Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 'Separate in name and power': How America reinvented English 2026-07-04T08:26:33+00:00 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260630-how-america-reinvented-english robertogreco language english us 2026 history words identity culture davidrobson difference vocabulary https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0795397dd4cd/ DEBATE: Who is Responsible for "Woke?" (with Musa al-Gharbi) - YouTube 2026-06-26T05:13:05+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPRkXbpFjs robertogreco musaal-gharbi 2026 briahnajoygray wokeness capitalism identitypolitics wokeism politics discourse donaldtrump maga trumpism dei policy academia highered highereducation meritocracy discrimination professionalmanagerialclass pmc solidarity gender sexuality race symboliccapitalists culture symbolism culturalarbiters rhetoric education catherineliu law professionals creativeclass class colleges universities autonomy prestige employment adjuncts dsa left right conservatism affirmitiveaction diversity equity inclusion inclusivity classwarfare signaling elites elitism society nonprofit nonprofits journalism commongood virtue altruism power taxes taxation egalitarianism sweden nordiccountries us billionaires wealth eliteoverproduction gabrielrockhill identity sharedvalues individualism commonality workingclass workers labor progressive progressivism elections campaigning nikolehannah-jones racism whiteliberals liberalism blackskinwhitemasks frantzfanon behavior zohranmamdani darializaavilachevalier aoc alexandriaoca https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f0f19cd537c8/ Thirty-Two Words for Field – Manchán Magan 2026-05-26T06:46:17+00:00 https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/thirty-two-words-for-field/ robertogreco words language irish folklore proverbs culture memory manchánmagan fields ecology place land https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8c13b0a9bbc3/ list animals until failure 2026-03-05T21:27:16+00:00 https://rose.systems/animalist/ robertogreco games animals multispecies words language wildlife morethanhuman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e3f16fc90336/ Why we should embrace ‘nepantla’ – the in-betweenness of life | Psyche Ideas 2026-02-16T00:29:15+00:00 https://psyche.co/ideas/why-we-should-embrace-nepantla-the-in-betweenness-of-life robertogreco nahuatl words betweenness inbetweenness 2026 carlosalbertosánchez freedom oppression language neutrality indigeneity indigenous inbetween uncommitted dichotomy andrzeesdeolmos spanish español diegodurán obligation identity gloriaanzaldúa borders nepantla temporalities attention action transition movement certainty uncertainty stability life living originality interruption intervention ontology allegiance change between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:432a62cc9397/ Owning Our Words: Sounding the Depths of Language 2026-02-08T05:50:39+00:00 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/owning-our-words-sounding-the-depths robertogrecolmsacasas language 2026 wendellberry irismurdoch words llms ai artificialintelligence leifweatherby humanism culture marilynchandlermcintyre jrrtolkien care caring sovereignty good goodness metaphor responsibility objectivity hannaharendt josefpieper georgesteiner languages rowanwilliams charlespearce walkerpercy graceolmstead tanyaberry tseliot tessacarman chatbots reading howweread writing howwewrite meaning meaningmaking accountability judgement trust publictrust syntax banalityofevil power plato corruption reality communication politics degradation freedom elaboration articulation bafflement speaking howwespeak mindchanging stanleyhauerwas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb1ccce492f7/ Is the Dictionary Done For? | The New Yorker 2025-12-31T21:08:12+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/unabridged-the-thrill-of-and-threat-to-the-modern-dictionary-stefan-fatsis-book-review robertogreco dictionaries internet web online linguistics evolution language 2025 merriam-webster history stefanfatsis louismenand words english oed whauden oxfordenglishdictionary etymology howweread reading howwewrite writing samueljohnson noahwebster johnmcwhorter standards standardization davidfosterwallace philipgove jacquesbarzun vocabulary us uk gabyrasson neologisms texting messaging microsoftword dialect change meaning meaningmaking definitions urbandictionary howwespeak speech americanheritage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0914d3ad119f/ Colors and Numbers 2025-10-27T20:39:50+00:00 https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/untitled-2/ robertogrecoeryksalvaggio 2025 synesthesia ai artificialintelligence leifweatherby alexgalloway openai llms chatgpt language words numbers howwethink thinking math mathematics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b0de405d746/ We Can't Escape Religion | Plastic Pills - YouTube 2025-09-16T20:31:37+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fwf_s_bigc robertogrecoreligion plasticpills society civilization christianity atheism god jesus jesuschrist christ conservatism metaphor atheists cleanliness sexuality respect behavior consciousness unconscious 2025 islam submission interactions history families jdvance catholicism theology ideology language words rituals ritual washing cleaning safety code actions goldenrule morality sociology maxweber émiledurkheim https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9733f2570623/ High Resolutions: Catalina Mejía Moreno and Antonio Bermudéz Obregón on reclaiming language – KoozArch 2025-09-15T01:33:13+00:00 https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/high-resolutions-catalina-meja-moreno-and-antonio-bermudz-obregn-on-reclaiming-language robertogreco language maps mapping antioniobermudéz-obregón catalinamejíamoreno federicazambaletti koozarch colombia indigeneity indigenous place method vocabulary words reading howweread knowledge territory decolonization colonialism colonization legibility illegibility plants text texts bogas history landscape understanding