https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-07-04T12:33:13+00:00 https://lithub.com/on-joan-didion-and-the-art-of-looking-back/ robertogrecoYou can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing’s sake, back home to aestheticism, to one’s youthful idea of “the artist” and the all-sufficiency of “art” and “beauty” and “love” . . . away from all the strife and conflict of the world . . . back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. Webber’s unsettling revelations do not end in defeatism, however; rather, he is inspired toward “a definite sense of new direction.” While he possesses a keen awareness of the corruption that surrounds him, he also exhibits a distinct optimism for the future, particularly the future of America, which he believes still has the capacity to conquer evil, and in the end he insists that “this glorious assurance is not only our living hope, but our dream to be accomplished.” Webber’s conception of the future is thus one that simultaneously encompasses and rejects a nostalgic view of the past, as his forward-looking vision is shaped by a longing for the return of a past moment that collides with the realization of its impossibility. Of course, Wolfe is not the only American writer to contend with a nostalgic impulse that is deeply connected to experiences of chaos and change. As social, industrial, and technological shifts continued to inform art, politics, and commerce over the course of the twentieth century, writers ranging from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Toni Morrison also examined the allure of looking back, of yearning for a purportedly more stable past. Yet I would argue that there are few contemporary American writers who examine the complexity of nostalgia with more depth, breadth, curiosity, and prescience than Joan Didion. Like Wolfe before her, Didion acknowledges the multitude of ways we might define “home,” and recognizes the inevitable pull of nostalgia for a particular time, place, aesthetic, hope, ideology, or feeling even as she, too, harbors an increasing mistrust of past narratives that “once seemed everlasting.” Yet Didion takes these ideas much further than Wolfe—and further than most writers, for that matter. Her engagement with nostalgia is not confined to a single character, publication, or era, but defines her fiction and nonfiction across decades, informing her discussions of politics, gender, rhetoric, media, and much more. Her nostalgia also becomes increasingly future-oriented, in a way that is more cautious than that of a character like George Webber, but which nevertheless undermines assessments of her worldview as nihilistic or fatalistic, and complicates common understandings of nostalgia as a purely conservative impulse." ... "Indeed, nostalgia is at the center of nearly everything she wrote, and I argue that by investigating the various ways she engages with and defines the concept in both fiction and nonfiction, we can better understand the contradictory terms that have come to define Didion’s writing and literary persona: fatalistic and hopeful, fragile and strong, detached and connected, feminist icon and antifeminist, humble and haughty, conservative and liberal. Reading Didion’s work through the lens of nostalgia theory allows us to better understand the source of these tensions, and to reevaluate her views on American history, regional identity, hubris and imperialism, gender, political theater, the counterculture, national rhetoric, grief and loss, and more." ... "While Didion’s cultural observations are often filtered through a personal experience of nostalgia, more often the latter functions as a critical lens that she discerningly turns onto twentieth-century American culture. At the same time, nostalgia theory becomes a tool we might turn back onto Didion’s work, useful in probing not only her own enigmatic ideas but also the ways modern American history has been narrativized, and how that impacts our cultural and political discussions in the present moment. An interrogation of nostalgia is also, I would argue, part of her own truth-seeking project as a New Journalist, and her exploration of the allure and menace of nostalgia takes on new dimensions as she directs her gaze outward. Indeed, the nature of New Journalism as a genre allows Didion to demonstrate an acute awareness of her own narrative construction; she draws attention to the fact that her cultural criticism might be tinged with nostalgia and then proceeds to critique this tendency in herself." ... "In both fiction and nonfiction, she documents the ways that America has used nostalgia to “pernicious” effect on a political and imperial level, a factor that continues to shape our national mythos (Where I Was From). As a nearly ubiquitous presence, nostalgia becomes a recurring theme, a character trait, a narrative perspective, a subject of her criticism, and a critical device in her work. Didion’s work emphasizes that while nostalgia can be paralyzing and foster stagnation when wielded at the institutional level and as an unquestioned worldview, political tactic, or marketing technique, it is also a natural inclination, one that allows us to make sense of our place in the world at any given moment, and can be a tool for uncovering personal truths and identifying cultural and national myths."]]