Archive - The Gyre

Wants and Needs

Thacker Pass, extractivism, and the fiction of necessity

May 9, 2021 •

April 2021

Thinking of a Place

Musings on memory, place and travel in the Anthropocene

Apr 17, 2021 •

March 2021

An Age of Anxiety, Haunted by History

Adam Curtis's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

Mar 29, 2021 •

A History of Risky Behavior

Musings on risk, the voices in our genes, and the way forward in an uncertain future

Mar 14, 2021 •

February 2021

Vision, Time, Light and Space

The evolution of the eye, ancient astronomy, and Roden Crater

Feb 28, 2021 •

Enlightenment and Endarkenment

More on David Abram and returning to an older work

Feb 19, 2021 •

Cultivating Reciprocity

Exploring the web of relations connecting people, nature, art, evolution, and the gift economy

Feb 6, 2021 •

January 2021

Who speaks on their behalf? Who's listening?

Jan 30, 2021 •

Après Nous, le Déluge

Thoughts on watery worlds of the distant past and the not-so-distant future

Jan 22, 2021 •

Past, present and future

January, the month named for the two-faced Roman god of gates and transitions, has been for me a time for musings on past, present and future. At New…

Jan 13, 2021 •

Free-floating commentary and musings from the currents of deep time to the flux of current events

Welcome to The Gyre by me, Matt Miles. Independent writer and journalist. Lover of nature and remote places. Degrowth advocate. Sufferer of solastalgia…

Jan 12, 2021 •

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