glossaries collectivity collectivism generative friction action bodies cosmovision latinamerica dominance domination surveillance resolution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:96303622b10c/ The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing | Grist 2025-09-13T23:45:08+00:00 https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/ robertogreco nature language words vocabulary 2025 kateyoder environment climate climatechange globalwarming english milesrichardson margaretatwood robertmichaelpyle pelinkesebir society us robertopoole uk canada trees forests europe industrialization robertmacfarlane jackiemorris hongkong https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:38d52f07f27d/ 'There Were No Models': Growing Up in the 70s With an Out Gay Dad - The Atlantic 2025-09-09T03:45:33+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/there-were-no-models-growing-up-in-the-70s-with-an-out-gay-dad/276490/ robertogreco hopereese alysiaabbott parenting steveabbott 2013 1970s 1980s sanfrancisco children parents authorship language writing howwewrite words understanding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d888be513cef/ The Word "Terrorist" Becomes More And More Of A Joke By The Day 2025-09-09T03:08:49+00:00 https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-word-terrorist-becomes-more-and robertogreco caitlinjohnstone 2025 terrorism donaldtrump palestineaction palestine gaza genocide ethniccleansing protest zionistmccarthyism protests uk us venezuela israel uyghurs beijing china damascus syria julanassange wikileaks joebiden words language rightwing farright imperialism empire propaganda resistance 9/11 globalwaronterror west warcrimes al-qaeda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3d97f5265cc/ Ways of looking at a writing notebook. — alina Ştefănescu 2025-07-13T20:42:08+00:00 https://www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2022/1/3/ways-of-looking-at-a-writing-notebook robertogreco"The earth appears as itself only when it is perceived and preserved as that which is by its nature undisclosable, that which shrinks from every disclosure and constantly keeps itself closed up." - Martin Heidegger My notebooks contain snippets of conversations, letters, articles, essays, and text related to the relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The part of me that loves Arendt as a thinker wants to challenge Heidegger, to demand more from a man who hurt so many—and so casually. Where he wants to sacralize the unsayable, I want to write against the silence, against the grain of mercy. I can be my worst and most relentless self in the notebooks; no one will see. The notebook is a garden for beloved words, an arsenal for poems to come. Surely CD Wright cribbed a bit from her notebooks to provide this fantastic essay on words and language in poetry:
"I like nouns that go up: loft. And ones that sink: mud. I like the ones that peck: chicken. And canter: canter; those that comfort: flannel and pelt. Cell is an excellent word, in that it sweetly fulfills its assigned sound in a small, thin container. Unlike hell, which is disappointing. Overall. Wanting in force and fury. I like that a lone syllable names a necessary thing: bridge, house, door, food, bed. And the ones that sustain us: dirt, milk, and so on. What a thing, that a syllable—birth, time, space, death—points to the major mysteries with such simplicity, as with a silent finger. And to our very vital parts: head, snout, heart, butt. And our fundamental feeling, fear."
What excellent words get overlooked? What do you love about them? The notebook offers an opportunity to celebrate the words themselves, and how they move—or how they move you—what they want from the line. It is not enough to love a word for its connotations. The poet must palpate the roots. Include etymological notes. Study how a word changes over time. The notebook is a small hole at the base of a tree where a child hides the miracles adults won’t believe.
The structure of the miracle has a similar form: out of another time, from a time that is alien, arises a ‘god’ who has the characteristics of memory, that silent encyclopedia of singular acts, and who, in religious stories, represents with such fidelity the ‘popular’ memory of those who have no place but who have time—‘Patience!’… But all these variants could very well be no more than the shadows—enlarged into symbolic and narrative projections—thrown by the journalistic practice that consists in seizing the opportunity and making memory the means of transforming places. … In short, what constitutes the implantation of memory in a place that already forms an ensemble? That implantation is the moment which calls for a tightrope-walker’s talent and a sense of tactics; it is the instant of art. Now it is clear that this implantation is neither localized nor determined by memory-knowledge. The occasion is taken advantage of, not created. … Like those birds they lay in other species’ nests, memory produces in a place that does not belong to it. … Memory derives its interventionary force from its very capacity to be altered—unmoored, mobile, lacing any fixed position…' - Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
The notebook is a staging ground for the poetry collection. A quote followed by a reaction and reconfiguration of that quote. I think of Sandra Doller's Memory of the Prose Machine (Dusie Press), and how she uses the Certeau quote at the beginning. How she does this thing with budding phrases that she drops and brings back as refrains. How she builds a sort mini-memoir about family life during the Reagan years (and the demonization of Amy Carter) by jumping around but not saying it explicitly. So it feels muffled, silenced, embued with a casual suburban dread. Unspoken yet said—an undercurrent. The notebook is a vehicle that enables the mind to re-member. To remember. Or, as William Maxwell wrote in a letter to a friend a few years before he died:
“Don’t—or at least I don’t think it is reasonable to—feel sad about the transitoriness of things. What you have had you will always have if you are a rememberer.”
