Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag - YouTube 2025-10-13T18:45:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ehiUoU8ts robertogreco nerdreich rrrobbins brookeharrington darkenlightenment californiaforever billionaires elonmusk peterthiel siliconvalley venturecapital powe politics money donaldtrump destruction accelerationism networkstate freedomcities tonyblair gaza palestine davekarpf solanocounty tescreal crypto cryptocurrencies ai artificialintelligence algorithms feudalism oligarchs oligarchy broligarchy vladimirputin longevity longtermism publicgoods government boycotts scifi sciencefiction science power project2025 elections us governance civics ronaldreagan whitehouse culture society authoritarianism singularity singularitarianism adambecker transhumanism gilduran neuromance williamgibson dystopia zedes libertarianism policy capitalism 2025 mars spacecolonization colonization colonialism imperialism finance labor aihype aibubble fraud raybradbury humanity humanism humans human economics sociology selfishness rationalism death renĂ©girard dehumanization biohacking theology antichrist christianity religion sanfrancisco stigma shame https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:14bc1b633577/ Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman saw magic in the mundane | Aeon Essays 2024-03-23T19:29:35+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/pioneering-sociologist-erving-goffman-saw-magic-in-the-mundane robertogreco ervvinggoffman mundane norms everyday social 2024 lucymcdonald publiclife publicspace society microsociology behavior awkwardness self-consciousness anxiety community talcottparsons socialstructures presentationofself toles performance gender judthbutler identity bodies bodyidiom rules interaction carolbrooksgardner catcalling socialnorms psychology insubordination prisons carehomes institutions authority convents boardingschools hospitals degeneracy self medicine medicalization ianhacking looping mentalhealth mentalillness stigma ostracization socialhierarchy hierarchy sociology socialpsychology oppression culture artificiality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0888f1e800e6/ Can San Francisco Solve Its Drug Crisis? Five Things to Consider. - The New York Times 2024-02-01T18:28:56+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/upshot/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html robertogrecosanfrancisco drugs 2024 portugal comparison harmreduction decriminalization addiction addictiontreatment government libertarianism stigma dissuasion germanlopez https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cc037eee8d5f/ The Healing Power of Pop with Esperanza Spalding — Switched On Pop 2024-01-24T06:29:11+00:00 https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/the-healing-power-of-pop-with-esperanza-spalding robertogrecoIt’s like the oldest thing ever
.we’re playing with the origin of music. The origin of music being: a response to others in your community, in your surroundings. And the response is intuitive! When you hum for a baby or when you’re sitting with somebody who is grieving and you, you feel compelled to hum, or when you’re excited and go, “Wow!” That’s music! Spalding’s view of music these days opened our eyes wide to the true healing power of individual songs and just how accessible music is when we need it." [playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0JH5cR7h5W6LHtE30D3nst ]]]> music esperanzaspalding 2021 switchedonpop natesloan charlieharding alexkresovich mentalhealth health lyrics girlinred billieeilish juliamichaels jcole lilnasx kehlani juicewrld panicatthedisco arianagrande liluzivert khalid alessiacara logic stigma empathy popmusic meganlubin power songwriting creativity labor work capitalism art artmaking musicindustry careers life living expression identity self senseofself community history songwrightsapothecarylab canon bodies sound healing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c7796205cdec/ People are asking the wrong questions about Senate candidate John Fetterman’s stroke - Vox 2022-10-17T19:32:26+00:00 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/10/15/23403699/john-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate-interview-captions-disability-dasha-burns-mehmet-oz robertogreco 2022 kerenlandman johnfetterman disability accessibility reading inclusion inclusivity strokes bias media elections technology assistivetechnology masculinity us society judgement stigma history accommodations howwerread policy ada mehmetoz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a481f134ec6/ Ep. 30 - Tiersa McQueen, Unschooling Mom of Four, Proponent of Alternative Education - YouTube 2021-08-18T18:48:27+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtekkKzrssA robertogreco tiersamcqueen 2021 unschooling deschooling parenting education learning mattbarnes catherinefraise schooling videogames freedom liberation families howwelearn learningallthetime self-directed self-directedlearning homeschool trust relationships socialization experience curiosity internet online web fear anxiety gender race boys interests work society lifelonglearning alc culture universality universalexperience covid-19 coronavirus pandemic add adhd oppositionaldefiancedisorder schooltoprisonpipeline schooltoworkpipeline schools control behavior responsibility canon collegeboard community bipoc akilahrichards johnholt testing grades grading schooliness agesegregation stigma ranking measurement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4c7b970127ed/ The Pandemic is a Portal - YouTube 2020-04-24T04:29:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmQLTnK4QTA robertogreco arundhatiroy 2020 haymarketbooks imaniperry capitalism travellinglight howwethink covid-19 coronavirus environment india us sustainability mining earth pandemic freedom liberation fascism politics economics policy fiction morality future solidarity democracy nationalism authoritarianism borders globalization markets land pandemics degrowth undoing dams landuse food farming imagination harmony exloitation inequality writing howwewrite kashmir palestine elections voting protest resistance surveillance digitalsurveillance berniesanders incarceration medicareforall injustice donaldtrump leadership elitism feminism policestate creativity militarization othering xenophobia race racism class stigma islamophobia violence discrimination persecution collectivewisdom wisdom collectivism organizing dissent patriarchy vulnerability antidammovement movements society exposure sectarianism joy ephemerality self-care entitlement happiness emotions fear grief feelings discomfort meaning meaningmaking affection love purpose for https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81a7f32b4499/ The Touch of Madness - Pacific Standard 2017-10-16T03:40:15+00:00 https://psmag.com/magazine/the-touch-of-madness-mental-health-schizophrenia robertogrecoThe more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally. What candor had Jones offered that cost her so dear? Jones, searching through the dimness of memory, has come to believe that the simplest, most likely explanation for her being barred from campus is that one particular hallucination she confessed to one person, or perhaps two or three people, got badly misunderstood." 
