{"id":1774,"date":"2010-03-07T01:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2010-03-07T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:19:50","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/03\/07\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-64\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703862704575099242974207532.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5\">Julia Vitullo-Martin: Don&#8217;t Wreck the Authentic New Harlem Renaissance &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Sharon Zukin takes on gentrification (in Harlem especially), while Harlem-ites dismiss her critique. &#8220;Gentrification&#8221; v. &#8220;authenticity&#8221;? Between black and white there might actually be plenty of shades of gray (no pun intended)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>QUOTE<br \/>\nIt should also be said that these talented, innovative African-Americans are forging a new entrepreneurial path that was too often closed to their ancestors. Jai Jai Greenfield, co-owner of Harlem Vintage, a wine store that opened on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in 2004, designed it as an homage to her grandparents, longtime Harlem residents whose elegant photographs from the 1930s were featured in the store&#8217;s initial promotional literature. She says that Ms. Zukin is missing the point. &#8220;We brought to Harlem something that had never existed here\u2014a store that is for and about the wine. [Ms. Zukin] seems to think that to be legitimately ghetto our store should look a certain way\u2014bullet-proofed windows and grates. To be authentic, in her view, I would need to go with a couple of concepts\u2014fried chicken or maybe a nail salon.&#8221;<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703862704575099242974207532.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"WSJ caption\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/ED-AL089_harlem_D_20100304184233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/authenticity\">authenticity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/gentrification\">gentrification<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/sharon_zukin\">sharon_zukin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/harlem\">harlem<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyc\">nyc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/socialcritique\">socialcritique<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/74787\/exclusive-east-village-redux\">Flavorwire \u00bb Exclusive: East Village Redux: Michael Sean Edwards<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Flavorwire&#8217;s interview with Michael Sean Edwards, who moved to the East Village from Toronto in 1977 and has been documenting it ever since. A set of his images from 1978 to 1985 is now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/michaelseanedwards\/sets\/72157622849479570\/\">Flickr<\/a>. Flavorwire&#8217;s article also includes a slide-show with commentary by Edwards. <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/74787\/exclusive-east-village-redux\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"street fair\" src=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/street-fair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/michael_sean_edwards\">michael_sean_edwards<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/photography\">photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyc\">nyc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/east_village\">east_village<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/street_photography\">street_photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/art\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/flavorwire\">flavorwire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/magazine\/28depression-t.html?pagewanted=all\">Depression\u2019s Upside &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Fascinating article by Jonah Lehrer about depression. Closing paragraphs:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nAnd then there\u2019s the virtue of self-loathing, which is one of the symptoms of depression. When people are stuck in the ruminative spiral, their achievements become invisible; the mind is only interested in what has gone wrong. While this condition is typically linked to withdrawal and silence \u2014 people become unwilling to communicate \u2014 there\u2019s some suggestive evidence that states of unhappiness can actually improve our expressive abilities. Forgas said he has found that sadness correlates with clearer and more compelling sentences, and that negative moods \u201cpromote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style.\u201d Because we\u2019re more critical of what we\u2019re writing, we produce more refined prose, the sentences polished by our angst. As Roland Barthes observed, \u201cA creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This line of research led Andrews to conduct his own experiment, as he sought to better understand the link between negative mood and improved analytical abilities. He gave 115 undergraduates an abstract-reasoning test known as Raven\u2019s Progressive Matrices, which requires subjects to identify a missing segment in a larger pattern. (Performance on the task strongly predicts general intelligence.) The first thing Andrews found was that nondepressed students showed an increase in \u201cdepressed affect\u201d after taking the test. In other words, the mere presence of a challenging problem \u2014 even an abstract puzzle \u2014 induced a kind of attentive trance, which led to feelings of sadness. It doesn\u2019t matter if we\u2019re working on a mathematical equation or working through a broken heart: the anatomy of focus is inseparable from the anatomy of melancholy. This suggests that depressive disorder is an extreme form of an ordinary thought process, part of the dismal machinery that draws us toward our problems, like a magnet to metal.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/lampertina\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/nyt\">nyt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/depression\">depression<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/evolutionary_psychology\">evolutionary_psychology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/jonah_lehrer\">jonah_lehrer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">^ Bonus Image for &#8220;Depression&#8217;s Upside&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>As I looked around for an image to illustrate Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s discussion of rumination and depression, I came across edu-blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doug-johnson.com\/\">Doug Johnson<\/a>, who, in his 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/doug-johnson.squarespace.com\/blue-skunk-blog\/2008\/5\/28\/ruminating.html\">Blue Skunk Blog post on Ruminating<\/a>, adapted a tourist photo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apl385.com\/leutasch\/index.htm\">source<\/a>) to create the image below. I hope he doesn&#8217;t mind my using it, but it&#8217;s just perfect &#8211; hats off, Doug Johnson:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doug-johnson.squarespace.com\/blue-skunk-blog\/2008\/5\/28\/ruminating.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ruminating Cow\" src=\"http:\/\/doug-johnson.squarespace.com\/storage\/cowruminating.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Vitullo-Martin: Don&#8217;t Wreck the Authentic New Harlem Renaissance &#8211; WSJ.com Sharon Zukin takes on gentrification (in Harlem especially), while Harlem-ites dismiss her critique. &#8220;Gentrification&#8221; v. &#8220;authenticity&#8221;? 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