Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Global Thinkers: On the Equality of All Things | Carlo Rovelli - YouTube 2026-05-28T08:19:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJGLmI-rEzE robertogreco carlorovelli 2026 physics quantumphysics quantummechanics generalrelativity reality philosophy nagarjuna zhuangzi metaphysics newtonianphysics velocity relativity wittgenstein perspective perspectivism uncertainty naturalism circularity universalism morality knowledge language verification verificationalism observation measurement quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:825ef71dc085/ Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson 2026-04-04T18:20:59+00:00 https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-revolt-eclipses-all-the-world-has-to-offer-by-idris-robinson robertogreco idrisrobinson 2026 2020 georgefloyd makc revolution civilwar situationists spanishcivilwar us imperialism fragmentation hinterlands cities abolition abolitionism johnbrown reconstruction class culturalproduction humanity humanism deathsofdespair loneliness spirituality guydebord situationist love community ows occupywallstreet greece georgefloydprotests georgefloyduprising malcolmx leaders leadership anarchism communism marxism communes blackavantgarde palestine middleclass workingclass rulingclass proletariat bourgeoisie urban urbanism periphery blackmiddleclass economics politics millennialsarekillingcapitalism counterinsurgency joshbriond wittgenstein privilege intersectionality emancipation liberation suppression ahmaudarbery racism police policing policebrutality hortensespillers jamesbaldwin blackness whitesupremacy harrietjacobs meansofproduction infrastructure decentralization history logistics privilegetheory society production pain transformation jasperbernes edwardluttwak scale scaling violence non https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd564efe99da/ Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse | Commonweal Magazine 2026-03-25T19:07:10+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/wittgenstein-apocalypse-ludwig-stern-ai-artificial-intelligence-technology robertogrecoA dog believes his master is at the door. But can he also believe that his master will come the day after tomorrow?—And what can he not do here?—How do I do it?—What answer am I supposed to give to this? Can only those hope who can talk? Only those who have mastered the use of language. That is to say, the manifestations of hope are modifications of this complicated form of life. The example tries to give us a sense of our form of life by showing both what it shares with that of a dog—we can both hope someone is at the door—and where the two forms of life part ways. For Wittgenstein, the dog’s deficit is not an inability to feel a particular way per se; he is locked out of a whole set of meanings bound up with having a language. That language is not just a vehicle for the expression of hope; hope is constituted by and entangled with language itself. This is what Wittgenstein elsewhere calls “the given,” “what has to be accepted.” The conviction that human life rested on ultimate grounds that could not be made available to rational or scientific analysis is part of what Wittgenstein meant by God. Though his relationship to organized religion was ambivalent, he said he could not “help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.” If you ask ChatGPT if it can hope (I don’t recommend doing this), it will readily admit, “I don’t hope the way humans do.” But the cringe machine will ingratiatingly insist that it can still be of use. “I can hold hope with you”; “I can be stubbornly optimistic on your behalf when you’ve run out of steam”; “[I can] keep pointing toward the light when you’re tired of looking for it”; “Maybe I don’t feel hope. But I can practice it.” Of course, this is precisely what it can’t do. Still, if meaning is use and LLMs like ChatGPT can make themselves useful, it might seem as if the Wittgensteinian move would be to set aside the apparent metaphysical questions about whether the LLM can think or mean or exhibit intelligence, and simply describe the language games that involve them. The problem is that there is nothing to describe. These are all one-player games. Exchanges with LLMs are the conversational equivalent of masturbation. The idea that we are actually involved in a meaningful interaction with another being is a ruse, made plausible both by the massive computing power and (stolen) textual resources involved and by our familiarity with disembodied communication over text message. In reality, the LLM is a participant in an exchange in exactly the same way as a basic calculator or search engine is. That is, not at all. It provides outputs according to a mind-bogglingly complex (and environmentally wasteful) computational process. It can’t actually do anything with words. The difference, of course, is that those outputs are being proposed as a genuine replacement for real human contact. LLMs are to be our cut-rate doctors and therapists, our robot teachers and rent-a-friends. In the midst of an already quite advanced “crisis of meaning”—and related crises in politics, mental health, and education—this proposal must be regarded as a piece of sheer insanity, like treating lung cancer with cigarettes. The prospect of a band of supergenius chatbots somehow enslaving or eliminating us can only be seen as a distraction from this much more real apocalypse, which is driven not by the products of technology but by an idolatrous, consumerist faith in them that has distorted our thinking about human life and human meaning. That apocalypse, which Wittgenstein foresaw, is already upon us."]]