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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoEARTH MANUAL PROJECT2024-03-04T20:00:42+00:00
https://www.earthmanual.org/?en
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https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/you-dont-need-to-document-everything
robertogrecofreyaindia 2024 documentation socialmedia attention cameras photography smartphones influencers anxiety stress depression life living instagram presence relationships morality quiet quietness meaning sharing emotions mentalhealth genz generationzhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f55a97494f1f/Packing My Library - Believer Magazine2024-01-29T04:27:35+00:00
https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/2016-08-10-packing-my-library/
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https://blog.ayjay.org/the-homebound-symphony/
robertogrecoThe Symphony performed music — classical, jazz, orchestral arrangements of pre-collapse pop songs — and Shakespeare. They’d performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.
“People want what was best about the world,” Dieter said.
Later we learn that “All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.” Dieter says, “That quote on the lead caravan would be way more profound if we hadn’t lifted it from Star Trek,” but not everyone agrees that the quote’s origin is a problem. Take wisdom where you find it, is their view.
In his dyspeptic screed of fifty years ago, In Bluebeard’s Castle, George Steiner talks about living in a “post-culture” — a society whose culture has died even if its monuments may remain:
At great pains and cost, Altstädtte, whole cities, have been rebuilt, stone by numbered stone, geranium pot by geranium pot. Photographically there is no way of telling; the patina on the gables is even richer than before. But there is something unmistakably amiss. Go to Dresden or Warsaw, stand in one of the exquisitely recomposed squares in Verona, and you will feel it. The perfection of renewal has a lacquered depth. As if the light at the cornices had not been restored, as if the air were inappropriate and carried still an edge of fire. There is nothing mystical to this impression; it is almost painfully literal. It may be that the coherence of an ancient thing is harmonic with time, that the perspective of a street, of a roof line, that have lived their natural being can be replicated but not re-created (even where it is, ideally, indistinguishable from the original, reproduction is not the vital form). Handsome as it is, the Old City of Warsaw is a stage set; walking through it, the living create no active resonance. It is the image of those precisely restored house fronts, of those managed lights and shadows which I keep in mind when trying to discriminate between what is irretrievable — though it may still be about — and what has in it the pressure of life.
A powerful passage; but, while I agree with Steiner that we are living in a kind of post-culture, I reject his language of the “irretrievable,” or as he says elsewhere in that essay, “irreparable.” I’ll explain why.
First the bad news. I don’t know a statement more indicative of the character of our moment than this by J. D. Vance: “I think our people hate the right people.” It’s what almost everyone believes these days, isn’t it? That they and their people hate the right people. And it seems to me that that is a pretty good definition of a post-culture: a society in which people have no higher ambition than to bring down those they perceive to be their enemies. (I’m setting aside the obvious point that Christians aren’t supposed to hate anyone.) I couldn’t agree more with my friend Yuval Levin that our moment is A Time to Build, but when you’re only concerned with hating the right people, who has time to build anything?
There are a lot of people out there doing good work to expose the absurdities, the hypocrisies, and the sheer destructiveness of both the Left and the Right. I myself did some of that work for several years, but I’m not inclined to keep doing it, largely because that work of critique, however necessary, lacks a constructive dimension. There has to be something better we can do than curse our enemies — or the darkness of the present moment. If I agree with Yuval that this is indeed a time to build, then what can I build?
And as regular readers of this blog know, my particular emphasis is not on building from scratch but on restoring, renewing, and repairing. As Steiner notes, the remnants of Culture Lost surround us — still more so than when he wrote those words: the great benefit of the Internet is its ability to preserve cultural artifacts that very few people have any use for today. But such preservation is not automatic and inevitable. On the Internet, things get lost, links stop working, even the Wayback Machine is not able to rescue everything, though it rescues a hell of a lot. My task, as I now conceive it, is not to engage in critique but rather to bear a small light and keep it burning for the next generation and maybe the generation after that. I want to find what is wise and good and beautiful and true and pass along to my readers as much of it as I can, in a form that will be accessible and comprehensible to them.
