Jeremy Bassetti
@jeremybassetti.com
Writer. Photographer. Educator. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵
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On Mountains | Jeremy Bassetti
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I'm ramping up research and writing around my ongoing mountains project. This includes a podcast called "On Mountains" and a microsite where I'm publishing research notes, interviews, and essays. This is in an attempt to "work with the garage door open." See more: jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains/
I wrote about Mountains in Kalidasa's 5th-century poem "The Birth of Kumara."
Mountains in Kalidasa's 'The Birth of Kumara' | Jeremy Bassetti
In Kalidasa's 5th century epic, mountains give birth to the material world — and offer escape from it.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I wrote about Mountains in Kalidasa's 5th-century poem "The Birth of Kumara."
Finished reading and started unpacking my notes on David Smith's English translation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit "The Birth of Kumara."
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Finished reading and started unpacking my notes on David Smith's English translation of Kalidasa's Sanskrit "The Birth of Kumara."
Servitude as a Service: Artificial Intelligence Software from the Perspective of Kant.
Servitude as a Service: Reading Kant in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Jeremy Bassetti
Kant warned about 'mechanical aids' that keep us in permanent immaturity. Two centuries later, we subscribe to them monthly.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Servitude as a Service: Artificial Intelligence Software from the Perspective of Kant.
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The deadliest mountain in the world in 2025...
#Mountains #Mining #Extractivism #Indigenous #HighAltWork
#Mountains #Mining #Extractivism #Indigenous #HighAltWork
After nearly 500 years of mining, Cerro Rico, the Bolivian mountain whose silver financed the Spanish Empire, is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe cave-ins.
In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing
At about 4,800 meters, or nearly 15,800 feet, above sea level, Cerro Rico towers over the city of Potosí, in Bolivia’s southern highlands. Famous for its vast silver reserves, Cerro Rico — whose name…
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October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The deadliest mountain in the world in 2025...
#Mountains #Mining #Extractivism #Indigenous #HighAltWork
#Mountains #Mining #Extractivism #Indigenous #HighAltWork
The confluence of indigenous cosmology, Catholic devotion, and political authority in one of Bolivia's festival honoring the Virgin of Urkupiña: jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
Mountains, Mary, and Modern Bolivia | Jeremy Bassetti
How Bolivia's Virgin of Urkupiña festival blends indigenous cosmology, Catholic devotion, and political authority.
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October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The confluence of indigenous cosmology, Catholic devotion, and political authority in one of Bolivia's festival honoring the Virgin of Urkupiña: jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
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🔔 Event reminder!
🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🔔 Event reminder!
🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
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This is tonight!
NYPL in Manhattan.
NYPL in Manhattan.
True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson
Tickets for True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson in New York from NYPL. The author of the first biography of Peter Matthiessen discusses the trailblazing novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is tonight!
NYPL in Manhattan.
NYPL in Manhattan.
I spoke with Lance Richardson about his massive biography of Peter Matthiessen, "True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen." Listen to the pod on your favorite app or on the web using the link below. @lancerichardson.bsky.social
Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen & "The Snow Leopard"
Lance Richardson discusses "The Snow Leopard," Peter Matthiessen's complicated personal life, and the challenges of writing biography.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I spoke with Lance Richardson about his massive biography of Peter Matthiessen, "True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen." Listen to the pod on your favorite app or on the web using the link below. @lancerichardson.bsky.social
At over 2,600 words, my new article on the evolution of sacred space in the first five books of the Bible is a long read... but I promise it comes with fewer commandments. Follow the link to read more.
The Temple as Mountain in the Torah | Jeremy Bassetti
Tracing the evolution of sacred space of El Shaddai — God of the Mountain — in the Torah.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
At over 2,600 words, my new article on the evolution of sacred space in the first five books of the Bible is a long read... but I promise it comes with fewer commandments. Follow the link to read more.
I wrote about mountains and materialism during the Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña in Bolivia, which I've attended a few times. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
The Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña: Mountains and Materialism in the Bolivian Andes | Jeremy Bassetti
Thousands ascend Quillacollo's Cerro Calvario each August, breaking stones and purchasing miniatures for rituals mixing Catholic and Andean beliefs.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I wrote about mountains and materialism during the Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña in Bolivia, which I've attended a few times. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
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Book launch next Tuesday at the New York Public Library. Going to be a tremendous event. Tickets are free!