> joandidion nostalgia home memory 2026 maggiemckinley thomaswolfe time fscottfitzgerald tonimorrison literature svetlanaboym society collectivememory politics psychology art culture identity collectiveidentity us brucebawer ellenfriedman kathleenvandenberg williamhandley alissawilkinson hollywood class gender americanlife fiction nonfiction newjournalism journalism narrative present future past remembering subjectivity historicization idealism stangation worldview nationamyths myth myths rhetoric history counterculture conservatism imperialsim https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:04f948d390cf/ 2026-06-08T05:32:55+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1-hhZUcGJY robertogrecoKwasu D. Tembo unites approaches from disciplines as wide-ranging as physics, mathematics, cinema, philosophy, and media theory to pose critical questions concerning time, change, and (un)becoming in contemporary time-travel cinema. In his analyses of 21st-century cinematic time-travel narratives, Tembo situates human life in time as a palimpsest, with time acting as scriptor and stylus. A time machine, then, functions as a fantasy that allows for this pace to be slowed or accelerated so as to appear entirely suspended, with the potentials of the “Now” (re)opened to the traveler. As the manipulation of time lends the traveler increased agency-and perhaps the conditions to see themselves more clearly amid a claustrophobic sea of information and content-Tembo contends that we must carefully consider the psycho-emotional affectivity of both the motivations and the potentially traumatic consequences of such a jarring shift in perspective. The results lend critical insight into human understandings of how we experience time and, ultimately, what these understandings permit and disallow in terms of how (it is) to be in time. Phasmid Press: https://phasmidpress.org/ "]]> timetravel film fiction sciencefiction scifi trauma acidhorizon 2026 kwasutembo philosophy death temporality therapy experience healing lajetée chrismarker agency freewill determinism nihilism physics filmtheory value chronomics responsibility capitalism longnow accelerationism charlesdickens now present labor work nostalgia backtothefuture gillesdeleuze deleuze robertasparrow donnydarko enternalsunsetofthespotlessmind twelevemonkeys coherence inception interstellar primer runlolarun upstreamcolor horsegirl looper minorityreport mrnobody thejacket momento anotherearth predestination meetcute everythingeverywhereallatonce thebeast projectalmanac timecrimes timelapse safetynotguaranteed darkcity tenet sourcecode itfollows chronologicaltime continuities continuity discretion memory change individualism choice improvisation contingency disruption looping quantumphysics stephenwolfram loops repetion complexity luddism neoluddism evolution henribergson andreasmalm wimcarton future entropy computing computation g https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:98ea222f781e/ 2026-06-02T05:17:07+00:00 https://shop.ayinpress.org/products/surviva-a-future-ancestral-field-guide robertogreco 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 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https://petafloptimism.com/2026/03/14/gas-town-and-bullet-hell/ robertogreco 2026 mattjones time azeemazhar ai artificialintelligence technology programming work screens chatbots steveyegge colinrobinson ux epthompson jamescarey capitalism timezones clocks timekeeping davidrooney synchronization railways rail history schools factories modernity carolynmarvin félixguattari hartmutrosa paulvirilio dromology present future velocity speed perception infrastructure trains brainfry bullethell gastown danmaku touhou dodonpachi ikaruga mihalycsikszentmihalyi flow play legibility reversibility niconicodouga georgemiller furyroad sarahsharma temporalsovereignty braid benmathes madmax claude claudecode anthropic guattari https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:719aba8473b5/ 2026-03-03T06:43:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRxBCd4q9Lc robertogreco seanilling thegrayarea 2026 samirchopra anxiety philosophy buddhism acceptance stress worry dread fear life living 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temporality charlesdarwin charleslyell charleshinton reality fouthdimension victorians thomasmacaulay progress peterbowler evolution hermannlotze philosophy henribergson cinematography bertrandrussell victoriawelby samuelalexander hgwells timetravel science space historyofscience historyoftechnology presentism present darwin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c8db2db31b73/ 2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg robertogreco ai artificialintelligence unlearningeconomics llms evolution context language naturalselection economics capitalism economy culture slop aislop marketing film filmmaking music freemarkets friedrichhayek markets behavior circulareconomy adaptation morality generativeai privateequity technology information arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor dandavies graceblakeley timo'reilly elonmusk openai chatgpt stockmarket herbertsimon jamescscott seeinglikeastate data stevekeen markschatzker decisionmaking prediction nathantankus 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https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e501fb627c6a/ 2025-07-25T00:05:00+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e23-how-a-watchs-design-affects-our-perception-of-time/ robertogreco allenfarmelo 2020 phenomenology watches time perception quantumtheory experience design designtheory colortheory aesthetics architecture objectivity subjectivity seiko nomos nomosclub aquadive edmundhusserl perspective carlorovelli relativity alberteinstein theoryofrelativity entropy now present past future reality hmoser quantumphysics quantummechanics alfredgell anthropology watchcanon timeflow flow aestheticrevolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff1c883f3d0a/ 2025-07-05T16:51:57+00:00 https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/ robertogreco jayspringett thejaymo y2k nostalgia modernity solarpunk vanessaandreotti dougladhine future julesverne brucesterling inequality 2025 1890s 2100 2000 victorians 1975 coletteshade 2008 greatrecession 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trees socrates dasein existence entrancement inbetweenness between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ee52efa7ce1e/ 2025-02-23T19:47:46+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlm9xNQkjpA robertogreco laurieanderson language 2025 howwewrite imagination perspective creativity beginnersmind presence present https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d6076ff6f2bd/ 2025-02-02T04:11:38+00:00 https://heracliteanfire.net/2010/04/20/the-church-of-the-long-now/ robertogrecoa large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium. This is not just an interesting engineering project. The idea is that the clock could act as a symbol of the ‘long now’: that is, a way of looking at the world which sees us within the long context of history. Because ‘now’ means different things is different contexts: ‘I’m hungry now’; ‘tartan skirts are fashionable now’; ‘The United States is now the world’s only superpower’; ‘India is now moving northward into Asia, forming the Himalayas’. [image] The Long Now Foundation is actually building this clock; it’s not just a thought experiment. The idea is to promote long-term thinking: the kind of long term planning and policy making that might help to prepare for the risk of a hurricane hitting New Orleans, or to mitigate the economic impacts of an ageing population. Or, of course, try to minimise global warming. These kinds of problems do not lend themselves to the five-year cycles of democratic politics, let alone to the ever-shorter cycles of 24 hour news media. I remember it as a thought-provoking book, although I think I left my copy in Japan*. I don’t know whether it is really possible to make people take very long term planning seriously, for psychological as well as pragmatic reasons. But it’s an interesting idea. [image] I’ve been thinking about the Long Now recently because of a particular current news story. If there is any human institution that lends itself to Long Now thinking, it is the Catholic church. Their holy book is 2000 years old, and they still refer back to theologians like Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine, from 700 and 1600 years ago respectively. I recently went round the V&A’s newly refurbished Medieval and Renaissance galleries, and they are a reminder that the church was a wealthy and powerful organisation before the Norman Conquest. It is nowhere near as wealthy or powerful now, in relative terms, as it was back in the middle ages; but it’s not doing badly. Perhaps that’s why their PR in response to child abuse stories has seemed so woefully inept: when you operate over a timescale of centuries, a scathing article in the New York Times doesn’t seem like such a big deal. An organisation which has survived the Great Schism, the Reformation and the Enlightenment, not to mention the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and a whole load of religious wars, is not going to throw around the word ‘crisis’ lightly. And strategically speaking, they’re probably right: Benedict XVI is the 265th pope. Does anyone really think there won’t be a 266th? And by the time we get to 269 or 270, these scandals will be very old news indeed. [image] It’s not necessarily a morally bankrupt attitude; it’s not the same as ignoring the problem and waiting for it to go away. It might be nice to see them reaching out to the victims a little better and show a bit more public remorse, but the most important thing is to ensure that those kind of cover-ups don’t happen in future, and they say they have reformed the system to prevent it happening again. I find it fascinating, looking at the world in this way. For example, I think it is an important principle of human rights and human dignity that women should be treated as full human beings with all the same rights and responsibilities as men. So if I was pope — an odd thought, admittedly — I would allow women to be priests. But from the long view of the Catholic church, with 20 centuries of institutional and theological tradition to draw on, the women’s rights movement could turn out to be a passing phase. Hell, there aren’t many countries where women have even had the vote for one century.