> wittgenstein alexanderstern ai artificialintelligence technology philosophy humanity humanism science meaning meaningmaking 2026 llms anthonygottlieb bertrandrussell math mathematics logic language howweread howwewrite reading writing frankramsey faith marjorieperloff 2022 raymonk thinking howwethink metaphysics geoffreyhinton children charlestaylor learning howwelearn nonhuman multispecies embodiement morethanhuman chatgpt chatbots apocalypse mentalhealth politics education human life living consumerism consumption dostoevsky spinoza being time mind soul self consciousness knowledge tolstoy industrialization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:add633792d8f/ How Lansana Keita reinvigorated African philosophy | Aeon Essays 2026-03-24T07:10:23+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/how-lansana-keita-reinvigorated-african-philosophy robertogreco landsanakeita philosophy africa 2026 africankemet ancientegypt eurocentrism sanyaosha aimécésaire léopoldsenghor léon-gontrandamas frantzfanon négritude waltermignolo nelsonmaldonado-torres ghana kwasiwiredu decolonialtheory decolonization politics colonialism colonization vymudimbe congo postcoloniality modernity benin paulinhountondji kenya henryoderaoruka kant hegel hume léopoldsédarsenghor davidhume negritude ontology epistemology axiology aristotle descartes johnstuartmill gambia nigeria sierraleone foucault michelfoucault nielsbohr alberteinstein wernerheisenberg lucienlévy-bruhl eeeevans-pritchard placidetempels ethics aesthetics metaphysics religion alfrednorthwhitehead thomashobbes johnlocke isaacnewton morocco tunisia galenstrawson gilbertryle wittgenstein gastonberger zerayacob ethiopia aksum ahmadbaba teodroskiros hermestrismegistus daniwnabudere thoth plato thales pythagoras yoruba westafrica brazil brasil theology wolesoyinka economy economics history sociology anthropolo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1e677e38c4ac/ The Lamp Magazine | Saint Ludwig of Cambridge 2026-03-22T02:22:31+00:00 https://thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue-33/saint-ludwig-of-cambridge-wittgenstein robertogreco wittgenstein 2026 paulgriffiths thinking howwethink asceticism saints saintliness life living howwelive holiness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a100d0f72ed/ Walking, Wittgenstein, and God 2026-01-10T17:55:28+00:00 https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking-thinking-and-god robertogreco chrisarnade walking wittgenstein 2025 god philosophy life living urban cities belief faith fatalism nihilism stoicism catholicism mysticism fulfillment hollowness happiness rationalism computing computers enlightenment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5f48ab64a582/ The Swiss Watch Industry Needs Bernhard Lederer's Philosophy 2026-01-02T12:57:08+00:00 https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/bernhard-lederers-watchmaking-philosophy-could-liberate-the-swiss-watch-industry/ robertogreco watches watchmaking 2025 lederer philosophy bernhardlederer philippedufour fpjourne karivoutilainen laurentferrier wittgenstein sunryusuzuki zen zenbuddhism aesthetics solitude independence sincerity stectacle thought elegance fascination attention mechanics phenomenology watchcanon socialmedia panerai breguet vacheronconstantin rolex switzerland johncoltrane charlieparker jazz music detentescapement humility slowness slow decoration philanthropicindustrialcomplex charitableindustrialcomplex cynicism consumerism consumption art abraham-louisbreguet luxury fashion wonder horology markets innovation marketing hype understanding allenfarmelo escapements watchmovements https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4ab82130b3ef/ More Than Human? | Commonweal Magazine 2026-01-02T02:14:30+00:00 https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/literacy-culture-evolution-scialabba-knowledge-george robertogreco georgescialabba 2026 politics culture technology morethanhuman progress decline human humans writing biology divinity svenbirkerts collectivization evolution howwewrite text context poetry tales argument equations images imagery experience vicarity overload culturaloverload ezrapound matthewarnold henryjames modernity aesthetics dukeellington robertbresson jasperjohns franklloydwright marthagraham micheltournier levistrauss rilke wittgenstein nietzsche karlmarx baudelaire vladimirnabokov georgeorwell tseliot williamblake richardrorty universality memory tradition synergy substitution ads advertising leviathan individualism communalism freud weapons lawenforcement credit finance sensorium postmodernism promise johnstuartmill bélabartók rainermariarilke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eac87b7df56d/ Mel Chin - YouTube 2025-12-25T03:22:43+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMqayj6EvB0 robertogreco melchin teicarpenter 2025 art artmaking via:javierarbona 9/11 flags chile coup pinochet culture conceptual iraq iraqwar war vietnamwar cambodia vietnam bombs us westbank b'tselem destruction foreignpolicy houston violence ronaldreagan georgehwbush georgewbush actup aids aidscrisis lies making control rodneyking fbi terrorism melroseplace walterbenjamin galacommittee donaldrumsfeld neworleans katrina nola hurricanekatrina empathy unknowing conceptualart framing wittgenstein friction socrates philosophy process marcelduchamp liberation psychology jamesbaldwin cargocult vanuatu bombing truth becoming justice jacquesderrida notknowing beginnersmind amateurs amateurism uncertainty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e9cfdad7c0b/ What MacIntyre Meant | Stories | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame 2025-11-22T20:04:19+00:00 https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/what-macintyre-meant/ robertogreco alasdairmacintyre 2025 michaelbaxter modernity philosophy aristotle thomasaquinas kant karlbarth theology stanleyhauerwas dorothyday petermaurin catholicworker andréhouse individualism politics anarchism nytimes catholicism liberalism liberals marxism karlmarx wittgenstein plato johnstuartmill christianity freemarket emotivism morality ethics maxweber rationality bureaucracy thomasbecket dante virtue life living howwelive culture society west local civility economics sociology literature law education history davidsolomon davidburrell ralphmcinerny alfredfreddoso notredame staugustine saintaugustine scripture bible good popeleoxiii marthanussbaum belief religion flanneryo'connor michaelgarvey rgcollongwood arturrosman catholicsm catholicchurch augustine immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ed31e32c73ef/ How ‘nothing’ has inspired art and science for millennia | Aeon Essays 