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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Bizarre World of Celebrity Philanthropy2024-02-06T17:44:56+00:00
https://culturestudypod.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-world-of-celebrity-philanthropy
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robertogreconotjustbikes transportation cars freeways losangeles houston seoul arlington 2024 traffic congestion trains transit oslo cities urban urbanism nicoleconlan jasonslaughter matthewkrol chuckmarohn indueceddemand austin texas california policy highways lanes segregation planning stevemould bikes biking seattle copenhagen wsdot pugetsound netherlands buses cycling washingtondc pedestrians safety qualityoflifehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a8b8511791b/I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress2024-01-23T18:29:03+00:00
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/i-ask-seven-heretical-questions-about
robertogrecotedgioia 2024 progress technology small local humanities philosophy technocracy technocrats spirituality music books art families friends innerlife qualityoflife values wisdom humanism humanflourishing smarthphones ar vr virtualreality augmentedreality economics economists metrics measurement politics policy consumerism consumption poverty capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ffb8e692466a/The Real History of the Luddites w/ Brian Merchant - Episodes - Tech Won’t Save Us2023-10-02T15:34:10+00:00
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant
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https://twitter.com/spiroferrer/status/1688275753417535488
robertogrecosanfrancisco 20223 politics policing fascism centrism petitbourgeosie urban urbanism qualityoflife cities capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea8134e283b0/Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies - YouTube2023-07-20T21:54:33+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6MLtFeZcak
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuseHXkMjmM
robertogrecodegrowth lolaseaton 2023 climatechange climatecrisis economics economy policy capitalism globalwarming well-being qualityoflife happiness greennewdeal decarbonization carbonemissions extinctionrebellion strategy left liberalism neoliberalism markets gdp growth greengrowth inflationreducationact power socialism inequality organizing ecosocialism internationalism ecofascism acceleration prosperity nancyfraser troyvettese cédricdurand thomasmeaney alyssabattistoni marxism energy robertpollin hermandaly egalitarianism emissions austerity ecoausterity theodoradorno ideology ecology politics civilization society mikedavis nationalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:276a9b924b75/Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? | The New Yorker2023-05-18T01:22:37+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
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https://www.ifitweremyhome.com
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https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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https://mailchi.mp/thebrick.house/the-secret-service-is-not-so-secretly-disloyal-13854240?e=7e355757ff
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pvbiS1C3k
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-human-built-world-is-not-built
robertogrecoI know a Mexican village through which not more than a dozen cars drive each day. A Mexican was playing dominoes on the new hard-surface road in front of his house — where he had probably played and sat since his youth. A car sped through and killed him. The tourist who reported the event to me was deeply upset, and yet he said: “The man had it coming to him.”
The assumption in the tourist’s statement is clear and brutal: it is the responsibility of humans to adapt to their technical milieu. For the sake of a development he likely neither needed or desired, this man’s environment was transformed so as to render it hostile to him, but it is somehow his fault for failing to promptly adapt himself to the new reality. As Illich notes, there’s not even an air of the tragic in the tourist’s claim. One can imagine some not-too-distant future when a cyclist is struck and killed by an autonomous vehicle and an observer declares, “Well, she wasn’t even wearing her beacon, so she had it coming to her.”
As I thought about Illich’s anecdote, my own parental anxiety to convey to my children the importance of minding the cars around them at all times appeared in a new light. When one remembers that it has not always been necessary to carefully train a child, with ritualistic precision, just so that they can walk about without fear of mortal injury, then the whole thing takes on a rather absurd and malicious character.
Once you see this dynamic in one set of circumstances, you start to see it again and again. In innumerable ways we bend ourselves to fit the pattern of a techno-economic order that exists for its own sake and not for ours. As another example, consider Illich’s observations in 2000 about what is required of those who would pursue a successful career:
Modern citizens who want to pursue a successful career face a situation that is without clear boundaries or limits, and this prevents them from recognizing an alternative to their self-directed ‘lifelong learning and decision-making.’ Their comings and goings, their progress and well-being, their flourishing and ruination depend on their adaptation to diverse systems. In particular, they have to learn to function and compete in symbiosis with current economic conditions. A tolerant acceptance of these conditions is no longer enough. One has to learn to identify with them. In the mills of the new economy, where positioning is all, the grit is supposed to grind itself so fine that it becomes grease for the gears.
Or consider Shannon Mattern’s observation that “our phones seem to be contrived for circadian contradiction.” A reminder that our own technologically induced patterns of restlessness can be profoundly unhealthy. Our phones, after all, function as an interface between us and a vast network of communication and commerce: in practice, do they principally serve our interests or those of the network?
