Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Black Study, Black Struggle - Boston Review 2026-07-06T00:30:05+00:00 https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/robin-kelley-black-struggle-campus-protest/ robertogreco 2026 robindgkelley robinkelley dereckapurnell randallkennedy keeanga-yamahttataylor christopherlebron barbararansby shanaredmond charlenecarruthers aaronbady michaelericdyson amandaboston bridgettodd thabisilegriffin highered highereducation academia colleges universities us activism socialtransformation society undercommons fugutives fredmoten stefanoharney politics protest protests race racism henrygiroux ta-nehisicoates naomiwallace georgelipsitz interiority davidtheogoldberg tolerance depoliticization inequality subordination marginalization socialconflict jamesbaldwin karlmarx clrjames frantzfanon walterrodney barbarasmith angeladavis friedrichengels vladimirlenin chancellorwilliams georgejames shulamithfirestone kwamenkrumah rosaluxemburg antoniogramsci chinweizuibekwe amílcarcabral kwameture lenin patriciarobinson patriciahaden donnamiddleton capitalism blm blacklivesmatter criticalresistance marquesvestal sawhitley shamellbell olúfẹ́mitáíwò neoliberalism resistance ericgarner sa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:859c45417088/ Academia: The Answers We Don't Offer - by Timothy Burke 2026-07-04T12:22:27+00:00 https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-the-answers-we-dont-offer robertogreco timothyburke covid-19 pandemic coronavirus isolation alienation remotework labor work workfromhome affordability us policy bosses precarity psychology whitecollar robertputnam bowlingalone 2020 2021 2022 2023 2025 2026 offices economics socialscience socialsciences institutions government governance maha workplace workplaces social autonomy surveillance billbishop division diversity mixing sociality interpersonal friction pluralism otherpeople others neoliberalism civics belonging rfkjr robertkennedyjr emmaharrington enataliaemanuel partisanship anomie espair adamgrant marissashandell middlemanagement management administration narcissism ego supervision power control employment direction exploration tolerance community communities https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa3287c1ee14/ Let’s save the Enlightenment baby from its muddied bathwater | Aeon Essays 2026-06-12T02:11:29+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/lets-save-the-enlightenment-baby-from-its-muddied-bathwater robertogreco 2026 enlightenment elianeglaser emmanueleze charlesmills kehindeandrews kant johnlocke voltaire davidhume henrydundas progress willhutton justice accountability socialfairness science siliconvalley peterthiel jdvance curtisyarvin darkenlightenment democracy equality inequality stevenpinker reason humanism globalsouth left leftists socialjustice davidbell economics power misinformation disinformation deepfakes ai artificialintelligence kateclanchy zizek intellectualhumility humility josephwright jeanlerondd'alembert montesquieu adamsmith jameshutton thomasreid mosesmendelssohn dorindaoutram marywollstonecraft angelasaini carllinnaeus humanity rousseau hierarchy hierarchies haiti china altruism humanitarianism jonathanisrael slavery abolition webdubois anticolonialism richardwhatmore discord frenchrevolution donaldtrump tolerance identitarians nationalism petergay ethnocentrism morality universalism objecttivity society corporations corporatism billionaires eleanorroosevelt humanrights pcchang totalitarianism t https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4596863a6be8/ Prophetic Possibilities: A Few Words on David W. Orr and a Healing Vision for America - Front Porch Republic 2026-04-11T03:11:31+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/04/prophetic-possibilities-a-few-words-on-david-w-orr-and-a-healing-vision-for-america/ robertogreco davidorr small local growth 2026 teddymacker us community society slow consumerism consumption presence poetry life living howwelive humanism hope love gratitude speed scale scientism spirituality education technology science conservation agriculture citizenship civics localism politics land willaimcatton prosperity peace peacemakers healing healers restoration storytelling stories well-being wellbeing success careerism human humane humans earth ecology environment beagoodancestor kinship davidsteindl-rast georgesturt togetherness connection ellendavis joannamacy garysnyder wendellberry intelligence culture religion geography time longnow bighere longhere bignow ugliness sustainability unsustainability ecologicalliteracy knowledge wisdom destabilization climate climatechange globalwarming slowknowledge democracy economics economy deniselevertov vaclavhavel randolphseverson civilization modernity ai artificialintelligence power gandhi martinlutherkingjr mlk haroldrobbins henryadams decency reason responsibilit https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a34ccba6f1d0/ What Holds America Together? 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2025-04-20T22:07:26+00:00 https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_can_we_learn_from_the_worlds_most_peaceful_societies robertogreco peace petercoleman douglasfry 2021 society values motives cooperation openness morality idenitity humiliation anger fear social ethnocentrism authoritarianism attitudes neuralplasticity tolerance forgiveness mindfulness compromise hope hopefulness positivity compassion empathy care caring warmth nurturance literacy education remembering collectivism redistribution economics economicjustice justice socialjusice language discourse media multiculturalism egalitarianism equality equity opportunity trauma humanrights freedom liberty integration democracy health healthcare inclusing inclusivity dei socialsafetynet government governance civilsociety institutions transparency nonviolence violence gender genderparity idenity identities normas rituals symbols symbolism interconnectedness interconnected independence individualism leadership iroquois anticapitalism capitalism socialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:426ce3a99a3d/ Liberal democracy might already be dead | The Gray Area - YouTube 2025-04-15T06:31:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oc_wMDA1MQ robertogreco johngray seanilling liberaldemocracy neoliberalism 2025 socialdemocracy us uk politics society economics philosophy johnlocke europe eu farright rightwing france germany democracy donaldtrump liberalism fragmentation individualism idenity coldwar thomashobbes hobbes texas california hungary poland mexico latinamerica power newdeal fdr eisenhower dwightdeisenhower law legal legitimacy election margaretthatcher thatcherism government governance economy socialwelfare meliorism russia humancondition worldorder authoritatianism history tragedy redemption institutions norms religion christianity secularism nietzsche johnstuartmill augustecomte monotheism theism tradition progress cycles liberalwest freedom state coercion tolerance indifference coexistence convention individuality rights conflict traditon progressivism humanity tyranny anarchy franklindelanoroosevelt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:14c2c1b75cfc/ Jordan Peterson and Peter Thiel walk into a bar - ARC Forum diary 2025-02-24T00:09:07+00:00 https://humancarbohydrate.substack.com/p/jordan-peterson-and-pieter-thiel robertogreco stellatsantekidou 2025 jordanpeterson peterthiel edmundburke christopherhitchens iainmcgilchrist dimessquare rightwing michaelgove arc darkeeb ethnonationalism jdvance china ericweinstein france us uk ai artificialintelligence libertarianism politics policy economics philosophy tylercowen rationalists effectivealtruism growth technooptimism accelerationism seasteading curtisyarvin automation anarchocapitalism davidbrooks conservatism left fascism society racism religion johnmccain 2016 redscare donaldtrump curiosity tolerance kindness nazis nazism 2012 trumpism