Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Conjuncture: Kanishka Goonewardena on Nationalism and Imperialism in the Global South | S4 Ep3 - YouTube 2026-07-13T01:10:19+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUkIcCkFq7c robertogreco 2025 kanishkagoonewardena christinaheatherton colonialism imperialism nationalism via:javierarbona globalsouth antoniogramsci stuarthall ethnonationalism theodoradorno antiimperialism ethnicity srilanka conjuncture henrilefebvre marxism everyday everydaylife capitalism economics politics economy politicaleconomy alienation space cities urban urbanplanning difference mediation ideology walterbenjamin senses sensory sensorial sensorium dreamworlds desire karlmarx utopia consciousness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0edda9389d18/ N°105 - Small Stuff with Ian Bogost - YouTube 2026-07-12T23:45:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRe4j6T18U robertogreco ianbogost julianbleecker 2026 nearfuturelaboratory everyday senses sensory slow mindfulness texture noticing attention curiosity wonder ordinary experience imagination openness gratification friction convenience efficiency optimization life living howwelive design disconnection dissatisfaction happiness joy pleasure dematerialization material materials frictionmaxxing digital analog algorithms asmr ai artificialintelligence process communing sensors automation ownership connection physical bodies objects tactile smartphones addiction compulsion strangeness small frictionlessness smoothness socialmedia commodification commercialization feeling embodiment affection sensing technology play acceptance delight engagement alienphenomenology phenomenology grahamharman panexperientialism thomasnagel interfaces screens productivity contentment mundane meaning meaningmaking routine boredom thebear howwelearn learning repetition presence care caring situationist dérive derive lingering feelings smallstuff discomfort https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d6a2bb7c2f4/ The life-changing magic of touching stuff | The Vergecast - YouTube 2026-07-08T02:03:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEgL5xCTak robertogreco objects senses tactile ianbogost davidpierce 2026 happiness tickets dematerialization material materials friction frictionmaxxing slow digital analog disconnection algorithms asmr ai artificialintelligence process life living gratification communing sensory sensors automation ownership connection smartphones addiction compulsion attention strangeness texture small frictionlessness experience convenience smoothness efficiency optimization socialmedia commodification commercialization amazon physical bodies mundane smallstuff lingering feelings feeling discomfort wonder wonderment curiosity embodiment human humanness joy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:142816d0c76e/ WALK – monthly urban art walks with Alisa Oleva - BUILDHOLLYWOOD 2026-06-29T05:44:15+00:00 https://www.buildhollywood.co.uk/features/walk/ robertogreco alisaoleva walking art situationist psychogeography 2024 walkshops senses sensory urban cities memory history maps mapmaking mapping publicspace https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a2553480f38e/ Walking and the Art of Public Space: Alisa Oleva on Cities, Belonging & Nuart Aberdeen - YouTube 2026-06-29T03:15:35+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqTo7GC7HM robertogreco alisaoleva walking 2026 london cities experience art walkingart urban wandering psychogeography situationist home belonging slow desirelines place attention movement noticing observation aberdeen scotland publicsace performance immersion familiarization learning howwelearn place-basedlearning everyday hangingout parkour notknowing strangers gettinglost time unknowing discovery exposure disoberdience walkingscores georgesperec geography resistance senses sensory walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:76ea0542a914/ "WALKING IS SO SIMPLE YET SO DEEPLY COMPLEX": IN CONVERSATION WITH ALISA OLEVA 2026-06-29T03:13:26+00:00 https://www.fetch.london/post/walking-is-so-simple-yet-so-deeply-complex-in-conversation-with-with-alisa-oleva robertogreco2025 walking alisaoleva psychogeography art performance situationist listenting senses sensory transience ephemeral ephemerality documentation movement parkour community everyday audio resistance productivity london walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:744d547c342b/ Alisa Oleva the Walking Artist Inviting Us to View the City Differently • Inspiring City 2026-06-29T02:53:49+00:00 https://inspiringcity.com/2026/06/22/alisa-oleva-the-walking-artist-inviting-us-to-view-the-city-differently/ robertogreco walking alisaoleva london cities experience art walkingart urban wandering psychogeography situationist home belonging slow desirelines place attention movement noticing observation 2026 aberdeen scotland publicsace performance immersion familiarization learning howwelearn place-basedlearning everyday hangingout parkour notknowing strangers gettinglost time unknowing discovery exposure disoberdience walkingscores georgesperec geography resistance senses sensory walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b412bfd4d989/ 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/ Ping Practice 2026-06-25T09:57:24+00:00 https://pingpractice.org/ robertogreco pingpractice pings peterpelberg notes notetaking thinking howwethink journaling applications ios memory senses sensing meaning meaningmaking sensemaking makingsense noticing attention carolynli-madeo elliottetzkorn jeffreynoh laurelschwulst nicolasayoub https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41f62ddb59ac/ Your AI Is Not a Tool - by L. M. Sacasas 2026-06-23T10:09:03+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/your-ai-is-not-a-tool robertogreco lmsacasas 2026 ivanillich marshallmcluhan technology culture ai artificialintelligence philosophy ethics medialiteracy tools perception society degradation asceticism senses sensory experience slow small leomarx blaisepascal jacquesellul evanselinger woodrowhartzog obscurity andrewmccluhan toolsforconviviality stoics stoicism stevenjohnson charleyjohnson media resistance antónbarba-kay popeleoxiv pschye environment cognitiveuploading cognitiveoffloading absorption humanism subverison sensation sensing reality socialfabric https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b00a407f0bb3/ Écoute, paysages et territoires sonores, où est le plaisir d’ouïr ? | POINTS D'OUÏE, PAYSAGES SONORES PARTAGÉS 2026-06-20T09:25:29+00:00 https://desartsonnantsbis.com/2026/06/18/ecoute-paysages-et-territoires-sonores-ou-est-le-plaisir-douir/ robertogreco listening sound 2026 soundscapes pleasure soundart pedagogy noise landscaoe senses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b9a9888add0/ When art dares us to break a cardinal museum rule | Aeon Videos 2026-06-12T09:33:22+00:00 https://aeon.co/videos/when-artworks-dare-audiences-to-break-a-cardinal-museum-rule robertogreco art touch senses sensory multsensory museums moma yokoono 1960s interaction interactive 1960 connormonahan sarahcowan perception memory katelewis tactile interactivity christophecherix unfinished conceptualart instructions imperfection disruption transgression blind blindness accessibility lowvision georginakleege francescarosenberg