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A Native response to solar sprawl
By Chris Clarke on 2010 09 30 at 8:00:02 am | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x1Gb -
Arcane and mysterious texts, deciphered
By Chris Clarke on 2009 12 22 at 11:25:14 pm | 2 commentsThere’s a cultural document with which you are almost certainly familiar that for most of my life has occupied a place central to my cosmogony — the nature aesthetic, the trickster worship, the sharp inhalation of joy that each new moment in life
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Burning Man
By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 15 at 4:09:01 pm | 12 commentsI posted a screed on Burning Man five years ago. Since then I have found little reason to amend said screed.
It’s pasted below. For those of you with the tl;dr reflex, here’s the nut: “Faced with one of the last truly wild landscapes left in the
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Abandoning Taxonomy
By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 11 at 12:42:35 pm | 1 comment
… (continues)We are, all of us, abandoning taxonomy, the ordering and naming of life. We are willfully becoming poor J.B.R., losing the ability to order and name and therefore losing a connection to and a place in the living world.
No wonder so few of us can
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On centrism
By Chris Clarke on 2008 11 06 at 4:45:33 pm | 0 commentsLast night, as some in the blog wannabe-pundit world blamed African-American voters for the passage of California’s Proposition 8, a couple of African-American guys struck up a conversation with me in front of CNN’s Los Angeles headquarters on
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