maga mccarthyism rationalism menciusmoldbug neoreactionaries tescreal nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism darkenlightenment capitalism technofascism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d93c9c4aabc1/ reasons for tolerance – The Homebound Symphony 2024-12-05T03:40:50+00:00 https://blog.ayjay.org/reasons-for-tolerance/ robertogreco alanjacobs howwelearn tolerance listening 2024 othering others human humans disagreement humility pragmatism politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:872baa75f10f/ 2024 Election was the Oligarchic Elite vs. Corporate Elite (with Chris Hedges) - YouTube 2024-11-15T17:00:31+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDj2dUIQcA robertogreco chrishedges 2024 institutions elections briahnajoygray kamalaharris donaldtrump oligarchy joebiden us society greenpart cornelwest joerogan media mainstreammedia politics democracy fascism israel palestine genocide ethniccleansing left leftism resistance unions organizing morality activism church churches spirituality community labor work capitalism feudalism journalism press celebrities noamchomsky gaza lebanon corporations corporatism democrats republicans berniesanders hillaryclinton barackobama jillstein ralphnader socialism marxism sheldonwolin hierarchy totalitarianism privateequity kkr harvesting finance simonandschuster elonmusk taxation taxes deregulation stevebannon norms decorum civility michelmoore robertreich billclinton demagogues cults cultofpersonality angeladavis voting credibility workers 1996 nafta layoffs unemployment workingclass betrayal 1994 reform kshamasawant civilrightsmovement pressure liberalism liberals neoliberals religion belief war jordanpeterson marxists christianright zionism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52b4b2226784/ A Story About Love, Beyond Tolerance - Mockingbird 2024-10-09T06:28:49+00:00 https://mbird.com/film/a-story-about-love-beyond-tolerance/? robertogreco religion faith christianity 2024 nicholasma meaghanritchey morganneville 2020 michaelgulker division tolerance clergy us politics race racism guncontrol class abortion sexuality scripture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be4f2cb3e9c9/ amuleto — La felicidad infantil proviene de esa aglomeración... 2024-02-08T02:18:30+00:00 https://amuleto-verde.tumblr.com/post/737556667444723712/la-felicidad-infantil-proviene-de-esa-aglomeraci%C3%B3n robertogreco maríanegroni childhood baudelaire poetry melancholy resistance memory curiosity adventure tolerance writing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c4ceef9a571/ How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review 2023-09-11T20:03:15+00:00 https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/ robertogrecoNot everyone we work with on a particular issue has to have deep ideological alignment with us. A skilled organizer should be able to work with people who aren’t of their own choosing, including people they don’t like. It’s really as simple as being attacked by fascist police in the streets. Once the attack begins, there are two sides: armed police inflicting violence and everyone else. We need to be able to see each other in those terms, reeling in the face of unthinkable violence, scrambling to stay alive and uncaged, and doing the work to protect one another. This will not come easily, because white supremacy and classism have forced many wedges between our communities. Great harms have been committed and very difficult conversations are needed, but refusing to do that work, in this historical moment, is an abdication of responsibility. It is no exaggeration to say that the whole world is at stake, and we cannot afford to minimize what that demands of us. This is not to say that we should seek no respite from the messiness and occasional discomfort of large-scale movement work. We all need spaces where we can operate within our comfort zone. Whether these take the shape of a collective, an affinity group, a processing space, a caucus, or a group of friends, we need people with whom we can feel fully seen and heard and with whose values we feel deeply aligned. In such a violent and oppressive world, we are all entitled to some amount of sanctuary. Many organizers have tight-knit political homes, sometimes grounded in shared identity, in addition to participating in broader organizing efforts. But broader movements are struggles, not sanctuaries. They are full of contradiction and challenges we may feel unprepared for. Effective organizers operate beyond the bounds of their comfort zones, moving into what we might call their “stretch zone,” when necessary. No one has to be able to work with everyone, but how far beyond the bounds of easy agreement can you reach? How much empathy can you extend to people who do not fully understand your identity or experience or who have not had the same access to liberatory ideas? How much discomfort can you navigate for what you believe is truly at stake? These are not questions anyone can answer for you, as we must all make autonomous choices about who we connect and build with, but if we do not challenge ourselves to navigate some amount of discomfort, our political reach will have terminal limits. To expand the practice of our politics in the world, we have to be able to organize outside of our comfort zones. People whose words and ideas don’t yet align with our own often need room to grow, and some people grow by building relationships and doing work—often in fumbling and imperfect ways. Political transformation is not as simple as handing newcomers a new set of politics and telling them, “Yours are bad, use these instead.” Instead, we will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And we must also remember that no matter how far we have come, we are still on our own messy journeys, and our own transformations will continue as we grow. *** To do this kind of work, a person has to hone multiple skills, including the ability to listen. When people delve into activism, they often grapple with questions like, “Am I willing to get arrested?” when often the more pressing question for a new activist is, “Am I willing to listen, even when it’s hard?” For organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore, it was her time in Alcoholics Anonymous that helped her transform her practice of listening. “The main thing that I learned,” Gilmore told us, “especially in the first couple years that I was going to meetings, was the beauty of the rule against crosstalk. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, that I couldn’t say shit to anybody. I had to listen, and I had to learn to listen.” The urge to interject or object ran deep for Gilmore. “I’ve always been a nerd, yet I’ve always been a know-it-all,” she told us, “so there’s this tension between my nerdiness that wants to know everything and my know-it-all-ness that wants everybody to know that I know it all already.” At first, listening did not come easily—or feel particularly productive—to Gilmore. “I would sit in these meetings, and I listened to people talk, and listened to them, and listened to them, and at first I was like, ‘I don’t get this, I don’t get this.’ And so for me in the early days, it was just a performance of words. I mean, my main thing was, ‘I won’t drink when I leave this meeting. I won’t drink, and I won’t use.’” But over time, Gilmore began to appreciate the role of listening in the group’s collective struggle to avoid drugs and alcohol—even when she did not appreciate what was being said. “I would be getting more and more wound up, because there’d be the sexist guy going on about women and his wife, and then there’d be somebody else talking nonsense about whatever, [but I was] learning to just sit there, and listen, and keep my eye on the prize, which was not just that I wasn’t going to drink but that the only way I could not drink was if all of us didn’t drink.” Being committed to the sobriety of every person in the room, which meant listening to their story and being invested in their well-being, helped Gilmore develop a deeper practice of patience. “That was kind of this transformation for me that carried into the organizing that I already used to do before I got sober,” she told us. It is our ability to constructively engage with other people that will ultimately power our efforts. We have to nurture that ability and respect its importance in all of the ways that our society does not. And that skill of constructive engagement starts with listening. Like so many other aspects of organizing, listening is a practice, and at times, it’s a strategic one. We might need to hear something true that makes us uncomfortable. Listening deeply makes space for that to happen. But even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Why do they feel the way they do? What sources informed or convinced them? What influences them? What strengthens their resolve? What makes them hesitant to get more involved or to engage more boldly? If you are in an organizing space together, how has that issue brought them into a shared space with you despite your differences? What points of agreement might you build upon? What is surprising about them? A good organizer wants to understand these things about the people around them, and you cannot truly understand these things about a person without listening. Even if the person who’s talking is off base, we can often still learn by listening to them. Organizers will often repeat the maxim, “We have to meet people where they are at.” It is difficult to meet someone where they’re at when you do not know where they are. Until you have heard someone out, you do not know where they are, so how could you hope to meet them there? Relationships are not built through presumption or through the deployment of tropes or stereotypes. We must understand people as having their own unique experiences, traumas, struggles, ideas, and motivations that will inform how they show up to organizing spaces. Some task-focused activists brush off activities that involve “talking about our feelings.” This is a common sentiment among bad listeners. The fundamental skill of patiently absorbing another person’s words in a respectful and thoughtful manner is desperately lacking in our society. For this reason, it is folly to expect this skill to manifest itself fully formed when it is most needed, such as in a heated meeting, if we are not building a greater culture of listening in our work. A group culture that helps participants build their listening skills is an important component of successful organizing. Political education can create opportunities for people to practice listening to one another, without interruption, and interacting meaningfully with what others have contributed. For example, during the Great Depression, communist union organizers in Bessemer, Alabama, developed a practice of devoting thirty minutes of each meeting to political education. For thirty minutes, material would be read aloud—creating space to collectively listen while also allowing members who could not read the opportunity to hear the information. Members would then spend fifteen minutes discussing the material, listening to each other’s thoughts in response to the work. In organizing, we sometimes expect people, including ourselves, to shed the habits this society has embedded in us through sheer force of will, when in reality we all need practice. Activities that help us hone our practice of listening can make us better organizers, improve our personal relationships, and help us build stronger and longer-lasting movements. *** As we work to build more sustainable movements, we must think hard about our strategies for responding when organizers make mistakes. Social media can often foster a “zero-tolerance” attitude about political ignorance or missteps. Platforms like Twitter have helped facilitate tremendous accomplishments in movement work, but they have also created an arena for political performance and critique that is often divorced from relationship building or strategic aims. For many people, social media is not an organizing tool but a realm of political performance and spectatorship. A trend has emerged in which some organizers will demand performances of solidarity and awareness on social media but then critique or even tear apart those performances when they fall short or are deemed insincere. As with reality television, favorites emerge, and people are sometimes voted off the island. When the performance of solidarity via the replication of the right words or slogans becomes our central focus, it’s not surprising that responses might read as empty or even insincere. Sloganizing is not organizing, and paying righteous lip service to a cause, in the preferred language of the moment, does not empty any cages or transform anyone’s material conditions. Rather than fixating on the grammar of people’s politics, we organizers must ask ourselves what we want people to do. When debates arise around language, we must also understand the extent to which the language of dissent and liberation has shifted over time. The terms and jargon we use today do not represent an “arrival” at the “correct” words that were always out there, waiting to be found, while our predecessors flailed about in search of them. The language we uplift in movements today represents an unending process of grappling—a search for words that embody the experiences of oppressed people in relation to their history, their current conditions, and the culture they are presently experiencing. Policing language, as though our phrasing is written in law, misunderstands that pursuit and the purpose it serves. If these words merely exist to divide us into categories—those who can properly discuss ideas and those who cannot—what is their value in the pursuit of liberation? While it is important to trouble terminology and to engage with its evolution, the mastery of language does not spur systemic change or alter anyone’s material conditions. The concept of “allyship,” for example, is often grounded in presentation rather than substantive action. Similarly, people who believe they are “good people” often view goodness as a fixed identity, evidenced by their expressed feelings about injustice rather than a set of practices or actions. Goodness, to them, is a designation to be defended rather than something that they seek to generate in the world in concert with other people. Mainstream liberals often fall prey to this line of thinking because liberal politics play very heavily into political identity as being determinant of whether a person is good or bad (Democrats are good, Republicans bad). But the left can fall into its own version of this trap by treating politics as a test of how well we can perform language or recite ideas. Our movements are not driven by getting the words just right. They are driven by the goal of enacting change through collective struggle as we endeavor to both understand ideas and turn them into action. Fumbling is inevitable, but as Gilmore tells us, “practice makes different.” Dixon emphasizes that people will show up imperfectly and that organizers have to anticipate that mistakes and harm will happen. “I worry we’re creating a culture now where people are so afraid to make mistakes,” she told us. “They’re afraid to not have the analysis before they open their mouth. The bonds that I’m really trying to build within organizing are the bonds where we can divulge the things that we are nervous about, or ashamed of, or the things we need to learn, all of those areas, because that’s when I know we’re building the kind of intimacy that takes care of each other around heightened threats.” Dixon points out that when trust is lost, organizing not only becomes more difficult, but it also becomes more vulnerable to surveillance and infiltration: “A huge piece of COINTELPRO was around seeding distrust.” Therefore, she says, a key part of organizing is building bonds of trust, and that can only happen within a context where people are allowed to be vulnerable and make mistakes. Learning and growing in front of other people can be embarrassing, and even intimidating, particularly for people who have been put down or made to feel diminished in the past. Even seasoned organizers like Dixon often worry about derailing their work with a verbal misstep. “I have a small crew of other organizers where I think our text thread is mostly questions we are afraid to ask publicly,” she acknowledged. “It’s our own little political education circle, where we ask, ‘What does this mean?’ Or, ‘Is this fucked up?’ Or, ‘What is the right way to say this? Because I don’t think this is right.’” Dixon says that she believes “everyone needs that text thread,” but she also hopes that more of our movement spaces can operate in the same spirit and offer opportunities for people to “feel safe in their process of transforming.” Creating trust-based movement spaces also puts us in a better place to confront harm and conflict, Dixon says. “The biggest part of the work is how we maintain relationships while navigating harm,” she told us. “Because that’s the thing, that will break your group. That’ll break any project.” Dixon stresses the importance of conflict resolution and accountability mechanisms within groups—that is, group- or community-based methods of confronting harm, such as peace circles and transformative justice. But she also reminds us that in order for accountability mechanisms to serve their purpose, people need room and opportunities to grow. “People need to build skills and mechanisms to navigate conflict. Sometimes we’re not apologizing. Sometimes we’re not accountable. Sometimes we have done harmful things. Sometimes we’re doing things we were never told go against the norms [of the group] and then are being held accountable.” In an organizing space, accountability should not be about policing or punishment, but our punitive impulses can sometimes twist accountability mechanisms into those shapes. It’s easy to forget how imperfectly we ourselves have shown up in movement spaces and throughout our lives. Sometimes our aggravation with others is rooted in pain or trauma we have experienced; sometimes it is rooted in our uneasiness about things we may have said or done that were equally upsetting because we did not always know what we know now. And regardless of how much we believe we have learned, as the saying goes, we don’t know what we don’t know. Many of us would not be in this work today if someone along the way had not been patient with us. Even if we never develop a sense of mutual respect and understanding, or even come to like the people we’re working with, we can still build power with them. In many cases, we must. After all, the whole world is at stake. We must ask ourselves, how much discomfort is the whole world worth?"]]> solidarity 2023 activism organizing kellyhayes mariamekaba listening language patience politics affinity difference behavior whitesupremacy generations age race racism diversity discomfort offense growth scale socialmedia tolerance purity puritytests education learning understanding transformation online internet trust conflict transformativejustice justice socialjustice accountability cointelpro surveillance infiltration distrust fear silence allyship action goodness liberalism identity democrats republicans left leftism performance dissent liberation jargon policing division divisiveness sloganizing spectatorship twitter politcalperformance performativepolitics relationships groups communism history society practice praxis ruthwilsongilmore crosstalk discourse conversation alcoholicsanonymous struggle strategy canon groupculture culture movements change changemaking ejerisdixon class classism lcd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c13f1560a59c/ Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Mainstreaming Marxism & Redefining Capitalism - YouTube 2022-12-16T05:36:38+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKzTaVCdQU robertogreco davidharvey 2022 capitalism neoliberalism marxism academia highered highereducation oligopoly oligarchs power history us amazon oil pharmaceuticals corporations apple politics economics feudalism markets latecapitalism monopoly competition 1990s 1980s 1970s 2000s ignorance nytime media mccarthyism mainstreammedia tolerance repressivetolerance corporatism 1960s chile argentina brasil brazil rentiers redscare latestagecapitalism oligarchy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:873c42237c53/ German Watchmaking: Nomos Glashütte. A Portrait of Company And Brand. - YouTube 2022-08-16T19:01:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtHqrP4SrCY robertogreco nomos germany history watches watchmaking 2021 1990 glashütte design graphicdesign berlin advertising marketing 2003 2005 judithborowski rolandschwertner susannegünther uweahrendt bauhuas politics tolerance openness populism saxonia saxony casebackwatches berlinerblau https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3ec0d978a6bf/ The Power of Anarchist Analysis ❧ Current Affairs 2022-02-07T15:46:22+00:00 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/12/the-power-of-anarchist-analysis robertogrecoLet us seek together, if you wish, the laws of society, the manner in which these laws are realized, the process by which we shall succeed in discovering them; but, for God’s sake, after having demolished all the a priori dogmatisms, do not let us in our turn dream of indoctrinating the people; do not let us fall into the contradiction of your compatriot Martin Luther, who, having overthrown Catholic theology, at once set about, with excommunication and anathema, the foundation of a Protestant theology… let us carry on a good and loyal polemic; let us give the world an example of learned and far-sighted tolerance, but let us not, merely because we are at the head of a movement, make ourselves the leaders of a new intolerance, let us not pose as the apostles of a new religion, even if it be the religion of logic, the religion of reason. Let us gather together and encourage all protests, let us brand all exclusiveness, all mysticism; let us never regard a question as exhausted, and when we have used our last argument, let us begin again, if need be, with eloquence and irony. On that condition, I will gladly enter your association. Otherwise — no! It was a warning that many of those who flew the red flag ought to have listened more closely to. Anarchists could be quarrelsome, and often impractical—a famous anarchist slogan is “demand the impossible.” But they were also wonderfully clear-sighted: An anarchist never conspired in the delusion that a clearly oppressive society was a place of freedom. There is a wonderful scene in the film Dr. Zhivago where Klaus Kinski has a cameo as an anarchist imprisoned on a train carrying forced laborers. Kinski’s anarchist declares himself “the only free man on the train” because he is the only one willing to call the guard a “lickspittle” and a “liar” to his face after the guard claims Kinski is there as a “voluntary” laborer. [video] When I read the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Errico Malatesta, or Emma Goldman, I was impressed by their force and clarity. Goldman, in My Disillusionment in Russia, wrote frankly and honestly about how her hopes about the freedom to be found in the Soviet Union had been dashed during her visit to it:
I had come to Russia possessed by the hope that I should find a new-born country, with its people wholly consecrated to the great, though very difficult, task of revolutionary reconstruction. And I had fervently hoped that I might become an active part of the inspiring work. I found reality in Russia grotesque, totally unlike the great ideal that had borne me upon the crest of high hope to the land of promise… I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything.