Don't forget: the hummingbird's feathers iridesce because each one contains tiny air bubbles that bounce light differently, at different angles. This may matter. The notebook is a fragmented essay waiting to be shaped. Brandon Shimoda wrote an essay on poetics as a journal composed from letters to and from friends during a period of time. Called it "fragments from a relationship" rooted in Maine, but also a relationship to the poet self, the voice, the writing:
"Everything is not a poem. How could there be any solidification? My recent feeling is that poetry is nothing more (or less) than the attempt to make a thing called a "poem," which means that nothing is actually a poem, and everything is not. Nothing short of our last day on earth, the one we will not remember, for having quit life on its heels. And so it is, simply, life, another way to spend it. Consolation is often confused for salvation. But poetry?"
Notebooks allow us to date, or to situate thoughts in time, to watch how a footprint melts in the snow and becomes something else. The notebook is a monastery for the preservation of arcana. Francis Ponge said: "Another way to approach a thing is to consider it unnamed, as well as unnameable." Ponge's essay, "The Pebble," takes a mystical approach to a physical object by probing its myths, origins, and powers. The notebook is filled with pebbles and opportunities. The notebook is a series of musings on craft, the surprising scaffold for a craft essay. I’m thinking of Dan Beachy-Quick's "January Notebook", which mixes observations on the season with thoughts on poetry. I’m thinking of this:
Why do I keep reminding myself that Homer wasted away to his death, refusing to eat or drink, because he could not understand what the young boys fishing meant when they said, What we caught we left behind, and what we missed we bring home. Homer being that poet who is some figure of us all, that poet who went blind because he refused to alter what he wrote about Helen when Helen’s spirit demanded he retract. He could not see through the riddle, and so he died. The boys were speaking about lice.
The notebook is a space for self-reflection—for seeing our expectations starkly. To write is to make it real. Or to value something enough to create it. To stare at it later. To transcribe the way the world washes over us. To unobserve the self. In her essay, “The Discipline of the Notebook,” novelist Bonnie Friedman says the days she doesn't write return her to "the incomprehensible-feeling person" she was when demanding excessive things from her mother, trapped in the image of those "excessive, inalienable needs.” Friedman says we have to: “attract our materials before we can see what they promise...The vessel precedes significance. In a way, it is the signficande: the commitment to register life. And beyond that—the conviction that perception itself salvages, saves.” The notebook is a home for abandoned, overlooked images. "A writer's notebook becomes a record, or the objectification of a mind," said Lydia Davis in her essay, “Revising One Sentence." Davis keeps her notebook near her writing to catch images that appear in the wrong story. She doesn't adopt out those orphans by wedging them in but offers them to the notebook. Then her mind is free from worrying about the orphan image. It is safe to go back into writing. The notebook protects others from the least humane parts of me. Sometimes notebooks protect others from me. Bonnie Friedman remembers being seven and the "sadness, shame, and need—a stuck-together heap, something untranslatable, craving expression but defying it." She claims to revert to this "untranslatable girl again" when she doesn't notebook.
I am a neighbor to myself, tapping behind the wall, shifting, trying not to panic. Without the notebook, who knows what anything means?
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All religious praxis is an exercise of attention…. repetitions make the attention stabilize and deepen. Repetition is the essential feature of rituals. Rituals are another thing I am persistently curious about, particularly in the ways that ritual exists outside of religious contexts — in the mundane, the ritual of a morning routine, or tending to a plant, or gathering to share a meal. So I am partial to this framing of ritual as repeated attention. There is a particular tenderness in that, in that devotion to ritual. As the poet Mary Oliver writes, [image: [“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”]] Devotion, in the form of love, is another thread in the channel that stitches together attention and tenderness. To love is to see, to pay tender attention to. As Octavio Paz puts it, “the heart is an eye.” Or as Virginia Woolf wrote in a letter to a friend, “I love you, and I am conscious of you all the time.” There is an essay by Ella Risbridger about kitchens as a place of intimacy. In it, she also writes about the tender, loving attention of knowing how someone takes their tea or coffee. She calls this “a small and delightful privilege because it’s a fact of too little consequence to be ferreted out except with small repeated acts of care.” In the arena channel, there is a screenshot of some tumblr post, that ponders another one of these small acts of care: when you have prepared a fruit for yourself to eat, but then, joined by someone you love, you offer them every other piece of fruit, without them asking. I love the parallels between the image of stretching out this fruit offering and the “stretch” in the etymological origins of attention and tenderness. To love is to offer attention and tenderness in outstretched hand. [image: "Block via Aura Library [Black text on white background: "...to eat a fruit is to know its meaning.""] Another aspect of attention and tenderness I have been thinking through, by way of this arena channel, is how to bring more tenderness and attention to particular practices. The practice of reading or research or study, for example. In one of the documents linked to the channel, “An Invitation to Radical Tenderness” by Dani d’Emilia and Vanessa Andreotti, there is a line that reads,
It is sense-full, to allow our state of wondering to stay open, without always trapping it into meaning.