† And if I was pope, I’d allow gay marriage, contraception, and abortion. But I don’t expect the church to agree with me any time soon. And even though I disagree with everything they believe, from the existence of God downwards, there is something deeply intriguing about that kind of institutional continuity. You can see why some people find it seductive. The Catholic church may be old-fashioned, but it has been old-fashioned for hundreds of years now; entire empires have risen and fallen while the church trundled on, being old-fashioned. It may be ludicrously archaic that important church documents are still issued in Latin, but the church was communicating in Latin before the English language even existed, and the church is still here. They are hardly going to be stung by the accusation that they’re not keeping up with the times. * if only I’d had the long-term perspective to realise I would want to write a blog post about it several years later… † In chronological order: The Pitcairn Islands, The Isle of Man, The Cook Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Finland. According to Wikipedia. » From top to bottom, the images are: the first prototype of the Clock of the Long Now, a C9th-10th crucifix reliquary from the V&A, and Titian’s portrait of Poe Paul III." [comment from "Peter": "Great analogy. I had never head of “the clock of the long now.” What a concept: “Because ‘now’ means different things is different contexts: ‘I’m hungry now’; ‘tartan skirts are fashionable now’; ‘The United States is now the world’s only superpower’; ‘India is now moving northward into Asia, forming the Himalayas’.” The idea is “to promote long-term thinking,” you point out. I wonder what long-term thinking is based on. Is it always based on an unseen model, something others may see as fictions, meanings we posit on the world to make sense of it (e.g., the Roman Catholic Church or generational history models like Howe’s Generations)? Is it also often based on common sense? Are some people or personality types more prone to long-term thinking? Is it built into our heads, as it is with squirrels or even ants? Are we too complicated or at least too fractured as societies to agree on what proper long-term thinking is in a given situation? Are cultures with stronger ties to the past than ours has better at it? Does long-term thinking become ingrained in certain cultures so that it isn’t even called long-term thinking until a particular habit or tradition or norm is lost? How can we be so short-sighted as a culture without the corresponding benefit of living in the moment?"]]]> harryrutherford 2010 longnow longnowfoundation catholicchurch time thinking howwethink zoominginandout present history religion popebenedictxvi greatschism normanconqueast thomasaquinas clockofthelongnow clocks globalwarming climate climatechange staugustine augustine saintaugustine augustineofhippo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a9b56c80c3c0/ 2025-01-26T00:16:11+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/wild-clocks/ robertogreco time clocks nature davidfarrier 2025 barbarahelm timekeeping phenology bodytime circadianrhythms birds multispecies morethanhuman wildlife honeybees bees michellbastian waysofsensing senses margaretatwood karloveknausgaard oceanvuong tsitsidangarembga covid-19 coronavirus futurelibrary ecosystems finland norway plants soil reindeer seasons fungi pablopicasso art past present future jamesbradley osipmandelstam literature trees 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https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a1a29235f980/ 2021-01-17T02:06:10+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/sunday/swimming-covid.html robertogreco bonnietsui 2020 pandemic coronavirus covid-19 swimming water meditation bodies attention focus senses immersion mobydick liminality liminal immediacy presence present rogerdeakin lynnecox cognition cognitivescience thoreau amostversy danielkahneman charlesdarwin alberteinstein psychology clarissadalloway ferrisjabr walking creativity wallacenichols daydreaming lordbyron hyperconnectivity hope nature outdoors florencewilliams darwin wallacestegner moby-dick https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:27aecac2d5c0/ 2020-12-19T09:37:52+00:00 https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/we-live-in-a-society/ robertogrecoThis exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts (since no social formation will concede that it has been superseded) form the terrain of the conjunctural, and it is upon this terrain that the opposition organizes. Though this passage was written about interwar Italy and appropriated to great effect by Stuart Hall to explain the rise of Thatcherism in Britain, it is difficult not to recognize our moment in it. In Riley’s reading, an organic crisis is a systemic political dissociation between represented and representative. Political leadership forfeits the acknowledged legitimacy of its constituency. Such a scenario may or may not call forth a novel political formation, depending on the development of civil society—which he finds an autonomous and contingent matter. Hall, however, adds another element: he distinguishes between the “conjunctural” and the “organic,” observing that a crisis only passes from the merely conjunctural to the organic when the “efforts” described by Gramsci cease to be restorationist and take on an inventive character, aiming to establish a new “hegemony” on the basis of a new social bloc. Per Riley, this is only possible on the basis of civic association, which he sees as largely absent across our political spectrum. Certainly skepticism about the possibility of resolution