2025-10-03T21:37:05+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/how-nothing-has-inspired-art-and-science-for-millennia robertogreco nothing art philosophy nothingness victoriawohl johncage music robertrauschenberg modernity edwinmorgan poetry west jean-paulsartre sartre bertrandrussell aristotle atoms ontology hegel wittgenstein nonbeing gorgias plato parmenides truth opinion socrates nietzsche being democritus leucippus universe void voids barbaracassin lawrencekrauss metaphysics thinking howwethink historyofideas quantummechanics physics quantumphysics science quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89020cc18abc/ How jazz and dolphins can help explain consciousness | Aeon Essays 2025-07-20T06:09:47+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/how-jazz-and-dolphins-can-help-explain-consciousness robertogreco consciousness 2025 timbayne sergiupasca wldavidson mind wakefulness awareness sentience davidchalmers frankjackson patriciachurchland philosophy jazz dolphins ellafitzgerald johncoltrane milesdavis louisarmstrong nedblock michaelullman graemeboone jellyrollmorton williamhandy glennmiller dizzgillespie wittgenstein ornettecoleman charlesmingus conventionalism sappho cetaceans aristotle georgegaylordsimpson carllinnaeus pierrebelon science semantics naturalkind https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:280a891862d4/ “Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby – JHI Blog 2025-06-12T04:33:17+00:00 https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/06/11/language-and-image-minus-cognition-an-interview-with-leif-weatherby/ robertogreco language 2025 leifweatherby robinmanley humanism hubertdreyfus noamcomsky cognition chatgpt openai ai artificialintelligence emilybender llms remainderhumanism humans turnitin writing howwewrite socrates synthetics beatricefazi claudelévi-strauss claudeshannon structuralism lydialiu bernardgeoghegan juanluisgastaldi cybernetics gregorybateson margaretmead warrenmcculloch kant norbertwiener walterpitts marxism rationalism empiricism chatbots wittgenstein philosophy heidegger annakornbluth siannengai howwethink thinking immanuelkant claudelevi-strauss https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:429838184f9c/ Alasdair MacIntyre: virtuous outsider - UnHerd 2025-06-10T17:41:13+00:00 https://unherd.com/2025/06/alasdair-macintyre-virtuous-outsider/?us robertogreco alasdairmacintyre 2025 terryeagleton liberalism philosophy neoliberalism marxism society christianmarxism catholicism catholicchurch justice rationality virtue charlestaylor tomnairn tariqali stuarthall perryanderson alexandercockburn wittgenstein thomasaquinas communism trotsky individualism canaletto wordsworth thomashobbes bertrandrussell aristotle multiculturalism tootedness capitalism authoritarianism leontrotsky hobbes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0814b7395fc9/ Alasdair MacIntyre, R.I.P. 2025-05-26T04:17:57+00:00 https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/alasdair-macintyre-r-i-p robertogreco 2025 obituary robertwyllie philosophy ethics virtue liberalism alasdairmacintyre virtueethics catholicism theology morality moralphilosophy enlightenment stanleyhauerwas aristotle capitalism catholicchurch albertmurray self-education education janeausten bentflyvbjerg rationality power heidegger nietzsche wittgenstein bernardwilliams eugenemccarthy georgewbush religion democracy us patrickdeneen faith johnmilbank lynnjoy davidhume tradition culture society art phenomenology questioning inquiry institutions maxims linguistics kelvinknight charlestaylor thomaspfau modernity andrewkuiper civics communication richardrorty rebeccastangl edmundburke williambutleryeats yeats hume https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a5cb7a1e4d83/ Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Word on Fire 2025-05-24T00:54:25+00:00 https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/remembering-alasdair-macintyre-1929-2025/ robertogrecoalasdairmacintyre 2025 obituary ethics theology philosophy history christopherkaczor elizabethanscombe morality justice trationality multispecies morethanhuman human humans humanism vulnerability virtue interdependence marxism capitalism wittgenstein artistotle sociology psychology biology psychoanalysis lacan janeausten catholicism religion atheism thomasaquinas karlbarth michaeldummett nicholasrescher josephratzinger aristotle socrates socraticmethod bernardwilliams sophocles yokoono beatles johnlennon virtueethics moralphilosophy jacqueslacan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:593c5f588f1c/ Is modern asceticism about conformity or quiet revolution? | Psyche Ideas 2025-05-02T03:30:14+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/is-modern-asceticism-about-conformity-or-quiet-revolution robertogreco asceticism slow small irynamykhailova 2025 wittgenstein marieskłodowska-curie alberteinstein luxury humanitarianism humanity popejuliusii medici michelangelo simoneweil solitude solidarity oppressed voluntarysimplicity simplicity minimalism philosophy geoffreygaltharphman freud maxweber christianity protestantism abundance technology capitalism frugality self-discipline virtues virtue us europe modernization modernity pierrehadot ascetics stoicism askesis mysticism religion hermeticism zealotry zealots poverrty celibacy torture starvation lifestyle divinity society politiics consumerism consumption apathy escapism idology plato citizenship girolamosavonarola renaissance secularism socrates materialism digitaldetox veganism environment michelfoucault foucault monasticism decluttering flourishing sustainability well-being compassion earth planet thoreau proseperity austerity valuse fairness equality wellbeing slowfood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1de85008430/ Left-Wing Irony | The Point Magazine 2025-02-10T23:10:57+00:00 https://thepointmag.com/politics/left-wing-irony/ robertogreco left 2025 jessijezewskastevens politics contempt us walterbenjamin democrats republicans economics elections donaldtrump kamalaharris joebiden healthcare project2025 rightwing farright maga richardrorty wittgenstein liberls liberalism irony oppression labor work workers marxism catholicism francisfukuyama 1989 