo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d75c8407de79/ Capitalism & the Apocalypse: Mike Davis in Conversation - YouTube 2022-04-16T03:24:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSQ3UYl29D0 robertogreco mikedavis 2022 capitalism apocalypse marxism china us globalsouth brazil brasil southafrica westafrica manufacturing industrialization claimtechange economics anarchism karlmarx peterkropotkin humanity socialism venezuela class inequality markets anarcho-communism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:153a8896f26f/ Anarchism as a Nationality - ahuehuete.org 2022-04-06T04:05:49+00:00 https://ahuehuete.substack.com/p/anarchy-grivera?s=r robertogreco guadaluperivera anarchism nationality border borders 2022 2017 ethnicity race zapatismo zapatistas land movement migration mobility libertarianism feminism socialism pierrejosephproudhon pierreproudhon machismo patriarchy indigeneity indigenous ricardofloresmagón praxédisguerrero pln ezln struggle christianity inclusivity exclusivity pagans movements maori mapuche ikoot juliochávezlópez abyayala mexico geography history autonomy freedom liberty mikhailbakunin peterkropotkin mazunte nations marxism west capitalism nationstates perspective directionality homeland chauvinism ethnocentrism insurrection insurrectionalists bourgeois colonialism colonization whiteness politicalcorrectness government governance humanity eurocentrism urbanization industrialization nigeria africa workerism urban urbanism gronganarchism Māori tallerahuehuete emilianozapata maya chiapas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20f750629a70/ The Power of Anarchist Analysis ❧ Current Affairs 2022-02-07T15:46:22+00:00 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-power-of-anarchist-analysis robertogrecoLet us seek together, if you wish, the laws of society, the manner in which these laws are realized, the process by which we shall succeed in discovering them; but, for God’s sake, after having demolished all the a priori dogmatisms, do not let us in our turn dream of indoctrinating the people; do not let us fall into the contradiction of your compatriot Martin Luther, who, having overthrown Catholic theology, at once set about, with excommunication and anathema, the foundation of a Protestant theology… let us carry on a good and loyal polemic; let us give the world an example of learned and far-sighted tolerance, but let us not, merely because we are at the head of a movement, make ourselves the leaders of a new intolerance, let us not pose as the apostles of a new religion, even if it be the religion of logic, the religion of reason. Let us gather together and encourage all protests, let us brand all exclusiveness, all mysticism; let us never regard a question as exhausted, and when we have used our last argument, let us begin again, if need be, with eloquence and irony. On that condition, I will gladly enter your association. Otherwise — no! It was a warning that many of those who flew the red flag ought to have listened more closely to. Anarchists could be quarrelsome, and often impractical—a famous anarchist slogan is “demand the impossible.” But they were also wonderfully clear-sighted: An anarchist never conspired in the delusion that a clearly oppressive society was a place of freedom. There is a wonderful scene in the film Dr. Zhivago where Klaus Kinski has a cameo as an anarchist imprisoned on a train carrying forced laborers. Kinski’s anarchist declares himself “the only free man on the train” because he is the only one willing to call the guard a “lickspittle” and a “liar” to his face after the guard claims Kinski is there as a “voluntary” laborer. [video] When I read the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Errico Malatesta, or Emma Goldman, I was impressed by their force and clarity. Goldman, in My Disillusionment in Russia, wrote frankly and honestly about how her hopes about the freedom to be found in the Soviet Union had been dashed during her visit to it:
I had come to Russia possessed by the hope that I should find a new-born country, with its people wholly consecrated to the great, though very difficult, task of revolutionary reconstruction. And I had fervently hoped that I might become an active part of the inspiring work. I found reality in Russia grotesque, totally unlike the great ideal that had borne me upon the crest of high hope to the land of promise… I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything.
Importantly, though, Goldman’s disillusionment did not lead her to become a conservative anti-communist. She remained a revolutionary socialist, because she had a vision of socialism that was both anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian. I often think that anarchism’s slogan should be “Actually, Both of Those Things Are Bad,” because of its commitment to rejecting false dichotomies and declining to join one “camp” or the other. My appreciation of anarchism was deepened by my reading of Noam Chomsky, who identifies himself as operating within the anarchist tradition. Many anarchists are skeptical of whether Chomsky “is” an anarchist, because he endorses plenty of social democratic policies, thought you should vote for Hillary Clinton if you lived in a swing state, and is not a revolutionary. His political approach is highly pragmatic. His intellectual approach, however, is thoroughly anarchistic. He often speaks about the anarchist approach to the legitimacy of authority:
“Authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can’t be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.”