Another block in the channel, is an image of an open book, with every inch of the pages, including the margins, entirely highlighted in bright neon yellow. At the bottom of the image, sit the words “everything is important.” I love the ways both of these oppose academic norms of succinctness and prioritisation and ideas around what information is important or worth paying attention to. [image: "Block via dani bloop. [The entirely-highlighted page described above.]"] If everything is important, if we allow wonder to guide us without trapping it into meaning, our attention, our noticing, becomes expansive. One of the essays linked within the channel is “Notes on Notes” by Mary Cappello. In it she writes about note-taking as an act of noticing and this particular noticing as something which has to do with missing— “missing what we’d been told to pay attention to.” I am curious about this as an approach to writing, the idea of intentionally missing what we’ve been told to pay attention to and instead stretching towards the What Else. In an essay on writing by Abigail DeWitt, she urges,
In the midst of a flood, consider the colour of the water.
I have been thinking about why this particular relationship between tenderness and attention is one that I return to so often. Perhaps it is because I am a poet. In one of the blocks in this channel, an excerpt from one of John Berger’s books positions poetry as the process through which attention is made tender. “Poetry makes language care because it renders everything intimate. This intimacy is the result of the poem's labor, the result of the bringing-together-into-intimacy of every act and noun and event and perspective to which the poem refers.” Mary Oliver’s work, and her poetry specifically, is rooted in such tender attention to the world. In her poem, “Yes! No!” she writes: “To pay attention / this is our endless and proper work.” In this world, in this time, attention so often feels commodified, and tenderness can seem scarce or futile. To stretch persistently towards careful attention and stubborn tenderness can be laborious but it is also necessary work. In her book, Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe writes, “Care is complicated, gendered, misused. It is often mobilized to enact violence, not assuage it, yet I cannot surrender it.” And later, in the same book, she asks, “What is required of us, now? In this long time of our undoing?” Her answer? “to notice or observe with care.” [collection embedded: https://www.are.na/sharon-neema/ad-tendere ] Sharon Neema (she/they) is a visual artist & poet based in Nairobi, Kenya. They are endlessly curious about process, embodiment, inner landscapes and community."]]> attention tenderness listening sharonneema are.na 2024 noticing observation christinasharpe johnberger poetry maryoliver marycappello anigaildewitt danibloop vanessandreotti importance ellarisbridger virginiawoolf ritual byung-chulhan religion spirituality rituals spanish french español german language kinship curiosity form translation etymology fruit meaning meaningmaking senses allthesenses perception words languages care caring https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7a796def414/ Bildung - Wikipedia 2024-05-28T06:04:23+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung robertogreco bildung wilhelmvonhumboldt german words education learning howwelearn enlightenment culture hegel philosophy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c17c7361453/ 🟧 Cool-tacky - One Thing 2024-05-16T19:23:28+00:00 https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/spains-word-for-cool-tackiness robertogreco spain españa español spanish words cutre 2025 kylechayka 2024 italy france italia japan sprezzatura messiness iki carefree china suibian slapdash aesthetics madrif lavapiés authenticity lowkey https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc46eb7ea23d/ Episodio 1 - ¿Por qué hablamos así? | Por qué somos así Podcast - YouTube 2024-05-11T22:06:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs46PdJdtDY robertogreco colombia accents spanish español porquésomosasí 2024 via:javierarbona language languages dialects linguistics spain españa andalucía caribbean indigenous indigeneity arabic islascanarias canaryislands lascanarias slavery africa migration paisas paisa antioquia bogotá cartagena ladino words reguetón reggaeton reggaetón medellín medellin jerga slang parlache narcos andalusia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e3e3b75a293b/ Otherwords - YouTube 2024-05-10T20:40:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_lsQEz7yLOq07hUI2PPtLZ5N4JQWubcz robertogreco language ericabrozovsky otherwords 2021 2022 2023 2024 linguistics words pronunciation english identity culture society biology history literature sociolinguistics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bbbe04668019/ Oblate - Wikipedia 2024-05-09T22:26:58+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblate robertogreco words catholicism christianity religion saintbenedict monasticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f2c9c04a3792/ Babel | Issue 40 | n+1 | Meghan O’Gieblyn 2024-03-01T19:10:10+00:00 https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/essays/babel-4/ robertogreco meghano'gieblyn 2021 chatgpt ai artificialintelligence eliza consciousness unconscious freud openai microsoft writing howwewrite machinelearning machines technology language words meaning meaningmaking soul criticaltheory data jung elonmusk mattwebb katherineconley michaelwood janetmurray douglashofstadter rdrosen tomsimonite rolandbarthes grimes jacquesderrida carljung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:876579f366d8/ Words we've ruined. - YouTube 2024-02-12T01:46:58+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbCY51iz1k robertogreco english words language change etymology 2024 comprehension clarity petersokolowski robwords misuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:75c233954d13/ Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “Decolonization Is Not a Discourse, It Is a Material Process” - Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani on Anti-Zionism as Decolonization 2024-02-08T15:53:21+00:00 https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/decolonization-is-not-a-discourse-it-is-a-material-process-leila-shomali-and-lara-kilani-on-anti-zionism-as-decolonization robertogreco palestine israel antizionism 2024 larakilani zionism decolonization colonialism charitableindustrialcomplex nonprofits ngos nonprofit funding philanthropicindustrialcomplex philanthropy charity charities goodshepherdcollective osloaccords palestinianauthority humanrights identity erasure settlercolonialism colonization berniesanders stevensalaita indigenous indigeneity leilashomali imperialism capitalism identitypolitics combaheerivercollective liberalism humanitarianism humanitarianlaw solidarity complicity antiimperialism barbarasmith identitarianism identitarians joebiden politics policy elections democrats us neoliberalism antisemitism elitecapture olúfẹ́mitáíwò rhetoric language words meaning jewishvoiceforpeace ifnotnow canon organization organizing activism liberation pragmatism resistance internationallaw framing apartheid land landback onestatesolution twostatesolution millennialsarekillingcapitalism anti-imperialism antiiimperialism makc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4d5168a95a37/ vocab lesson - by Sara Hendren - undefended / undefeated 2023-12-29T07:09:48+00:00 https://sarahendren.substack.com/p/vocab-lesson robertogreco sarahendren 2023 teaching howweteach language words design fionaraby anthonydunne speculativeeverything speculativefiction speculativedesign art education howwethink eenmaal disabilities disability accessibility verticalharvest hearth conflictkitchen pittsburgh wyoming diy approachability indeterminacy jacksonhole agriculture hydroponics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da3f64b48daa/ André 3000's first album in 17 years, 'New Blue Sun,' is out now : NPR 2023-11-17T16:31:56+00:00 https://www.npr.org/2023/11/14/1212661071/andre-3000-album robertogreco andré3000 rodneycarmichael music jazz flute saxophone noticing walking creativity self-knowledge age aging losangeles venice titles language pharohsanders tylerthecreator frankocean emotions feelings senses sensemaking instrumental timelessness hiphop rap life living anxiety socialanxiety mentalhealth enviroment 2023 howweread howwewrite outkast kassiameador alicecoltrane suryabotofasina natemercerea yuseflateef ericdolphy chuckmangione ayahuasca purging toning sound sounds attention boogeymen boogeyman diagnoses presence carlosniño erewhon cluberewhon natemercereau alt-jazz dungeonfamily goodiemob organizednoize bigboi names naming ralphlauren polo fashion process art craft grief death fame control exploration exploring responsibility funerals neworleans balance scale showingup artmaking making fulfillment kellyreichardt ceramics howwelearn curiosity expression andrébenjamin everythingeverywhereallatonce virgilabloh words disciplines multidisciplinary transdisciplinary influence experience nola maki https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da1f5bb415b9/ Ghosts in Sunlight | Hilton Als | The New York Review of Books 2023-09-03T19:35:00+00:00 https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/07/10/ghosts-in-sunlight/ robertogreco hiltonals 2014 memory art artists trumancapote elainpagels kennethsilver writing writers howwewrite jeanrhys columbia education barnardcolflege nyc creativity poverty howwelearn film filmmaking artmaking borispasternak suzan-loriparks williamfaulkner claudelanzmann billieholiday nostaligia annaakhmatova poetry literature basquiat elizabethlecompte andreiserban stevebuscemi annakohler bettegordon jimjarmusch charlesburnett margojefferson susanminot richardhoward elizabethhardwick andywarhol truth jean-michelbasquiat 1980s humility creation howwethink thinking learning highereducation access highered academia remembering experience arthistory culture culturalproduction aesthetics words language canon stories storytelling bodies accuracy making