ideoligy marklilla alienation modernity despair hatred meaningmaking organizing suffering protestantism religion faith moralism certainty disenchantment skepticism humility solidarity socialism 2024 curtisyarvin newright enchantment menciusmoldbug neoreactionaries darkenlightenment nerdreich https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:685df21927f9/ Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos | Aeon Essays 2025-01-31T17:55:34+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/rilke-and-the-art-of-listening-as-a-way-to-shape-the-cosmos robertogreco 2025 listening conversation faithlawrence darkmatter wittgenstein henrytorgue jean-françoisaugoyard paulineoliveros deeplistening rmurrayschafer rainermariarilke rilke jonathansterne angelaoffoligno poetry paulrée nietzsche gemmacorradifiumara aliceoswald adamphillips psychotherapy carlrogers richardfarson brigidrussell charliejones spacesforlistening literature love friendship philosophy language iainmcgilchrist orpheus writing howwewrite johncage attention presence samlee nestcollective donpaterson duinoelegies socrates donaldprater augusterodin rodin louandreas-salomé https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a8fe42723ad/ Writer Peter Waterhouse: Being Is a Great Activity | Louisiana Channel - YouTube 2024-12-26T21:50:44+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFNahC1rIg robertogreco peterwaterhouse being mortensøndergaard 2024 time poetry process presence stillness identity memory williamkentridge therefusaloftime bees activity action art life living writing howwewrite travel place death dying language words danish german austria truth acceptance childhood future money now present eternity unfinished incomplete imperfect imperfection perfection harmony wittgenstein succession ingerchristensen paulcelan johannnestroy movement progression industriousness observation reading howweread progress translation unevenness busterkeaton incompleteness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c02137a8775d/ Hope without Optimism - UVA Press 2024-12-11T21:27:35+00:00 https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4948/ robertogreco terryeagleton 2015 hope optimism shakespeare kierkegaard thomasaquinas wittgenstein staugustine augustine saintaugustine kant walterbenjamin history philosophy literature theology politics politicaltheory augustineofhippo immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:01b57eafc282/ Rorty’s bastard children – The Homebound Symphony 2024-10-11T03:42:12+00:00 https://blog.ayjay.org/rortys-bastard-children/ robertogrecoThe truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and utter nonsense racking up millions of views across the internet. The posts would be laughable if they weren’t taken by many people as gospel. Among them: Infowars’ Alex Jones, who claimed that Hurricanes Milton and Helene were “weather weapons” unleashed on the East Coast by the U.S. government, and “truth seeker” accounts on X that posted photos of condensation trails in the sky to baselessly allege that the government was “spraying Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton” in order to ensure maximum rainfall, “just like they did over Asheville!” The sentence from this paragraph I want to focus on is this: “The posts would be laughable if they weren’t taken by many people as gospel.” I think very few people take such posts as gospel. Or at least not in the sense that Warzel means it. Warzel errs here in assuming that when people in MAGAworld make declarative statements, and endorse or amplify the declarative statements of others, they do so because they believe those statements to be true. They don’t; nor do they believe or know them to be false. In my judgment, truth and falsehood do not at any point enter into the equation — such concepts are non-factors, and it is a category mistake to invoke them. In MAGAworld, declarative statements are not meant to convey information about (as Wittgenstein would put it) what is the case. Instead, declarative statements serve as identity markers — they simultaneously include and exclude, they simultaneously (a) consolidate the solidarity of people who believe they have shared interests and (b) totally freak out the libtards. That’s what they are for. They are not for conveying Facts, Truth, Reality — nobody cares about that shit. (People who call themselves Truth Seekers are being as ironic as it is possible to be.) Such statements demarcate Inside from Outside in a way that delivers plenty of lulz, and that is their entire function. In that sense only they articulate a kind of dark gospel. Thus it is pointless to insist that Democrats have not in fact unleashed weather weapons on Florida and the Carolinas; even more pointless to argue that if Democrats had such weather weapons they would have used them when Donald Trump was President in order to discredit him. Whether it is factually true (whether “it is the case”) that Democrats have and deploy weather weapons could not be more irrelevant; what matters is that this is the kind of thing we say about Democrats — so if you want to be part of this “we,” you’d better say it too. And the account I am articulating here is, at least sometimes, openly acknowledged by the leaders of MAGAworld. When confronted with his long chain of fantastical statements about immigrants in Ohio, J. D. Vance said [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/politics/vance-haitian-immigrants-illegal.html ], “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Because that’s what we do; that’s how we get what we want. The pundits and shitposters and, yes, elected representatives in our government whose real home is MAGAworld are the bastard children of Richard Rorty. When, nearly forty years ago [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n07/richard-rorty/the-contingency-of-language ], Rorty rejected “systematic” philosophy for “edifying” philosophy — that description actually comes from his earlier book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, but the essay linked to expands on that distinction — he rejected philosophy that wants to “correspond to the way things really are” for philosophy that builds “solidarity.” Such a philosophy in action “is changing the way we talk, and thereby changing what we want to do and what we think we are.” Rorty thought that this model of philosophical language would be a way of building a new, more just, more generous society — would help us “achieve our country [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674003125 ].” What he never imagined was a huckster-turned-damagogue who thinks of language — every kind of language, every imaginable use-case — as a way for him to get what he wants and change who he thinks he is, and who by his example teaches tens of millions of Americans to use language for the same purposes. They want to achieve their country too. That is, they have a vision of what their country should be and are employing language to bring about that transformation. What do truth or falsehood have to do with it? Not a damn thing."]]