That last point is worth emphasizing. Great works of art and of wisdom cannot always speak clearly for themselves: they often need an interpreter. And sometimes they need to be revised to some degree to make them useful to us. This is why I have talked about vendoring culture: the creative activity of making accessible and vivid what otherwise could be inscrutable and might therefore seem pointless. It is a teacherly thing to do, I suppose, and that makes sense for me, because I have never been able to think of myself primarily as a scholar or a writer but rather as a teacher who writes. Wordsworth famously wrote “what we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how” – but if we don’t teach them how, then there is very little chance that they will indeed love what we have loved.
Station Eleven had the Traveling Symphony: I’m trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person sitting in my study with a computer on my lap, reading and listening and viewing, and recording and sifting and transmitting – sharing the good, the true, and the beautiful, with added commentary. The initial purpose of this work is to repair, not the whole culture, but just my own attention. On a daily basis I retrain my mind to attend to what is worthy. It is the task of a lifetime, especially in an environment which strives constantly to commandeer my attention, to remove it from my control, to make me a passive consumer of what others wish me to look at or listen to.
So first of all I’m doing this work — this blog; my essays; my books; my newsletter, which is all about praise and delight — for myself, but one of the reasons that I can be disciplined in redirecting my attention is that I’ve learned that if I do so it can be helpful to others. That’s really been the great lesson for me of the last few weeks — since I started my Buy Me a Coffee page: I’ve learned that a few people appreciate the ways in which I can help them redirect their own attention.
As David Samuels has said in a memorable essay, “My problem is how to escape from it all in order to continue being me. The aim of any sane person in an age like this one is to be free to love the people you love and secure the freedom of [your] own thoughts, the same way you step out of the way of an oncoming truck.” But it’s not only about continuing to be myself, or even about loving my family and friends (though that love will always be my first priority). Survival is insufficient. I also feel an obligation to cup my hand around a candle to shield its flame in the strong winds. As the book of Proverbs teaches us, “The spirit of man” — including the manifestations of that spirit in art and music and story — “is the candle of the Lord.” My job is to keep that candle burning and pass it along to those who come after me. I don’t think anything that we’ve lost or neglected is irretrievable or irreparable, not even if I fail in my duty. I think often about what Tom Stoppard’s Alexander Herzen says near the end of The Coast of Utopia: “The idea will not perish. What we let fall will be picked up by those behind. I can hear their childish voices on the hill.”"]]>stationeleven emilystjohnmandel 2022 alanjacobs davidsamuels yuvallevin jdvance georgesteiner internet web online waybackmachine truth values value commentary beauty attention art humanities love survival alexanderherzen culture society humanness humans wisdom interpretation accessibility access howweteach howwelearn teaching learning restoration renewal repair preservation archives sharinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:062ded04b7eb/How to Keep Time - The Atlantic [bookmarking for Season 5, "How to Keep Time" - this podcast covered other topics before that.]2024-01-23T05:11:04+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/how-to-build-a-happy-life/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kyle-chayka.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Avh1AJ9sls
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https://thedobook.co/en-us/products/do-interesting-notice-collect-share
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
robertogrecokylechayka 2023 web online internet socialmedia twitter tiktok instagram meta facebook algorithms blogs blogging google search reddit ai artificialintelligence jiatolentino twitch performance celebrity eleanorstern broadcast media reciprocity conversation monetization entrapment derekguy elonmusk choiresicha orisinal sharinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9ec9722a84a/Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism | Future Histories International2023-09-18T04:44:02+00:00
https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsyIi9ga4n4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLHc2BZMzM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/ezra-klein-kristen-ghodsee.html
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https://www.theverge.com/23751675/apple-vision-pro-vr-headset-ios-17-mental-health-mood-journal
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https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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https://newbooksnetwork.com/living-as-a-bird
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjYELKhtDJ8
