Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Unveiling urban landscapes: Alisa Oleva’s performances during the pandemic - Raffaella Tartaglia, 2024 2026-06-29T03:40:03+00:00 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505068241262923 robertogreco raffaellatartaglia alisaoleva seonsory walking seeing touching 2020 2024 everday situationist psychogeography art walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:228df78dfd78/ Noticing by Richard Louv | Hachette Book Group 2026-06-27T05:38:59+00:00 https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/richard-louv/noticing/9781643753034/ robertogreco richardlouv nature senses sensing multispecies morethanhuman 2026 spirituality wildlife wilderness neuroscience photography indigeneity indigenous bioenchantment enchantment animism mindfulness human humanism humans science art noticing seeing sensory attention ecology ecoanxiety environment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:606f3bcfdb23/ Can the Unseen Speak? Maria Putri and Ali Napier on plantation ecologies and colonial afterlives – KoozArch 2026-06-12T21:54:19+00:00 https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/can-the-unseen-speak-maria-putri-and-ali-napier-on-plantation-ecologies-and-colonial-afterlives robertogreco mariaputri alinapier sumatra architecture performance storytelling colonialism decolonization postcolonialism colonization landscape infrastructure film 2026 filmmaking seeing unseen indigeneity indigenous https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ccbe58e4cd68/ How AIs See Our World 2026-05-26T23:36:42+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/how-ais-see-our-world/ robertogreco chenoehart 2026 ai artificialintelligence seeing chatbots openai chatgpt donnorman clivethompson skeumorphism technology computers computing comprehension computation llms elisagiardinapapa aitraining algorithms eryksalvaggio 2022 2023 ux ui theowayt amazon qrcodes cameras tomwilliams 2019 google microsoft morganklaussscheuerman race rfid smartphones data waymo understanding elaineherzberg uber ntsb automstion psysicalai nvidia avs detection tracking driverlesscars apple complexity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:86e853880be2/ Unqualified | Cosmos Malick 2026-04-16T05:24:20+00:00 https://cosmosmalick.net/2026/04/09/unqualified.html robertogreco 2026 education film filmmaking reading howweread appreciation terrencemalick joshjeter ptanderson paulthomasanderson johnsturges neorealism charlietrotter charliechaplin stanleykubrick federicofellini williamwyler cinerama cinemascope fosterhirsch fellini robertorosellini eliakazan amateurs literature howwelearn seeing hearing senses cinema https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7f12ff0335d/ Seeing as a Form of Doing - Mockingbird 2026-04-15T06:34:21+00:00 https://mbird.com/the-magazine/seeing-as-a-form-of-doing/ robertogreco seeing doing art beauty religion culture 2026 aaronrosen meaghanmitts visualculture curation christianity aesthetics hospitality spirituality iantrask annemourier michaeltakeomagruder olafureliasson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c2cf429759e/ Welcoming the Shadow Brother - Front Porch Republic 2026-03-10T07:24:27+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/03/welcoming-the-shadow-brother/ robertogreco mellivatino introversion introverts extroversion extroverts small slow 2026 travel relationships living life howwelive timothyferris humanity beauty listening looking seeing observation local waltwhitman emilydickinson josefkoudelka renémagritte art photography jamiewyeth georgiao'keefe writing howwewrite attention conversation bertrandrussell josephconrad https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0f299548bf8/ Seeing Deeply Being Deeply Seen - by Scott Paterson 2026-02-16T03:21:03+00:00 https://possibilityhours.substack.com/p/seeing-deeply-being-seen robertogreco scottpaterson 2026 seeing waysofseeing attention davidbrooks anaisnin anaïsnin perception conversation listening interestedness empathy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b6841bef3cb1/ The Lexiconic - Beautiful Eccentrics 2025-11-14T05:57:58+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/the-lexiconic robertogreco pablohelguera 2025 howwewrite writing form theory invention completion unwritten unfinished incomplete openended imagery art thinking howwethink pretend play dilettentism dilettantes lexiconic surrealists barbarakruger martharosler hanshaake lawrenceweiner interdisciplinary crossdisciplinary multidisciplinary education learning howwelearn pedagogy migueldeunamuno performance performanceart evasion lexicon reading howweread seeing naming making taxonomy practice ramónxirau philosophy literature playformance nivolas rigor continuity care legitimacy poetry minimalism antagonism artwriting arteducation activism apprenticeship bookcovers cv incompleteness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b442d11c41e2/ The Woman Who Redefined Street Photography - YouTube 2025-10-01T16:45:56+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwnzlcGYJnA robertogrecohelenlevitt faizalwestcott 2025 streetphotography photography nyc documentation history noticing seeing curiosity walkerevans henricartier-bresson storytelling everyday looking children play imagination color intimacy dignity empathy observation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67c2054553e5/ The Art of Doing Nothing - YouTube 2025-09-19T17:17:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezMUkOoQbqU robertogrecofaizalwestcott photography presence noticing attention observation wandering flaneur drifting strolling streetphotography being listening allthesenses flâneurs flaneurs flâneur idleness slow time capitalism resistance productivity silence production nyc streets rest control everyday timewasting wastingtime life living meaning meaningmaking beauty stillness seeing drift https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f832f197eef/ In Search of Distraction | The Poetry Foundation 2025-09-19T16:53:02+00:00 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/144656/in-search-of-distraction robertogreco 2017 matthewbevis distraction digressions daydreaming rebeccasolnit johnbeck thomasdavenport add adhd saulbellow thomasdequincey attention dianearbus creativity laurencesterne diderot society culture johnashbery gertrudestein maxnordau thoreau jeancocteau mariannemoore poetry peterstitt hamlet shakespeare janefreilicher jameslorenbach rbkitaj theodordreyer walterbenjamin film art richardhoward donaldwinnicott proust marcelproust paulnorth elizabethbishop kennethkoch thomashardy jamesschuyler looking seeing joriegraham henrimichaux rolandbarthes henrywordsworth denisdiderot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd4515224aff/ Al Wong on Twin Peaks, Art, and Meditation · SFMOMA 2025-08-25T05:41:08+00:00 https://www.sfmoma.org/read/al-wong-on-twin-peaks-art-and-meditation/ robertogreco“Everything is interconnected. We all know that. But how can I do that in art?” — Al Wong Are you seeking something specific in your art? AW: I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. As a person that’s called an artist, what is this activity and what am I making this for? Why am I here every day, sitting, drawing, and writing? Trying to find, to sound corny, the truth. And I don’t know what that is. And time is really precious now. Everything is interconnected. We all know that. But how can I do that in art? Zen says to get rid of “monkey’s mind” — thoughts like, “Oh, I got a bill to pay. I got to meet so-and-so. I got a job to do.” What’s really important? Your life. Everything we experience, it’s impermanent. We should appreciate moments and people we’re with, because we’re all going to go. So going back to making the work, I should make it better, try my best. With film, the work has to relate to the space. We’re here; very live, present, primary. There’s no space to allow us to break the present tense. We’re talking. This is it. If I can make art that considers that, then people can experience that or not — it’s their choice, to pay attention. It’s a subtle thing, and I feel when things are subtle, sometimes they’re really true."]]