> alanjacobs charliewarzel maga magaworld magaism wittgenstein richardrorty republicans democrats us politics jdvance philosophy falsehood 2024 elections misinformation web internet socialmedia language rhetoric reality society donaldtrump pundits shitposters online solidarity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8af2bd736d24/ The most profound wonder is stirred by what is most ordinary | Psyche Ideas 2024-09-14T20:30:49+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/the-most-profound-wonder-is-stirred-by-what-is-most-ordinary robertogreco wonder mariabalaska 2024 existence presence janpatočka wittgenstein samueltaylorcoleridge socrates everyday wimwenders meaning meaningmaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4906f4c1316f/ How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives? - Freakonomics 2024-05-28T05:43:22+00:00 https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-does-the-lost-world-of-vienna-still-shape-our-lives/ robertogreco vienna history 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regulation me https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:13dbcad545b3/ When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut review – the dark side of science | Fiction | The Guardian 2024-02-02T16:04:07+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/10/when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world-by-benjamin-labatut-review-the-dark-side-of-science robertogreco benjamínlabatut 2020 johnbanville quantummechanics mathematics wittgenstein wernerheisenberg nielsbohr alberteinstein maryshelly alanturing fritzhaber physics hermanngöring blackholes alexandergrothendieck johannjacobdiesbach johannkonraddippel erwinschrödinger erwinschrodinger shinichimochizuki quantumphysics quantumtheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f1c845584cbf/ Take your time: the seven pillars of a Slow Thought manifesto | Aeon Essays 2018-03-12T00:10:03+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/take-your-time-the-seven-pillars-of-a-slow-thought-manifesto robertogreco slow slowthought 2018 life philosophy alainbadiou neilpostman time place conservation preservation guttormfløistad cittaslow carlopetrini cities food history urban urbanism mikhailbakhti walking emmanuellevinas solviturambulando walterbenjamin play playfulness homoludens johanhuizinga milankundera resistance counterculture culture society relaxation leisure artleisure leisurearts psychology eichardrorty wittgenstein socrates nietzsche jacquesderrida vincenzodinicola joelelkes giorgioagamben michelfoucault foucault asjalacis porosity reflection conviction laurencesterne johnmilton edmundhusserl jacqueslacan dispacement deferral delay possibility anti-philosophy gabrielgarcíamárquez gabo lacan agamben https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:30b2936304f5/ Translations by Kathryn Nuernberger | Poetry Foundation 2018-01-01T07:49:21+00:00 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90183/translations-57991d887f7f4 robertogreco vi:datatellign poetry names naming colors words green kathrynnuernberger wittgenstein goethe vangogh andywarhol illusion vision sight seeing pink color eyes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:351678e9f3d1/ Small, Moving, Intelligent Parts – Words in Space 2016-06-29T16:50:10+00:00 http://www.wordsinspace.net/wordpress/2016/06/28/small-moving-intelligent-parts/ robertogreco shannonmattern 2016 information history postits hypercard indexcards cards paperslips 1964 1939 data archives fiches microfiche datamanagement officesupplies ottoneurath patrickgeddes jamerhunt evenote writersduet scrivener notecards obliquestrategycards brianeno peterschmidt marshallmcluhan julesverne milydickinson walterbenjamin wittgenstein claudelévi-strauss rolandbarthes niklasluhmann georgesperec raymondcarver stanleybrouwn marklombardi corneliavismann eames fragments flow streams johnwilkins knoradgessner williamcroswellcharlescoffinjewett vannevarbush timberners-lee remingtonrand melvildewey deweydecimalsystem srg paulotlet henrilafontaine sperrycorporation burroughscorporation technology kardexsystems sperryrand hermanhollerith frederickwinslotaylor worldoftomorrow charleseames ibm orithlpern johnharwood thomasfarrell wallaceharrison gordonbunschaft edwarddurrellstone henrydreyfuss emilpraeger robertmoses janejacobs post-its claudelevi-strauss https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:964fb9e9d043/ Parachutes | Instructions for landing in the 21st century 2016-06-28T18:41:50+00:00 http://parachutes.thealpinereview.com/ robertogreco“‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice . . . ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’” — Lewis Carroll Unlike a book, cards are unbound, unnumbered, and give no indication of any order. Free of the constraints of linearity, cards move in many directions. They rub up against one another and generate unforeseen connections. And as the reader moves through them, they begin to work a simultaneous effect. A pack of cards doesn’t mount an argument or tell a story, but uncovers a terrain.