That doesn’t mean that there are no legitimate authorities. But it does mean that no authority is presumptively legitimate. The king’s orders might be good ones, but they are not good because he is the king, and their being good does not necessarily make kings good or necessary. Your professor may be right, but they are not right because they are your professor. Interestingly, Chomsky’s anarchistic approach is one way in which his twin intellectual endeavors (linguistics and political critique) are unified. Chomsky has always brushed aside the common question: “What connects your linguistic work with your analysis of U.S. foreign policy?” by correctly pointing out that there is almost nothing in common between “understanding the deep roots of human language use” and “criticizing the United States for dropping bombs on Vietnamese people.” However, one way in which these two parts of his life are united is that in each domain, he achieved his insights through applying the anarchistic “presumption against existing authority.” His influential critique of behaviorist explanations for the development of language, and his precipitation of a “revolution” in linguistics, came from a willingness to ask simple questions that challenged conventional wisdom. Likewise, Chomsky’s writings on U.S. foreign policy frequently focus on how powerful actors use euphemisms to cover up atrocities. He does not accept justifications for wars because they come from foreign policy think tanks, or because the person offering them has elite credentials and a binder in front of them labeled “evidence.” He points to simple questions that do not receive satisfactory answers. (For example, why was the Vietnam War not being classified as a “U.S. invasion of Vietnam,” even though that was plainly what it was? Why is an act committed by the United States never labeled terrorism even when it is identical to an act committed by one of our enemies?)"]]> unschooling deschooling anarchism anarchy thinking howwethink criticalthinking questioneverything governance communism marxism socialism politics history authority 2019 karlmarx exlusivity exclusiveness mikhailbakunin religion dogma indictrination dissent tolerance oppression mysticism martinluther catholicism peterkropotkin emmagoldman alexanderberkman erricomalatesta sovietunion ussr liberation freedom noamchomsky legitimacy authoritarianism proudhon pierre-josephproudhon malatesta https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f19cb9b5df5/ Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Killjoy - Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers On Fiction on Vimeo 2021-10-23T15:18:19+00:00 https://vimeo.com/9010456 robertogrecoursulaleguin margaretkilljoy anarchism fiction writing howwewrite politics jamesjoyce alldoushuxley 2010 video storytelling mythmaking messiness peterkropotkin anarchy responsibility oscarwilde socialism freedom henrymiller unschooling deschooling anthonyburgess kurtvonnegut tolstoy kafka hgwells albertcamus camus history dambudzomarechera sergiusstepniak sergeistepniak stepniak sergeystepnyak-kravchinsky louisemichel sciencefiction speculativefiction libertarianism states utopia dystopia emotions sadness happiness joy individualism collectivism communism left leftists collectives napa napavalley california alwayscominghome land place canon statism sexism hierarchy horizontality justice socialjustice radicalism democracy gender literature fictions queer scifi thedispossessed normanspinrad society capitalism polyamory monogamy relationships patriarchy anti-authoritarianism vonnegut jrrtolkien ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3956ca50f8b4/ The Meaning of the Paris Commune 2021-08-27T05:19:30+00:00 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/kristin-ross-communal-luxury-paris-commune/ robertogreco pariscommune 2015 karlmarx henrilefebvre williammorris peterkropotkin elisereclus thirdrepublic france history praxis theory howwelearn manugoswami kristinross anarchism communism anarchy socialism communards decentralization participation participatory nationalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48b5814f6f5c/ Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left | The Nation 2021-02-11T22:32:17+00:00 https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mike-davis-old-gods-set-night/ robertogrecomikedavis history future 2021 socialism economics politics micahuetricht greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis cities optimism hope labor unions organizing radicals radicalism us activism communism perryanderson left newdeal 1960s 1970s 1980s losangeles cityofquartz urbanism urban ecologyoffear change neoliberalism planetofslums resistance revolt revolution collectivism collectiveaction coronavirus covid-19 slums health nature wildfires earthquakes climate egalitarianism redistribution ecology environment 1950s civilization weather jonwiener california race racism police policing policestate blackpanthers blackpantherparty rodneyking gardening peterkropotkin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44f229966343/ Zonneveld, WHY ANARCHISTS DON'T VOTE | On Our Own Authority! Publishing 2020-09-23T21:50:32+00:00 https://on-our-own-authority-publishing.square.site/product/zonneveld-why-anarchists-don-t-vote/25 robertogreco anarchicsm voting elections anarchy 2020 andrewzonneveld electoralpolitics politics mikhailbakunin peterkropotkin lucyparsons emmagoldman alexanderberkman kotokushsui voltarinedecleyre cindymilstein https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:db7c6f57e830/ What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? 