Importantly, though, Goldman’s disillusionment did not lead her to become a conservative anti-communist. She remained a revolutionary socialist, because she had a vision of socialism that was both anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian. I often think that anarchism’s slogan should be “Actually, Both of Those Things Are Bad,” because of its commitment to rejecting false dichotomies and declining to join one “camp” or the other. My appreciation of anarchism was deepened by my reading of Noam Chomsky, who identifies himself as operating within the anarchist tradition. Many anarchists are skeptical of whether Chomsky “is” an anarchist, because he endorses plenty of social democratic policies, thought you should vote for Hillary Clinton if you lived in a swing state, and is not a revolutionary. His political approach is highly pragmatic. His intellectual approach, however, is thoroughly anarchistic. He often speaks about the anarchist approach to the legitimacy of authority:
“Authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can’t be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.”
That doesn’t mean that there are no legitimate authorities. But it does mean that no authority is presumptively legitimate. The king’s orders might be good ones, but they are not good because he is the king, and their being good does not necessarily make kings good or necessary. Your professor may be right, but they are not right because they are your professor. Interestingly, Chomsky’s anarchistic approach is one way in which his twin intellectual endeavors (linguistics and political critique) are unified. Chomsky has always brushed aside the common question: “What connects your linguistic work with your analysis of U.S. foreign policy?” by correctly pointing out that there is almost nothing in common between “understanding the deep roots of human language use” and “criticizing the United States for dropping bombs on Vietnamese people.” However, one way in which these two parts of his life are united is that in each domain, he achieved his insights through applying the anarchistic “presumption against existing authority.” His influential critique of behaviorist explanations for the development of language, and his precipitation of a “revolution” in linguistics, came from a willingness to ask simple questions that challenged conventional wisdom. Likewise, Chomsky’s writings on U.S. foreign policy frequently focus on how powerful actors use euphemisms to cover up atrocities. He does not accept justifications for wars because they come from foreign policy think tanks, or because the person offering them has elite credentials and a binder in front of them labeled “evidence.” He points to simple questions that do not receive satisfactory answers. (For example, why was the Vietnam War not being classified as a “U.S. invasion of Vietnam,” even though that was plainly what it was? Why is an act committed by the United States never labeled terrorism even when it is identical to an act committed by one of our enemies?)"]]> unschooling deschooling anarchism anarchy thinking howwethink criticalthinking questioneverything governance communism marxism socialism politics history authority 2019 karlmarx exlusivity exclusiveness mikhailbakunin religion dogma indictrination dissent tolerance oppression mysticism martinluther catholicism peterkropotkin emmagoldman alexanderberkman erricomalatesta sovietunion ussr liberation freedom noamchomsky legitimacy authoritarianism proudhon pierre-josephproudhon malatesta https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f19cb9b5df5/ Welcome To My Life | Cartoon Network Studios Shorts - YouTube 2021-03-20T01:59:01+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idT98H8TK-U robertogreco elizabethito 2017 animation monsters schools schooling tolerance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f8b1711d5f9b/ Frank Cottrell Boyce: Five things to learn from the Moomins | Books | The Guardian 2020-04-22T19:30:40+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/25/70th-anniversary-tove-jansson-moomins robertogreco tovejansson 2015 integrity moomins family parties life living kierkegaard loneliness tolerance liberation finland small slow frankcottrellboyce https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:935377ec0f84/ Language Is Migrant - South Magazine Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3] - documenta 14 2019-03-21T00:42:55+00:00 https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/904_language_is_migrant robertogrecoa heart in pain, changing the heart of the earth. The word “immigrant” says, “grant me life.” “Grant” means “to allow, to have,” and is related to an ancient Proto-Indo-European root: dhe, the mother of “deed” and “law.” So too, sacerdos, performer of sacred rites. What is the rite performed by millions of people displaced and seeking safe haven around the world? Letting us see our own indifference, our complicity in the ongoing wars? Is their pain powerful enough to allow us to change our hearts? To see our part in it? I “wounder,” said Margarita, my immigrant friend, mixing up wondering and wounding, a perfect embodiment of our true condition! Vicente Huidobro said, “Open your mouth to receive the host of the wounded word.” The wound is an eye. Can we look into its eyes?
my specialty is not feeling, just looking, so I say: (the word is a hard look.) —Rosario Castellanos I don’t see with my eyes: words are my eyes. —Octavio Paz
In l980, I was in exile in Bogotá, where I was working on my “Palabrarmas” project, a way of opening words to see what they have to say. My early life as a poet was guided by a line from Novalis: “Poetry is the original religion of mankind.” Living in the violent city of Bogotá, I wanted to see if anybody shared this view, so I set out with a camera and a team of volunteers to interview people in the street. I asked everybody I met, “What is Poetry to you?” and I got great answers from beggars, prostitutes, and policemen alike. But the best was, “Que prosiga,” “That it may go on”—how can I translate the subjunctive, the most beautiful tiempo verbal (time inside the verb) of the Spanish language? “Subjunctive” means “next to” but under the power of the unknown. It is a future potential subjected to unforeseen conditions, and that matches exactly the quantum definition of emergent properties. If you google the subjunctive you will find it described as a “mood,” as if a verbal tense could feel: “The subjunctive mood is the verb form used to express a wish, a suggestion, a command, or a condition that is contrary to fact.” Or “the ‘present’ subjunctive is the bare form of a verb (that is, a verb with no ending).” I loved that! A never-ending image of a naked verb! The man who passed by as a shadow in my film saying “Que prosiga” was on camera only for a second, yet he expressed in two words the utter precision of Indigenous oral culture. People watching the film today can’t believe it was not scripted, because in thirty-six years we seem to have forgotten the art of complex conversation. In the film people in the street improvise responses on the spot, displaying an awareness of language that seems to be missing today. I wounder, how did it change? And my heart says it must be fear, the ocean of lies we live in, under a continuous stream of doublespeak by the violent powers that rule us. Living under dictatorship, the first thing that disappears is playful speech, the fun and freedom of saying what you really think. Complex public conversation goes extinct, and along with it, the many species we are causing to disappear as we speak. The word “species” comes from the Latin speciēs, “a seeing.” Maybe we are losing species and languages, our joy, because we don’t wish to see what we are doing. Not seeing the seeing in words, we numb our senses. I hear a “low continuous humming sound” of “unmanned aerial vehicles,” the drones we send out into the world carrying our killing thoughts. Drones are the ultimate expression of our disconnect with words, our ability to speak without feeling the effect or consequences of our words. “Words are acts,” said Paz. Our words are becoming drones, flying robots. Are we becoming desensitized by not feeling them as acts? I am thinking not just of the victims but also of the perpetrators, the drone operators. Tonje Hessen Schei, director of the film Drone, speaks of how children are being trained to kill by video games: “War is made to look fun, killing is made to look cool. ... I think this ‘militainment’ has a huge cost,” not just for the young soldiers who operate them but for society as a whole. Her trailer opens with these words by a former aide to Colin Powell in the Bush/Cheney administration:
OUR POTENTIAL COLLECTIVE FUTURE. WATCH IT AND WEEP FOR US. OR WATCH IT AND DETERMINE TO CHANGE THAT FUTURE —Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel U.S. Army (retired)
In Astro Noise, the exhibition by Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the language of surveillance migrates into poetry and art. We lie in a collective bed watching the night sky crisscrossed by drones. The search for matching patterns, the algorithms used to liquidate humanity with drones, is turned around to reveal the workings of the system. And, we are being surveyed as we survey the show! A new kind of visual poetry connecting our bodies to the real fight for the soul of this Earth emerges, and we come out woundering: Are we going to dehumanize ourselves to the point where Earth itself will dream our end? The fight is on everywhere, and this may be the only beauty of our times. The Quechua speakers of Peru say, “beauty is the struggle.” Maybe darkness will become the source of light. (Life regenerates in the dark.) I see the poet/translator as the person who goes into the dark, seeking the “other” in him/herself, what we don’t wish to see, as if this act could reveal what the world keeps hidden. Eduardo Kohn, in his book How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human notes the creation of a new verb by the Quichua speakers of Ecuador: riparana means “darse cuenta,” “to realize or to be aware.” The verb is a Quichuan transfiguration of the Spanish reparar, “to observe, sense, and repair.” As if awareness itself, the simple act of observing, had the power to heal. I see the invention of such verbs as true poetry, as a possible path or a way out of the destruction we are causing. When I am asked about the role of the poet in our times, I only question: Are we a “listening post,” composing an impossible “survival guide,” as Paul Chan has said? Or are we going silent in the face of our own destruction? Subcomandante Marcos, the Zapatista guerrilla, transcribes the words of El Viejo Antonio, an Indian sage: “The gods went looking for silence to reorient themselves, but found it nowhere.” That nowhere is our place now, that’s why we need to translate language into itself so that IT sees our awareness. Language is the translator. Could it translate us to a place within where we cease to tolerate injustice and the destruction of life? Life is language. “When we speak, life speaks,” says the Kaushitaki Upanishad. Awareness creates itself looking at itself. It is transient and eternal at the same time. Todo migra. Let’s migrate to the “wounderment” of our lives, to poetry itself."]]> ceciliavicuña language languages words migration immigration life subcomandantemarcos elviejoantonio lawrencewilkerson octaviopaz exile rosariocastellanos poetry spanish español subjunctive oral orality conversation complexity seeing species joy tonjehessenschei war colinpowell laurapoitras art visual translation eduoardokohn quechua quichua healing repair verbs invention listening kaushitakiupanishad awareness noticing wondering vicentehuidobro wounds woundering migrants unknown future potential unpredictability emergent drones morethanhuman multispecies paulchan destruction displacement refugees extinction others tolerance injustice justice transience ephemerality ephemeral canon eternal surveillance patterns algorithms earth sustainability environment indifference complicity dictatorship documenta14 2017 classideas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ada86a335b2/ Yong Zhao "What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education" - YouTube 2019-03-07T17:36:11+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVlybJoV88 robertogreco yongzhao 2018 schools schooling pisa education testing standardizedtesting standardization china us history testscores children teaching howweteach howwelearn sideeffects privatization tims math reading confidence assessment economics depression diversity entrepreneurship japan creativity korea vietnam homogenization intolerance prosperity tolerance filtering sorting humans meritocracy effort inheritance numeracy literacy achievementgap kindergarten nclb rttt policy data homogeneity selectivity charterschools centralization decentralization local control inequity curriculum autonomy learning memorization directinstruction instruction poverty outcomes tfa teachforamerica finland singapore miltonfriedman vouchers resilience growthmindset motivation psychology research positivepsychology caroldweck intrinsicmotivation choice neoliberalism high-stakestesting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:621609aa2d00/ Museo Memoria y Tolerancia 2018-08-26T20:27:31+00:00 https://www.myt.org.mx/ robertogrecomexico mexicodf df museums tolerance memory togo mexicocity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8ed86320e40f/ My Grandmother’s Shroud - The New York Times 2017-07-18T20:39:59+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/magazine/my-grandmothers-shroud.html robertogreco 2017 tejucole photography death memory nigeria aging relationships hajj islam purpose grief mourning grieving customs objects textiles immigration us policy connection families tolerance religion acceptance mecca eternity belief spirituality burial life living change transformation talismans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65ed6356b37e/ Unbroken | Music for Deckchairs 2017-05-14T22:39:16+00:00 http://musicfordeckchairs.com/blog/2017/05/12/unbroken/ robertogreco katebowles via:audreywatters 2017 education absences attendance kindness grit seanmichaelmorris lizmorrish kevingannon fault compulsory rules incentives unintendedconsequences flexibility listening resilience adversity compliance virtue tolerance highered highereducation colleges universities us conversation compassion work https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a59226206c75/ The Trouble with Tolerance | On Being 2017-04-23T18:08:25+00:00 https://onbeing.org/blog/omid-safi-the-trouble-with-tolerance/ robertogreco tolerance diversity pluralism 2017 omisafi immigration humanism embace humility https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f1a78d9b5395/ Transcript: George W. Bush's Remarks at Dallas Memorial Service | US News 2016-07-13T17:22:14+00:00 http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-07-12/transcript-george-w-bushs-remarks-at-dallas-memorial-service robertogreco georgewbush tolerance us police trust lawenforcement 2016 dallas fear understanding