robertogrecoeducation schools schooling unschooling self-directedlearning agilelearningcenters democracy democraticschools participation participatory sudburyschools freedom autonomy children society empowerment hierarchy via:todrobbins freeschools authority leadership directdemocracy power community communities governance economics cooperatives socialism labor work guidance egalitarianism deschooling hierarchies decentralization play behavior relationships bullying responsibility imagination creativity knowledgehoarding knowledge sharing productivity observation learning howwelearn homework capitalism tests testing schoolmeetings morningmeeting doing mentoring mentorships intrinsicmotivation whitesupremacy summerhill individualism liberarianismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:80f52f97f882/Libsyn Directory: Vivi Camacho episode of The Red Nation Podcast "Bolivia is medicine for the world with Vivi Camacho"2021-10-22T04:58:20+00:00
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/20845913/tdest_id/1617341
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https://newpublic.org/article/1589/care-is-not-an-infinite-scroll
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https://two.compost.digital/uncivilizing-digital-territories/
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https://tskymag.com/2021/02/madeline-gins/
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https://www.bookforum.com/politics/betasamosake-simpson-excerpt-24284
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http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html
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https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272275976454537216
robertogrecosocial workers can move like cops. public health workers can move like cops. academics can move like cops. teachers and school administrators can move like cops. policing is built into the fabric of so many of our public institutions and infrastructure. we must undo that.
Is it really a place for learning, or a place for fear and competition? Institutions of supposed learning have been sites of policing where you have to be “good enough” to not be exiled. This is deeply violent and policing and harmful. Grading is part of this: a tool of policing
Learning has been systematically harmed by teaching: a culture of grades and exile as primary forms of punishment. As a teacher I can “feel” the expectations and uncertainties of school culture from my students. Institutions of teaching don’t easily support cultures of learning.
This makes me incredibly angry. Every class, it takes a while to get to a place where we can experiment and find things together: the norms of the school is so strong, in all of us. What do we expect, having spent time in schools that hold a carceral mindset? Or an elitist one?
There are alternatives: treat classes like reading groups, or a exploratory research group, where you discover things together. There is only an us. Knowledge isn’t transmitted from teacher to student, rather, learning is about playing together, finding more ways to play together
Learning isn’t lectures; it’s co-learning / cooperative / collective organizing. So many good thinkers and practioners and writings along this line Montessori, Vygotsky, Illich, Ranciere, La Paperson, Jo Freeman. (Do you know any - esp by bipoc?)
Where are the places where learning (not teaching) is really supported and celebrated? Where are the centers of learning that put learning first, that really let us remember what it’s like to discover and explore and be curious, that can actively undo trauma around schools?
Imagine teachers without the inner cop, prison. It’s one thing to do it in a classroom, but we NEED to feel this energy across an entire institution, a joyous co-conspiratory energy of researching and finding and sharing with each other. Full of support, care, mutual respect.
so grateful to @jeffreymoro for articulating so clearly the category of educational “cop shit” (“any pedagogical technique or technology that presumes an adversarial relationship between students and teachers”) & the need to get it out of the classroom https://twitter.com/jeffreymoro/status/1228345239984918528
<3 [bell hooks, teaching to transgress] [image with the following quote]
Traditional education deemphasizes the reality that professors are in the classroom to offer something of ourselves to the students. The erasure of the body encourages us to think that we are listening to neutral, objective facts, facts that are not particular to who is sharing the information. We are invited to teach information as though it does not emerge from bodies.
Significantly, those of us who a re trying to critique biases in the classroom have been compelled to return to the body to speak about ourselves as subjects in history. We are all subjects in history. We must return ourselves to a state of embodiment in order to deconstruct the way power has been traditionally orchestrated in the classroom , denying subjectivity to some groups and according it to others. By recognizing subjectivity and the limits of identity, we disrupt that objectification that is so necessary in a culture of domination.