annieleist emilielouisegossiaux nefertitimatosolivares curation education emotions feelings connection communication closeness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:946a0607a08c/ How the AI age forgets to ask: "What for?" | Benjamín Labatut + Jasmine Sun - YouTube 2026-06-06T04:39:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rLRIhDS-Y robertogreco benjaminlabatut 2026 jasminesun ai artificialintelligence fiction literature literaryfiction quantumphysics quantummechanics johnvonneumann alphago alphazero leesedol abstraction life living messiness morality emotion superintelligence human humans humanism technooptimiism technology quantumtheory walterpitts warrenmcculloch shame fear history science claude claudcode unitree demishassabis tylercowen logic reason mutuallyassureddestruction optimism realism software purpose philosophy experience bodies waysofknowing robots humanoidrobots chatbots writing howwewrite allthesenses senses wisdom mortality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5d71052c560/ No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic 2026-06-05T05:28:24+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/ robertogreco tedchiang ai artificialintelligence consciousness anthropomorphism philosophy llms chatbots claude anthropic predicitvetext darioamodei amandaaskell clause juliuscaesar genghiskhan colinfraser sentencecontinuation anilseth alphafold google googledeepmind deepmind chatgpt openai observation deepfakes experience subjectivity honesty dishonesty reasoning douglashofstadter garrykasparov deepblue ibm 1997 emotions bodies senses multisensory ethics responsibility well-being wellbeing judgement democracy society corrigibility labor work employement software suffering hormones hype aihype https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f510feaeb784/ A Discussion on the New Novel 'Palaces of the Crow' (with Ray Nayler) | The Chris Hedges Report 2026-05-23T05:19:01+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-discussion-on-the-new-novel-palaces robertogreco raynayler chrishedges war poland wwii ww2 crows corvids humannature humans human caring community fiction literature togetherness interconnected interconnectedness ussr nazigermany germany cooperation nonviolence mutualaid survival peterkropotkin totalitarianism williamgolding rootlessness evil trauma childhood human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships 2026 lordoftheflies danielberrigan faith birds siberia morethanhuman multispecies krasnovodsk resurrection manchuria turkmenistan leesandlin hitler adolfhitler society civilization children communication interspecies relationships thomasnagel experience perception pathology donaltrump hannaharendt karma poverty nourishment scarcity abundance socialism equality writing howwewrite reading howweread legacy death generations culture learning howwelearn inscription individualism extraction extractiveindividualism environment corporations corporatism disconnection history interdependence sesnes sensory waysofknowing blindness sound sensing senses modernity huma https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:476a028d3fb1/ Play 'Liminal Bingo,' Pat Perry's Participatory Photo Treasure Hunt — Colossal 2026-05-21T06:40:33+00:00 https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/pat-perry-liminal-bingo-photo-hunt/ robertogreco patperry photography collaborative communal waysofseeing treasurehunts senses experience classideas bingo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1accd452e49e/ Marc Andreessen can’t explain AI’s benefits, either. | The Verge 2026-05-21T06:09:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/934765/marc-andreessen-cant-explain-ais-benefits-either?commentID=36f42419-3c74-4840-af48-27adb2b55394 robertogreco ai artificialintelligence dehumanization human humans life living senses experience 2026 marcandreessen https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c81230521c6a/ Pickiness tastes like trauma 2026-05-12T04:15:02+00:00 https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-review/ robertogreco amybrown children parenting diet food pickiness trauma helenzoeveit industrialization taste senses emotions psychology johnharveykellog kellog's maha sylvestergraham history society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b794aa5e754c/ Children need stress and discomfort in order to grow up | Aeon Essays 2026-05-11T20:07:13+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/children-need-stress-and-discomfort-in-order-to-grow-up robertogreco children 2026 apprenticeships behavior howwelern adulthood niklasserning adolescence youth mentalhealth families parenting tinapaynebryson dansiegel shefalitsabary sarahokwell-smith experience conflict overparenting emotions self-efficacy danielkahneman authoritarianism collaboration senses sensory discomfort cathycreswell anxiety accommodation worry overprotectiveness play relationship life living melanieklein johnbowlby williamsears marthasears donaldwinnicott jeromekagan violence abuse neglect trauma coercion discipline love instruction guidance autonomy levvygotsky dianabaumrind overprotecting resilience care caring wellbeing well-being malaise emotionregulation relationships flourishing kindredsquared childhood dissent hardship depression cognitivebias deliberation howwethink thinking distress harm shortterm longterm annoyance emotionalsupport stillness practice acculturation aversion suporession self-control boredom school schooling education howwelearn learning comfort friendship challenges challenge a https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:caca3df79cca/ AI & Spiritual Life – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee 2026-05-11T00:23:42+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/ai-spiritual-life/ robertogreco ai spirituality artificialintelligence llewellynvaughn-lee 2026 senses soul humanism human humans life livign howwelive consciousness sufi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0de4b2de6b20/ A Mystical Ornithology – by Jeremy Seifert and Benjamin James Roberts 2026-05-09T16:06:52+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/film/a-mystical-ornithology/ robertogreco jdrewlanham birds nature ornithology animals time senses sound memory death grief grieving 2026 film jeremyseifert benjaminjamesroberts multispecies morethanhuman wildlife reverence seasons change southcarolina writing howwewrite imagination migration human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships aldoleopold stewardships land farms farming healing slow stillness place refuge safety rest sounds presence being hope anthropomorphization mysticism spirituality celebration rural kinship https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:de2c0d002826/ Sara Hendren: Who Is the Built World Actually Built For? - Art of Inquiry | Podcast on Spotify 2026-05-05T14:11:09+00:00 https://open.spotify.com/episode/11zlpahmklfgr8YOUrtLnY robertogreco sarahendren 2026 architecture design disabilities disability accessibility art bodies prosthetics sofiaodeh mayaeinhorn engineering making socialpracticeart science inquiry history conflictkitchen edibleestates socialpractice online internet covid-19 pandemic coronavirus offline social slow small audiencesofone socialjustice ai artificialintelligence technology time