https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:73be5fcc4d8c/ Colores de una infancia migrante: Francisca Yáñez - YouTube 2023-06-30T04:54:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUT1hVCfcvE robertogreco franciscoyañez 2023 books language chile illustration words distance exile travel refugees creativity conviviality saudade migration immigration immigrants absence bilingualism howwethink howwerite storytelling translation art stories drawing text howweread howwewrite spanish portuguese español https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:64fa91a38625/ thalassophile - Wiktionary 2023-06-23T22:49:40+00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thalassophile robertogreco cv oceans sea water words thalassophile srg https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d5bb4489eb86/ Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida 2023-06-17T14:47:41+00:00 https://theconversation.com/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida-205620 robertogrecolanguage english spanish español florida southflorida miami cuba 2023 dialects sociolinguistics linguistics history vocabulary words phillipcarter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1dbc60b32318/ Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland - Factually! - 214 - YouTube 2023-06-14T15:24:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3zfMUBTDl0 robertogreco valeriefridland adamconover 2023 language english rules linguistics sociolinguistics influence gatekeeping evolution change howwespeak marginalization race racism society icelandic german malleability class standards standardization prescriptivism power access howwewrite writing communication tradition moralism morality judgement grammar vocabulary pronunciation wordchoice history noamchomsky wordorder structure brain humans functionalism rhetoric conversation dialog discourse slang creativity location innovation experimentation words ethnicity subcultures dragculture nonconformity speech toughness rebellion aave vernacular solidarity companionship familiarity informal community informality easy comfort counterculture edginess outsiders appropriation vikings norse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70ea7b440072/ gadgetbahn - Wiktionary 2023-01-10T15:31:05+00:00 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gadgetbahn robertogreco words transit gadgetbahn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:09c376639c6a/ Merodeo, merodear, merodeando - merodeo 2022-09-19T01:25:31+00:00 https://merodeo.blot.im/merodeo-merodear-merodeando robertogrecomerodeo 2022 javierarbona spanish english language words history pirates plunder piracy outsiders https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:604d687208b6/ Cronopio - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre 2022-09-10T17:50:55+00:00 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronopio robertogreco cronopios juliocortázar cristinaperrirossi words language cv literature idealism naivite naivité rigidity unschooling creativity optimism hope hopefulness paulblackburn spanish neologisms español louisarmstrong igorstravinsky margins litoralzone deschooling personalities taxonomy humans https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c242e86daf9a/ O Caminho do Sertão: pelas veredas de Guimarães Rosa | by Roteiros Literarios | roteirosliterarios | Medium 2022-09-09T18:35:08+00:00 https://medium.com/roteirosliterarios/o-caminho-do-sert%C3%A3o-pelas-veredas-de-guimar%C3%A3es-rosa-3b85646a1d8f robertogrecoEu diria que o nome do Rosa está no centro de tudo, ao menos que de forma simbólica, então sinto que as pessoas (as que não conhecem a região, claro, que é a esmagadora maioria) vão com esse imaginário do Rosa. Então, a partir dessa imagem da literatura vai saindo um leque de assuntos que se cruzam ou circulam essa ideia central: as questões ambientais (preservação ambiental, direito à terra, direito à água, retorno ao campo, agricultura familiar, orgânicos, pancs), artísticas (literatura, cinema, fotografia, teatro, enfim, gente procurando reverberações desse sertão do Rosa) e em algum ponto espirituais (não tenho uma palavra melhor, mas diante de toda a vertigem causada pela obra e pelo imaginário de sertão tem uma onda, uma magia, um mistério no ambiente, né)”. “Em comum, são todas pessoas que em algum momento se encontram numa certa falta de lugar no mundo, questionando educação formal, mercado de trabalho e seus derivados, afinal é gente a fim de tirar 10 dias da vida para andar pelo sertão, já tem um recorte de intenção aí, então acho que a proposta junta uma galera que tem essa abertura do encontro espontâneo”. [image] Ele continua: “Eu diria que, como fala o projeto, é um encontro sócioecoliterário. Tem a literatura — muito, não dá para não ter -, mas não é um encontro literário”.
Como me ensina um amigo de Caminho do Sertão, o Gabão, eu acho que é a literatura enquanto mediação. No limite, essas pessoas não se reuniriam para andar até um buriti ou uma vereda no noroeste de Minas. Então a literatura taí, a arte nos movimentos, mediando essa nossa conversa, por exemplo”.
