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jeremyxjones's review
5.0
Destructive yet positive. The climate is falling apart and systems are no help for any of this. Read this and think about it forever.
(I reread this with a friend. Another great time.)
(I reread this with a friend. Another great time.)
casparb's review against another edition
3.0
This has been a gradual read for me. At times, Desert is a dry read (do excuse me), but valuable as a piece of contemporary radical ecocritique that refuses to become lost in heady idealism.
Truly realist ecocriticism of this type is frequently quite disconcerting for many, and understandably so. It's not a book to turn to when in search of any hope for the future. But that doesn't mean Desert is needlessly pessimistic - the overall argument is not only convincing, but also supported more and more with every passing week/month etc.
I'm a little unsettled by the potential comforts of global pessimism. That may be something to think about later. Fitting.
Truly realist ecocriticism of this type is frequently quite disconcerting for many, and understandably so. It's not a book to turn to when in search of any hope for the future. But that doesn't mean Desert is needlessly pessimistic - the overall argument is not only convincing, but also supported more and more with every passing week/month etc.
I'm a little unsettled by the potential comforts of global pessimism. That may be something to think about later. Fitting.
catwizard's review against another edition
3.0
“To be disillusioned - with 'Global Revolution' and with our capacity to 'Save the Earth' - should not alter our anarchist nature, or the love of nature we feel as anarchists. There are many possibilities for liberty and wildness still. What are some of these possibilities and how we can we live them? What objectives, what ins, what lives, what adventures are there when the illusions are set aside and re wakinto the world not disabled by disillusionment but unburdened by it?
IfI cross the river will you cross the river
IfI cross the river will you cross the river
Or drown in this desert, this empty cup we're drinking from If we are beasts, we are not beasts of burden So ride alone, or ride with many others Just ride away as fast as you can.
- Blackbird Raum, Valkyrie Horsewhip Reel”
_tourist's review against another edition
a useful text in terms of collating reasons to drop our leaden optimism and self-defeating progressivism. certainly not masterful tho; i hate the arsing footnotes so stopped reading them.
thedreammachine's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.25