True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson
Tickets for True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson in New York from NYPL. The author of the first biography of Peter Matthiessen discusses the trailblazing novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi...
www.showclix.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Book launch next Tuesday at the New York Public Library. Going to be a tremendous event. Tickets are free!
I read this line thought of @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social — "All this tilts dangerously toward that old familiar strain of fascism in nature writing, the strain that despises cities as breeding grounds for the foreign and impoverished while promising to restore to a purer people glory and lands."
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I read this line thought of @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social — "All this tilts dangerously toward that old familiar strain of fascism in nature writing, the strain that despises cities as breeding grounds for the foreign and impoverished while promising to restore to a purer people glory and lands."
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy | Jeremy Bassetti
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy
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September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy.
Some notes on how our reaction to the Arc-teryx fireworks controversy in Tibet reveals our society's cultural ignorance.
The Arc-teryx Fireworks Controversy in Tibet Reveals Our Cultural Blind Spots | Jeremy Bassetti
Arc'teryx's mountain fireworks display ignited more than controversy—it exposed our cultural ignorance.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some notes on how our reaction to the Arc-teryx fireworks controversy in Tibet reveals our society's cultural ignorance.
The parallel exchange rate in Bolivia is wild. Take money out of the atm and you’ll get around 7 bolivianos per dollar. Take dollars to the money exchangers on the street and you’ll get double. Meaning, bring cash and your trip instantly gets 50% cheaper. And you’ll help the black market! Win-win.
August 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The parallel exchange rate in Bolivia is wild. Take money out of the atm and you’ll get around 7 bolivianos per dollar. Take dollars to the money exchangers on the street and you’ll get double. Meaning, bring cash and your trip instantly gets 50% cheaper. And you’ll help the black market! Win-win.
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I’m off to South America. But I leave you with August’s Genius Loci newsletter. jeremybassetti.com/genius-loci/...
Back to the Andes, Deep in Admiration, and the Substack Problem | Jeremy Bassetti
The Genius Loci Newsletter for August 2025
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August 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m off to South America. But I leave you with August’s Genius Loci newsletter. jeremybassetti.com/genius-loci/...
I just finished Byung-Chul Han's book "Vita Contemplativa." My least favorite of his books so far, partly because it offers takes that are familiar to those who have read his other books. It discusses the anxiety that arises when we're not "productive" or "optimizing."
‘Vita Contemplativa’ by Byung-Chul Han | Jeremy Bassetti
Having read several of Byung-Chul Han’s small philosophical books, I was eager to read his Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity (see on Amazon). For readers looking for practical guidance on im...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I just finished Byung-Chul Han's book "Vita Contemplativa." My least favorite of his books so far, partly because it offers takes that are familiar to those who have read his other books. It discusses the anxiety that arises when we're not "productive" or "optimizing."
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Numbers. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
Mountains in the Book of Numbers | Jeremy Bassetti
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Numbers
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July 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Numbers. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...
I've had absolutely zero uses of Marry Shelly in student papers this year, which means 100% of students are paying attention or....
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I've had absolutely zero uses of Marry Shelly in student papers this year, which means 100% of students are paying attention or....
I'm pretty sure most of my students don't know the markdown language, so seeing markdown syntax so often in papers raises my eyebrows and suspicions...
July 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm pretty sure most of my students don't know the markdown language, so seeing markdown syntax so often in papers raises my eyebrows and suspicions...
Thesiger is a dreadful writer, no clear ethical lines between truth and lie, and much more in this weeks episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Why you should never trust a travel writer
After one of Jeffrey Archer’s minor tangles with the absolute truth, his friend the late Barry Humphries remarked: ‘We all invent ourselves to some degree. It’s just that Jeffrey has taken it a little further than most.’ The remark came to mind last week as the media storm over the veracity (or otherwise) of the
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July 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thesiger is a dreadful writer, no clear ethical lines between truth and lie, and much more in this weeks episode of Kids Say the Darndest Things. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Leviticus.
Mountains in the Book of Leviticus | Jeremy Bassetti
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Leviticus
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July 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Some notes on mountains in the Book of Leviticus.
Listen to my conversation with Aatish Taseer about his excellent new book "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile." Podcast links in the reply.
July 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Listen to my conversation with Aatish Taseer about his excellent new book "A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile." Podcast links in the reply.