> alwong film filmmaking sfmoma sanfrancisco time twinpeaks buddhism zen zenbuddhism meditation seasons light change cycles sfai interconnected interconnectedness art artists presence artmaking jaydefeo seeing waysofseeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dbab2cc51ce6/ Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, editied by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin (2025) 2025-05-16T03:50:30+00:00 https://www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-and-the-politics-of-things-not-seen robertogreco nedaatanasoski katherinebennett ivánchaarlópez sushmitachatterjee hayridortdivanlioglu sanazhaghani jacobhagelberg jenniferhamilton antoniahernández marjankhatibi tamarakneese erinmcelroy vernellenoel jessicaolivares nassimparvin bethsemel reneeshelby tanjawiehn 2025 via:javierarbona smarthome smarthomes technology technocreep feminism creep smartforests smart china surveillance borders border credit sexcams privacy homeassistants seeing collectivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a90b028dc2b/ Ecstatic Documents | Are.na Editorial 2025-01-14T19:16:42+00:00 https://www.are.na/editorial/ecstatic-documents robertogrecoWhen Shevchenko’s 35mm footage was later developed, he noticed that a portion of the film was heavily pockmarked and carried extraneous static interference and noise. Thinking initially that the film stock used had been defective, Shevchenko eventually realised that what he had captured on film was the image and sound of radioactivity itself. ... What we are witness to, in this fleeting energetic event, is the radiological conversion of a somewhat pedestrian account of the disaster into the most dangerous film in the world.” Notice, already, how opportunistic the creators of ecstatic documents are. Moments of ecstatic media tend to happen to those predisposed to them. Indeed irradiation became the defining visual proposition of Shevchenko’s project and he embedded it into the film’s narrative. “This is how radiation looks,” his voiceover announces. [embed: "camera shutter speed and frame rate match helicopter`s rotor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3ngmRuGUc ] Ecstatic documents might sometimes be unbidden, but more typically they are pursued, with rigor and intent. There is a YouTube video of a helicopter taking off from a Hong Kong dock without its rotors moving. It is eerie and artificial-looking; the aircraft seems somehow to float into the sky with no visual sign of the mechanical energy required to get it off the ground. The effect is produced by an exact reciprocity between the rotational frequency of the helicopter’s rotor blades and the specified shutter speed and frame rate of the digital camera recording the scene. This reciprocity creates a document that quite simply does not look like an unmediated experience of seeing a helicopter achieve flight, yet is somehow more faithful to it. The video engages ecstatically with rotational frequency and disinterestedly with everything else. It neglects all other aspects of the scene it conveys. The context of this particular helicopter flight is completely absent. In this way it is at once hyper-attuned to its subject and, like Shevchenko’s irradiated film, in another sense incomplete, inadequate. This kind of technical reciprocity would be banal or pedantic, in the negative sense, if it were not for its empathic poetry: the curious and unlikely fact of it emphasizing what is arguably the defining characteristic — r-r-rotational frequency! — of what it documents. Right now this video has had 11 million views. One can confidently assume that these are not 11 million local Hong Kong chopper spotters. No! These are 11 million enthralled by the curiousness of the ecstatic document. Ecstatic documentarians use media to make radical gestures of empathy. To identify themselves with what they attend to, and thereby to produce more Australian, more rotational, more radioactive forms of attention. Sociologist Janet Vertesi’s fieldwork with the crew of the Mars rovers accounts for just such an ecstatic attention, a mediated empathy that the rover’s operators develop with the impossibly distant robotic vehicle which they are tasked with directing. The rover transmits raw image data montages back to Earth from its panoramic camera system. Vertesi explains how members of the crew, based at scientific institutions around the world, refrain from post-processing the perspectival distortions in these crude composite images, instead learning to adapt their own perception in empathy with the vehicle. Vertesi describes this practice, which she calls “skilled vision,” like so: ... they rarely use a corrective algorithm to digitally adjust the image to a more rectangular projection, producing a more familiar photographic frame. Instead, they learn first and foremost to acquire the robot’s own native representation of Mars, as well as its own bodily orientation and apparatus. Skilled vision precisely reflects skateboarder Ellis Frost’s recently posted YouTube video, titled “Can I 360 Flip While Filming a 360 Flip.” Ellis’s spoken intro goes: “Matt’s gonna do a 360 flip, while I do a 360 flip at the same time, while I film Matt doing a 360 flip with my phone, while you [talking to camera] film both of us doing a 360 flip.” It sounds convoluted — “360 flip Inception,” jokes Ellis. [embed: "Can i 360 Flip While Filming a 360 Flip" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHE13dSBPGs ] Ellis’s camera work is shaky and Matt’s 360 flip is barely in frame. How about just having a professional cameraman film a professional skateboarder doing a 360 flip?, those not accustomed to the ecstatic might legitimately ask. This is objectively worse in every way. But Ellis is qualified to film Matt because he can also 360 flip. His is a consummately skilled vision. We viewers know that Ellis knows what it is to 360 flip. We trust that his knowing imbues the document with something. Something invisible, ineffable, ecstatic. From the third camera we see Ellis, not taking his eyes off his phone. Ellis totally fixated on capturing Matt. Ellis 360-flipping at the exact moment Matt does. Because Ellis has 360 flips on lock. He has another video, “How effortless/lazy can I 360 flip,” in which he does them with his hands in his pockets. Most people, like Matt, are poised and concerted and trying hard. Ellis is not even thinking, not even trying. Ellis is spending his surplus energy on performing empathy with Matt. Sceptics of the ecstatic document will typically object: That’s fine for helicopters whose rotors spin at six rounds per second, that’s fine for Australia, for Chernobyl, for Mars, that’s fine for people who can 360 flip with their hands in their pockets, but what about X, and Y, and my cat Z? It is a reasonable concern. But, frankly, this is not about being reasonable. Reasonable documents abound. Reasonable media are ubiquitous. The bevy of algorithmic operations which your smartphone camera routinely performs to technically normalize your photographs is reasonable. And the content of the resulting computational images looks reasonably, believably, like your cat. Ecstatic documents, though, are rare birds. It takes a certain attunement to find one, and when you do the thrill only increases your capacity for seeing skilfully and empathically."]]