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The Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña: Mountains and Materialism in the Bolivian Andes | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 6d

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...

Thousands ascend Quillacollo's Cerro Calvario each August, breaking stones and purchasing miniatures for rituals mixing Catholic and Andean beliefs.

True Nature: Lance Richardson with Sam Anderson

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Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social · 8d

Book launch next Tuesday at the New York Public Library. Going to be a tremendous event. Tickets are free!

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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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 13d

From Kathryn Schulz's 2021 New Yorker piece on The Snow Leopard: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What Do We Hope to Find When We Look for a Snow Leopard?

Nature writers, desperate for a glimpse, trek toward lofty goals—and away from uncomfortable realities.

www.newyorker.com

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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 13d

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."

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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 17d

I had similar thoughts…

Mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 18d

Some notes on mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy.

Some notes on mountains in the Book of Deuteronomy

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 20d

Indeed. Many levels deep in stupidity.

The Arc-teryx Fireworks Controversy in Tibet Reveals Our Cultural Blind Spots | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 20d

Some notes on how our reaction to the Arc-teryx fireworks controversy in Tibet reveals our society's cultural ignorance.

Arc'teryx's mountain fireworks display ignited more than controversy—it exposed our cultural ignorance.

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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 27d

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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 27d

I counted three in my class last week. Why did I count? I have no idea…

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Aug 6

Meaning, the presence of so many indie columns means there is a market demand for columns and trad publications need to double down on them?

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Aug 4

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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tswick.bsky.social @tswick.bsky.social · Aug 4

Back to the Andes, Deep in Admiration, and the Substack Problem | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Aug 1

I’m off to South America. But I leave you with August’s Genius Loci newsletter. jeremybassetti.com/genius-loci/...

The Genius Loci Newsletter for August 2025

‘Vita Contemplativa’ by Byung-Chul Han | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 30

Also that, instead of human beings, we have become beasts of burden wherein survival is not the same thing as living. Also that culture springs from rest and leisure, and that's what makes our humanity. Some more notes: jeremybassetti.com/fieldnotes/2...

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...

‘Vita Contemplativa’ by Byung-Chul Han | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 30

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."

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...

Mountains in the Book of Numbers | Jeremy Bassetti

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 29

Some notes on mountains in the Book of Numbers. jeremybassetti.com/on-mountains...

Some notes on mountains in the Book of Numbers

Why you should never trust a travel writer

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 28

I've had absolutely zero uses of Marry Shelly in student papers this year, which means 100% of students are paying attention or....

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 25

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...

Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 21

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-...

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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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · Jul 21

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