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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoWhat You’re Feeling Isn’t A Vibe Shift. It’s Permanent Change.2022-04-05T06:10:36+00:00
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/vibe-shift-war-in-ukraine
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https://www.hcn.org/articles/books-rudolfo-anaya-defined-the-west-like-no-one-else
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https://kottke.org/19/04/the-notre-dame-fire-and-the-invisible-tragedy-of-the-everyday
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https://austinkleon.com/2018/07/09/the-distance-i-can-be/
robertogrecoart austinkleon parenting freedom lenkclayton tension releas hannahgadsby comedy tragedyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92c1742f1411/HEWN, No. 2502018-01-27T21:56:24+00:00
https://tinyletter.com/audreywatters/letters/hewn-no-250
robertogrecoIf science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. “Technology,” or “modern science” (using the words as they are usually used, in an unexamined shorthand standing for the “hard” sciences and high technology founded upon continuous economic growth), is a heroic undertaking, Herculean, Promethean, conceived as triumph, hence ultimately as tragedy. The fiction embodying this myth will be, and has been, triumphant (Man conquers earth, space, aliens, death, the future, etc.) and tragic (apocalypse, holocaust, then or now).
If, however, one avoids the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic, and redefines technology and science as primarily cultural carrier bag rather than weapon of domination, one pleasant side effect is that science fiction can be seen as a far less rigid, narrow field, not necessarily Promethean or apocalyptic at all, and in fact less a mythological genre than a realistic one.
The problems of technology – and the problems of the storytelling about the computing industry today, which seems to regularly turn to the worst science fiction for inspiration – is bound up in all this. There’s a strong desire to create, crown, and laud the Hero – a tendency that’s going to end pretty badly if we don’t start thinking about care and community (and carrier bags) and dial back this wretched fascination with weapons, destruction, and disruption.
(Something like this, I wonder: “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin.)
Elsewhere in the history of the future of technology: “Sorry, Alexa Is Not a Feminist,” says Ian Bogost. “The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War” by Alexis Madrigal.
There are many reasons to adore Ursula K. Le Guin. And there are many pieces of her writing, of course, one could point to and insist “you must read this. You must.” For me, the attraction was her grounding in cultural anthropology – I met Le Guin at a California Folklore Society almost 20 years ago when I was a graduate student in Folklore Studies – alongside her willingness to challenge the racism and imperialism and expropriation that the field engendered. It was her fierce criticism of capitalism and her commitment to freedom. I’m willing to fight anyone who tries to insist that Sometimes a Great Notion is the great novel of the Pacific Northwest. Really, you should pick almost any Le Guin novel in its stead – Always Coming Home, perhaps. Or The Word for the World is Forest. She was the most important anarchist of our era, I posted on Facebook when I shared the NYT obituary. It was a jab at another Oregon writer who I bet thinks that’s him. But like Kesey, his notion is all wrong.
Fewer Heroes. Better stories about people. Better worlds for people.
Yours in struggle,
~Audrey"]]>audreywatters ursulaleguin 2018 anarchism sciencefiction scifi technology edtech progress storytelling care community caring folklore anarchy computing siliconvalley war aggression humanism briandear myth heroes science modernscience hardsciences economics growth fiction tragedy apocalypse holocaust future conquest domination weapons destruction disruptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:09f52f3d8c1e/Fred Rogers: Look for the Helpers - YouTube2015-11-15T19:55:30+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGHtc_D328
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https://the-pastry-box-project.net/mandy-brown/2014-february-25
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http://www.runofplay.com/2010/09/02/pele-as-a-comedian/
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http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success.html
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