to the crisis is warranted. Even the unlikely victory of both Democratic candidates in Georgia’s January senate races won’t transform the underlying fact of American politics: the ungovernability of the country. That, in turn, can only mean that the crisis will not be resolved in the near term. It’s true that efforts to resolve the crisis from the right have, for the moment, been beaten back. But Trump’s failure to cohere what Gramsci would call a hegemonic “historic bloc” across class lines is no guarantee that the right will not produce such a formation successfully in the near future: one can see the outlines of it in Trump’s barely defeated coalition and the fervid, if ineffectual, resistance to the election outcome—and can easily imagine its triumph in the absence of Covid-19. Looking to the other side, it goes without saying that the current leaders of the Democratic Party are fundamentally incapable of resolving the impasse. As the weeks since the election have revealed, the party’s directorate wishes desperately to convey to its public a willingness to accommodate the police and the system of white supremacy of which they are the visible and contested face. This is nothing other than an announcement of an intention not to contest for hegemony—since the rival far-right hegemony coheres precisely around the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.” At the same time, and more promisingly, the disarticulated elements of a left-wing hegemony also appeared in 2020—not together, but rather in sequence. First the Sanders campaign, and then the spring-and-summer uprising against the police, each expressed a fragment of a new historic bloc. The relative social disconnection between the different parts of this hypothetical bloc, itself emerging from the disorganization of the American working class, is the reason it appeared in two parts rather than one. Each half has its own internal structures of organization. Virtually every city in America and many smaller towns are now home to what is a national panoply of Black activist organizations that emerged or grew this summer, some associated directly with larger national groups, some local specialties. Their reach, depth, and radicalism vary, but we still have yet to fully digest the scale of their achievement this year in pure organizational terms. Similarly Democratic Socialists of America and related local groups such as the tenants’ unions that have emerged in cities across the country, the Sunrise Movement, Reclaim Philadelphia, Reclaim Rhode Island, Lancaster Stands Up—and even more moderate cousins like the Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, and Indivisible—have seen very broad rank-and-file participation over the past four years. There are points of intersection between these halves, particularly promisingly among young Latinos and in the struggle against the deportation machine. There are individual people who straddle them in a sustained way, and voters and activists from one who will turn out for the other. But the overall pattern of separation at the associational level is unmistakable. In the moments of celebration after Biden’s victory was announced, however, one could faintly glimpse a new level of unity emerging. As people filled the streets both to defend the election result and to exult in it, a new bloc began to show its face. Trade unions, largely absent from the year’s earlier movements, figured centrally in demonstrations in Philadelphia, as they had done in the election campaign beforehand. The energy and solidarity of the summer uprising were present as well, transposed into a more joyful key. The decisive role of cities like Philly, Detroit, and Minneapolis in the defeat of the right points toward the possibility of leadership for the emerging socialist and abolitionist politics based in the young activist centers of those cities, and embodied on the electoral stage by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and of course Nikil Saval. A socialist program that confronts white supremacy as its immediate object—rather than trying to find a majority by navigating around the edifice of white supremacy—is the principle of unity for this bloc. Its social basis lies in an alliance of low-wage workers and high-debt workers, disproportionately young, who are concentrated together in cities and increasingly in suburbs. It is not that such an alliance on its own constitutes a majority; it is that it forms a potentially solid social foundation from which to provide rational answers to the structural problems of American society, and thus to recruit the more disparate elements needed to resolve the crisis. Join together these parts, and you have a big enough resonator. Still, to achieve this coherence will be a task of enormous conflict—with the forces of direct repression in the streets, which will not be discouraged by the presidential transition, and with the conservationist Democrats. Organization is the entire question—the building of relationships and trust across the forms of social difference that have thus far prevented the socialist message from resonating as widely as it might. For this, as it happens, Snyder had some advice, although he perhaps didn’t realize this was what he meant: “put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.” Or, as Phil Agnew put it—knowing exactly what he meant—“squeeze a hand.””]]