“Agora, existe todo um cenário político local de militância social e cultural que acabam também sendo apresentados. A folia de reis, por exemplo, é uma grande influência e eixo do debate — o caminho poderia ser visto como festa popular, também. Não é uma roda de conversa nem um grupo de leitura ou vivência do Rosa, é também esse encontro com esse lugar que é o sertão mineiro”. [image] Eu, que sou grande fã do livro e do Rosa, não poderia terminar a conversa sem a pergunta do milhão pro Paulo, né. E aí, essa tal de Nonada, como fica nisso tudo? Passou a ter outro significado depois dessa travessia? “Não sou especialista, nem grande leitor do Rosa, muito menos estudo o assunto para valer, mas diria que o que faz da literatura dele uma coisa única são exatamente essas tensões em que ele consegue ser ao mesmo tempo simples e enigmático. É o nonada e o infinito. O grande livro brasileiro e um dos que mais carregam o peso do ‘difícil’ é definido por seu autor como um ‘monólogo dum jagunço’. Aí que está, o nível de complexidade da narrativa refletindo na simplicidade de você ouvir um homem do campo contando uma história. “Então acho que sim, a caminhada me ajudou a pensar em outras coisas a respeito dessa desimportância. E o grande efeito de estar lá vale, primeiro, por ser um escritor onde o espaço é muito importante, as pessoas estudam a terra do Rosa, ele forjou um lugar e há uma série de pequenos lugares em Minas Gerais com suas narrativas de pertencimento sobre o tema (lembrei de um debate entre o José Miguel Wisnik e Dieter Heidemann porque disseram que tanto Rosa quanto Drummond revelaram que o primeiro estalo literário que tiveram foi numa aula de geografia, e o Rosa, um tarado por mapas e referências especiais, vai lá e faz esse livro labiríntico); segundo, é conhecer esse lugar que não só foi forjado pelo Rosa como também vive sob mediação do Rosa sem necessariamente ter lido a obra! Essa é uma pira, porque é uma região em que o Rosa está vivo, dando nome para a estrada, para o encontro dos povos, reunindo caminhantes, enfim, ele é um agente social e cultural do lugar; mas claro que não é um livro fácil para todo mundo sair lendo”. [image] No meio dessas ideias todas, também vale pensar na função intrínseca de um roteiro literário como esses. Acho que a grande experiência é sacar a literatura como mediadora e, mais, agente de um lugar. É criar relações que se dão em torno disso. Se na vida criamos vínculos majoritariamente por influência geográfica, familiar, de trabalho ou de ambiente escolar, aqui o vínculo entre os caminhantes vai se dar pela literatura. Acho que isso é a coisa mais impressionante que me rendeu vivenciar literatura na pele, exatamente o fato de poder ver o mundo e estabelecer relações a partir daí. E, por fim, ter mesmo que de forma efêmera e talvez micro a literatura enquanto protagonista, a arte como fim de estar vivo, definitivamente”. QUEM FAZ O CAMINHO O Caminho do Sertão é realizado pela Agência de Desenvolvimento Integrado e Sustentável do Vale do Rio Urucuia com apoio da Secretaria de Estado de Cultura de Minas Gerais, em parceria com o Instituto Cultural e Ambiental Rosa e Sertão, o Centro de Referência em Tecnologias Sociais do Sertão (Cresertão), a Cooperativa de Agricultura Familiar Sustentável com base na Economia Solidária (Copabase), a Central Veredas e a equipe ECOS do Caminho do Sertão. A organização da caminhada contou que o projeto nasceu ao longo do ano de 2013 (a primeira turma saiu em 2014) e a ideia foi anunciada oficialmente dentro da programação do Festival Sagarana, um festival de arte e cultura sertanejas produzido na Vila de Sagarana — Arinos/MG). Sua organização foi pensada e gerida por entidades que trabalham o desenvolvimento social e a agricultura familiar na região noroeste do Estado. COMO FUNCIONA Todo ano, o Caminho divulga o edital no site [https://pt-br.facebook.com/caminhodosertao ], uns dois meses antes da data de saída. Em 2016, foram aprovados 70 caminhantes. Além de preencher a ficha de inscrição, os candidatos precisam enviar uma justificativa, contando porque querem fazer a caminhada e qual seu envolvimento com aquilo. Durante a organização da terceira edição d’Caminho cerca de 10 pessoas se envolveram na coordenação, mas a produção geral, juntamente com parceiros de diversas regiões do país, e claro da região, somaram mais de 30 pessoas responsáveis pela execução do projeto. Muitos destes parceiros se envolvem no mundo literário como curiosos, outros amantes, e boa parte de pessoas que de fato, vivem à dinâmica do sertão, literatura vívida. Na coordenação geral, efetivamente todos mantém uma aproximação com a literatura roseana. PARA LER · Grande Sertão: Veredas, de João Guimarães Rosa (Editora Nova Fronteira) · Sagarana, de João Guimarães Rosa (Editora Nova Fronteira)"]]> 2019 mariafernandamoraes grandesertão guimarãesrosa joãoguimarãesrosa grandesertãoveredas brazil brasil literature portugués portuguese words nonada walking canon cv informallearning learning howwelearn place sertão howweread howwewrite writing reading education events convivality summercamp openstudioproject lcproject campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers 2013 pilgrimage immersion experience reality geography minasgerais camping paulosilvajr amateurs alternative altgdp culture relationships belonging sagarana maps mapping landrights waterrights rights environment sustainability environmentalism spirituality amateurism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:533523352ab8/ Typographics 2017: Uncharacteristic Characters with Jonathan Hoefler - YouTube 2022-08-25T14:37:19+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqtEJ9U-e8 robertogrecojonathanhoefler 2017 typography design fonts graphicdesign maps mapping dictionaries ui typefaces lexicography words meaning meaningmaking lettering lamguage communication charlesschultz peanuts