> 2025 jameslangdon photography film video media susanschuppli vladimirshevchenko ellisfrost documents seeing howwesee ecstaticdocuments https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:adbc13c6fdf8/ The Situationist International (full documentary) - YouTube 2025-01-14T17:16:31+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH0-q9OXco robertogreco 1989 documentary brankabogdanov situationist guydebord history film experience everyday reevaluation art artmarket 1957 1972 society baudelaire flaneurs flaneur flâneurs flâneur revolt agitation commodification commercialization cosiodiarroscia avantgarde letteristinternational asgerjorn giuseppepinot-gallizio cobraartists cobra thespectacle constantnieuwenhuys resistance alienation massmedia consumerism politics anarchism anarchy passivity activity doubt filmmaking comics graffiti streetart aesthetics renegades change changemaking derive drift drifting détournement detournement cartoons foundart collage bricolage seeing howwesee unitaryurbanism utoipa games play playing theory societyofthespectacle capitalism images imagery modernity production accumulation artmaking making modification modifications alteration criticism painting anticapitalism thought thinking howwethink urban urbanism robertoohrt architecture place life living time industrialization adaptability leisurearts artleisure jean-lucgoda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5703a546e1f/ David Hammons: Day's End - YouTube 2024-12-30T21:27:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjT53b6qXHw robertogreco davidhammons 2021 art nyc gordonmatta-clark 1975 architecture philosophy race class beauty us noticing debris observation dawoudbey elegancebratton stephanierivera egypttlabeija efrainjohngonzalez darrenwalker lornasimpson alexfialho scottrothkopf guynordenson adrienneedwards monuments community benokri dialog sculpture adamweinberg provocation juliemehretu materials everyday invention experimentation foundobjects transformation identity howwework audience humanism populism democratic improvisation ideas conceptualart absorbtion fragments unseen seeing howwesee queer place creativity history histories time past sociality memorials. culture aesthetics lightness celebration destination memory ephemerality ephemeral readymade erasure gentrification ghosts carriemaeweems water https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cd544f565eee/ The seed in winter - by Matthew Battles - The Mnemonic Deep 2024-11-18T00:13:59+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/the-seed-in-winter robertogrecomatthewbattles slow small seeds multispecies morethanhuman plants attention 2024 landscape thoreau wanderlust ambition friends fellowship jenniferroberts seeing waysofseeing lifem lifecycle ninamaclaughlin nicholasanderson presence winter malcolmguite parableofthesower christianity alexismadrigal octaviabitler human humanism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a9307af30be0/ Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024) - YouTube 2024-10-21T19:38:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_K7pIsfvg robertogreco cabelsasser art creativity panic xoxo 2024 2013 videogames software mcdonalds centralia wescook sets themeparks waltdisneyimagineering 2004 disney storage archives landmarkentertainmentgroup murals care caring work howwework making beingseen visibility appreciation noticing looking seeing presence rabbitholes death dying longevity immortality washingtonstate https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93dd0615c75c/ The Possibility of Literature 2024-10-21T17:23:30+00:00 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/possibility-of-literature/4CA647BA1550EB2D8B3B57F7A0F2710C robertogreco peterboxall via:daniellucas 2024 literature possibility possibilities beauty reading howweread writing howwewrite hermanmelville samuelbeckett dondelillo history tautology race zadiesmith emforster vision howwesee seeing animalgaze emilydickinson imagination being future novels neoliberalism anthropocene proust marcelproust mariaedgeworth wgsebald jmcoetzee williambutleryeats yeats elizabethbowen kazuoishiguro wbyeats https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07ef7d3f6825/ Sarah Lewis on “Aesthetic Force” as a Path Toward Justice - Time Sensitive - Apple Podcasts 2024-09-19T22:36:41+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-lewis-on-aesthetic-force-as-a-path-toward-justice/id1460711432?i=1000669889446 robertogreco spencerbailey race time visuality vision woodrowwilson frederickdouglass ptbarnum maps painting photography conditioning howwesee tonimorrison angeladavis mathewbrady justice imamshamil distraxction caucasianwar themet francesbenjaminjohnston jarvisgivens pedagogy fugitivepedagogy montserrat whitesupremacy sarahlewis society 2024 donaldtrump caucasus racism kkk kukluxklan carterwoodson parenting louisarmstrong images charlesblack imagery wyntonmarsalis amysherald markbradford theastergates hankwillisthomas halfoster timelessness leighraiford deborahwillis dougharris coreensimpson mauriceberger aperture timesensitive via:daniellucas josephturner frankduveneck slavery civilwar death near-deathexperiences life living seeing purpose art arts destiny education schools schooling propaganda mapping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00a343bbdc50/ A New Language for Photography. What photographers are doing… | by M. H. Rubin | Jul, 2024 | Medium 2024-08-28T23:18:47+00:00 https://neomodern.medium.com/a-new-language-for-photography-db018321d5c0 robertogreco photography mhrubin 2024 composition structure theory howwewrite content edwardweston seeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fd1557c3b14f/ Colin Czerwinski on Substack: "I’ve been doing another re-read (for a third time) of a rather unknown little red book by Aldous Huxley called “The Art of Seeing”. Rather than depicting a dystopian future or exploring psychedelic experiences, ‘The 2024-06-21T04:32:57+00:00 https://substack.com/@colinczerwinski/note/c-59478522 robertogreco aldoushuxley sight vision seeing senses 2024 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8cf4ecdfef6e/ "The World Reveals Itself to Those Who Walk" 2024-04-15T16:28:32+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-world-reveals-itself-to-those-who-walk/ robertogreco audreywatters 2024 walking place attention maps mapping cameras smartphones connectivity phones internet web online cities rousseau nietzsche multitasking technology distraction slow novelty anniemurphypaul thoreau thinking howwethink tv television us australia uk canada england cars exercise canon cv nyc urban urbanism driving cognition gps gettinglost culture society seeing wernerherzog https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00fdd58c9fa5/ A Wabi-sabi Guide | FoAM 2024-04-02T06:03:38+00:00 https://fo.am/blog/2024/03/30/a-wabi-sabi-guide/ robertogreco 2024 majakuzmanović nikgaffney justinpickard theunkarelse enchantment seclusion liminality observation transience unfinished unnoticied noticing notknowing fallowing tangpingism seasons transitions timelessness time presence being seeing meditation meditating landing lingering leaving bodies walking dwelling morethanhuman multispecies magic occult ritual mysticism animism present care caring portals conviviality isolation repair maintenance death gardening wabi-sabi liminal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a427e8ea822/ Vision Con - by L. 