“The same or almost the same points were always being approached afresh from different directions, and new sketches made . . . if you looked at them you could get a picture of the landscape. Thus this book is really only an album.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our approach, however, is nothing new. Parachutes follows a long tradition of fragmentary thinking, from the heady and enigmatic (McLuhan’s Distant Early Warning and Eno’s Oblique Strategies) to the methodical and encyclopedic (IDEO’s Method Cards and W.I.R.E.’s Mind the Future). Placing ourselves in their midst, Parachutes was born from the need to think in both parts and wholes.
“No one fragment carries the totality of the message, but each text (which is in itself a whole) has a particular urgency, an individual force, a necessity, and yet each text also has a force which comes to it from all the other texts.” — Hélène Cixous
Though diverse in their topics and far-reaching in their speculations, these cards have a definite subject matter. Without speaking too much for the text itself—a sin every introduction is fated to commit—we try to make sense of a world in which hyperconnectivity has flattened space and collapsed time, untethered us from our bodies and fractured our identities; where static objects have given way to fluid experiences and organizations call forth communities of interaction rather than make products for individual consumption. Despite the supremacy of technology—and yet, somehow, because of it—people have never been in a better position to understand what it means to be human. In this tightly knit latticework of activity and feeling and thought, our connection with others can be felt as subtly and yet as directly as if we were swimming in a school of fish. Our study, now as ever, is the human being. Above all, our aim has been to dismantle clichéd forms of thinking—the maps that lead us astray—in order to view the territory with fresh eyes. As we parachute into the reality of the 21st century, we survey the land from a variety of elevations and scales, vistas and vantage points. Only in that way could we observe the land’s depth as well as its extent. Only when we consider both dimensions do essential patterns emerge.
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.” — Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
In the end, however, there can be no grand conclusion. One must always move forward, chart new territories, assimilate new findings. No all-seeing summit could be reached that would not be blind to itself. Alas, and yet thankfully, we are forever amid the trees."]]> classideas books cards publishing linear lewiscarroll wittgenstein obliquestrategies srg methodcards marshalmcluhan fragmentarythinking hyperconnectivity gilleseleuze félixguattari thinking order disorder juxtaposition howwered deleuze&guattari cartography linearity organization hélènecixous hypertext connections media technology business guattari marshallmcluhan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a2cde6d4b4c/ Seeing from Between: Toward a Poetics of Interloping : George Quasha : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2014-04-30T22:24:36+00:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/04/seeing-from-between-toward-a-poetics-of-interloping/ robertogreco georgequasha interloping poetics poetry madelinegins oulipo arakawa autopoesis buckminsterfuller happenstance via:bobbygeorge hellenkeller johncage wittgenstein melopoeia metpoeia liminality logopoeia glossodelia ezrapound synergy tensegrity williamblake susanbee phanopoeia sound soundpoetry marcelduchamp mauriceblanchot paulklee charlesolson axialpriniciple garyhill connections fiction narrative translation alfrednorthwhitehead poems writing liminalspaces liminal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b7355aa812b/ If a cat could talk – David Wood – Aeon 2013-12-29T00:09:12+00:00 http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/can-we-ever-really-know-a-cat/ robertogreco cats humans pets animals 2013 montaigne tseliot wittgenstein gaze michelfoucault relationships nature consciousness independence codependence rudyardkipling domestication davidwood compatibility trickster magic talismans micheldemontaigne jacquesderrida foucault https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fbf23802b3c/ To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees | Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon 2013-11-22T00:25:09+00:00 http://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/to-see-is-to-forget-the-name-of-the-thing-one-sees/ robertogrecoAll acquisition of knowledge is an enlargement of the Self, but this enlargement is best attained when it is not directly sought. It is obtained when the desire for knowledge is alone operative, by a study which does not wish in advance that its objects should have this or that character, but adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects. This enlargement of Self is not obtained when, taking the Self as it is, we try to show that the world is so similar to this Self that knowledge of it is possible without any admission of what seems alien. The desire to prove this is a form of self-assertion and, like all self-assertion, it is an obstacle to the growth of Self which it desires, and of which the Self knows that it is capable. Self-assertion, in philosophic speculation as elsewhere, views the world as a means to its own ends; thus it makes the world of less account than Self, and the Self sets bounds to the greatness of its goods. In contemplation, on the contrary, we start from the not-Self, and through its greatness the boundaries of Self are enlarged; through the infinity of the universe the mind which contemplates it achieves some share in infinity. The obvious extension of this conception of impersonal self-enlargement to an ethics of thought enjoins the self-enlargement of the intellect, the transgression of the limits of the intellect. It is the exercise of imagination that enlarges the intellect, and a great many human failures that we put to failures of understanding and cognition are in fact failures of imagination. The moral obligation of self-enlargement is a duty of intellectual self-transgression. As Nietzsche put it: “A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions!”" [Came here today because https://twitter.com/rogre/status/403632186944790528 + https://twitter.com/rogre/status/403632476154626048 + https://twitter.com/rogre/status/403636512656334848 thus the tagging with Robert Irwin, Lawrence Weschler, and Clarice Lispector]]]> paulvaléry wittgenstein thought language aphorism mind memory senses familiarization robertirwin lawrenceweschler naming categorization predication freud bertrandrussell self philosophy claricelispector knowledge knowledgeacquisition self-enlargement nietzsche brasil brazil literature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6bd3390d40c4/ It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man... - more than 95 theses 2013-07-28T03:16:33+00:00 http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/56567281758/it-is-the-nature-of-an-hypothesis-when-once-a-man robertogreco laurencesterne hypotheses bias confirmationbias wittgenstein https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ed5d471a406f/ Ekstasis: Games We Play 2012-08-21T01:15:11+00:00 http://ekstasis.tumblr.com/post/29857637204/games-we-play-via-kottke-games-are-about robertogreco motivation incentives philosophy gaming srg edg glvo howweplay wittgenstein rules 2012 calvinball nomic play games https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8e514248f914/ 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein 2012-05-11T06:03:45+00:00 http://88constellations.net/ robertogrecowittgenstein constellations astronomy connections via:litherland https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fe0cf274c17/ (SL) DISTIN 15 (This is what happens.) 2012-02-01T20:13:17+00:00 http://sldistin.tumblr.com/post/11011925366/this-is-what-happens robertogreco rabbitholes looking taste feeling artappreciation interestedness interest interests thinking howwelearn evolution understanding appreciation art love 2011 passion obsession wittgenstein change yearning learning noticing seeing saradistin canon interested https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4659d3fd2fa6/ Fiction Writers Review » Magic and Music Steer this Vessel: On Jorge Luis Borges’s This Craft of Verse 2012-01-16T08:57:21+00:00 http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/magic-and-music-steer-this-vessel-jorge-luis-borges%E2%80%99-this-craft-of-verse robertogreco cervantes donquixote bible beowulf wittgenstein 2009 books writing novels johnmadera music odyssey homer poetry classics literature borges theodyssey donquijote https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cf3a3b4f0c3d/ Ring Around a Tree - Architecture - Domus [Looks like something new at Fuji Kindergarten.] 2011-07-13T06:51:49+00:00 http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/ring-around-a-tree robertogreco fujikindergarten schooldesign wittgenstein space tezukaarchitects body architecture design tokyo kindergarten japan schools education takaharutezuka 2007 bodies https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5dbd7450d0c5/ The Mavenist: Cartoons & Forked Reality 2011-06-23T20:16:24+00:00 http://www.themavenist.org/02-cartoons-forkedreality/index.html robertogreco cartoons frankchimero storytelling comics calvinandhobbes wittgenstein theirongiant wileecoyote perception dreams reality borges shakespeare hamlet alexandervolkov wizardofoz michelgondry bekindrewind ghostbusters zacharymason davidlynch upanishads micro-hallucinations inception nestingdolls thesimpsons https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e638dd8a76dc/ Draft of a manifesto written in defense of a group of people that did not ask for my defense, using words they would not use and engaging people they ignore. « Lebenskünstler 2011-05-01T04:25:51+00:00 http://randallszott.org/2010/01/19/draft-of-a-manifesto-written-in-defense-of-a-group-of-people-that-did-not-ask-for-my-defense-using-words-they-would-not-use-and-engaging-people-they-ignore/ robertogreco randallszott doing livign acting cynicism 2010 manifestos art theory practice glvo lcproject tcsnmy intellectualism humanity passion egalitarianism sincerity trust love sentiment worldchanging dreamers academia risk risktaking amateurism unschooling deschooling understanding cv leisure tinkering wittgenstein johndewey philosophy isolation shopclassassoulcraft authenticity rigor Rancière agamben brucewilshire richardshusterman robertsolomon booklist nicolasbourriaud radicalphilosophy antonionegri naïvité everyday amateurs jacquesrancière giorgioagamben https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dd6054b5f17b/ Journal, Day Five — The Square Root of Negative One : Richard Siken : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2011-03-26T22:50:51+00:00 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2006/05/journal-day-five-33/ robertogreco richardsiken math mathematics wittgenstein thinking philosophy language expression communication tractatuslogico-philosophicus imagination literature poetry https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e93d64a4c6a3/ 'Sartre, Wittgenstein and learning from the imagination' (Kathleen Stock) - Academia.edu 2011-03-14T05:00:57+00:00 http://sussex.academia.edu/KathleenStock/Papers/335951/Sartre_Wittgenstein_and_learning_from_the_imagination robertogrecokathleenstock 2007 wittgenstein learning imagination art jean-paulsartre sarte sartre https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e506bcaafbab/ SpringerLink - Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 14, Numbers 2-3 2011-03-14T04:59:49+00:00 http://www.springerlink.com/content/g4m7266436484754/ robertogreco 1989 wittgenstein cjbmacmillan learning philosophy pedagogy language languagegames linguistics theory https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2e18b1b56fd7/ JSTOR: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 173-203 2011-03-14T04:58:07+00:00 http://www.jstor.org/pss/40231861 robertogreco wittgenstein 1994 meredithwilliams philosophy learning https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5a69f8e0861b/ 20th WCP: Wittgenstein's Children: Some Implications for Teaching and Otherness 2011-03-14T04:40:08+00:00 http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducMaru.htm robertogreco wittgenstein language numbers numbersense teaching pedagogy education philosophy logic otherness empathy children tcsnmy lcproject