- bell hooks
Some other actual steps to do: don’t have grades / have pass-fail grades / actively encourage risk-taking (and incorporate in grade metrics, if grades are required) so that students are encouraged to explore new territory and projects that may not work well
The teacher can be a facilitator, not a lecturer, and class time should be facilitated like a collective organizing meeting: cooperative, organized around group discussions, readings, projects, sharing. The teacher is like an field trip leader through a landscape of learning
A mistake (I’ve made before) is also for the teacher to “do nothing”, let students do “anything”, which is akin to a field trip that goes nowhere. A really good field trip does all the planning and logistics to mobilize planes, trains, so that a group can then explore further
Another mistake is to erase the teacher/student distinction altogether, which in my opinion is unethical and confusing because instead it conceals a power relationship that is present, rather than being open about it and altering it to be more about accountability
the joyous moments in teaching have been about exploration, opt-in curiosity, moments in the classroom open to the unknown, a shared discussion and rumination about finding and thinking about projects, of sharing resources together, of giving each other feedback
Teachers and students are roles upheld by an institution and a power relation. The learner is an identity that can’t be forced upon anyone, only chosen by each person. The best learning contexts are when everyone in the classroom, including the “teacher” is a learner.
What would an abolitionist, anti-policing approach to schools? What are the opposite of grades? What would this look like at a level larger than the classroom, but at the scale of the cohort, a community?
Schools are not just microcosms of society; they are future societies. They are self-fulfilling prophecies, in that they train us to recreate the societies we experience inside of them. An abolitionist caring society would have caring, supportive, anti-policing schools.
classes where you learn how to dance and move your body. classes where you learn how to facilitate a meeting, make working groups. spaces where you realize that nobody is in control / everyone has agency. classes where everyone is oriented in a circle, listening to each other.
oriented in the same direction, like a school of fish, trying to find something together. oriented outwards, as if we are exploring a city of thought and agree to meet back in a few hours, with photos and notes of things we’ve discovered.
classes where suggestions upon suggestions from everyone builds on each other, hilariously, and together we try something new out and see what happens. classes where rigor is generous, rigor is solid and firm and friendly. classes where nobody knows what will happen at the end!!
What did your schools teach you about its societies? about how to live, and what you wanted or didn’t want? About power, and policing, and safety? What was the most safe and exciting learning environment (school or not) you have been part of?
(Also! I’ve been collecting a very incomplete set of resources here around pedagogy: https://are.na/dan-taeyoung/active-pedagogy and cooperative practices https://are.na/dan-taeyoung/facilitation-conversation-strategies-not-concepts )
More thoughts:
Gifted programs are so deeply problematic. I wonder if it’s a white supremacy dynamic, the formation of an “elite” / for certain students “gifted” by an extrahuman force (suspiciously like manifest destiny). And more often than not, it harms even the kids who go through it twitter.com/davidhuber_/st
”]]>dantaeyoung 2020 grades grading education learning punishment competition fear coercion violence policing harm schools schooling highered highereducation teaching howweteach howwelearn unschooling deschooling culturesoflearning lcproject openstudioproject knowledge cooperation collaboration play hardfun organizing montessori vygotsky ivanillich jofreeman lapaperson maxkreminski melaniehoff bellhooks grade assessment fieldtrips abolitionism society capitalism pedagogy copshit jacquesrancière jeffreymoro risktaking readinggroups horizontality canon discovery power minimalviableutopia sharing experimentation colearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c75dd2fff83f/Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: "Give Away Your Home, Constantly" - Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time of Pandemic And Rebellion (part 2)2020-07-12T22:59:34+00:00
https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/give-away-your-home-constantly-fred-moten-and-stefano-harney
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/wildcat-the-totality-fred-moten-and-stefano-harney-revisit-the-undercommons-in-a-time-of-pandemic-and-rebellion-part-1
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https://books.google.com/books?id=sxQiAgAAQBAJ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTkoZTFd1k
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/24/library-of-things-borrowing-scheme-conquer-world
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https://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/parasitic-reading-room/
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https://tinyletter.com/gnamma/letters/gnamma-5-some-lessons-from-learning-gardens
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https://twitter.com/maxkreminski/status/1030838313429528576
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http://www.jonbecker.net/are-we-overthinking-general-education/
robertogreco@gsiemens I seriously want to teach a course where all we do is read and discuss @brainpicker and @Longreads. ]
Imagine this learning experience: 1 faculty member with 20-25 students just reading and discussing the Longreads Weekly Top 5. They’d meet once a week, in a meeting room or a coffee shop or outside on a lawn or in the forest; it doesn’t matter. And they’d just talk about what they learned. And maybe they’d blog about it so they could expand their discussion beyond the designated class time and space and could get others outside the class to weigh in. That’s it; that’s the whole instructional design. No predetermined curriculum; very little by way of planning. Learning outcomes? How about curiosity, wonder, critical thinking? Those are your “learning outcomes.” I’d bet students would learn more by reading and deeply discussing those 5 articles each week than they would in most other tightly-designed, pre-packaged curriculum-driven course.