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Sacasas - The Convivial Society 2024-02-10T20:31:16+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/vision-con robertogreco lmsacasas jameshunter wendellberry cslewis janebennett isanbogost visionpro apple ar vr augmentedreality virtualreality senses sensory allthesenses slow presence bodies friendship community irismurdoch fantasy freedom liberation technology love gaze reality sharedexperience perception deprivation isolation alienation enchantment wonder humanism everyday attention computers computing 2024 machines comportment noticing seeing sensing receptivity waysofbeing patience care caring time virtual https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:de05c283dc64/ Ivan Illich/David Cayley Book Club #3 of 6 - YouTube 2023-10-25T17:04:17+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhCYH95t768 robertogreco marcusrempel davidcayley ivanillich 2021 jenszimmermann brucehindmarsh deschooling church catholicism schooling repetition indoctrination liberation resistance disestablishment privilege schools education discourse inserviceeducation continuingeducation training georgegrant technology tools ownership control scale society balance zoominginandout local convivial heidegger science politics agesegregation belief religion vernacular midwifery informal informality childbirth healthcare medicine socialization formalism excellence authority professionalization social regulation centralization mistakes rights credentials credentialization accreditation state community communities conflicts conflict knowledge understanding subsistence influence openmindedness openness interestedness puertorico cybernetics surprise dropouts adventure formalsystem systems teaching howweteach obstacles friendship pundits prophesy politicians credentialism pedagogy intellect howwethink thinking multisensory seeing sensing clairvoyance kat https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f6769e7a955/ The Dig Presents: Alien Jerky Sold Here · The Dig 2023-09-16T19:11:27+00:00 https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-dig-presents-alien-jerky-sold-here/ robertogreco disinformation ufos aliens usmilitary military obfuscation misdirection 2023 extraterrestrials trevorpaglen valeriekuletz markpilkington danieldenvir thedig counterintelligence airforce usaf us paulbennewitz richarddoty imagination experience folklore manipulation exploitation power control narrative belief unknown notknowing newmexico chinalake manhattanproject weapons militaryindustrialcomplex navy deserts indigenous indigeneity destruction california science nevada highdesert waste contamination mojavedesert nuclearbombs aldoushuxley scientists rockets rocketry missiles cancer nativeamericans nuclearfallout downwinders freemandyson cia area51 tonopahtestrange photography art waronterror guantanamobay prisons blacksites disappearance place government history nevadatestsite basecamp warfare distance vision sight seeing documentation imagery understanding images howwesee clarity baker perception archaeology aviation aerospace drones senses allthesenses sound smell environment subtlety details attention nature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e7fb1a09f37a/ Care, Not Control - by L. M. Sacasas 2023-06-15T21:54:14+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/care-not-control robertogreco lmsacasas parents parenting children surveillance care control alanjacobs technology audreywatters presence responsibility anxiety safety attention jacquesellul alisongopnick precarity panopticon involvement obligation obligations canon measurement monitoring recording distance closeness proximity knowing slow small scale neglect intentionality accountability families panopticism state morality values gaze schools schooling schooliness colleges universities edtech training compassion self-discipline software analytics quantification seeinglikeastate mutualaid markets capitalism neoliberalism wisdom stress pressure goals expectations isolation standardization onebestway intelligence race gender gendering racism racialization command individuals bigdata seeing proctoring learning howwelearn teaching howweteach learninganalytics trust trusting independence autonomy risks predictability chrisgilliard davidgolumbia lenoreskenazy robhorning kith kin kinship attending attendance jamescscott https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3ae0da67da6/ Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now - Tin House 2023-01-27T15:52:25+00:00 https://tinhouse.com/podcast/elaine-castillo-how-to-read-now/ robertogreco elainecastillo 2022 howweread reading seeing howwesee waysofseeing johnberger davidnaimon literature books essays writing howwewrite abdellahtaïa tagalog class race whitesupremacy meaning meaningfulness meaningmaking decolonization racism telenovelas manuelpuig art classics canon theodyssey odyssey dionnebrand claireschwartz clrjames samuelbutler emilywilson skimming peterhandke tonimorrison bretstephens pamelapaul wongkar-wai apolitical extraction empathy subtext literaryanalysis film television tv thomasbernhard responsibility chantaljohnson joandidion storytelling criticism unfinished jacquesderrida hernandiaz paulcelan colonialism language édouardglissant aimécésaire french translation resistance visibility opacity samuelbeckett rzamoralinmark carlosbulosan sovereignty identity literacy illiteracy myriamchancy indigeneity maori newzealand australia māori hawaii guam indigenous pasifika jkrowling appropriation nationbuilding pabloneruda johnsteinbeck alfonsocuarón gaze watchmen gender nua https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:600f59cd7cb5/ Benjamín Labatut interview: When We Cease to Understand the World - Vox 2022-07-14T16:08:20+00:00 https://www.vox.com/culture/23005220/benjamin-labatut-interview-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world robertogreco constancegrady 2022 science reality philosophy thinking curiosity noamhassenfeld howwewrite writing learning howwelearn perspective uncertainty howwethink understanding wisdom form narrative stories storytelling time space blackholes quantummechanics benjamínlabatut epiphanies physics mathematics math religion belief life living ideas mind bodies body wonder dread psychology being existence context seeing perception whatmatters importance sensemaking reinvention interconnected interconnectedness perceiving mysticism magic esotericism shinichimochizuki alexandergrothendieck františekvláčil annecarson robertocalasso howweread reading juanforn eliotweinberger luissagasti netflix novels structure interconnectivity quantumphysics quantumtheory makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66dc8e5ab568/ A novel by Benjamín Labatut explores the dark side of science — and the color blue - Los Angeles Times 2022-07-14T15:55:06+00:00 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2022-07-09/benjamin-labatut-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-novel-essential-arts robertogreco carolinamiranda benjamínlabatut 2021 books blue color history writing chile poetry howwewrite science singularity blackholes epiphanies quantummechanics physics mathematics math religion belief uncertainty stories narrative storytelling life living ideas mind bodies body wonder dread psychology philosophy being existence context seeing perception whatmatters importance sensemaking reinvention learning howwelearn reality form interconnected interconnectedness perceiving mysticism magic esotericism shinichimochizuki alexandergrothendieck interconnectivity quantumphysics singularitarianism quantumtheory makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7b8f89558b5e/ When We Cease to Understand the World – New York Review Books 2022-07-14T15:51:11+00:00 https://www.nyrb.com/collections/new-york-review-books/products/when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world?