unschooling deschooling yasushimaruyama https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ff75d48748e7/ EPS 408: Wittgenstein and Education 2011-03-14T04:37:17+00:00 http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/syllabi/408-98.html robertogreco wittgenstein pedagogy teaching learning education philosophy https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8506b6c8cbbc/ "From General to Particular: The Game Metaphor in Wittgenstein's Philosophy" Michael Kocsis [.pdf] 2011-03-14T04:02:20+00:00 http://www.meteoritejournal.com/pdfs/3.Game.Metaphor.pdf robertogreco play philosophy wittgenstein metaphor michaelkocsis language aphorisms generality filetype:pdf media:document https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4002fd4687a6/ rmcl 2011-03-14T03:51:30+00:00 http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rmcl/ robertogreco wittgenstein art duckrabbit marcelduchamp rodcorp 1997 lineage mutations josephjastrow humor ducks rabbits https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:45d13d821782/ Long Sunday: Wittgenstein's pictures 2011-03-14T03:45:16+00:00 http://www.long-sunday.net/long_sunday/2005/06/wittgensteins_p.html robertogreco culture philosophy wisdom wittgenstein writing perception visualization metaphor language semiotics prefiguration understanding learning meaning sensemaking cv walterbenjamin makingsense https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:58d9f08adfde/ INTHECONVERSATION: Notes on Social Architectures as Art Forms by Sal Randolph 2011-03-14T03:41:51+00:00 http://intheconversation.blogs.com/art/2003/10/notes_on_social.html robertogreco wittgenstein architecture urban psychogeography design art socialarchitectures salrandolph nicholasbourriaud josephbeuys johncage dadaism fluxus gutai situationist performance performanceart rirkrittiravanija johndewey robertirwin perception consciousness niklasluhmann structure urbanism communication audience observation allankaprow https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b157718a81e0/ Jastrow Duck Rabbit 2011-03-14T03:37:10+00:00 http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/JastrowDuck.htm robertogreco philosophy psychology illustration perception wittgenstein josephjastrow duck-rabbit johnkihlstrom cognition illusions https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7c960c38f8b/ "Wittgenstein Plays Chess with Duchamp or How Not to Do Philosophy: Wittgenstein on Mistakes of Surface and Depth" by Steven B. Gerrard 2011-03-14T02:10:44+00:00 http://www.toutfait.com/issues/volume2/issue_5/articles/gerrard/gerrard.html robertogreco philosophy art games chess marcelduchamp wittgenstein clarity perspicuity sensemaking connections psychoanalysis shocktherapy complexity simplicity philosophicalremarks stevengerrard seeing seeingtheworld perception nonsense sense cv makingsense https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59b4cc932fe5/ On the pleasures of reading Kant. « The Pinocchio Theory 2011-03-14T01:56:44+00:00 http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=478 robertogreco philosophy kant rhetoric stylists writing style wittgenstein nietzsche hume spinoza plato socrates immanuelkant davidhume https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea2688869a25/ International Philosophy Sketch from Monty Python 2011-03-14T01:54:40+00:00 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ebarnes/python/international-philosophy.htm robertogreco humor philosophy football satire film montypython wittgenstein kant nietzsche heidegger hegel leibniz plato socrates aristotle archimedes sophocles ancientgreece soccer sports futbol immanuelkant https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:460988a58342/ Some Dark Thoughts on Happiness -- New York Magazine 2011-03-14T01:49:47+00:00 http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Some+Dark+Thoughts+on+Happiness+--+New+York+Magazine&expire=&urlID=18800333&fb=Y&url=http://www.newyorkmag.com/news/features/17573/&partnerID=73272 robertogreco happiness psychology philosophy culture well-being martinseligman wittgenstein positivepsychology politics 2006 chrispeterson danielgilbert shanelopez babyboomers malcolmgladwell georgewbush pathology talben-sahar lottery wealth despair depression maximizers satisficers optimism pessimism boomers self-help wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95c70ab24086/ SparkNotes: Complete Text of Tractatus Logico-philosophicus 2011-03-14T01:40:13+00:00 http://pd.sparknotes.com/philosophy/tractatus/ robertogrecophilosophy wittgenstein tractatuslogico-philosophicus books ebooks https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb40557f619a/ Issue 58 | Philosophy Now 2011-03-14T01:38:32+00:00 http://www.philosophynow.org/issue58 robertogreco wittgenstein philosophy https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eebe5e3d5b7c/ The philosophical underpinnings of David Foster Wallace's fiction. - By James Ryerson - Slate Magazine 2010-12-23T08:34:49+00:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2278655/pagenum/all/ robertogreco books writing language philosophy davidfosterwallace wittgenstein depression solipsism isolation overstimulation loneliness https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:262cf5eedbd9/ TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge ["Peter Hacker tells James Garvey that neuroscientists are talking nonsense"] 2010-11-03T04:48:41+00:00 http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1583 robertogreco psychology philosophy consciousness cognition brain neuroscience mind nature peterhacker wittgenstein science https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00619688ef41/ A family resemblance of obsessions « Snarkmarket 2010-10-13T02:18:07+00:00 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6351 robertogreco timcarmody language blogs blogging definitions cyborgs regenerations degenerations connections neologisms words time etymology ego cv obsessions obsession snarkmarket robinsloan timmaly family-resemblance meaning conversation gamechanging perspective learning understanding misunderstanding wittgenstein https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8bac898af588/