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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoTo See the World Whole - by Christian Study Center2024-02-26T02:00:27+00:00
https://christianstudycenter.substack.com/p/to-see-the-world-whole
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https://museum.care/events/pedagogies-of-care-2/
robertogrecocare caring attention unschooling deschooling via:javierarbona 2024 ivanillich observation slow small dialog listening voice agency separation control competition capitalism pedagogy howwelearn howweteach teaching cooperation education brazil brasil indigeneity indigenous palestine activism pallenielsen bellhooks bertholdbrecht walterbenjamin franciscoferrer davidgraeber alternative future andrisbrinkmanis art arteducationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4c6421b46258/Global Empire: Eyal Weizman: Excavating Israel on Vimeo2023-10-12T02:43:13+00:00
https://vimeo.com/167062251
robertogrecoeyalweizman tariqali 2016 israel palestine occupation bds gaza westbank colonialism war violence colonization settlercolonialism us uk france influence policy politics lobbying europe weapons software surveillance control apartheid fascism democracy resistance saudiarabia bedouins zionism history directaction climatechange radicalization yitzhakrabin space power place architecture design maps mapping separation inequality borders walls management deserts davidben-gurion displacement refugees settlementshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:62107a47f326/Opinion | What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal - The New York Times2023-06-14T23:21:17+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kristen-ghodsee.html
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https://futuress.org/magazine/a-water-story/
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https://www.frieze.com/article/fred-moten-and-harmony-holiday-music-makes-space
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/03/the-brief-idyll-of-late-90s-wong-kar-wai/
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http://tinyletter.com/chrbutler/letters/2-6-neighborhoods-the-anti-algorithm
robertogreco"The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery."
That was 1905. Long before the internet would give us the largest community of all. Yet, the oft-cited "filter bubble" of the internet is Chesterton's community of choice. The easy community. The one that just happens because we want what we want. And in a less troubled world, that wouldn't be much to fuss about. But in our world, the "filter bubble" is dangerous. It makes fear, hatred, and oppression all the more abundant, both online and off. Before the internet, we called "filter bubbles" segregation. We call them "filter bubbles" now because its easier to see them as a manifestation of technology than the effect of our choices. Because if we saw them for what they truly are, we'd have to call them segregation again. We thought we left that behind. But, no, we haven't. Segregation, of every kind, is the entropy against which we all struggle, the product of bodies living in time, wired down to our cells to survive at all costs, responding to their loudest signal, fear. Chesterton understood that the principal challenge we humans are given to work out in this life is each other, and that nowhere better than next door is that challenge met.
But in Facebook's world, next-door has no greater offer of intimacy than across town, or state, or country. In the large community, as Chesterton said, we can choose our companions. That's the appeal of the network. Community on my terms. Forget that we know it's not good for us. Or that it's dangerous. Forget that it's a shinier, faster form of segregation. Forget that it's invisible and layered, making it easier to explain away. None of this is Facebook's fault. If it wasn't them, then it would be AOL, or Friendster, or MySpace, or any of the many networks that came before it. We can't blame them — any of them — for segregation, however technological its 21st century incarnation may be. But we can blame them for selling it. The economic benefit of segregation is nothing new; it makes selling things easier. But segregation is Facebook's secret sauce. It's an economic imperative. Like just about every "platform" of the internet today, it is ruthlessly driven to box each one of us in. To confine us to an echo-chamber. Not for our own benefit, but for theirs. Because it makes it easier for them to control us. And no, not to usher in some dramatic, Illuminati-style new world order. It's hardly that interesting! It's to sell tiny display ads and make heaps of money. That's it. Controlling us is simply an act of inventory management.
Of course, it's easy to look past all of this. To point at the good that thrives on the network — and of that, there is plenty. The lonely who are no longer lonely because of it. The oppressed who grow more powerful when bound together. But to celebrate the network's role in that only heightens my awareness that it is something we could have — should have — without it. It's too easy, also, to celebrate the engines of our ingenuity. See this? Look what we have made! But that we are as enamored with the algorithm as we so clearly are is an indicator that our hearts are way out of sync with our minds. We have engineered such sophisticated tools for connecting, ordering, and studying ourselves; it's an astounding achievement. It's one we might even celebrate if it were truly an open project for the common good. But it isn't. Not even close. So why do we pretend that it is? The network is not ours. It's the other way around. We are the network's. To sell. That is, unless we get off the network. Or at least spend a whole lot less time there.
My neighbors have convinced me that community is not only of the network. Saying such a thing sounds trite. But it's another thing entirely to live it. Here's an example: Last year, the doctor and his wife down the street decided to organize weekly neighborhood dinners. Each Sunday evening, someone hosts dinner for the neighborhood. When I first heard the idea, I was aghast. Weekly! As in, every week? No, I thought, monthly, maybe. But we went to a few, then we hosted one of our own — which wasn't nearly as much work as we thought it would be — and we've regularly gone to most of the others since. It's not obligatory. It's not like if you go to one, you must go to them all. Or even that if you go to one, you must host one. Few people have gone to every dinner, but many of us have gone to most of them. And many of us have hosted one.
Spending this time together — committing to it — is how the work gets done, not the Facebook group. It's through being together, in each other's homes, in real life. Don't get me wrong, it's no utopia. People get on each other's nerves. Not everyone will become best friends. We're talking about people here. But that's the point. The network can't sell that. It can sell our attention, but the less of our lives we live on the network, the less our attention feels like us. That's the control we still have. Eventually, hopefully, leveraging that control could change the economics of the network. Consider the neighborhood the anti-algorithm."]]>2015 chrisbutler facebook socialnetworks gkchesterson difference filterbubbles algorithms neighborhoods discovery community communities understanding empathy small attention feeds segregation diversity technology separation togetherness companionship sympathyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cc95356d34d4/Is it time to cut adrift from island thinking? – Libby Robin – Aeon2014-12-19T15:47:12+00:00
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/no-island-is-an-island-in-a-cosmopolitan-age/
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http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/2012/05/06/the-ambassadors-of-the-hinterlands/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/books/review/fallen-idols.html?pagewanted=all
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http://vzaar.com/channels/dconstruct2011_kars_alfrink
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http://www.peterme.com/2011/04/22/suburbs-and-cubicles/
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