As the ways that we are schooled for life in a system that in significant ways runs counter to our own interests and well-being become more apparent, then Illich’s more radical claims begin to sound plausible if not altogether sensible.
In Tools for Conviviality, for example, we encounter this stark summation of Illich’s view of industrial society:
Increasing manipulation of man becomes necessary to overcome the resistance of his vital equilibrium to the dynamic of growing industries; it takes the form of educational, medical, and administrative therapies. Education turns out competitive consumers; medicine keeps them alive in the engineered environment they have come to require; bureaucracy reflects the necessity of exercising social control over people to do meaningless work. The parallel increase in the cost of the defense of new levels of privilege through military, police, and insurance measures reflects the fact that in a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Maybe this comes off as rather extreme. After all, Illich is arguing that the modern world, circa 1974 at least, is fundamentally hostile to human well-being and that some of its most vaunted institutions were basically coping and conditioning mechanisms.
Jacques Ellul, with passing reference to learning how to navigate street traffic, argues similarly:
“At the same time, one should not forget the fact that human beings are themselves already modified by the technical phenomenon […] Their whole education is oriented toward adaptation to the conditions of technique (learning how to cross streets at traffic lights) and their instruction is destined to prepare them for entrance into some technical employment. Human beings are psychologically modified by consumption, by technical work, by news, by television, by leisure activities (currently, the proliferation of computer games), etc., all of which are techniques. In other words, it must not be forgotten that it is this very humanity which has been pre-adapted to and modified by technique that is supposed to master and reorient technique. It is obvious that this will not be able to be done with any independence.”
But this is why I read writers like Illich and Ellul, and why I encourage others to do the same: for the sake of a thoroughgoing critique that will make me think more deeply, and uncomfortably, about our situation and my own acquiescence and complicity. I find that my vision tends to be too narrowly focused on surface-level symptoms. And it is too easy to take refuge in the thought that a few tweaks here and a little regulation there will make all things well, or at least significantly better. Meanwhile, nothing quite changes. Then along comes someone like Illich or Ellul claiming that maybe the whole modern techno-social order, whatever its relative merits, is broken and malignant. That the roots of our problems run much deeper than we had assumed. That we are, in truth, doing it all wrong and should revisit some of our most fundamental assumptions. You may not, in the end, agree with their conclusions, but seriously considering their perspectives should at least help us to ask better, more fundamental questions about the human-built world, or, perhaps more importantly, about the beliefs, values, and interests that shape it.
What Illich and Ellul would have us consider is that the human-built world is not, in fact, built for humans. And, of course, this is to say nothing of what the human-built world has meant for the non-human world. What’s more, it may be paradoxically the case that the human-built world will prove finally inhospitable to human beings precisely to the degree that it was built for humans without regard for humanity’s continuity with the other animals and the world we inhabit together.”]]>lmsacasas ivalillich shannonmattern jacquesellul consumerism consumption capitalism regulation technology human humans humanism posthumanism morethanhuman multispecies 2021 deschooling unschooling technosolutionism nature conviviality education slow small modernism industrialization cars autonomousvehicles smartphones sleep well-being work labor bullshitjobs life living qualityoflife society restlessness health leisurehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a9cfc0b664a/David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything - YouTube2021-03-13T03:12:23+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNghg1Y-WIc
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https://bostonreview.net/race-politics-law-justice/alex-vitale-scott-casleton-problem-isnt-just-police%E2%80%94its-politics
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/contributive-justice-and-dignity-work/615919/
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https://eand.co/why-america-is-the-worlds-first-poor-rich-country-17f5a80e444a
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/chile-protests-against-president-pinera-and-deep-inequality.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/world/middleeast/global-protests.html
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https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/hygge-holidays-design-denmark-social-democracy-solidarity
robertogrecoThere is wide support for the welfare state. The support stems from an awareness of the fact that the welfare model turns our collective wealth into wellbeing. We are not paying taxes, we are investing in our society. We are purchasing quality of life. The key to understanding the high levels of well-being in Denmark is the welfare model’s ability to reduce risk, uncertainty, and anxiety among its citizens and to prevent extreme unhappiness.
Another book called The Hygge Life, written by two Scandinavian authors, says much the same thing:
In Scandinavia, the government takes care of many of life’s essential services, such as childcare, education, and health care. The principles of hygge emerged throughout the region in part because its residents do not have to shoulder the burden of responsibility for many of life’s expensive necessities — or bear the insecurity, uncertainty, and anxiety that accompany that burden.
Social democracy can’t solve all of our problems. One big problem it can’t solve is its own fragility.
