peregrine falkner
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closereader + longform writer, readymade label-averse / consult sarahfalkner.com and @sarahjudefalkner for further personal details / mostly here to read + repost since most of my own thoughts go over the character limit immediately
After a long reticence, I wrote a little thing: "As Ovid notes, this “time is pure, having placated the dead/When the days devoted to the departed are over.” Ancestors, death, purging and purification, borders were the Imperial Romans' February ritual themes.
January 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
After a long reticence, I wrote a little thing: "As Ovid notes, this “time is pure, having placated the dead/When the days devoted to the departed are over.” Ancestors, death, purging and purification, borders were the Imperial Romans' February ritual themes.
"If “wilderness” is an invention, so too is wildfire: the product of a view of nature as something external to society. The destructiveness of today’s fires “obliges us to revise knowledge calibrated to conditions that no longer exist.” " www.thedriftmag.com/a-note-from-...
A Note from the Fireline
In late August, before dawn broke on a foggy California morning, I marched with a crew of wildland firefighters through a redwood forest. We crossed a small farm, the jostle of our footsteps joining…
www.thedriftmag.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"If “wilderness” is an invention, so too is wildfire: the product of a view of nature as something external to society. The destructiveness of today’s fires “obliges us to revise knowledge calibrated to conditions that no longer exist.” " www.thedriftmag.com/a-note-from-...
And here is some great longform reporting from a year ago--which makes it exponentially truer, I guess. The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires
Strategies intended to safeguard forests and homes have instead increased the likelihood that they’ll burn.
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January 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
And here is some great longform reporting from a year ago--which makes it exponentially truer, I guess. The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some essential reading—first-hand reportage of the fires du jour in California in context. Human actions and choices have made this catastrophe as harmful as it is, and California is a microcosm of the macrocosm in the technofascist oligarchy. The cruelty is the point. substack.com/@sarahfalkne...
Sarah Falkner on Substack
Essential reading—Amanda Yates Garcia’s first-hand reportage of the fires du jour in California contextualizes them properly. Human actions and choices have made this catastrophe as harmful as it is, ...
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January 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Some essential reading—first-hand reportage of the fires du jour in California in context. Human actions and choices have made this catastrophe as harmful as it is, and California is a microcosm of the macrocosm in the technofascist oligarchy. The cruelty is the point. substack.com/@sarahfalkne...