_pos=1&_sid=adc3a07ae&_ss=r&variant=37890166784168 robertogreco llawrenceweschler 2021 science fiction literature books benjamínlabatut wgsebald howwelearn howweread howwethink howwewrite writing thinking philosophy creativity alberteinstein nielsbohr solvayconference alexandergrothendieck relativity quantummechanics understanding singularity multiplicity intelligence karlschwarzschild erwinschrodinger blackholes chile epiphanies physics mathematics math religion belief uncertainty stories narrative storytelling life living ideas mind bodies body wonder dread psychology being existence context seeing perception whatmatters importance sensemaking reinvention learning reality form interconnected interconnectedness perceiving mysticism magic esotericism shinichimochizuki erwinschrödinger wernerheisenberg interconnectivity quantumphysics singularitarianism quantumtheory makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:29c622cac559/ Monstruos y milagros de la ciencia: Benjamín Labatut habla de Un verdor terrible - YouTube 2022-07-14T15:42:33+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJXadXhP5ew robertogreco benjamínlabatut 2021 wgsebald robertobolaño borges science literature howwelearn howweread howwethink howwewrite writing thinking philosophy creativity adamcurtis williamburroughs nicanorparra kafka alberteinstein nielsbohr solvayconference fiction alexandergrothendieck relativity quantummechanics understanding singularity multiplicity intelligence karlschwarzschild erwinschrodinger chile epiphanies physics mathematics math religion belief uncertainty stories narrative storytelling life living ideas mind bodies body wonder dread psychology being existence context seeing perception whatmatters importance sensemaking reinvention learning reality form interconnected interconnectedness perceiving mysticism magic esotericism shinichimochizuki eliotweinberger erwinschrödinger wernerheisenberg interconnectivity quantumphysics singularitarianism quantumtheory makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:07e1a41b1f2c/ Understanding McLuhan: A Conversation with Andrew McLuhan 2022-01-07T20:46:39+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/understanding-mcluhan-a-conversation robertogreco lmsacasas 2022 ericmcluhan andrewmcluhan walterong neilpostman howweread howwethink howwewrite media medialiteracy mediastudies screentime children parenting literacy education academia scholarship highered highereducation language deschooling unschooling technology communication religion belief translation humans humanism theory senses allthesenses perception shannonweaver libraries archives catholicism bible dialog discovery conversation rhetoric tools internet web online collaboration footnotes annotation posttheory madiaecology jamesjoyce intertextual intertextuality references enddnotes marginalia normanmailer punk punkrock identity curiosity legacy companionship writing relationsips reading edwincarpenter buckminsterfuller whauden stephaniemcluhan davidstaines poetry form wterrencegordon douglascoupland grayareafoundation synthesis assignments pedagogy marshallmcluhan specialists generalists haroldinni thomasaquinas bodylanguage inevitability techdeterminism techvoluntarism francisbacon responsibility j https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0619679f2507/ Emotional Marginalia - YouTube 2021-11-06T02:43:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V92KOX0z1Y robertogreco alecsoth 2021 1978 nigelpoor chaunceyhare books reading howweread writing howwewrite form emotions seeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0e8e69dda8d3/ I Have a Visual Disability, And I Want You To Look Me In the Eye | NYT Opinion - YouTube 2021-07-19T03:21:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxC-evzxdk robertogreco film video sight vision disabilities disability jamesrobinson 2021 difference seeing perception https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ed2fdd0d42d7/ Spring 2020 Lecture Series - Kameelah Janan Rasheed on Vimeo 2021-04-13T01:44:03+00:00 https://vimeo.com/534944849 robertogrecokameelahjananrasheed openstudioproject lcproject alternative altgdp study fredmoney stefanoharney social learning children authorship howwelearn howweteach howwewrite writing howweread eastpaloalto thinking 2021 interdependence relationships care caring teaching education schools interdisciplinary certainty openness uncertainty unfinished imperfection engagement unlearning attention multidisciplinary transdisciplinary observation lucilleclifton ongoing continuation continuance sociality conviviality companionship walking noticing togetherness curiosity undoing relationality ashtoncrawley refusal resistance resolution objectivity experience observableuniverse imminency imminent movement wikipedia incompleteness completeness knowledge knowing decolonization colonialism containment capture zoranealhurston folklore édouardglissant maríaiñigoclavo control privacy leakiness publishing alexispaulinegumbs christinasharpe meandering waywardness migration possibility cruising scrolling wandering blackness livi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:51ae912f2234/ Frank’s Corpus : Open Space 2021-03-22T22:57:56+00:00 https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2021/03/franks-corpus/ robertogrecoelisabethnicula 2021 archives frank nufrank corpus photography art birds nature multispecies morethanhuman nautre animals surveillance seeing scrubjays corvids wildlife aldoleopold passengerpigeons pigeons 1947 trschellenberg caches caching kathweston movement motion calacademy californiaacademyofsciences ornithology collections collecting relationships human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships bodies jays https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c533c99431f/ Finding My Way into a New Form: An Interview with Teju Cole - The Millions 2021-01-22T17:45:39+00:00 https://themillions.com/2017/07/finding-way-new-form-interview-teju-cole.html robertogreco 2017 tejucole form writing howwewrite photography slow looking seeing wgsebald jamesbaldwin stevepaulson williamcarloswilliams art noticing williameggleson leefriedlander stephenshore streetphotography cameras images theodyssey theiliad homer travel home place belonging traveling johnberger notebooks tools portraits gordonparks irvingpenn richardavedon henricartier-bresson christopheranderson michaelondaatje virginiawolf jamesjoyce sentences fragments craft annecarson text lagos nyc us nigeria nicholaskristof twitter race racism experience fiction nonfiction brooklyn cosmopolitanism africa toruba english language michigan kalamazoo compression politics colonialism walking arthistory fujifilm fujifilmx70 religion bible christianity photojournalism blindspot blindspots odyssey fuji https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2413beae3a8a/ Teju Cole Interview: My Looking Became Sacred - 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Jackson Lecture: Dionne Brand and Rinaldo Walcott - YouTube 2020-12-19T08:37:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wuBjTnWtiQ robertogreco 2020 dionnebrand rinaldowalcott conversation poetry blackness water imperialism academia liberation freedom whitesupremacy covid-19 coronavirus pandemic form keguromacharia frequency blacklivesmatter diaspota canon connections consciousness borders boundaries indigeneity register capitalism defundthepolice relation police policing liberalism neoliberalism lawenforcement zoominginandout movement slavery life living comportment time management productivity laziness idleness saidiyahartman atlantic quantification enlightenment power control plantations systems labor exploitation being unschooling deschooling reclamation utopia presence ruthwilsongilmore pocketsofresistance tonimorrison aesthetics harm discomfort impotence rage bargaining peace necessity sylviawynter leannebetasamosakesimpson opacity feeling senses roberthayden canada jamaica trinidad imagination history noticing seeing empire hope colonialism humanity lectures from howwewrite writing reading howweread economics amilcarcabral culture politics exp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:877637b8792a/ The Arts and the Liberal Arts at Black Mountain College on JSTOR 2020-11-11T19:16:21+00:00 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.52.4.0049?seq=1 robertogreco jasonmiller blackmountaincollege bmc democracy art arts liberalarts johndewey johnandrewrice citizenship thinking howwethink pedagogy education highered highereducation college