If capitalists still exist, they will still exploit workers and accumulate wealth, and they will use that wealth to build political power, which they will wield to undermine social democracy itself. This is happening in the Scandinavian social democracies now as neoliberal governments, including some social-democratic parties, privatize public goods and unravel the twentieth-century compromise. The introduction of even mild austerity measures has doubled the number of Danish people living in poverty since 2002 (though it’s still less than one-third of the United States’s poverty rate).
Nor can social democracy absolutely guarantee hygge. It can’t ensure that the snow will fall gently on Christmas Eve, nor that our holiday gathering will be cozy and convivial. As Corey Robin wrote in Jacobin, the right political-economic system can at best promise to “convert hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness.” The rest is up to us. We have to trim our own tree, and love our own neighbors.
But social democracy — and actual socialism, for that matter — can make time, company, and security easier to obtain. That’s no small feat.
In that way, it can lay the material foundations for a more hyggelig society, one where people are happier and more at ease, and where the reigning principle is not alienation but solidarity."]]>hygge meaganday 2018 denmark socialdemocracy socialism socialsafetynet politics policy happiness comfort us coreyrobin scandinavia solidarity wellbeing responsibility uncertainty anxiety neoliberalism capitalism risk civics qualityoflife pleasure multispecies family trust intimacy peaceofmind leisure work labor health healthcare unions time slow fragility taxes inequality company securityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66553d2cb3fc/Reasons To Be Cheerful2018-01-22T02:04:17+00:00
https://www.reasonstobecheerful.world/
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http://www.racked.com/2016/12/28/13956118/muji-paradox
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-great-affluence-fallacy.html
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/nordic-american-dream-partanen/489032/
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http://www.bustle.com/articles/171014-7-things-nordic-countries-are-totally-doing-right-according-to-the-nordic-theory-of-everything
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http://www.livemint.com/Politics/VFwRPtdqCtg6lyBeacEfZI/I-have-no-idea-what-a-smart-city-means-Rahul-Mehrotra.html
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http://www.vox.com/2015/7/21/8974435/switzerland-work-life-balance
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http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/05/who-should-move-from-new-york-to-los-angeles/392252/
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http://thelongandshort.org/issues/season-three/turning-japanese-coping-with-stagnation.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjgXwp7gQRA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-iDUcETjvo
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/americas-workers-stressed-out-overwhelmed-totally-exhausted/284615/
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http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_hedonistic_sustainability.html
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/26/stephane-hessel-93-french-bestseller
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The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous!, calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society.
Launched in October by Indigène…tiny first print-run, 6,000…sold for €3, unprecedentedly cheap in a country where book prices are regulated & kept high by the law.
Hessel's success has stunned France. After two months on the bestseller lists, the book has spent five weeks at number one…has sold 600,000 copies & – publishers predict it will reach a million…
argues that French people should re-embrace the values of the French resistance, which have been lost, which was driven by indignation, and French people need to get outraged again…calls for peaceful and non-violent insurrection…"]]>stéphanehessel books publishing longform writing culture society politics 2010 insurrection resistance life qualityoflife france immigration outrage indignation frencresistance inequality disparity wealthdistributionhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:522cf4d6b7be/Red de Ciudades Cómo Vamos2011-05-30T17:04:09+00:00
http://reddeciudadescomovamos.org/
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http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/11/americathe-grim-truth.html
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http://urbanomnibus.net/2010/08/code-for-america/
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http://shareable.net/blog/can-we-design-cities-for-happiness
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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/10/taxes-taxes-everywhere.php
robertogrecomatthewyglesias taxes denmark us policy politics society qualityoflife well-beinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5005c0a8c267/Half an Hour: Tax Credits: The Oregon Example2009-08-29T18:26:13+00:00
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/08/tax-credits-oregon-example.html
robertogrecooregon well-being qualityoflife people policy politics economics taxes place productivity portland reform progressivismhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cf9f8b7a39ab/Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game | Zen Habits2008-10-13T00:43:56+00:00
http://zenhabits.net/2008/10/productivity-20-how-the-new-rules-of-work-are-changing-the-game/
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http://www.iadb.org/res/publications/pubfiles/pubR-559.pdf
robertogrecobuenosaires qualityoflife housing homes latinamerica statistics studies research filetype:pdf media:documenthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:251b0cc56ac6/enRoute February 20082008-03-02T00:29:02+00:00
http://www.enroutemag.com/e/february08/feature2_a.html
robertogrecovia:cityofsound bikes canada cities transportation urban urbanism bogotá colombia paris france planning well-being creativity design psychology lifestyle mexico mexicodf qualityoflife traffic df mexicocityhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be4ac07da869/Pankaj Mishra: As Sarkozy gropes for grand concepts the might of Asia looms over the west | Comment is free | The Guardian2008-02-11T19:50:41+00:00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/11/france.china
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6754549.stm
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