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Wants and Needs
Thacker Pass, extractivism, and the fiction of necessity
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Matt Miles
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April 2021

Thinking of a Place
Musings on memory, place and travel in the Anthropocene
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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
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A History of Risky Behavior
Musings on risk, the voices in our genes, and the way forward in an uncertain future
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February 2021

Vision, Time, Light and Space
The evolution of the eye, ancient astronomy, and Roden Crater
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Enlightenment and Endarkenment
More on David Abram and returning to an older work
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Cultivating Reciprocity
Exploring the web of relations connecting people, nature, art, evolution, and the gift economy
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January 2021

For the Trees
Who speaks on their behalf? Who's listening?
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Après Nous, le Déluge
Thoughts on watery worlds of the distant past and the not-so-distant future
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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…
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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…
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