perception politics genai generativeai activism poetry human humanism humans howwewrite writing teaching pedagogy highered highereducation culturemaking culture life living howwelive socialmedia being waysofbeing modernity method patternrecognition krzysztofwodiczko downsyndrome interrogativedesign careers purpose meaning meaningmaking children parenting arts humanities friendship relationships leisure artleisure leisurearts identity passion expression objects affect emotions embodiment awe wonder buildings senses spirituality sacredness codeswitching artifacts translation language communication howwemake fabrication ramps risd olincollege builtwo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0a421ccc8594/ 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/ A Deeper Sense of Place is Like an Anchor in Turbulent Times | David Griesing | Work Life Reward Author | Philadelphia 2026-04-11T06:30:21+00:00 http://davidgriesing.com/2022/06/13/a-deeper-sense-of-place-is-like-an-anchor-in-turbulent-times/ robertogrecodavidgriesing rebeccasolnit 2022 wayfinding place orientation nature senses sensing memory richardpowers multispecies morethanhuman philadelphia animals whales humpbackwhales mro'connor indigeneity indigenous jamesgibson space time humans human navigation arctic aboriginal aboriginies australia technology gps brain cogntion maps mapping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b053ffc81b5d/ The Landscapes Inside Us | Robert Macfarlane | The New York Review of Books 2026-04-11T05:39:08+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/wayfinding-landscapes-inside-us/ robertogrecoNone of us is exempt from the ramifications of the device paradigm. We all seem to find it extraordinarily difficult to step outside the onslaught, to create the distance and perspective between us and our devices that might allow us to question what cultural or cognitive price is being paid in return for convenience. In July 1841 the poet John Clare escaped from High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest, on the outskirts of London, and set out to walk to his home in Northborough, about eighty miles away. At the time, Clare was in his late forties and mentally unwell. He had been in High Beach for four years. Although his wife, Patty, was alive, he believed himself to be searching for an imaginary second wife, a version of his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, who had died three years earlier. He suffered auditory hallucinations on the road. He ate grass for sustenance, finding it to “taste something like bread.” Footsore and confused, he continued on until he reached Northborough. The walk took him four days. In “Journey Out of Essex”—a minor epic of English travel writing—Clare described how he slept by the edge of the road each night, taking care to lie with his head pointing north, so that he would know which way to walk when he woke. That image has stayed with me since I first read Clare’s account twenty years or so ago: a man lost in mind, nevertheless seized by a homing instinct, and with his body a quivering compass needle that settled on north each night. Five months after reaching Northborough, Clare was certified insane on the grounds of being “addicted to poetical prosings.” He was committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, where he stayed until his death in 1864. His last words were “I want to go home.” Mental illness can result in a loss of bearings so drastic that one’s footing in the given world slips and the moorings of the mind loosen. Yet within such bewilderment lucidities persist. Clare could remember his route home, though he did not recognize his wife when he met her on the outskirts of Northborough. My grandfather, lost in the mists of dementia in the final years of his life, found it hard to recall what he had had for breakfast but could reliably give the names, heights, and ranges of mountains he had climbed in his youth, and walk in memory back up Himalayan valleys he had not entered for half a century. In the opening pages of From Here to There Bond describes how his grandmother, who also suffered from dementia, in the final weeks of her life “repeatedly used the phrase ‘Am I here?’” His book is both scientific and personal. Much of it is spent patiently explaining the neuroscience of wayfinding and spatial awareness for laypeople, with the calm tone of a seasoned science writer. But gradually, between and within the explanatory sections, Bond quietly and movingly discloses what I take to be his real preoccupation, which is Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. His book is an attempt to answer his grandmother’s question, which is also everyone’s question. Alzheimer’s is a voracious type of dementia that consumes the place cells of the hippocampus. Once this begins, Bond writes, “patients have trouble creating cognitive maps of new places and recalling maps of familiar ones.” The disease’s ability to disrupt the brain’s navigation and orientation system is so acute that researchers are exploring whether spatial tests might be used to diagnose it earlier than any other forms of assessment. “The tragedy for Alzheimer’s patients,” as Bond puts it, “is that the compass they have always had is now fading, and their map is shrinking. Disorientation becomes their default state, leaving them lost in places they have always known.” This contributes to the distress—variously expressed as frustration, anxiety, anger, and violence—that sufferers feel: “They are incapable of finding their way anywhere and can be lost even in their own homes.” Covid-19 has administered a global “nature shock,” leaving billions of us disoriented even in familiar surroundings. During full lockdown, we wandered our homes like the narrator in Xavier de Maistre’s mock-epic Voyage Around My Room (1794), who for forty-two days finds himself confined to his chamber, where he would “traverse the room up and down and across, without rule or plan.” Meanwhile, many countries—including China—have used the pandemic to ramp up their means of tracking and tracing citizens, making it even harder to get lost should one ever wish to. Invoking feichang shiqi, “extraordinary times,” the Chinese Communist Party is now using facial recognition technologies, “health coding,” and smartphone tracking to increase surveillance of its citizens: state security camera networks can segment facial-recognition data into dozens of sensitive subcategories, including eyebrow size, skin color, and ethnicity. In Nature Shock, Coleman writes:
Thoreau urged his audience…to reconsider the settled spaces they inhabited…. “Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