unity disagreement intentions empathy humanism humanity division values https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5733314b22b5/ I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup | Slate Star Codex 2016-04-06T03:31:17+00:00 http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ robertogreco[What makes America the greatest country in the world?] It’s not the greatest country in the world! We’re seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what the f*** you’re talking about. (Another good retort is “We’re number one? Sure – number one in incarceration rates, drone strikes, and making new parents go back to work!”) All of this is true, of course. But it’s weird that it’s such a classic interest of members of the Blue Tribe, and members of the Red Tribe never seem to bring it up. (“We’re number one? Sure – number one in levels of sexual degeneracy! Well, I guess probably number two, after the Netherlands, but they’re really small and shouldn’t count.”) My hunch – both the Red Tribe and the Blue Tribe, for whatever reason, identify “America” with the Red Tribe. Ask people for typically “American” things, and you end up with a very Red list of characteristics – guns, religion, barbecues, American football, NASCAR, cowboys, SUVs, unrestrained capitalism. That means the Red Tribe feels intensely patriotic about “their” country, and the Blue Tribe feels like they’re living in fortified enclaves deep in hostile territory. Here is a popular piece published on a major media site called America: A Big, Fat, Stupid Nation. Another: America: A Bunch Of Spoiled, Whiny Brats. Americans are ignorant, scientifically illiterate religious fanatics whose “patriotism” is actually just narcissism. You Will Be Shocked At How Ignorant Americans Are, and we should Blame The Childish, Ignorant American People. Needless to say, every single one of these articles was written by an American and read almost entirely by Americans. Those Americans very likely enjoyed the articles very much and did not feel the least bit insulted. And look at the sources. HuffPo, Salon, Slate. Might those have anything in common? On both sides, “American” can be either a normal demonym, or a code word for a member of the Red Tribe." … "This essay is bad and I should feel bad. I should feel bad because I made exactly the mistake I am trying to warn everyone else about, and it wasn’t until I was almost done that I noticed. How virtuous, how noble I must be! Never stooping to engage in petty tribal conflict like that silly Red Tribe, but always nobly criticizing my own tribe and striving to make it better. Yeah. Once I’ve written a ten thousand word essay savagely attacking the Blue Tribe, either I’m a very special person or they’re my outgroup. And I’m not that special. Just as you can pull a fast one and look humbly self-critical if you make your audience assume there’s just one American culture, so maybe you can trick people by assuming there’s only one Blue Tribe. I’m pretty sure I’m not Red, but I did talk about the Grey Tribe above, and I show all the risk factors for being one of them. That means that, although my critique of the Blue Tribe may be right or wrong, in terms of motivation it comes from the same place as a Red Tribe member talking about how much they hate al-Qaeda or a Blue Tribe member talking about how much they hate ignorant bigots. And when I boast of being able to tolerate Christians and Southerners whom the Blue Tribe is mean to, I’m not being tolerant at all, just noticing people so far away from me they wouldn’t make a good outgroup anyway. My arguments might be correct feces, but they’re still feces. I had fun writing this article. People do not have fun writing articles savagely criticizing their in-group. People can criticize their in-group, it’s not humanly impossible, but it takes nerves of steel, it makes your blood boil, you should sweat blood. It shouldn’t be fun. You can bet some white guy on Gawker who week after week churns out “Why White People Are So Terrible” and “Here’s What Dumb White People Don’t Understand” is having fun and not sweating any blood at all. He’s not criticizing his in-group, he’s never even considered criticizing his in-group. I can’t blame him. Criticizing the in-group is a really difficult project I’ve barely begun to build the mental skills necessary to even consider. I can think of criticisms of my own tribe. Important criticisms, true ones. But the thought of writing them makes my blood boil. I imagine might I feel like some liberal US Muslim leader, when he goes on the O’Reilly Show, and O’Reilly ambushes him and demands to know why he and other American Muslims haven’t condemned beheadings by ISIS more, demands that he criticize them right there on live TV. And you can see the wheels in the Muslim leader’s head turning, thinking something like “Okay, obviously beheadings are terrible and I hate them as much as anyone. But you don’t care even the slightest bit about the victims of beheadings. You’re just looking for a way to score points against me so you can embarass all Muslims. And I would rather personally behead every single person in the world than give a smug bigot like you a single microgram more stupid self-satisfaction than you’ve already got.” That is how I feel when asked to criticize my own tribe, even for correct reasons. If you think you’re criticizing your own tribe, and your blood is not at that temperature, consider the possibility that you aren’t. But if I want Self-Criticism Virtue Points, criticizing the Grey Tribe is the only honest way to get them. And if I want Tolerance Points, my own personal cross to bear right now is tolerating the Blue Tribe. I need to remind myself that when they are bad people, they are merely Osama-level bad people instead of Thatcher-level bad people. And when they are good people, they are powerful and necessary crusaders against the evils of the world. The worst thing that could happen to this post is to have it be used as convenient feces to fling at the Blue Tribe whenever feces are necessary. Which, given what has happened to my last couple of posts along these lines and the obvious biases of my own subconscious, I already expect it will be. But the best thing that could happen to this post is that it makes a lot of people, especially myself, figure out how to be more tolerant. Not in the “of course I’m tolerant, why shouldn’t I be?” sense of the Emperor in Part I. But in the sense of “being tolerant makes me see red, makes me sweat blood, but darn it I am going to be tolerant anyway.”"]]