 "Although Jones' exile lasted but a week or two, this brief banishment, she would later record, "set in motion a chain of events that were to forever change my life, perhaps as profoundly as the 'diagnosis' of schizophrenia itself." It released a set of forces that no one understood and no one knew how to stop. And it may have done so not because Jones actually threatened violence, but because the culture around her was so ready to equate psychosis with violence that her diagnosis made her a threat. One of the questions here that comes quickest to mind—what did Jones do to provoke such a reaction?—may be a red herring. Her mere passage into psychosis may have been enough to provoke expulsion. When Jones returned to campus after 10 days or so, she says, virtually none of her fellow students and few of the faculty would even look at her. As her classmates pulled back, Jones withdrew further. "She was just kind of gone," says Kieran Aarons, a fellow philosophy graduate student who had also known Jones as a fellow undergraduate in Oregon. "She wasn't disrupting anything, or having outbursts. But she was very clearly not in the room." In the weeks after her return, Jones became estranged not just from Chanter but from the rest of the circle of classmates who'd formed around Chanter. She eventually lost even Erfani, with whom she hasn't talked since. Because it pained Jones to see her professors, she studied their schedules so she could time her entrances and exits from the building so as to avoid them. When that wasn't good enough, she would enter a bathroom and lock herself in a stall for long periods of time, unable to face anyone. People noticed this too. At this point she started having disturbingly vivid visions of killing herself. She felt utterly crushed, helpless, and alone." 
 "If her exile two Aprils before had thrown Jones down a well, she now collapsed at its bottom and lay drowning. She could not think. Could not read. Could not tell who was real and who was not, what was actually happening and what she was imagining. Could not tell whether such distinctions even mattered. When she looked people in the eyes, she felt them enter her mind and read all her thoughts. She felt both formless and isolated, selfless and alone, borderless, "as if erased." For one period many days long, possibly weeks, she surrendered completely to her demons and delusions. "I didn't even get out of bed," she said later. "And when I say I didn't get out of bed, I mean I did not get out of bed. There were days I could not summon the energy, or perhaps the will, to walk from the bed to the bathroom." In retrospect, she says, she surrendered to a dynamic she had examined in one of the last philosophy papers she managed to finish, written when things were unraveling the spring before. Fifty years earlier, the British psychotherapist Donald Winnicott had proposed that the elaborate delusional worlds that typify schizophrenia in Western cultures are not arbitrary structures of a broken, schizophrenic mind, but a complex set of mental fortifications the person builds to protect herself against the real world, which she worries will seize and lock her away because she is insane. It's madness as an Escherian stairway to hell. Years later, Jones would find this vision a credible explanation of her own descent into madness. For a year or more after her expulsion, she often stayed in her head's delusional worlds not because she had lost her mind, but because her mind felt safer in delusion than in her ruined reality. "Everything is on fire, in flames, burning," she wrote in her diary. "My thoughts are everywhere ... a cloud, a pack of birds, a pack of wolves.""]]> 2017 daviddobbs mentalhealth psychology health culture madness nevjones japan ethiopia colombo addisababa schizophrenia society srilanka shekharsaxena philosophy perception treatment medicine psychosis media academia anthropology daniellende pauleugenbleuler emilkraepelin danielpaulschreber edwadsapir relationships therapy tinachanter namitagoswami irenehurford richardnoll ethanwatters wolfgangjilek wolfgangpfeiffer stigma banishment hallucinations really but alterations of temporality time spatiality depthperception kinesthetics memory memories reality phenomenology subjectivity consciousness donaldwinnicott alienation kinship isolation tanyaluhrmann https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0790015b0dd0/ Dr. Cornel West | Reflections on the Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela | Official Web Site 2016-03-21T17:54:33+00:00 http://www.cornelwest.com/nelson_mandela.html robertogreco cornelwest tenderness sweetness care caring gentleness radicalism radicalgentleness subversivesweetness militanttenderness militancy nelsonmandela soulcraft piety manners culture justice socialjustice ancestors appreciation fairness imperialism trauma terror stigma character democracy freedom society fear neoliberalism legacy statecraft privatization finance militarization poverty dignity decency integrity courage love humor canon xenophobia militarism via:ablerism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b35bfc1254a7/ Sara Hendren Believes Disability Is a Cultural Construct 2016-03-20T22:39:37+00:00 