universities howweteach teaching learning howwelearn jaymiller philosophy academics discipline disciplines openstudioproject lcproject experience experientiallearning life artaslife artasliving living behavior progressive colleges seeing observation josefalbers usefulness tinkering utility interdisciplinary transdisciplinary hierarchy hierarchies pragmatism means ends endsandmeans process aesthetics canon participation participatory use justification inequality class socioeconomic economics training being https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb01c7557378/ Alexandra Laudo How to Observe a Nocturnal Sky | Collective 2020-09-17T21:27:24+00:00 https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/alexandra-laudo-2 robertogreco astronomy epistemology observation vision alexandralaudo 2020 sky skies nightsky libraries archives via:shannonmattern seeing howwelook howwesee obervations senses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4de9f6795aac/ swissmiss | Walking 2020-04-10T11:34:32+00:00 https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/04/walking.html robertogreco walking thanks_luke tinarotheisenberg laurenelkin derive flâneuse mapping place noticing cities urban urbanism psychogeography seeing via:lukeneff dérive flaneur flâneurs flaneurs flâneur maps https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0cfb04f78439/ Learning to See: Photography at Black Mountain College 2020-01-08T20:33:02+00:00 https://aperture.org/blog/black-mountain-college-means-seeing/ robertogreco dianastoll photography bmc blackmountaincollege 2017 education history josefalbers seeing barbaramorgan beaumontnewhall nancynewhall art hazellarsenarcher learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:516a0f9ecfd3/ Jack Kornfield on Instagram: “Seeing the Goodness in Another Being (2:32) - Jack Kornfield” 2019-08-27T19:44:14+00:00 https://www.instagram.com/tv/B03zw-inE8x/ robertogrecojackkornfield teaching howweteach seeing compassion education togetherness meaningmaking purpose beingseen 2019 beingknow highschool knowing love appreciation understanding learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3472682dccae/ Arthur Jafa: Not All Good, Not All Bad on Vimeo 2019-07-07T01:40:51+00:00 https://vimeo.com/338234578 robertogreco arthurjafa art film filmmaking identity blackness whiteness photography imagery collection images books compilation compiling access collecting collections documentation documentary complexity video montage marc-christophwagner childhood mississippi bernieeames distance survival experience culture mississippidelta seeing perspective democracy smarthphones mobile phones cameras jacobholdt clarksdale tupelo patriarchy race racism billcosby duality hitler thisandthat ambiguity barackobama keepingitreal donaldtrump diversity hope hierarchy melancholy differentiation audience audiencesofone variety canon adolfhitler https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2a3a0a2378f1/ Patricio Guzmán - Capturing Reality 2019-06-27T19:18:58+00:00 https://capturingreality.nfb.ca/filmmakers/patricio-guzman/ robertogreco patricioguzmán chile film filmmaking documentary thebattleofchile reality humanity everyday chrismarker storytelling noticing seeing attention https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e359278012fb/ The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction, Zamora 2019-06-26T01:51:27+00:00 https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo3750520.html robertogreco latinamerica culture literature fiction art architecture loisparkinsonzamora visual verbal baroque fridakhalo diegorivera borges alejocarpentier gabrielgarcíamárquez eduardogaleano 2006 neobaroque severosarduy elenagarro modernity conunterconquest postcolonialism disruption transcultural imagery seeing reading josélezamalima gabo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3f1f74b80e21/ Teju Cole, "Ethics", Lecture 3 of 3, 04.22.19 - YouTube 2019-06-02T22:38:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpVIw-a9HM robertogreco 2019 tejucole ethics senses migrants migration travelers responsibility humanism lauraletinsky photography location situation howwewrite interconnectedness interconnected malta caravaggio art painting writing reading knowing knowledge seeing annecarson smell death grief dying interconnectivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b3c6c5fd532/ Teju Cole on the unpredictability and potential of the city: “Once you give up insisting on stereotypes, you can really start to see.” - Harvard Graduate School of Design 2019-06-02T22:32:49+00:00 https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2019/05/teju-cole-on-the-unpredictability-and-potential-of-the-city-once-you-give-up-insisting-on-stereotypes-you-can-really-start-to-see/ robertogreco tejucole toread 2019 salaelisepatterson cities urban urbanism unpredictability stereotypes seeing noticing johnberger tonimorrison photography writing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b79cc1939aa8/ Art + Life Rules from a Nun - YouTube 2019-03-31T21:16:36+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPyql3cezo robertogreco sistercorita coritakent art design 2019 rules teaching howweteach via:austinkleon howwelearn education screenprinting benshahn losangeles cv pedagogy play work plork discipline self-discipline charleseames rayeames eames film life living howwework buckminsterfuller saulbass alfredhitchcock johncage making make failure mistakes persistence accessibility egalitarianism process creativity analysis learningbyheart brainstorming productivity production quantity ideas ideation happiness classideas critique socialjustice protest criticism wisdom inspiration messaging advertising remixing religion catholicism mercecunningham readiness reading video collecting looking seeing noticing meaning meaningmaking openness openended open-ended learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7539c0b534ef/ Language Is Migrant - South Magazine Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3] - documenta 14 2019-03-21T00:42:55+00:00 https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/904_language_is_migrant robertogrecoa heart in pain, changing the heart of the earth. The word “immigrant” says, “grant me life.” “Grant” means “to allow, to have,” and is related to an ancient Proto-Indo-European root: dhe, the mother of “deed” and “law.” So too, sacerdos, performer of sacred rites. What is the rite performed by millions of people displaced and seeking safe haven around the world? Letting us see our own indifference, our complicity in the ongoing wars? Is their pain powerful enough to allow us to change our hearts? To see our part in it? I “wounder,” said Margarita, my immigrant friend, mixing up wondering and wounding, a perfect embodiment of our true condition! Vicente Huidobro said, “Open your mouth to receive the host of the wounded word.” The wound is an eye. Can we look into its eyes?
my specialty is not feeling, just looking, so I say: (the word is a hard look.) —Rosario Castellanos I don’t see with my eyes: words are my eyes. —Octavio Paz