2020-09-04T07:44:33+00:00 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/whats-the-point-if-we-cant-have-fun robertogrecodavidgraeber 2014 play evolution animals morethanhuman multispecies work labor productivity idleness originofthespecies charlesdarwin mutualaid henreyhuxley socialdarwinism richarddawkins selfishgene friedrichschiller danieldennett galenstrawson alfrednorthwhitehead charlessanderspeirce richardfeynman taoism peterkropotkin darwin schiller daoism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63f9c90d68d0/ Interview: Ruth Kinna – Freedom News 2020-04-29T02:45:30+00:00 https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-ruth-kinna/ robertogreco anarchism ruthkinna institutions change injustice justice 2020 freedom prejudice bias expression irrationality mistrust trust self-interest society collaboration unschooling deschooling émilearmand peterkropotkin marraybookchina mutualaid mikhailbakunin karlmarx authority capitalism hierarchy horizontality decisionmaking collectivism pierre-josephproudhon tolstoy via:anne social exploitation power proudhon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb4895d28909/ The Last Man to Know Everything | Boston Review 2018-10-07T19:08:44+00:00 https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/troy-vettese-last-man-know-everything robertogrecomikedavis academia interdisciplinary 2018 writing howwewrite inequality class anthropocene cuba havana radicalism climatechange economics society policy politics nationalism troyvettese workingclass history marxism peterkropotkin lahabana https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:96226263e9a1/ crap futures — A Crap Futures Manifesto 2016-11-21T04:57:17+00:00 http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/153171362019/a-crap-futures-manifesto robertogreco manifestos crapfutures paulmazur desires needs anthropology johncarroll means ends apathy action philippestarck celebrity legacy robertheilbroner invention innovation evolution invincibility jgballard uncertainty transience ephemeral ephemerality critique williammorris viability making ursulaleguin ecology environment johnsteinbeck khadi decentralization function functionality arundhatiroy patience quiet raybradbury future futurism technology utopia resistance peterkropotkin baudrillard ursulakleguin jeanbaudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f2ed4bd2dc5b/ Anarchism 101 | Human Iterations 2015-01-02T22:42:34+00:00 http://humaniterations.net/quotes/ robertogreco anarchism mikhailbakunin favidgraeber introduction emmagoldman peterkropotkin robertmurphy kenmacleod theory primers anarchy petergelderoos kevincarson michaeltaylor edwardstringham charlesjohnson garychartier capitalism inequality power horizontality law legal nonviolence gametheory erricomalatesta malatesta https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f1dbae1fcdff/ The Devil’s Bargain — Medium 2014-10-09T05:11:34+00:00 https://medium.com/@ayjay/the-devils-bargain-a4da217c733a robertogreco 2014 alanjacobs education culture highereducation highered davidgraeber whauden rpblackmur louisalthusser adamkirsch militaryindustrialcomplex power funding academia creativity play economics imagination richarddawkins canon corporatization corporatism mutualaid peterkropotkin homoludens johanhuizinga seeing stewartendward anniedillard californiasundaymagazine technology siliconvalley capitalism latecapitalism journalism writing jacquesderrida jeanhyppolite markmcgurl context resistance utopia pocketsofresistance courage possibility transcontextualism paradigmshifts althusser transcontextualization auden https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8375318394e4/ Friends of the Modern School 2014-08-12T06:23:12+00:00 http://friendsofthemodernschool.org/ robertogreco modernschools modernschoolmovement anarchism tolstoy rousseau froebel franciscoferrer nyc losangeles education history schools us lcproject openstudioproject freedom mikhailbakunin pestalozzi emmagoldman willdurant alexanderberkman alexisferm elizabethferm peterkropotkin friedrichfroebel friedrichfröbel https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:50080900e3a1/ "Fleeting pockets of anarchy" Streetwork. The exploding school. | Catherine Burke - Academia.edu 2014-07-28T22:43:31+00:00 https://www.academia.edu/7380841/_Fleeting_pockets_of_anarchy_Streetwork._The_exploding_school robertogrecothis city is the only one you’ll ever have and you’ve got to make the best of it. On the other hand, if you want to make the best of it, you’ve got to be able to criticize it and change it and circumvent