> 2020 gabrielwinant donaldtrump trumpism politics elections us fascism organizing blacklivesmatter race racism capitalism organization berniesanders dsa democraticsocialistsofamerica sunrisemovement protest activism reclaimphiladelphia reclaimrhodeisland philadelphia rhodeisland lancasterstandsup lancaster workingfamiliesparty justicedemocrats indivisible republicans democrats history future present ilhanomar rashidatlaib coribush alexandriaocasio-cortez jamaalbowman nikilsaval labor unions teaparty work workers philagnew stuarthall antoniogramsci timothysnyder qanon talialavin bluelivesmatter dylanriley hierarchy wendybrown liberalism neoliberalism covid-19 coronavirus economics alexpareene mikedavis joearpaio whitesupremacy minneapolis riogrande texas jessicacisneros workingclass class newdeal congressionalblackcaucas power elitism establishment eugenedebs california dreamdefenders florida socialism patriomonialism albertotoscano communism georgepadmore jimcrow colonialism settlercolonialism angeladavis marx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c04db5fb35b/ 2020-12-15T07:13:16+00:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/732317 robertogreco mariakromidas childfragments 2019 girlhood children childhood tonicadebambara adultgaze adulthood race blackness relations relationships resistance whitesupremacy patriarchy alterity revolution hjoy present sylviawynter poetics poeticsofbeing becominghuman averygordon utopianmargins margins utopia pocketsofutopia pocketsofresistance unschooling deschooling learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5889a8ef21c6/ 2020-11-08T23:13:43+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city robertogrecoThe machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed. We have focused on how digital media transforms the subjective experience of individuals. The political corollary is that it enables and empowers regimes of algorithmic governance, predictive analytics, and social credit. The profound erosion of trust in the Digital City leaves a vacuum, and we look to our tools to fill it. We seem set upon interlocking trajectories: of ever greater swaths of the human experience being computationally managed, and of intractable human subjects increasingly breaking down or revolting against these conditions. From another vantage point, however, we might see this as a hopeful moment, full of promise and opportunity. Another path also seems possible. Freed from certain unsustainable illusions about the nature of the self and the world, we may now be called back to reckon with reality in a new, more chastened and more responsible manner. It is possible that the Promethean aspirations that characterized the modern self and modern society may now yield to a more sober assessment of the limits within which genuine human flourishing might occur. It is possible, too, that we may learn once again the necessity of virtues, public and private — that we will no longer, as T. S. Eliot put it, be “dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”"]]> lmsacasas digital newmedia writing howwewrite reading 2020 howweread secondaryorality walterong politics discourse audience abundance scarcity news print text communication neilpostman digitalcity analogcity truth speech digitalmedia socialmedia saintaugustine change liminality factchecking publishing jaydavidbolter reformation scientificrevolution history internet web online smartphones publiclife cities urban urbanism community howwethink thinking nicholascarr 2008 web2.0 facebook twitter algorithms moderation commenting tv television video dialogue criticalthinking affordances technology citizenship censorship values char charlestaylor bufferedself disenchantment meaning meaningmaking magic power objects heresy security purity bots data bigdata automation knowledge systems systemsthinking vulnerability time place now identity sharedtime sharedspace simultaneity realtime telegraph radio presence social belonging ivanillich memory memories language literacy orality oraltradition fables institutions bureaucra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6b35065c0c/ 2020-07-13T22:43:18+00:00 https://quillandquire.com/omni/qa-canisia-lubrin-speaks-to-dionne-brand-about-her-two-new-books-the-blue-clerk-and-theory/ robertogreco 2018 dionnebrand howwewrite interviews canisialubrin present presence narrative theory ideology hierarchy norms conforming life living conflict experimentation poetry change kamaubrathwaite tidalectics collecting accumulation noticing place language knowledge imagination wilsonharris theblueclerk fiction writing time https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0924d921fb52/ 2019-08-27T19:05:12+00:00 http://xiaoweiwang.com/spicytakes/2019-05-01/post robertogreco xiaoweiwang 2019 rural shenzhen china manufacturing alibaba taobao capitalism platformcapitalism ruraldevelopmentstrategy foxconn revitalization ruralrevitalization future bayarea oakland peripheries nairobi present futures countryside https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cef549ada5db/ 2019-03-05T18:54:44+00:00 https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-hope/ robertogreco derrickjensen activism crisis fear hope nihilism love vulnerability survival monsanto weyerhaeuser johnosborn humans life living presence present hereandnow action agency emotions rage sorrow joy despair happiness