In l980, I was in exile in Bogotá, where I was working on my “Palabrarmas” project, a way of opening words to see what they have to say. My early life as a poet was guided by a line from Novalis: “Poetry is the original religion of mankind.” Living in the violent city of Bogotá, I wanted to see if anybody shared this view, so I set out with a camera and a team of volunteers to interview people in the street. I asked everybody I met, “What is Poetry to you?” and I got great answers from beggars, prostitutes, and policemen alike. But the best was, “Que prosiga,” “That it may go on”—how can I translate the subjunctive, the most beautiful tiempo verbal (time inside the verb) of the Spanish language? “Subjunctive” means “next to” but under the power of the unknown. It is a future potential subjected to unforeseen conditions, and that matches exactly the quantum definition of emergent properties. If you google the subjunctive you will find it described as a “mood,” as if a verbal tense could feel: “The subjunctive mood is the verb form used to express a wish, a suggestion, a command, or a condition that is contrary to fact.” Or “the ‘present’ subjunctive is the bare form of a verb (that is, a verb with no ending).” I loved that! A never-ending image of a naked verb! The man who passed by as a shadow in my film saying “Que prosiga” was on camera only for a second, yet he expressed in two words the utter precision of Indigenous oral culture. People watching the film today can’t believe it was not scripted, because in thirty-six years we seem to have forgotten the art of complex conversation. In the film people in the street improvise responses on the spot, displaying an awareness of language that seems to be missing today. I wounder, how did it change? And my heart says it must be fear, the ocean of lies we live in, under a continuous stream of doublespeak by the violent powers that rule us. Living under dictatorship, the first thing that disappears is playful speech, the fun and freedom of saying what you really think. Complex public conversation goes extinct, and along with it, the many species we are causing to disappear as we speak. The word “species” comes from the Latin speciēs, “a seeing.” Maybe we are losing species and languages, our joy, because we don’t wish to see what we are doing. Not seeing the seeing in words, we numb our senses. I hear a “low continuous humming sound” of “unmanned aerial vehicles,” the drones we send out into the world carrying our killing thoughts. Drones are the ultimate expression of our disconnect with words, our ability to speak without feeling the effect or consequences of our words. “Words are acts,” said Paz. Our words are becoming drones, flying robots. Are we becoming desensitized by not feeling them as acts? I am thinking not just of the victims but also of the perpetrators, the drone operators. Tonje Hessen Schei, director of the film Drone, speaks of how children are being trained to kill by video games: “War is made to look fun, killing is made to look cool. ... I think this ‘militainment’ has a huge cost,” not just for the young soldiers who operate them but for society as a whole. Her trailer opens with these words by a former aide to Colin Powell in the Bush/Cheney administration:
OUR POTENTIAL COLLECTIVE FUTURE. WATCH IT AND WEEP FOR US. OR WATCH IT AND DETERMINE TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE —Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel U.S. Army (retired)
In Astro Noise, the exhibition by Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the language of surveillance migrates into poetry and art. We lie in a collective bed watching the night sky crisscrossed by drones. The search for matching patterns, the algorithms used to liquidate humanity with drones, is turned around to reveal the workings of the system. And, we are being surveyed as we survey the show! A new kind of visual poetry connecting our bodies to the real fight for the soul of this Earth emerges, and we come out woundering: Are we going to dehumanize ourselves to the point where Earth itself will dream our end? The fight is on everywhere, and this may be the only beauty of our times. The Quechua speakers of Peru say, “beauty is the struggle.” Maybe darkness will become the source of light. (Life regenerates in the dark.) I see the poet/translator as the person who goes into the dark, seeking the “other” in him/herself, what we don’t wish to see, as if this act could reveal what the world keeps hidden. Eduardo Kohn, in his book How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: riparana means “darse cuenta,” “to realize or to be aware.” The verb is a Quichuan transfiguration of the Spanish reparar, “to observe, sense, and repair.” As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, had the power to heal. I see the invention of such verbs as true poetry, as a possible path or a way out of the destruction we are causing. When I am asked about the role of the poet in our times, I only question: Are we a “listening post,” composing an impossible “survival guide,” as Paul Chan has said? Or are we going silent in the face of our own destruction? Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista guerrilla, transcribes the words of El Viejo Antonio, an Indian sage: “The gods went looking for silence to reorient themselves, but found it nowhere.” That nowhere is our place now, that’s why we need to translate language into itself so that IT sees our awareness. Language is the translator. Could it translate us to a place within where we cease to tolerate injustice and the destruction of life? Life is language. “When we speak, life speaks,” says the Kaushitaki Upanishad. Awareness creates itself looking at itself. It is transient and eternal at the same time. Todo migra. Let’s migrate to the “wounderment” of our lives, to poetry itself."]]> ceciliavicuña language languages words migration immigration life subcomandantemarcos elviejoantonio lawrencewilkerson octaviopaz exile rosariocastellanos poetry spanish español subjunctive oral orality conversation complexity seeing species joy tonjehessenschei war colinpowell laurapoitras art visual translation eduoardokohn quechua quichua healing repair verbs invention listening kaushitakiupanishad awareness noticing wondering vicentehuidobro wounds woundering migrants unknown future potential unpredictability emergent drones morethanhuman multispecies paulchan destruction displacement refugees extinction others tolerance injustice justice transience ephemerality ephemeral canon eternal surveillance patterns algorithms earth sustainability environment indifference complicity dictatorship documenta14 2017 classideas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ada86a335b2/ Black Mountain College Museum en Instagram: “"Albers was a beautiful teacher and an impossible person. He wasn’t easy to talk to, and I found his criticism so excruciating and so…” 2018-12-15T19:05:45+00:00 https://www.instagram.com/p/BramX0jFm-y/ robertogreco bmc blackmountaincollege teaching robertrauschenberg josefalbers howeteach looking seeing color https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a973c6f31ac4/ A Smith Family Vacation - YouTube 2018-08-19T17:40:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWdPLZvdO_I robertogreco willsmith fear beauty learning experience 2018 seeing uschooling edg https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e9619cb49e5d/ Reading right to left 2018-07-12T19:29:24+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2018/07/12/reading-right-to-left/ robertogrecoOne of the first tricks I learned many years ago had nothing to do with photography, but was drilled into me by an army sergeant. It only took a few smacks up the back of my head to learn how to look from right-to-left when scanning a landscape in an effort to see the hidden “enemy” in our mock battles. This process of reverse reading forced me to slow down and read each tree as if it were a syllable I was seeing for the first time. Even today, about thirty years after I called that sergeant every adjective not found in a descent dictionary, I still find myself scanning a landscape from right-to-left. More on reading right-to-left here. [https://booktwo.org/notebook/reading-right-to-left/, previously posted here https://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/132287071238/im-getting-more-radical-in-my-view-of-the ]" [See also: https://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/38278729921/this-is-how-i-read https://robertogreco.tumblr.com/tagged/how-we-read https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/t:howweread ]]]> howweread seeing austinkleon 2018 jamesbridle