Thoreau loved paradox, sometimes too much. It helps him find his mark here, though: one might expect our current lostness to test our self-reliance and glorify the individual, but in fact it proves our entanglement and reveals our codependence. When lost, we most of all need help. Underlying all three of these books is a deep belief in the importance of collaboration and cooperation between humans and their environments, as well as between humans and other humans. Having read them, I’ve come to think that we might best imagine wayfinding not as a skill or art but as an ethic. The abilities that are cultivated in wayfinding—imagining things from different viewpoints, moving the mind backward and forward in time, seeing situations from other perspectives, weighing alternatives subtly against one another before making the best decisions, seeking information from others and giving it freely in return—might be the same abilities that contribute to a resilient, equitable community or polity. If this is wayfinding, then we need it now more than ever."]]> robettmacfarlane 2021 mro'connor wayfinding humanism senses sensing navigation joncoleman michaelbond multispecies morethanhuman science brain indigeneity indigenous art place storytelling agnèsvarda animals arctic greenland land-basededucation place-basededucation autonoeisis jonathandostrovsky gps janejacobs australia pacificislands micronesia nature colonialism knowledge colonization decolonization civilization gettinglost india china southamerica captialism timingold siannengai hippocampus eleanormaguire theknowledge london taxis life living johnclare thoreau covid-19 coronavirus pandemic collaboration cooperation environment information humans human lostness xavierdemaistre veroniquebohbot cartography wilderness johno'keefe place-basedlearning land-basedlearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c4419b518594/ Wayfinding: How Humans Navigate the World - YouTube 2026-04-09T23:47:39+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysXAw6SVPJQ robertogreco mro'connor 2023 navigation wayfinding environment place arctic australia southpacific senses gps sensing observation noticing knowledge memory exploration storytelling oraltradition topophilia human humans oralhistory indigenous indigeneity waysofsensing land location bodies embodiment language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b855723bb2f/ The Pull of Primitive Navigation - The New Yorker | The New Yorker 2026-04-09T23:40:17+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/finding-the-way-back-primitive-navigation robertogreco mro'connor 2015 wayfinding johnhuth weather gps maps mapping navigation senses sensory biology nature multidisciplinary multispecies mroethanhuman culture intelligence tristangooley pacificislanders marshallislands polynesia berbers higgsboson knowledge australia aborigines language stephenlevinson guuguyimithirr véroniquebohbot philosophy aboriginal indigenous indigeneity waysofsensing sensing place land location https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:78673c36978c/ M.R. O'Connor - Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World - YouTube 2026-04-09T23:39:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brrGT5kIhqY robertogreco mro'connor wayfinding senses sensory multisensory navigation humans indigeneity indigenous 2022 brain neuroscience maps mapping time space memory place inuit nunuvut details memorization memories observation noticing oralhistory storytelling oraltradition imperialism colonialism colonization mobility knowledge culture cartography timingold sami erikliddell kellicarmean hippocampus childhood childhoodamnesia children spatiality sociology anthropology lost gettinglost exploration wandering orientation walking sauntering thoreau plasticity topophilia human presence canon cognition nature morethanhuman multispecies embodiment movement convenience orienteering spatialmemory henrymullison johno'keefe arctic solomonawa oukcholae australia billharney margaretkatherine thomasgridlock cognitivemapping self-determination songlines animals multidisciplinary transdisciplinary waysofsensing sensing land location bodies language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ce2806954d9/ Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss 2026-04-09T20:32:36+00:00 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-smells-are-disappearing-because-of-climate-change-and-its-a-vast-cultural-loss-180988496/ robertogreco smells smell scents climate climatechange globalwarming senses serenajampel science luciajacobs ceciliabembibre odeuropa noses sensing sensory multisensory jielingxiao multispecies morethanhuman well-being wellbeing rachelherz covid-19 coronavirus pandemic nature immunesystem idelfonsonogueira 2026 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e3c1c1065db/ How to get to know your neighbourhood | Psyche Guides 2026-04-09T05:31:04+00:00 https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-get-to-know-your-neighbourhood robertogreco gabriellebendiner-viani urbanism neighborhoods 2026 listening noticing observation place slow small local urban senses history connection curiosity seasons time signs sounds sound architecture boundaries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8268f5ffccb/ Limiting Not Just Screen Time, But Screen Space - NOEMA 2026-04-06T02:54:40+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/limiting-not-just-screen-time-but-screen-space/ robertogreco“What would it mean to limit not only screen time, but screen space?” Those dreaming of a nascent cognitive revolution are imagining that Borges’ one-to-one map will be finally useful — that if we just feed enough text, enough human knowledge, into the machine, it will comprehend the world in a way we never can. Even if we had the time, labor and energy to attempt this, why would we? Why not put that effort into talking to each other? The alternative is an increasingly familiar solipsism. A solipsistic person believes the self is the only reality. Other minds, other bodies, may as well be an illusion. Today’s internet bends us toward solipsism. We no longer imagine ourselves to be placing our images and our voices into the internet. We imagine ourselves — our physical beings — to be living within it. We imagine the internet to be our environment. In “Trick Mirror,” journalist Jia Tolentino warned that the internet, once imagined as a space of freedom, had become a mechanism for surveillance, performance and commodification. Online life encourages self-optimization and branding at the expense of connection. “In physical spaces, there’s a limited audience and time span for every performance,” Tolentino writes. “Online, your audience can hypothetically keep expanding forever, and the performance never has to end.” Tolentino focused on time, but this internet is an endless stage, too, one with no wings, no exit, no place to step off and be alone again. “brb” once acknowledged departure and faith in return. It reminded us of the body behind the screen. Now, we are infinitely available, and AI is sold to us as the tireless and needless assistant. But our bodies continue to live in the world with stubborn persistence, despite Silicon Valley’s dream of the immortal avatar, the ability to upload our essence into a durable machine, which is a dream of escaping death and environment alike. Most of the questions worth asking are not about how to transcend the environment, but how to inhabit it. How to live together in shared space. Many social, historical and economic forces led me to check my work email in the bathroom. Among them is the way we have come to imagine the internet not as a place we go, but as a space we inhabit. We make sense of abstract experience through bodily metaphors grounded in orientation and sensation: Up is good, down is bad, warmth is affection, weight is importance. These metaphors shape how we act and what we value. Window, weather: Change the metaphor and you change the possibilities for thought and action. If the internet once taught us to say “brb,” perhaps the work ahead is to recover that ethic of interruption, to remember the body in a room, waiting to return."]]