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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoOpen Humanities Press– hyposubjects2021-08-25T18:46:57+00:00
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/hyposubjects/
robertogrecotomothymorton dominicboyer 2021 hyposubjects inbetweeness interstitial inbetween liminal liminality via:justinpickard cracks seams revolution small queer transhuman morethanhuman intrahuman feminism ecology solarpunk environment transcendence power care adaptabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f80b207c7b24/On the Wild Edge in Iceland | Center for Humans & Nature2018-06-21T06:24:26+00:00
https://www.humansandnature.org/on-the-wild-edge-in-iceland
robertogrecoiceland trees forests brookeparryhecht 2018 elves sheep fences humans anthropocene edges seams ecologyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:99e4ab60f544/The Great Africanstein Novel | by Namwali Serpell | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books2017-10-22T20:07:36+00:00
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/12/the-great-africanstein-novel-kintu/
robertogrecoWe are both Europeanized and Ugandan. We speak both traditional languages and English. Someone goes to church, but then will go to the traditional healer. Someone is a scientist but will have an intense spiritual life. We have this saying in Uganda: “God help me, but I’m going to run as well.” We think two ways at once.
In the novel, Miisi conjures an image of African postcolonialism that captures this sensibility. He pictures the black torso of the continent but stripped of its limbs, which have been replaced with European ones. “We cannot go back to the operating table and ask for the African limbs,” he writes. “Africa must learn to walk on European legs and work with European arms. As time goes by, children will be born with evolved bodies.” Makumbi’s portmanteau for this Gothic image enacts the very grafting it describes: Africanstein.
Kintu cannot but be in some sense the story of a people, the Ganda, and a nation, Uganda. But its politics are personal. Idi Amin and the bush wars emerge in conversation, in acts of mourning. The ins and outs of the ancient Buganda Kingdom’s secessions and coups seem incidental to the personal tragedy of Kintu Kidda, his wives, and their children. Makumbi has said that she intentionally skipped the nation’s colonial history: “The almost complete lack of colonization was deliberate…. To me colonization was my grandfather’s quarrel.” So, without the usual lenses of class, culture, and colonialism—without “Queen and Country,” so to speak—how are we to read this “African” novel?"
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"Oddly enough, despite all this generalizing and pigeonholing, African writers are rarely thought to speak to the universal—in the philosophical sense rather than the platitudinous one. But if, as Makumbi noted at an event in Brooklyn last June, the origin of the human species is probably East Africa, then why can’t Kampala be the center of a profoundly universal inquiry? As its two-faced title—man/thing—suggests, Kintu does in fact have a grand philosophical question in mind. The novel forces us to reckon over and again with what it means to be kintu, to be man, or human. This question plays out across certain boundaries: between men and women, between twins, between life and death, between “mankind” and “animalkind,” between good and evil, between human and supernatural worlds, between foreigners and family, and, of course, between humans and objects."
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"Miisi completely loses his grip on reality and starts wearing a Western-style waistcoat and coat over his kanzu. In his dishevelment, he comes to resemble his ancestor with that strange thing/person name, Kintu. Miisi becomes a man “floating in two worlds.” Which two worlds? Boyhood and manhood, past and present, muntu and muzungu, Europe and Africa? “I know who I am,” Miisi tells his daughter, “We are not even Hamites. We are Bantu.” But she thinks, “He is now a different person.” In the end, he is riven by his divisions, “in the middle world between sanity and insanity.”
To survive being human, Kintu suggests, is to hold all these divisions together, gently, to “just be.” This argument about personhood is radical because it rejects a long philosophical tradition of considering “humanity” as a matter of self-containment and integrity, of what the human excludes. It is also radical because Makumbi centers this argument in Uganda. But what better place, with its arbitrarily sketched borders, its pliable myths and cultures, its originary status—cradle of the first human/thing—to stage an interrogation of personhood? As Makumbi has remarked in passing about living as an immigrant in the UK: “Out here you are Ugandan. At home you are just human.”"]]>jennifernansubugamakumbi namwaliserpell books literature kintu kampala ugnda africaisnotacountry 2017 toread universal universalism humans humanism objects betweenness seams gender supernatural middleground gray grey humanity personhood integrity self-containment borders identity myth culture sexuality history colonialism postcolonialism human colonization europe decolonization frankenstein africanstein africa africans twins multispecies morethanhuman life living philosophy divisions interstitial liminality liminalspaces liminalstates betweenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33813b58552a/Dark Mountain: Issue 11 | The Dark Mountain Project2017-04-30T21:57:21+00:00
http://dark-mountain.net/blog/dark-mountain-issue-11/
robertogrecodarkmountain liminality liminalspaces seams scars edges borders 2017 messiness truth linearity endings culture society ecology politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4fc4a60b71f/Illuminating the Beauty in Our Broken Places | On Being2017-04-23T19:02:18+00:00
https://onbeing.org/blog/omid-safi-illuminating-the-beauty-in-our-broken-places/
robertogreco“It’s very important that we understand the spiritual backgrounds or the history behind… the material.”