http://nautil.us/issue/34/adaptation/why-are-wheelchairs-more-stigmatized-than-glasses robertogreco 2016 interviews sarahendren disability technology assistivetechnology stigma bias technosolutionsism normal adaptive adaptivetechnology disabilities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f1cad2f8618/ Hot Allostatic Load – The New Inquiry 2015-12-26T21:53:19+00:00 http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hot-allostatic-load/ robertogrecoThere are no activist communities, only the desire for communities, or the convenient fiction of communities. A community is a material web that binds people together, for better and for worse, in interdependence. If its members move away every couple years because the next place seems cooler, it is not a community. If it is easier to kick someone out than to go through a difficult series of conversations with them, it is not a community. Among the societies that had real communities, exile was the most extreme sanction possible, tantamount to killing them. On many levels, losing the community and all the relationships it involved was the same as dying. Let’s not kid ourselves: we don’t have communities. —The Broken Teapot, Anonymous" People crave community so badly that it constitutes a kind of linguistic virus. Everything in this world apparently has a community attached to it, no matter how fragmented or varied the reality is. This feels like both wishful thinking in an extremely lonely world (trans fems often have a community-shaped wound a mile wide) and also the necessary lens to convert everything to profit. Queerness is a marketplace. Alt is a marketplace. Buy my feminist butt plugs.
The dream of an imaginary community that allows total identification with one’s role within it to an extent that rules out interiority or doubt, the fixity and clearness of an external image or cliche as opposed to ephemera of lived experience, a life as it looks from the outside. —Stephen Murphy
These idealized communities require disposability to maintain the illusion—violence and ostracism against the black/brown/trans/trash bodies that serve as safety valves for the inevitable anxiety and disillusionment of those who wish “total identification”. Feminism/queerness takes a vague disposability and makes it a specific one. The vague ambient hate that I felt my whole life became intensely focused—the difference between being soaked in noxious, irritating gasoline and having someone throw a match at you. Normal hate means someone and their friends being shitty toward you; radical hate places a moral dimension onto hate, requiring your exclusion from every possible space—a true social death." 
 "There is immense pressure on trans people to engage in this form of complaint if they want access to spaces—but we, with our higher rates of homelessness, joblessness, lifelessness, lovelessness, are the most fragile. We are the glass fems of an already delicate genderscape. Purification is meaningless because anyone can perform these rituals—an effigy burnt in digital. And their inflexibility provides a place where abuse can thrive—a set of rules which abusers can hold over their victims. Deleuze wrote, “The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.” >> ENDING People talk about feminism and queerness the way you’d apologize for an abusive relationship. This isn’t for the people who are benefiting from these spaces and have no reason to change. This is for the people who were exiled, the people essays aren’t supposed to be written for. This is to say, you didn’t deserve that. That even tens or hundreds or thousands of people can be wrong, and they often are, no matter how much our socially constructed brains take that as a message to lie down and die. That nothing is too bad, too ridiculous, too bizarre to be real when it comes to making marginalized people disappear. Ideology is a sick fetish. RESISTING DISPOSABILITY — Let marginalized people be flawed. Let them fuck up like the Real Humans who get to fuck up all the time. — Fight criminal-justice thinking. Disposability runs on the innocence/guilt binary, another category that applies dynamically to certain bodies and not others. The mob trials used to run trans people out of communities are inherently abusive, favor predators, and must be rejected as a process unequivocally. There is no kind of justice that resembles hundreds of people ganging up on one person, or tangible lifelong damage being inflicted on someone for failing the rituals of purification that have no connection to real life. — Pay attention when people disappear. Like drowning, it’s frequently silent. They might be blackmailed, threatened, and/or in shock. — Even if the victim doesn’t want to fight (which is deeply understandable—often moving on is the only response), private support is huge. This is the time to make sure the wound doesn’t become infected, that the PTSD they acquire is as minimized as possible. This is the difference between a broken leg healing to the point where they can run again, or walking with a limp for the rest of their life. They’ve just been victim-blamed by a huge number of people, and as a social organism, their body is telling them to die. They need social reintegration, messages of support, and space to heal. — Be extremely