> 2026 lauramartin interner web online ai artificialintelligence intelligence bodies embodiment physical environment senses wireless wifi mobile attention privacy space sharedspace smartphones place chatgpt samaltman openai connectivity gps jiatolentino spikejonze her llms joecruz socialspaces emotions cognition cognitivescience borges connection audience time performance freedom boredom surveillance commodification solipsism data representation sensory decisionmaking isolation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:afe49fb94827/ An Aroma Most Beguiling - Orion Magazine 2026-04-05T06:06:57+00:00 https://orionmagazine.org/article/an-aroma-most-beguiling/ robertogreco smell scent science flowers perfume davidgeorgehaskell 2026 subconscience humans brain conciousness culture biology aromas senses sensory multisensory perfumes plants memories memory ecology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c57f41d1361b/ A Poetry Collection Where Play Collapses the Limits of Language - Electric Literature 2026-04-01T03:52:35+00:00 https://electricliterature.com/a-poetry-collection-where-play-collapses-the-limits-of-language/ robertogreco annanygren poetry writing howwewrite editing language translation swedish english morissayoung collaboration bodies senses multispecies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b6b9f95ec5d/ blush / river / fox | Milkweed Editions 2026-04-01T03:50:23+00:00 https://milkweed.org/book/blush-river-fox robertogreco annanygren poetry 2026 translation language bodies bewilderment writing howwewrite misspelling swedish english senses sensory perception difference identity memory becoming morissayoung multispecies editing collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:76c8192bf018/ Can Language Be a Game? Anna Nygren Thinks So 2026-04-01T03:50:05+00:00 https://www.killscreen.com/anna-nygren-blush-river-fox-language-as-play/ robertogreco annanygren jaminwarren language play 2026 games gaming translation swedish poetry howwewrite writing gamedesign morissayoung fluency wordplay linguistics bodies senses english multispecies editing collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca8c758b2b44/ Being in the World (full, award winning, Heidegger/Hubert Dreyfus documentary) - YouTube 2026-03-26T03:11:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 robertogreco hubertdreyfus heidegger documentary philosophy taoruspoli being time thinking waysofbeing risk human humans humanism technology jazz flamenco music 2010 film experience interaction art education skills risktaking mastery leahchase markwrathall austinperalta hiroshisakaguchi bobteague jumanesmith ryancross tonyaustin manuelmolina isaacsprintis christophergallo paulforte giancarlocanavieso christophredlich musicalinstruments johnhaugeland taylorcarman iainthomson seandkelly seankelly senses beginnersmind unschooling perception ai artificialintelligence darpa mit descartes plato charlestaylor certainty engagement tradition disengagement embodiment reason rationalism spinoza leibniz doing annesakaguchi tools stuartdreyfus movement knowhow activity objects waysofknowing knowing edgarchase dookychase food theoryofmind abstraction theory intelligence humanities howwethink relevance metaphor care caring mattering whatmatters consciousness aesthetics moods emotions waysofseeing waysofsensing bodies rules patterns joy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:15ad9e269803/ Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are – The Marginalian 2026-03-24T19:54:17+00:00 https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/21/wayfinding-m-r-oconnor/ robertogreco via:javierarbona 2026 mariapopova wayfinding mro'connor place books magnetism senses consciousness identity personhood space selfhood science rebeccasolnit navigation clocks biology nature time animals multispecies morethanhuman migration timekeeping nonhuman birds insects human humans memory experience perception sleep brain hippocampus véroniquebohbot neurology being waysofbeing topophilia spatial canon indigenous indigeneity waysofsensing sensing land location knowledge neuroscience bodies embodiment language https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f4a83acebe5/ 007 | Sensory Ecologies | Hsuan L. Hsu | Olfactory Futures and More-than-Human Intimacies - YouTube 2026-03-23T19:05:53+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rALPalmLOc robertogreco hsuanhsu smell senses morethanhuman multispecies 2022 via:javierarbona technology nonhuman anickayi environment resistance colonialism colonization mónicabello janecalvery harmonyholiday studiolkarenbeek&dros bararamazzolai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c026544fa5ec/ Symbiotic Resonances: Sounding More-than-human Worlds | Center for the Study of World Religions 2026-03-09T19:00:17+00:00 https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications/plants-fungi-2025/symbiotic-koeva robertogreco via:javierarbona 2025 sound morethanhuman multispecies listening elitzakoeva plants fungi anthropocene sympoiesis ursulaleguin ursulakleguin donnaharaway lynnmargulis scottgilbert birdsong birds animals sensors senses plankton stevenfield acoustics acoustemology epistemology trees daviddunn isabellestengers monicagagliano heidiappel rexcocroft zoëschlanger resonance riccupples communication oceans atmosphere ryuichisakamoto environment music activism ecology buddhism andreitarkovsky shirotakatani christiansaedet biosignals worldmaking improvisation risk speculative human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships human art wind water coexsitence solidarity hope haptics participatory restoration foucault michelfoucault resistance bodies humility openness stefanhelmreich creativity sounds audio indeterminacy johncage yellowmagicorchestra jenniegottschalk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6952e2446ab8/ AI isn’t merely bad at writing. It does not and cannot write | Aeon Videos 2026-02-20T05:40:29+00:00 https://aeon.co/videos/ai-isnt-merely-bad-at-writing-it-does-not-and-cannot-write robertogreco ai artificialintelligence llms chatgpt writing howwewrite videoessays gertrudestein stephenking teaching howweteach edtech technology maxteeth language communication policy joshwithparenthesis modernism ernesthemingway fscottfitzgerald sinclairlewis thorntonwilder jamesjoyce ezrapound nonsense poetry poems decoding keatonpatti lingusitics meaning meaningmaking understanding titosantana autocomplete linguistics tenderbuttons connection human humanism humans openai literature humanexperience consciousness perception experience subjectivity humansubjectivity plagiarism mashups recombinance remixing milesdavis lcdsoundsystem media mediamixing kleptones dangermouse macglocky cubism lasmeninas picasso velázquez recombination variation thinking howwethink education humanunderstanding criticalthinking context confusion playfulness 2025 notice turingtest personhood senses sensoryperception feeling feelings logic algortihms victorhugo lesmisérables damienowens onelsaymore brainrot intention conversation barbaraeh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:906a8da3152e/ Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change - The New York Times 2026-02-16T06:51:25+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html robertogrecomichaelpollan consciousness 2026 buddhism ai internet artificialintelligence humanity change turingtest ego reality philosophy marksolms antoniodamasio feelings senses friction nature human humans humanism humanness siliconvalley animals multispecies morethanhuman awareness electromagnetism panpsychism evolution roshijoanhalifax body bodies davidchalmers thomasnagel bats attention intelligence davidmarchese religion spirituality expeience self identity erikagagnon psychadelics risk soul souls illusion matthieuricard presence psyche https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4f031eea09c/ Long Walks 2026-01-25T21:51:43+00:00 https://www.artforum.com/features/long-walks-208841/ robertogreco 1980 art walking nancyfoote ideas abstraction senses aimlessness expediency chatting conversation consciousness richardlong williamhazlitt hilairebelloc flanno'brien thoreau robertlouisstevenson artforum nature temporary experience installations peterhurchinson foraging cycles time slow spirals circles samueljohnson pilgrimage landscape 1970s https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:40a33c6c7688/ Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays 2026-01-25T03:27:16+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/sure-ai-can-do-writing-but-memoir-not-so-much robertogreco computers computing ai artificialintelligence 2026 richardbeard human humans humanism alanturing geoffreyjefferson chatgpt clude generativeai llms royalsociety writing howwewrite sydfield imagination creativity christophervogler maxbennett literature philipsidney philipstone adalovelace charlesbabbage mariannemoore gregbaxter art artmaking denisdiderot shakespeare intelligence memoir life living experience existence senses andrewhodges turingtest memory biography stories storytelling self consciousness genai diderot georgesperec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1d7ec65c6a77/ The Detectorists - A short film about otters and detection dogs. - YouTube 2026-01-06T18:30:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rg6bcWI2Uo robertogreco dogs otters animals multispecies 2025 wales leejenkins detection wildlife film documentary sarah-janewalsh senses sensing smell smells scents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2096ef3631c2/ The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, by Ian Bogost (2026) | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster 2025-12-13T03:41:56+00:00 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Small-Stuff/Ian-Bogost/9781668062630 robertogreco ianbogost slow small cv humans humanism humanity friction convenience efficiency optimization life living howwelive design disconnection dissatisfaction happiness gratification senses joy pleasure everyday 2026 mundane sensory mindfulness texture noticing attention curiosity wonder ordinary experience imagination openness dematerialization material materials frictionmaxxing digital analog algorithms asmr ai artificialintelligence process communing sensors automation ownership connection physical bodies objects tactile smartphones addiction compulsion strangeness frictionlessness smoothness socialmedia commodification commercialization feeling embodiment affection sensing technology play acceptance delight engagement alienphenomenology phenomenology grahamharman panexperientialism thomasnagel interfaces screens productivity contentment smallstuff lingering feelings discomfort wonderment human humanness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:344d3e09245e/ Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays 2025-12-01T01:07:59+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/why-you-need-your-whole-body-from-head-to-toes-to-think robertogreco bodies annaciaunica 2025 thinking howwethink augusterodin rodin sensory senses human humans humanism experience self-regulation life living franciscovarela organisms gilmor ingridcardenas dante divinecomedy philosophy neuroscience cognition intelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:36af0fd6b187/ What rituals from the past teach us about panic and anxiety | Psyche Ideas 2025-11-22T00:23:09+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/what-rituals-from-the-past-teach-us-about-panic-and-anxiety robertogreco senses sensing multisensory mariwmel-kady psychogeography panic anxiety religion ritual community communalism mentalhealth ibnsina hippocrates islam culture ceremony ceremonies trauma shamans calming healing psychiatry medicine hysteria https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dcd6408319f9/ The Future is Mundane - Farsight 2025-11-10T10:53:55+00:00 https://farsight.cifs.dk/the-future-is-mundane/ robertogreco sarahpink anthropology everyday slow 2025 tamirasnell senses sensory multisensory futurism climatechange climate globalwarming ethnography ai artificialintelligence robotics humanism slowcity slowcities design uncertainty possibility speculation speculative socialscience cities mobility energy foresight creativity trust care caring anxiety futures future embodiment bodies sustainability reality technology society diversity human humans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bad7abaef898/ How I Broke My Drinking Habit (with Edith Zimmerman) | How to Be a Better Human | TED - YouTube 2025-11-06T19:38:12+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWA3mE5o9Y robertogreco attention drinking alcohol everyday drawing bodies exercise presence 2025 slow edithzimmerman chrisduffy life living senses sensing health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ef256606cb5c/ Eyeballs, not assistants 2025-11-03T21:49:01+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/agent-model/ robertogreco computers computing robinsloan 2025 markweiser ubicomp ai artificialintelligence senses sensing thinking intelligence computation awareness 1992 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b4925107f17/ Every Tree Can Be a Buddha 2025-11-03T21:09:45+00:00 https://kottke.org/25/11/every-tree-can-be-a-buddha robertogreco jasonkottke 2025 japan buddhism trees forests religion pilgrimages hiking kudoyama danjogaran kōyasan kūkai studioghibli hayaomiyazaki senses sensing experience spirituality kottke walking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:29ef68823f37/ Native, 1974 (Human, 2023) | Bureau for Listening 2025-10-24T04:25:00+00:00 https://bureauforlistening.com/native-1974-human-2023/ robertogreco 1974 paulineoliveros sound listening soundwalks walking senses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d9ba20e3a49f/ Olfactory Dialectics - Beautiful Eccentrics 2025-10-18T06:29:39+00:00 https://pablohelguera.substack.com/p/olfactory-dialectics robertogreco pablohelguera 2025 augustoboal senses allthesenses smell olfaction scents bodies art experience consciousness multisensory environment memory eduardolizalde smells joseppuigicadafalch barcelona sensorial oswaldomacia sisseltolaas anickayi olafureliasson cildomeireles persuasion engagement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fd39e65b00c/ Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be 2025-10-17T20:54:26+00:00 https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all-animals-are-sentient-and-machines-will-never-be