This is interwoven with the philosophy of wabi-sabi, which means “to find beauty in broken things or old things.”
I wonder what it would be like to live knowing that our own hearts are like these cracked, illuminated, and healed dishes. Oh, it is so sweet and innocent to love a heart that has never been broken.
There is a simplicity, a childlike naïveté to that kind of love. And there is a love, a mature love, a whole love, a healed love, to loving someone who has been broken and healed, made whole again, and where the cracks are golden.
We see what was once broken and is now healed. Sometimes they are stronger, more beautiful, more whole for the cracks showing up.
Desmond Tutu was right. We are all wounded healers. Cracked open, healed, and healing wounded healers.
We value success, wholeness. Unlike this Japanese art form, we don’t yet have a way of looking for what was once broken and has been healed and illuminated. How lovely would it be to find that a cracked and illuminated cup can be even more beautiful than a whole cup. How wise to realize that the broken hearts, illuminated and made whole, can be even lovelier.
Give me someone who knows their own vulnerability and sees mine.
Give me someone whose cracked spaces are golden.
Give me someone who has helped do kintsugi to my cracked spaces.
Give me someone who is open to me doing kintsugi to their cracked heart.
So friends, wabi-sabi me.
Let me wabi-sabi you.
Let’s repair each other.
Let’s seek what’s cracked in each other.
Let’s heal our broken spaces.
Let’s fill what’s broken with gold.
May we emerge more beautiful, more whole, and luminous.
So, my love, come and see the beauty in my cracked spaces.
I see the beauty in yours.
You are not a heart that I will discard.
Do not discard me.
We can emerge from this healing golden, more beautiful.
May all that is cracked and broken be healed
be illuminated."]]>kintsugi repair 2017 omidsafi clacks seams scars fisixing maintenance healing care caregiving caretakinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70ab4fd03cee/Kintsugi: The Art of Broken Pieces on Vimeo2017-04-23T19:00:36+00:00
https://vimeo.com/90734143
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http://a-small-lab.com/presentations/humane-aspects-of-tokyo
robertogrecochrisberthelsen 2011 japan tokyo messiness unschooling deschooling anarchy anarchism creativity innovation neighborhoods urban urbanism individuals process social environment openstudioproject lcproject happiness personhood personality intrinsicmotivation knowledge climate culture traditions rituals values freedom trust openness playfulness play humor time resources resourcefulness cities community agency space place consumption consumerism capitalism control technology pocketsofresistance resistance planning urbanplanning policy change adaptability adaptation scale slow small order cohabitation landscape self-organization complexity stimergy coordination emergence emergentcurriculum handmade seams gaps pockets remkoolhaas ivanillich teresaamabile scottisaksen goranekvall engram trace aldoushuxley ritualhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:25dac4005dc4/BLDGBLOG: Ghost Streets of Los Angeles2015-12-06T03:45:25+00:00
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/ghost-streets-of-los-angeles.html
robertogrecoI lived there as a teenager, but never noticed the two diagonals until I looked at it with google maps. There are some lots on the west side of the next two blocks north which also have diagonals. And if you continue north across Pico Blvd, you can see diagonal property lines around St. Mary Magdalene Catholic School and the church.
Thanks for all the tips, and by all means keep them coming, if you are aware of other sites like this, whether in Los Angeles or further afield; and be sure to read through the comments for more.
*Second Update* The examples keep coming. A commenter named Lance Morris explains that he did an MFA project "about this very thing, but in Long Beach. There's a long diagonal scar running from Long Beach Blvd and Willow all the way down to Belmont Shore. I tried walking as closely to the line as I could and GPS tracked the results. There are even 2 areas where you can still see tracks!"
This inspired me to look around the area a little bit on Google Maps, which led to another place nearby, as seen below.
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Again, seeing how these local building forms have been generated by the outlines of a missing street or streetcar line is pretty astonishing.
Further, the tiniest indicators of these lost throughways remain visible from above, usually in the form of triangular building cuts or geometrically odd storage yards and parking lots. Because they all align—like some strange industrial ley line—you can deduce that an older piece of transportation infrastructure is now missing.
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Indeed, if you zoom out from there in the map, you'll see that the subtle diagonal line cutting across the above image (from the lower left to the upper right) is, in fact, an old rail right of way that leads from the shore further inland.