I would also love to involve students in a learning experience built around food shows like Alton Brown’s Good Eats. Seriously. Watch just the first few minutes of this episode. In just the first 3+ minutes, we get history (information about the Ottoman Empire), science (cooking and surface area), and math (computing surface area). In a show about kabobs.
[embedded video: "Good Eats S09E2 Dis-Kabob-Ulated"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5skv9x ]
What if general education was more like this? What if students read Longreads and watched episodes of Good Eats as part of an effort around interdisciplinary studies?
And then there’s Anthony Bourdain. To me, Parts Unknown was, at its heart, educational media.
I’m not from West Virginia like Craig Calcaterra (see below) is. But, I spent a lot of time in that state doing field research at the end of the 20th century. When I watched the episode of Parts Unknown that Calcaterra shares, I felt like Bourdain had really captured what I had come to know about the state and then some. Watch the episode and tell me that you didn’t learn a ton. The way Bourdain juxtaposes New York City and his fellow New Yorkers with the “existential enemy” in West Virginia is classic Bourdain."
[embedded tweet: https://twitter.com/craigcalcaterra/status/1005077364131422208
Anthony Bourdain went to West Virginia last year. In one hour he did way better capturing my home state than 1,000 poverty porn tourist journalists with pre-written stories parachuting in from coastal publications have ever done. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6inwh4
]
Parts Unknown is an interdisciplinary curriculum. It is about culture, food, history, politics, economics, etc. It’s about people.
[embedded tweet: https://twitter.com/ablington/status/1005056496609169409
Anthony Bourdain had one of the only shows on tv that tried with all its might to teach Americans not to be scared of other people.
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And isn’t that what general education is?
Replace the word “travel” with the word “learning” in the following quote from Anthony Bourdain.
[embedded tweet: https://twitter.com/Tribeca/status/1005073364531269633
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you... You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” — Anthony Bourdain #RIP
]
Maybe we’re overthinking general education in higher education. Probably, in fact.]]>jonbecker education generaleducation anthonybourdain 2018 interdisciplinary learning travel sharing ideas unschooling deschooling cv culture exploration conversation longreads lcproject openstudioproject howweteach howwelearnhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e9c2673162fd/La Scuola Open Source: Education and Research for cultural, social and technological Innovation2018-04-24T00:31:35+00:00
http://lascuolaopensource.xyz/en/
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https://twitter.com/BorisAnthony/status/832576491019915266
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/education/edlife/kenneth-goldsmith-on-wasting-time-on-the-internet.html
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https://aeon.co/essays/there-s-no-emotion-we-ought-to-think-harder-about-than-anger
robertogrecoI took it upon myself to break the tension and a possible resentment on his part that he has to serve a prisoner by cooking and then washing dishes, and I offered to wash dishes and he refused … He says that this is his work. I said, ‘No, we must share it.’ Although he insisted, and he was genuine, but I forced him, literally forced him, to allow me to do the dishes, and we established a very good relationship … A really nice chap, Warder Swart, a very good friend of mine.