critical about what people say about trans people, especially things said in vagueness. The rumor mill that keeps trans people out of spaces isn’t even so much about people believing what is said, it’s about people choosing the safest option—a staining that plays on the average person’s risk aversion. — Ask yourself if the same thing would be happening if they were white/cis/able-bodied. — “Radical inclusivity recognizes harm done in the name of God.” —Yvette Flunder Marginalized spaces can’t form healthy community purely from rejection of the mainstream. There has to be an acknowledgment of how people have been hurt by feminist spaces and their models. — A common enemy isn’t the same as loving each other. — Don’t be part of spaces that place an ideal or “community leader” above people. DREAM On January 18, 2015, I woke up from a dream. It was early morning, still dark. I felt very sad that the dream wasn’t real. I wrote it down, like I’ve written down all my dreams for the last eight years. “She was my abuser. She came to my house on the island. I begged her to stop what she had done, to clear my name. She would not. It had been two years of being abused like a child because of her. I turned to walk deeper into the house. I looked back. She had a knife. She stabbed me. It was the happiest dream of my life. Because finally an abuser had done something to me that people would pay attention to. When I woke up my entire spirit was crushed because I had not been stabbed. I felt the weight of all these years of abuse. I wished so badly I had been stabbed. I pulled the knife out. I wrestled the knife away. I called my friend to come over and help me. I walked along the beach of the island and saw for the first time how PTSD had numbed and corroded every perception I’d had since that August, this debilitating disease. I finally felt the brightness of the air in my lungs, the color of the sand and the waves. It was so beautiful. I just wanted to experience all the things that had been stolen from me.”"]]> porpentine community via:sevensixfive feminism abuse disposability identity interdependence ptsd trauma recovery punishment safety socialmedia call-outculture society culture violence mobbing rape emotionalabuse witchhunts silviafederici damage health communication stigma judithherman terror despair twine laziness trashart trashzines alliyates social socialdynamics stephenmurphy queerness jackiewang complaint complaints power powerlessness pain purity fragility solitude silence ideology canon reintegration integration rejection inclusivity yvetteflunder leadership inclusion marginalization innocence guilt binaries falsebinaries predators gillesdeleuze deleuze https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4179001952ce/ A conversation with President David Skorton and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz MFA '95 - CornellCast 2015-06-05T22:30:34+00:00 http://www.cornell.edu/video/olin-lecture-david-skorton-and-junot-diaz robertogreco junotdíaz art activism writing race 2015 via:javierarbona howwewrite whywewrite experience socialjustice us education highered highereducation inclusion inclusivity diversity immigrants immigration elitism politics struggle mfas hardship gratitude civics citizenship engagement migration bilingualism language accents rutgers cornell stigma latinos patriarchy capitalism publicadministration socialaction society movements storytelling neoliberalism individualism money wealth inequality transformation modeling lcproject openstudioproject inlcusivity mfa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a541076ff568/ Metafoundry 15: Scribbled Leatherjackets 2014-11-23T21:23:58+00:00 http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-15-scribbled-leatherjackets robertogreco debchachra 2014 making makers makermovement teaching howweteach emotionallabor labor danhon scubadiving support ursulafranklin coding behavior gender cv margaretedson caseygollan care caretaking smithcollege sensemaking agency learning howwelearn notmaking unproduct frankchimero maciejceglowski metafoundry independence interdependence canon teachers stigma gratitude thorough infrastructure individualism invisibility critique criticism fixing mending analysis service intangibles caregiving homemaking maciejcegƂowski makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:743fd5b63781/ Obesity Campaigns: The Fine Line Between Educating and Shaming - Lindsay Abrams - The Atlantic 2012-09-18T21:10:10+00:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/obesity-campaigns-the-fine-line-between-educating-and-shaming/262401/ robertogreco healthcare health stigma behavior psychology 2012 education shaming obesity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c6014f34d67/ The Art of Distraction - NYTimes.com 2012-02-19T22:39:44+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/the-art-of-distraction.html?pagewanted=all robertogreco anxiety conformism confomity medication medicine ritalin psychology frustration boredom humiliation diversity human labels labeling education schools attention winners losers winnersandlosers stigma society 2012 hanifkureishi dyslexia adhd learning distraction https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:744e1561d75c/