it . . . Instead of bringing imitation bits of the city into a school building, let’s go at our own pace and get out among the real things. What I envisage is gangs of half a dozen starting at nine or ten years old, roving the Empire City (NY) with a shepherd empowered to protect them, and accumulating experiences tempered to their powers . . . In order to acquire and preserve a habit of freedom, a kid must learn to circumvent it and sabotage it at any needful point as occasion arises . . . if you persist in honest service, you will soon be engaging in sabotage. Inspired by such envisaged possibilities, Ward came to his own view of anarchism, childhood and education. Sabotage was a function of the transformational nature of education when inculcated by the essential elements of critical pedagogy. In this sense, anarchism was not some future utopian state arrived at through a once-and-for-all, transformative act of revolution; it was rather a present-tense thing, always-already “there” as a thread of social life, subversive by its very nature – one of inhabiting pockets of resistance, questioning, obstructing; its existence traceable through attentive analysis of its myriad ways and forms. Colin Ward was a classic autodidact who sought connections between fields of knowledge around which academic fences are too often constructed. At the heart of his many enthusiasms was an interest in the meaning and making of space and place, as sites for creativity and learning." … "Fleeting pockets of anarchy and spaces of educational opportunity The historian of childhood John Gillis has borrowed the notion of the “islanding of children” from Helgar and Hartmut Zeiher as a metaphor to describe how contemporary children relate, or do not relate, to the urban environments that they experience in growing up. Gillis quotes the geographer David Harvey, who has noted that children could even be seen to inhabit islands within islands, while “the internal spatial ordering of the island strictly regulates and controls the possibility of social change and history”. This could so easily be describing the modern school. According to Gillis, “archipelagoes of children provide a reassuring image of stasis for mainlands of adults anxious about change”. Since the publication of Streetwork, the islanding of childhood has increased, not diminished. Children move – or, more accurately, are moved – from place to place, travelling for the most part sealed within cars. This prevents them encountering the relationships between time and space that Ward believed essential for them to be able to embark on the creation of those fleeting pockets of anarchy that were educational, at least in the urban environment. Meanwhile, the idea of environmental education has lost the urban edge realised fleetingly by Ward and Fyson during the1970s. Environmental education has become closely associated with nature and the values associated with natural elements and forces If the curriculum of the school has become an island, we might in a sense begin to see the laptop or iPad as the latest islanding, or at least fragmenting, device. Ward and Fyson understood the importance of marginal in-between spaces in social life,where they believed creative flourishing was more likely to occur than in the sanctioned institution central spaces reflecting and representing state authority. This was, they thought, inevitable and linked to play, part of what it was to be a child. The teacher’s job was to manage that flourishing as well as possible, by responding to the opportunities continually offered in the marginal spaces between subjects in the curriculum and between school and village, city or town. They believed that such spaces offered educational opportunities that, if enabled to flourish through the suggested pedagogy of Streetwork and the implications of the exploding school, might enrich lives and environments across the generations. It was in the overlooked or apparently uninteresting spaces of the urban environment that teachers, with encouragement, might find a rich curriculum. Today, we might observe such “fleeting pockets of anarchy” in the in-between spaces of social media, which offer as yet unimagined opportunities and challenges for educational planners to expand the parameters of school and continue to define environmental education as radical social and urban practice."]]> colinward cityasclassroom anarchism tonyfyson streetwork 2014 catherineburke education unschooling deschooling 1970s society theexplodingschool children socialnetworking pedagogy johngillis urban urbanism islanding parenting experience agesegregation safety anarchy sabotage subversion autodidacts autodidacticism criticalpedagogy childhood learning paulgoodman freedom interdisciplinary transdisciplinary cities resistance questioning obstructing obstruction revolution lewismumford ivanillich peterkropotkin patrickgeddes autodidactism living seeing nationalism separatism johnholt youth adolescence everyday observation participatory enironmentaleducation experientiallearning place 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