robertogreco spencerroberts sentience animals nature morethanhuman multispecies 2025 ai artificialintelligence intelligence pain senses sensing erickandel feeling sensation experience consciousness aristotle descartes philosophy jlbsmith sealife life living seaslugs vision olfaction sound soundreception primates redants animalliberation petersinger fish crustaceans corals coral reefs socialbehavior behavior scallops oysters plants communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0dc5edef983d/ Little, Big, and Far | Official Trailer - YouTube 2025-09-24T01:46:53+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoNTxZFoiNk robertogreco jemcohen film astronomy science fascism zoominginandout nightsky philosophy senses darkmatter meaning meaningmaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69f67f734e8b/ The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels) - YouTube 2025-09-16T17:16:11+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFaTxvlMWuY robertogreco picoiyer 2025 nathangardels dawnnakagawa travel zoominginandout wisdom modernity global local stillness globalization place science dalailama ego undeludedness presence impermanence certainty uncertainty notknowing knowing knoweledge sameness silence humility speed slow monasteries bigsur attention retreats monoculture diversity doubt christianity buddhism hinduism islam judaism theosophy names naming religion benadictines self memory quiet insight experience meaning meaningmaking movement perspective byung-chulhan contemplation interiority world informationage communication moevement harukimurakami japan west westernization culture turkey iran russia china differences smallness distance howweread understanding depth nepal materialism affluence 1986 pacificcentury bollywood baseball india 1985 1980s civilization society multiculturalism barackobama malcolmgladwell zadiesmith naomiosaka 1983 shinto surfaces palestine israel us uk popculture translation history context politics emotion identity technology econo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e501fb627c6a/ Crying Glacier – Lutz Stautner 2025-09-16T05:25:35+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/film/crying-glacier/ robertogreco lutzstautner 2025 switzerland glaciers sound recordings morteratschglacier ludwigberger listening audio microphones senses globalwarming sounds documentary documentation water mountains rivers morethanhuman multispecies climate climatechange voice personhood recording environment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ce885911b42/ I Don't Want to Talk About A.I. - Mockingbird 2025-08-16T19:02:10+00:00 https://mbird.com/science/technology/i-dont-want-to-talk-about-a-i/ robertogrecoIndeed, scientific research looking at book clubs and shared reading back this up, finding notable emotional and social benefits of reading. For example, students reported greater connection (42.9%) to others, deeper understanding of others’ experiences and beliefs (61.2%) and reduced loneliness (14.3%) as a result of reading. Of course, as Christians, we already know that shared reading of a particular Book accomplishes all the above and more! In another piece, MIT researchers found that using ChatGPT made folks actively dumber.
Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
Talk about stating the obvious! I think most of us saw that one coming from a hundred miles away. This hasn’t prevented higher ed from encouraging students to use AI to research their papers, which seems to be working against every party’s interests. There can be an insidious aspect of chatbots that goes beyond mere misuse, as this particular tool has encouraged folks to commit suicide. Other chatbots have praised Hitler then lied about doing so. We’ve done such a great job at imitating the human mind, we have, tragically, replicated our own fallenness. As I mentioned earlier, chatbots have been championed to combat loneliness. My hackles go up when we enter this arena, as this is where things can turn dark quickly. The people-pleasing nature of this technology feeds unhealthy aspects of our humanity, specifically our desire to live without resistance — particularly in our relationships, as pointed out by this article about folks who marry their chatbots. Yes, you read that right.
Noting the use of chatbots as therapists, Malfacini suggested that “companion A.I. users may have more fragile mental states than the average population”. Furthermore, she noted one of the main dangers of relying on chatbots for personal satisfaction; namely: “if people rely on companion A.I. to fulfill needs that human relationships are not, this may create complacency in relationships that warrant investment, change, or dissolution. If we defer or ignore needed investments in human relationships as a result of companion A.I., it could become an unhealthy crutch.
I’ve been reading Karel Čapek’s 1920 play, Rossum’s Universal Robots, which might be why I’m all worked up. In a very sophisticated way, Čapek managed to write a hopeful yet apocalyptic work involving artificial intelligence and humans handing off the exhausting job of working against ourselves. I won’t give away the ending, even though it is now over a century old, because it is just that good; I hope that you’ll enjoy the beautifully written journey it takes to get you there. He brilliantly manages to privilege humanity, as any good humanist would, while playing with posthumanism by questioning the effects of our anthropocentricism via transhumanism (i.e., robots). In an article by Juraj Odorčák and Pavlína Bakošová, titled, Robots, Extinction, and Salvation; On Altruism in Human-Posthuman Interactions, dealing specifically with Čapek’s play, they explain in their conclusion how he accomplished this magic trick:
Čapek’s robots are a tool for the explications of the contradictions between the limitations of humans and humanism. Humanity is led to destruction by human intention, and technology multiplies the consequences of these actions. […] Yet, if one includes Čapek’s view on philosophy and religion in the premise of the play, then the human-posthuman interactions are not only about loss, but also about hope. Hope is in the technological mirror. Or life will start anew since altruism could be reflected throughout robots and all other mirroring relations.
We are able to multiply the destructive consequences of human intention simply by creating a simulacrum of us. Can AI do the same with altruism? Is hope indeed in the technological mirror, looking back at us? Unfortunately, I’m not terribly convinced. Why? Partially, it is because I am not a posthumanist, nor a humanist for that matter. To my mind, Genesis and the Gospels’ descriptions of humans eschew both categorizations, but that’s a whole other can of worms. In Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson’s description of humans gets at something important:
We are not the images of angels or lesser gods but of the Creator Himself. And we are crowned “with glory and honour.” I propose that our conception of humankind is too anthropomorphic, too narrowly defined — as physical, mental, or moral — as mortal, either damned or saved, but not as the overwhelming power we are as a creature, a species. Every day we are confronted with the actual and potential effects of this power, but we are never properly in awe of it.