To give a sense of how incredibly subtle some of these signs can be, the diagonal fence seen in the below screen grab—
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—is actually shaped that way not because of some quirk of the local storage lot manager, but because it follows this lost right of way."]]>losangeles urban architecture cities chinamieville streets seams scars landscape 2015 geoffmanaugh bldgblog chinamiévillehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10c0a7d4bfd7/Victor Hwang at Austin Community College, December 11, 2014 : The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever : NPR2015-07-02T17:32:59+00:00
http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/victor-hwang-austin-community-college-2014/
robertogrecoseams scars 2014 liminality borders edges transitions crosspollination interdisciplinary multidisciplinary victorhwang liminalspaces littoralzonehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f5d544144b1e/Blog - by Allen Tan - An accent marks the lag between two cultures, two...2015-03-28T06:55:58+00:00
http://blog.tanmade.com/post/114816765596/an-accent-marks-the-lag-between-two-cultures-two
robertogrecoandréaciman language accents identity languages speech exile connection betweenness migration immigration belonging culture seams interstitial thirdculture liminality liminalspaces liminalstates betweenhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f0cb9293af3/Matt Jones: Jumping to the End -- Practical Design Fiction on Vimeo2015-03-06T06:36:23+00:00
https://vimeo.com/121072011
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http://information-online.alia.org.au/content/seams-and-edges-dreams-aggregation-access-and-discovery-broken-world
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http://www.designboom.com/project/reform-toxicity-bhopal-india/
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http://bodyhappy.com/cracks-in-the-buddha/
robertogrecobuddhism cracks seams scars leonardcohen shellshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d76ff378b4fe/Kintsugi - Wikipedia2014-06-28T22:57:28+00:00
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
robertogrecoart design japanese japan words seams scars repair kintsugi repairinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f8fe8d9db51/What I’m working on lately: Practices of the minimum viable utopia (long) | Speedbird2014-04-23T22:59:41+00:00
http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/what-im-working-on-lately-practices-of-the-minimum-viable-utopia-long/
robertogrecoutopia 2014 adamgreenfield openstudioproject pocketsofresistance resistance institutforx godbanen aarhus madrid spain españa elcampodecebada untothislast london making makerculture economics production fabrication democracy labor upcycling collectivism collaboration repair furniture agency denmark davidharvey postcapitalism sharingeconomy sharing libraries lcproject community communities cooperatives anilbawa-cavia renatom airbnb couchsurfing kintsugi seams minimumviableutopia douglasmeehan idealism practicalism jeremyrifkin self-reliance murraybookchin jugaad fabbing gambiarra fixing maintenance cv repairing selfreliancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1a1c6e6ca26b/Designing in the Borderlands by Frank Chimero2014-04-14T06:11:47+00:00
http://frankchimero.com/talks/designing-in-the-borderlands/transcript/
robertogrecoWhenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.
I hope you get the opportunity to do this at some point in your career, and that my conclusions will help those of you who identify as generalists. If you do not, perhaps I have convinced you that our conception of work is more flexible than we typically believe. The field is wide open; that is why it’s called a field."]]>generalists frankchimero creativity design borders seams interstitial cv trickster departmentalization interdisciplinary dualism transdisciplinary print digital books ebooks bookfuturism marshallmcluhan quentinfiore buckminsterfuller multimedia jeffreyschnapp adammichaels allsorts italocalvino translationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44a77a2c6442/Svetlana Boym | Off-Modern Manifesto2013-11-25T23:27:25+00:00
http://www.svetlanaboym.com/manifesto.htm
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http://wrongdreams.com/2013/08/05/anguish-beyond-whirrs-or-only-machines-correct/
robertogrecowriting bots ericscourti human humans sincerity vulnerability 2013 flaws seams spelling social newsincerity grammar errors mistakes autocorrect fallibility humanity punctuation mediation authenticity squishynotslick copywritinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f99ebcc5b802/John Seely Brown Lecture on Learning in the Digital Age - YouTube2013-05-19T18:51:24+00:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNwCGWXK6YU
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http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/the-garden/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/morozov-machines-of-laughter-and-forgetting.html
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http://hastac.org/forums/disability-moving-beyond-access-academy
robertogrecovia:ablerism ability disability academia marylalper melissahelquist stephanierosen jaydolmage alanfoley maramills cyndirowland questions questioning unfinished solutions solutionism transparaency visibility problems problemsolving design art technology interactions interrogativeworks resolution laurenmccarthy matthiasgommel jennifercrupi accessibility hacking appropriation innovation resistance unresolved seams seamlessness canon sarahendren allisonhitt assistivetechnology disabilitieshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06b87b9f94b1/Landless: Ode to the Semicolon2013-03-09T07:45:46+00:00
http://www.tonynoland.com/2009/09/ode-to-semicolon.html
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/eno.html
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bopuc/7939584824/
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/07/how-to-use-semicolons.html
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http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2012/06/soonest-mending.html
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http://magicalnihilism.com/2011/08/18/my-problem-with-the-internet-of-things/
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http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7555
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http://www.core77.com/blog/news/idsa_western_district_wendy_march_on_being_boring_9619.asp
robertogrecoeasiness boringness boiring seamlessness technology wendymarch research ethnography anthropology user experience ux seamshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1b8d00033152/Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » "Remarkable hope in seams and scars"2007-11-20T10:52:43+00:00
http://liftlab.com/think/nova/2007/11/20/remarkable-hope-in-seams-and-scars/
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