dalewilson looking attention process reading scanning photography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b536ffa890b2/ k'eguro on Twitter: "One of my favorite pieces of recent political writing Danai Mupotsa, "An open love letter to my comrade bae" https://t.co/JcDew7Wkzs" 2018-07-02T21:47:07+00:00 https://twitter.com/keguro_/status/1013710305476608000 robertogreco danaimupotsa keguromacharia struggle solidarity cleaning dreaming cooking vulnerability pleasure care caring caretaking seeing beingseen being togetherness 2018 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:951d9a327ba4/ Library Genesis: Anna Grimshaw - The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology 2018-05-19T18:13:25+00:00 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=acfbe35130dd4444996be267e39b2fd6 robertogreco annagrimshaw ethnography visualanthropology anthropology jeanrouch davidmacdougall judithmacdougall melissallewelyn-davies cinema film filmmaking seeing waysofseeing visualethnography senses sensoryethnography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:132e9c5bb85c/ The 5-year-old docent 2018-02-25T23:15:07+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2018/02/18/the-5-year-old-docent/ robertogrecoaustinkleon children museums art seeing noticing 2018 parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a9b9e43ede0/ choice – Snakes and Ladders 2018-02-10T21:10:29+00:00 http://blog.ayjay.org/choice/ robertogreco alanjacobs 2018 zoominginandout immersion place time atemporality books art music culture perspective seeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:549d1c486cd1/ Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball | Ellen Lupton | TEDxMidAtlantic - YouTube 2018-01-22T01:18:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-r7CR6FsI robertogrecoellenlupton museums senses multisensory curation 2017 seeing sensing smell touch audio taste classideas accessibility inclusivity inclusion texture food light sound music acoustics architecture ranzheng haptics deafness tactile design vibeat lirongino michellequreshi cooper-hewitt cooperhewitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8078bbf9adb8/ Translations by Kathryn Nuernberger | Poetry Foundation 2018-01-01T07:49:21+00:00 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90183/translations-57991d887f7f4 robertogreco vi:datatellign poetry names naming colors words green kathrynnuernberger wittgenstein goethe vangogh andywarhol illusion vision sight seeing pink color eyes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:351678e9f3d1/ Don't Blink - Robert Frank 2017-11-22T23:12:09+00:00 http://www.dontblinkrobertfrank.com/ robertogreco robertfrank film documentary photography towatch memory scavengers curiosity life living loss filmmaking noticing observation art making collecting 2015 us immigrants watching looking seeing mabou novascotia nyc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f9507943556/ OBJECT AMERICA 2017-10-08T19:17:18+00:00 http://www.objectamerica.org/ robertogreco objects pascalglissmann selenakimball ellenlupton art climate science culturalgeography datavisualization economics mathematics math medicine mediatheory materialscience music poetry politics seeing waysofseeing geography culture history climatescience dataviz infoviz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e7e16ed8965/ WAR GAMES - DIEGO PERRONE 2017-08-02T06:54:39+00:00 http://news.yicca.org/index.php/hot-news-2/item/137-war-games-diego-perrone robertogreco diegoperrone art landscape place revelation seeing noticing museums storytelling exploration presentation genoa italy italia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d44a9c3e9ab6/ Blind Spot | Blog—Jarrett Fuller 2017-07-18T20:59:02+00:00 http://jarrettfuller.blog/post/162824559912/blind-spot robertogrecoShe asked, though these were not her exact words: Isn’t all the work part of a single piece? She asked, like someone patiently unlocking, with a pin, a pair of handcuffs: Aren’t all the photographs and texts, the fragments and experiments, even the things you say into a microphone, even the things you don’t say, aren’t they all installments toward a unified project? She said, though these are not her exact words: I have always felt that Open City was one way you approached the problem. You’re still circling the problem now, she said, obsessed, she said, and approaching it in other ways. You will probably always be returning to it, she said, making herself comfortable within the folds of my brain. In a later passage, Cole invokes Calvino’s continuous city and his search of the threads that connect the places he visits. But he’s also looking for the threads that connect the images and the text. Calvino suggests that there is simply one big, continuous city that does not begin or end: ‘Only the name of the airport changes,’ he writes in Invisible Cities. The same can be said of Cole’s work — it’s simply one big, continuous journey — his intellectual interests and preoccupations recur — he finds new ways to display them, new ways to talk about them. Only the name of the book changes. I read Open City, Cole’s first novel in 2015 during my last week in San Francisco, before moving to Baltimore for graduate school. My belongings were packed up and I’d lay on the floor in the middle of a nearly empty apartment reading. In the book, largely devoid of an obvious plot, we follow the narrator, Julius, as he walks through Manhattan. I started doing the same thing — after a period of reading, I’d put the book down, put classical music on in my headphones, and walk the San Francisco streets. This had been my neighborhood for the last three years but that week, with that music, and Cole’s prose rattling around in my head, I saw the city differently. That, I think, is the thread that ties Cole’s work together. He changes your pace, forces you to slow down. His writing is patient, his photography reserved. He makes you look, really look. This world moves fast. There’s always something new to read, new tweets, new emails, new books, new music. Last month’s news feels like a decade ago. Blind Spot is a book about looking; about seeing what’s in the frame, about reflecting on what we see. Teju Cole asks us to slow down so we can understand our own blind spots. I saw San Francisco differently that last week, and as I finished Blind Spot this week, I started to see New York differently too. He taught me to see."]]> tejucole jarrettfuller 2017 writing photography italocalvino johnberger wgsebald chrismarker film walking cities urban ubanism place landscape noticing looking seeing sansoleil lajetée blindspot https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be1c18df086c/ Eyes Without a Face — Real Life 2017-05-30T03:51:43+00:00 http://reallifemag.com/eyes-without-a-face/ robertogreco 2017 rahelaima algorithms facebook ai artificialintelligence tagging machinevision at ellsworthkelly color tombrdley google captchas matthewplummerfernandez julesolitski neuralnetworks eliezeryudkowsky seeing machinelearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ddfc38ce488f/ Get out now 2017-02-19T00:32:55+00:00 http://austinkleon.com/2017/02/16/get-out-now/ robertogreco johnstilgoe austinkleon walking noticing looking observing seeing exploration landscape attention serendipity outside outdoors https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f254a8e2898/ John Berger on Ways of Seeing, being an artist, and Marxism (2011) - Newsnight archives - YouTube 2017-01-08T21:58:59+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5y7QRt2bws robertogreco johnberger spinoz descartes gavinesler 2011 marxism waysofseeing seeing storytelling lenses correction iteration bento'ssketchbook looking culture aesthetics future progress justice dignity capitalism growth storytellers art artists https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:713fb8c559c0/