satisfaction dissatisfaction feelings exploitation mortality death canon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f33c6a5b47a4/ 2018-10-21T01:04:53+00:00 http://robinderosa.net/uncategorized/the-library-is-open-palakeynote/ robertogreco open libraries access openaccess 2018 oer publishing knowledge textbooks college universities robinderosa place past present future web internet online learning howwelearn education highered highereducation joemurphy nextgen safiyaumojanoble deomcracyb inequality donnalanclos davidlewis racism algorithms ralphwaldoemerson thoreau control power equality accessibility safiyanoble https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2ccfaa6abd90/ 2018-05-21T03:25:52+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/elements/lab-notes/why-nouns-slow-us-down-and-why-linguistics-might-be-in-a-bubble robertogreco language languages weird nouns verbs communication linguistics 2018 alanburdick action frankseifart balthasarbickel future present speed speaking english https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:02fb940db55c/ 2018-04-09T01:24:50+00:00 https://web.archive.org/web/20170517123210/http://www.vadikmarmeladov.com/ robertogreco vadikmarmeladov codesofpractice uniforms longterm stories language languages worldbuilding loyalty skills samples examples corporations corporatism losangeles property 2046 beauty part present siliconvalley fonts mars trust love environment like follows followers fakeness relevancy features numbers scale scalability fashion research attention uniform https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e0d097d7408/ 2018-03-11T20:02:24+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes robertogrecoThere are four reasons why the Cynics are so named. First because of the indifference of their way of life, for they make a cult of indifference and, like dogs, eat and make love in public, go barefoot, and sleep in tubs and at crossroads. The second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it. The third reason is that the dog is a good guard, and they guard the tenets of their philosophy. The fourth reason is that the dog is a discriminating animal which can distinguish between its friends and enemies. So do they recognize as friends those who are suited to philosophy, and receive them kindly, while those unfitted they drive away, like dogs, by barking at them.[58] As noted (see Death), Diogenes' association with dogs was memorialized by the Corinthians, who erected to his memory a pillar on which rested a dog of Parian marble.[39]"]]> philosophy stoicism cynicism diogenes simplicity simpleliving voluntarypoverty criticism society voluntarysimplicity dogs presence present everyday plato ancientgreece socrates practice praxis obscenity cv https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b05904961b37/ 2017-12-31T05:22:25+00:00 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201712/the-joy-and-sorrow-rereading-holt-s-how-children-learn robertogreco childhood learning parenting play sfsh johnholt petergray unschooling deschooling education howwelearn control children motivation intrinsicmotivation schools schooling future homeschool present presence lcproject openstudioproject reading skills keerymcdonald doing tcsnmy workmanship correction mistakes howchildrenlearn hurry rush schooliness fantasy mariamontessori imagination piaget jeanpiaget https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1ab492e0d197/ 2017-11-14T06:32:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o341S4xh1r0 robertogreco anabjain 2017 superflux death aging transience time temporary abundance scarcity future futurism prototyping speculativedesign predictions life living uncertainty film filmmaking design speculativefiction experimentation counternarratives designfiction futuremaking climatechange food homegrowing smarthomes iot internetofthings capitalism hope futures hopefulness data dataviz datavisualization visualization williamplayfair society economics wonder williamstanleyjevons explanation statistics wiiliambernstein prosperity growth latecapitalism propertyrights jamescscott objectivity technocrats democracy probability scale measurement observation policy ai artificialintelligence deeplearning algorithms technology control agency bias biases neoliberalism communism present past worldview change ideas reality lucagatti alextaylor unknown possibility stability annalowenhaupttsing imagination ursulaleguin truth storytelling paradigmshifts optimism annegalloway miyamotomusashi annatsing smarthome ursulakleguin latestagec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0eae1abc104e/ 2017-09-25T03:29:48+00:00 https://onbeing.org/blog/miguel-clark-mallet-weve-hoped-our-way-into-our-current-crisis/ robertogreco miguelclarkmallet hope everyday passivity despair 2017 life living engagement justice integrity control domination power humanism parenting achievement injustice oppression marginalization us utopia society progress progressivism present presence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8de24526732e/ 2017-06-25T02:17:12+00:00 http://thediagram.com/2_1/str_boredom.html robertogreco boredom diagrams thomasoden psychology theology 1969 now present awareness presence guilt future past anxiety responsiveness imagination trust emptiness meaning meaningmaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bafe8401eecd/