It would have been so easy to see the situation as one of status-inversion: the once-dominating Afrikaner is doing dishes for the once-despised ANC leader. It would also have been so easy to see it in terms of payback: the warder is getting a humiliation he deserves because of his complicity in oppression. Significantly, Mandela doesn’t go down either of these doomed paths, even briefly. He asks only, how shall I produce cooperation and friendship?
Mandela’s project was political; but it has implications for many parts of our lives: for friendship, marriage, child-rearing, being a good colleague, driving a car. And of course it also has implications for the way we think about what political success involves and what a successful nation is like. Whenever we are faced with pressing moral or political decisions, we should clear our heads, and spend some time conducting what Mandela (citing Marcus Aurelius) referred to as ‘Conversations with Myself’. When we do, I predict, the arguments proposed by anger will be clearly seen to be pathetic and weak, while the voice of generosity and forward-looking reason will be strong as well as beautiful."]]>marthanussbaum anger emotions philosophy nelsonmandela 2016 payback revenge social hierarchy cooperation friendship sharing generosity friendliness retaliation status aristotle marcusaurelius gandhi humanism reconciliationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d22da935417d/The Pleasures of Community - YouTube2016-07-20T00:49:06+00:00
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http://rubble.heppell.net/three/
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http://bryanmmathers.com/downes-theory-of-education/
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http://hacking-curriculum.tumblr.com/post/84716775082/22-things-we-do-as-educators-that-will-embarrass
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https://medium.com/@rhysys/no-dickheads-a-guide-to-building-happy-healthy-and-creative-teams-7e9b049fc57d
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https://www.stackshq.com/
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http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/tagged/screenshots
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https://vimeo.com/122363654
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https://sfpc.hackpad.com/CODE-OF-CONDUCT-X8QZIEu4S1k
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https://medium.com/@maggieshafer/knowledge-sharing-the-solution-to-hunger-disease-and-bad-art-b6c089243c92
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http://notes.caseyagollan.com/post/111309449568/how-to-share-what-youre-reading-on-twitter
robertogreco Share what you’re reading. Not what you like. Not what you find interesting. Just what you’re reading.
Basically:
• Don’t wait until after you’ve read it.
• Don’t think too much about it.
• Don’t worry about whether the content is good or bad or boring or interesting, everyone else will figure that out for themselves.
That’s it. And as it turns out:
• Not giving a shit about how what you share affects your personal #brand is preposterous in this day and age.
• A community of readers not overthinking what they share is an amazing place to hang around. Imagine being inside everybody’s brains at once: noisy, random, scintillating.
• Friends paying slight attention to each other’s noise creates [BONG RIP] a kind of collective consciousness. “Ah, I saw you’ve been reading a lot about avocados AND healthcare AND feminism AND…” That’s weird! But what’s even weirder is that the things my friends are reading today — the best and worst of their internets — becomes part of their constellations of thought. Maybe next year they’ll give a talk about healthcare and feminism, or six months from now they’ll quit their job to move across the country and grow avocados, or next week they will publish an article connecting these three disparate topics. Reading trails are bursting with inklings of future thoughts, projects, and schemes, captured before they materialize. Of course, not everything happens because of links, but a lot seems to. Like, Max and Nicole meeting on Reading and…getting married:
“I met @maxfenton through @kissane and @reading and @Readmill. And he asked me to marry him. And I said yes. Thank you, internet. <3” — Nicole Fenton (@nicoleslaw) February 23, 2013
THIS IS ALL TO SAY, the very best way I’ve found to interact with Reading is to launch a Twitterbot that tweets your links, and following your friends’ Readingtwitterbots, too.
It’s a little complicated, so I wrote down how to do it. Feel free to ask me if you get stuck."]]>caseygollan twitter reading.am howto tutorials internet web online sharing howweread friendshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:08e23381cf9d/Internal exile — authentic sharing2015-01-29T20:42:31+00:00
http://robhorningtni.tumblr.com/post/109414777370/authentic-sharing
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http://enthusiasms.org/post/107730116071
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http://www.anthonycarabache.com/?p=1436
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