> politics psychology society tolerance scottalexander partisanship bias favoritism filterbubbles segregation darkmatter tribes subtribes polarization patriotism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:19ac66140636/ Spinoza in a T-Shirt – The New Inquiry 2015-07-04T07:44:15+00:00 http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/spinoza-in-a-t-shirt/ robertogreco spinoza design arakawa madelinegins body bodies normal normalization standardization variation architecture fashion politics inclusion tolerance inclusivity adaptability léopoldlambert minh-hatpham henrydreyfuss reikawakubo juliewilkins paulvirilio claudeparent theobliquefunction futureclassicsdress modification stretch give glvo uniformproject audiencesofone philosophy standards canon canes ability abilities disability variability ablerism ethics textiles personaluniforms fabrics clothing clothes inlcusivity disabilities fabric https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:90a6261281e5/ Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Insights: K-HOLE, New York — Channel — Walker Art Center 2015-03-28T08:56:16+00:00 http://www.walkerart.org/channel/2015/insights-k-hole-new-york robertogreco k-hole consumption online internet communication burnout normcore legibility illegibility simplicity technology mobile phones smartphones trends fashion art design branding brands socialmedia groupchat texting oversharing absence checkingout aesthetics lifestyle airplanemode privilege specialness generations marketing trendspotting coping messaging control socialcapital gregfong denayago personalbranding visibility invisibility identity punk prolasticity patagonia patience anxietymatrix chaos order anxiety normality abnormality youth millennials individuality box1824 hansulrichobrist alternative indie culture opposition massindie williamsburg simoncastets digitalnatives capitalism mainstream semiotics subcultures isolation 2015 walkerartcenter maxingout establishment difference 89plus basicness evasion blandness actingbasic empathy indifference eccentricity blankness tolerance rebellion signalling status coolness aspiration connections relationships presentationofself understanding territorialism sociology ne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83ee6e1363f6/ Seven Pathways 2015-03-06T00:24:28+00:00 http://www2.k12albemarle.org/dept/dart/digital-learning/Pages/Seven-Pathways.aspx robertogreco albermarleschooldistrict irasocol pammoran technology connectivity projectbasedlearning passionbasedlearning making mekers curriculum pathways interaction universldesign learning individualization howweteach howwelearn teaching education schools tolerance instruction choice comfort toolbelttheory schooldesign communication pbl https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f184222d6496/ 12 ideas for making Boston more inclusive - Magazine - The Boston Globe 2014-12-11T15:12:54+00:00 http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/12/03/ideas-for-making-boston-more-inclusive/mMHyMCTNbuwxSKRSosNsAM/story.html robertogreco boston cities urban urbanism inequality 2014 francielatour omarsacirbey michaelfitzgerald jamesburnett sarahshemkus priyankadayalmccluskey jeremyfox nadiacolbum cindyatojikeene inclusion housing education health healthcare business highschool relationships community diversity tolerance theater children youth technology immigrants urbanplanning inlcusivity inclusivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e693f1fb905e/ Art Makes You Smart - NYTimes.com 2013-11-23T23:11:16+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/art-makes-you-smart.html robertogreco art education openstudioproject 2013 arts criticalthinking tolerance empathy briankisida jaygreene danielbowen https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:25da755775b8/ 5 Ways Pirates Were Way More Modern Than You Realize | Cracked.com 2013-05-31T01:31:07+00:00 http://www.cracked.com/article_20448_5-ways-pirates-were-way-more-modern-than-you-realize.html/ robertogreco pirates healthinsurance healthcare democracy tolerance religion gaymarriage marriageequality history freedom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:535a1f94b2c1/ SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement 2013-02-20T17:47:46+00:00 http://www.sfu.ca/tlcvan/clients/sfu_woodwards/2013-02-12_Woodwards_Hern_10260/ robertogreco vancouver britishcolumbia 2013 urban urbanism diversity conviviality tolerance busyness time memory cities ecology environment sustainability density colonization participatory commonspaces publicspace justice equity matthern richardsennett cv conversation appreciation community communities hospitality land water air bc intolerance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7404a2181204/ I have plenty of friends in and from California,... - more than 95 theses 2012-08-11T04:01:27+00:00 http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/29126433569/i-have-plenty-of-friends-in-and-from-california robertogreco via:lukeneff california newengland rural urban openness open closed friendly courtesy respect rudeness politeness tolerance noahmillman johnirving https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8863c05eeac3/ Levellers - Wikipedia 2012-07-10T19:51:46+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers robertogreco tolerance suffrage sovereignty england history equality freedom politics levellers https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c50bba642898/ Adam Greenfield on Connected Things & Civic Responsibilities in the Networked City - YouTube 2012-02-12T05:59:37+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C9kgLDxCS4 robertogreco publicgood hyperpublic urbanism urban ethics metalab tolerance behavior human publicspace privacy internetofthings connectedthings cities civicresponsibilities networkedcities berkmancenter civics 2011 urbanscale jeffjarvis adamgreenfield spimes iot publicgoods https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b3c008c01c9/ Paul Dourish on Delineating the Public and Private - YouTube 2012-02-12T05:43:22+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk1hFFRvjLI robertogreco hyperpublic tolerance diversity design cities urbanism urban architecture private public jonathanzittrain pauldourish 2011 berkmancenter https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:714e36512942/ All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation | Books | The Guardian 2012-02-11T09:18:16+00:00 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/10/richard-sennett-montaigne-cooperation robertogreco cats living life curiosity brunolatour communication richardsennett society cooperation tolerance dialog via:preoccupations dialogue conversation 2012 micheldemontaigne capitalism empathy anxiety modernity writing diplomacy everydaydiplomacy spezzatura listening fetishassertion bernardwilliams self-knowledge sympathy self-struggle norbertelias sarahbakeswell civility tyranny habits simplicity slow dialogics sarahbakewell sprezzatura fetishofassertion montaigne https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3057770ad206/ Žižek - How are we embedded in ideology - Part 1 - YouTube 2011-08-21T04:53:28+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdzMCUaJQ6g robertogreco via:steelemaley zizek ethics charity ideology philosophy 2007 marxism lacan politics hegel psychoanalysis towatch tolerance chaos nature inequality justice alienation exploitation economics racism postpolitics society conflict culture jacqueslacan https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a8e9f9060ae8/ The Ideas of Norway's Young Victims Also Draw Praise and Criticism - NYTimes.com 2011-07-28T20:03:53+00:00 http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/the-ideas-of-norways-young-victims-also-draw-praise-and-criticism/ robertogreco 2011 norway utoya politics johnnichols robertmackey auf eksilpedersen groharlembrundtland jonasgahrstore israel palestine policy wealth tolerance multiculturalism foreignaid https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:81417d508827/ Agenda | Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected World 2011-05-30T20:42:18+00:00 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/hyperpublic/schedule/ robertogreco hyper-public jonathanzittrain danahboyd ethanzuckerman genevievebell pauldourish adamgreenfield nicholasnegroponte davidweinberger events law legal privacy ethnography history art architecture publicspace behavior experience 2011 tolerance diversity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3cc4a2fd3f65/ FT.com / House & Home - 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