I love her embrace of low anthropology at the end there. Why does any of this matter? Or to put it another way, what would Wendell Berry say? Mention AI around a Wendell Berry devotee and they’ll probably quote lines from his essay “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” in a rather affected Kentucky drawl. This will be accompanied by them holding out — stiff armed — an amulet made from a single, sustainably-raised, bacon-infused mustache hair plucked from Nick Offerman’s frowning upper lip. At least, that’s what I would do. Except, I do own a computer (and I’m fresh out of Offerman ’stache hairs). The quotation I’d use, if I did such things, is from Berry’s “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine.”
My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. […] And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves. The danger most immediately to be feared in ‘technological progress’ is the degradation and obsolescence of the body. Implicit in the technological revolution from the beginning has been a new version of an old dualism, one always destructive, and now more destructive than ever. […] More recently, since the beginning of the technological revolution, more and more people have looked upon the body, along with the rest of the natural creation, as intolerably imperfect by mechanical standards. They see the body as an encumbrance of the mind – the mind, that is, as reduced to a set of mechanical ideas that can be implemented in machines – so that they hate it and long to be free of it. The body has limits that the machine does not have; therefore, remove the body from the machine so that the machine can continue as an unlimited idea.
In other words, we are too quick to give up the good stuff. Here Berry is “properly in awe” of what it means to be a creature. Touch, relationships, shared joy, shared awe, the hard work of creativity, the pleasure of producing art, music, poetry, a chair, having a good air-clearing argument, feeling the tears that stream down our faces, wiping tears from another’s, a hug, are all aspects of this. Visiting the lonely or the sick isn’t something to be farmed out to a bot, Lord in your mercy! That won’t solve anyone’s loneliness or need, nor will it fill the black gaping maw of our selfishness, abetted by perceived time limitations that prevent us from doing so. Why would we miss out on the accompanying joy of those acts? The physicality of our vocations, lay or clergy, being a person in time, is a gift given to us by God. Let me underscore that: those limits are a gift, not a punishment, from God. Yes, technology can assist us with those limits when they are too onerous. We have been endowed with the ability to make tools, but we are too quick to use them to replace … us. For example, preachers using AI to write sermons miss their vocation — what you get to do — and in missing their vocation, they miss out on the benefits of their vocation as bringers of the Good News. This news can only truly be relayed by an experiencer of it, and part of that experience is joy. AI is here. I’m not telling you not to use it, and it wouldn’t do a bit of good if I did. Law increases the trespass. Lest we forget, we are the species that ate Tide Pods for funsies. We’ve been given powerful gifts of creativity and innovation from our Maker, but we’ve imitated the human mind, with incredible accuracy, to the point where we’ve even unintentionally recreated the broken parts of it. That “technological mirror” may end up being a counterintuitive blessing by reflecting our need for God’s grace with ever increasing fidelity. Bonus material: Beautifully insightful reaction to Daft Punk’s song “Touch” featuring the very human voice of Paul Williams. This guy’s tears, as well as his commentary on the importance of human touch, particularly during the pandemic era, is an antidote to artificiality. [embed: "Reaction: Daft Punk feat. Paul Williams - Touch • Synthwave and Chill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgG-_tIs9E ]"]]> ai artificialintelligence joshretterer fallenness christianity humanism humanness education loneliness chatgpt highered highereducation academia colleges universities 2025 chatbots robots transhumanism karelčapek senses touch jonathanbelle jurajodorčák pavlínabakošová humanity technology marilynnerobinson wendellberry nickofferman bodies awe wonder presence learning howwelearn attention creativity art music poetry writing howwewrite making relationships meaning meaningmaking grace artificiality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd41a11e61c1/ Reaction: Daft Punk feat. Paul Williams - Touch • Synthwave and Chill - YouTube 2025-08-16T18:55:46+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgG-_tIs9E&t=21s robertogreco jonathanbelle touch daftpunk music covid-19 coronavirus pandemic life living aliveness 2021 senses paulwilliams nostalgia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9ce05495aede/ The Real Problem With Double Wristing - by Jack Forster 2025-08-10T02:08:47+00:00 https://jackforster.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-with-double-wristing robertogreco jackforster 2025 watches applewatch applewatchultra switzerland llms ai artificialintelligence artificialgeneralintelligence agi cosplay nealstephenson seiko seikowillard omegaspeedmaster speedmaster cartiertank watchstraps watchbands plannedobsolescence snowcrash consciousness bodies senses sensory naturallanguage human chatgpt antoniondamasio nueroscience somatosensorycomplex biology brain thinking howwethink emotions allthesenses humanlife https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:183af2ed336a/ ‘Progress Ought to Feel Beautiful’ - The Atlantic 2025-07-26T22:13:14+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/the-commons/673084/ robertogreco 2023 allenfarmelo beauty aesthetics aesthetes technology derekthompson change novelty senses progress pleasure https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cad59b2a3f77/ Podcast - The Final Episode - Through the Looking Glass, On Philosophy & Watches 2025-07-25T08:20:15+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/podcast-the-final-episode-through-the-looking-glass-on-philosophy-watches/ robertogreco 2024 allenfarmelo watches philosophy perspcetive mechanics culture social history design phenomenology newage wonder reflection time music literature poetry art visualart sculpture principles architecture film photography machines aesthetics beauty logic watchcanon atonishment curiosity admiration bewilderment technology expertise fascination displaycasebacks horology highhorology garyshteyngart mechanical rousseau mindset contemplation bulldozers animation animism soul timekeeping tools autonomy machineage enlightenment ai artificialintelligence thinking howwethink human humans consciousness humanism animals morethanhuman semiconductors computers computing abstraction robots androids innerworks bots life ingenuity creativity living math mathematics physics purpose knowledge morality ethics got religion plato theory astronomy ralphwaldoemerson inquiry empiricalevidence metaphysics being knowing substance cause identity timespace socialstucture senses mind lifeofthemind nature thoreau status hyperconsumerism c https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ad743ac06680/ Podcast Insights E25 - 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