snoopy charliebrown edwardgorey text howwewrite italics blackletter script calligraphy sketching context style comics writing dialog conversation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8acf181b7886/ Linguists Explain Slang Trends Through History | WIRED - YouTube 2022-07-12T19:05:10+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANc9F0p3mkw robertogreco english language slang words history 2022 nicoleholliday benzimmer etymology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b605094043b/ Tony Soprano Explains What a "Medigan" is - YouTube 2022-06-13T21:22:25+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l34UtmoTRrM robertogrecosopranos language words whiteness assimilation thesopranos https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a417e2720543/ The Beautiful American Word, Sure - The Best American Poetry 2022-04-05T06:33:39+00:00 https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/01/the-beautiful-american-word-sure.html robertogrecolanguage words english poems poetry delmoreschwartz howwewrite sure 2013 donshare classideas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9fcac62f787a/ The Beautiful American Word, Sure - The Beautiful American Word, Sure Poem by Delmore Schwartz 2022-04-05T06:32:28+00:00 https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-beautiful-american-word-sure/ robertogreco delmoreschwartz words sure poetry language us english poems classideas https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63e8ee1d4f87/ Roberto Greco on Twitter: "Adding “Schlurf” to bio 2022-04-05T05:53:37+00:00 https://twitter.com/rogre/status/1359999204119048193 robertogreco@ztsamudzi No worries, we are fans of them and similar social movements at the same time in various places, like the Pachuces in the US. We talk about the Schlurfs in that podcast episode, there is a written intro here: https://libcom.org/history/schlurfs-%E2%80%93-youth-against-nazism Adding “asocial” and “work-shy” to bio + https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1359892853334421505
Here’s a link to my Google drive. Paper’s called “Marginal justice: The persecution of so-called ‘asocials’ and the politics of historic justice in the Federal Republic of Germany” (2018) by Kathrin Braun https://drive.google.com/file/d/106k5icNC1TzcM0VQMcQEpxcR2W-oN2p_/view?usp=sharing
adding “slacker” to bio + https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1359901186929926145
@atsamudzi This same thing happened in Austria. Members of working class anti-Nazi youth movements like the Edelweiss Pirates in Germany and the Schlurfs in Austria both got caught up in this, and "Schlurf" continued to be used as a slur for "slacker" after WWII. https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/04/04/wch4-anti-nazi-youth-movements-in-world-war-ii/
probably also for bio (imagining similar roots for these words): ne'er-do-well layabout vagabond bum vagrant nogoodnik tramp loafer wastrel idler goldbrick shirker also for bio: dilettante https://twitter.com/snackowska/status/1452072505708060674
having discovered the word "dilettante" comes from the italian word for "delight" i have decided i would much rather be a dilettante. etymonline tells me that the pejorative sense of the word only "emerged late 18c. by contrast with /professional/" and amateur https://twitter.com/Swainzug/status/1452073006017261577
also: amateur "late 18th century: from French, from Italian amatore, from Latin amator ‘lover’, from amare ‘to love’.""]]> schlurf slackers workshy asocials pachuces idleness shirkers vagabonds loafers layabouts ne'er-do-wells bums vagrants nogoodniks tramps wastrels idlers goldbricks schlurfs work-shy words language labor work workavoidance resistance rebellion tangping slow small idling authority history behavior insults german germany italian italia italy austria dilettantes delight amateurs amateurism life living dilettante https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:10322404bb9f/ Tang ping - Wikipedia 2022-04-05T05:48:49+00:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping robertogreco tangping china lyingflat materialism slow small psychology mentalhealth work labor capitalism latecapitalism counterculture resistance ratrace life living schlurf slackers workshy asocials pachuces idleness shirkers vagabonds loafers layabouts ne'er-do-wells bums vagrants nogoodniks tramps wastrels idlers goldbricks schlurfs work-shy words language workavoidance rebellion authority latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9bfb86e0f469/ These Chinese Millennials Are ‘Chilling,’ and Beijing Isn’t Happy - The New York Times 2022-04-05T05:48:36+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/03/world/asia/china-slackers-tangping.html robertogreco 2021 tangping china work class inequality lyingflat resistance workresistance slow small ratrace life living mentalhealth psychology wellbeing caapitalism latecapitalism counterculture materialism labor capitalism schlurf slackers workshy asocials pachuces idleness shirkers vagabonds loafers layabouts ne'er-do-wells bums vagrants nogoodniks tramps wastrels idlers goldbricks schlurfs work-shy words language workavoidance rebellion authority well-being latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b79a218e7fb/ A heartfelt farewell from Dieter Bohn - The Verge 2022-03-04T20:46:32+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960011/farewell-from-dieter-bohn robertogreco dieterbohn computers computing howwewrite language writing online web identity words 2022 semiotics shipoftheseus objects philosophy meaning abstraction communication socialmedia handles usernames names naming meaningmaking theseus https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1c857a93052/ HODINKEE asks, are hard to pronounce brand names tough on sales? 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