The Rewilding Podcast, a crucial resource in my thinking these weeks, nominally lives on the website of its host, Peter Michael Bauer.
I noticed that the episode listings there cut off at Ep. 34 from September of last year, and I wondered why. It turns out that it’s just poor site maintenance, and that episodes have continued to come out about once a month since then, only just not listed where they should be.
Here is a more up to date listing:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rewilding-podcast-w-peter-michael-bauer/id1490811038
That also might make it easier for those applePeople amongst you to partake.
In the earliest episodes of TRP, Bauer talks a lot about what the word ‘rewilding’ means and doesn’t mean, and that’s been especially useful to me because I’m trying to name a project of my own right now–it’s a marginally capitalist project, and I’m very wary of slapping a label on it that pretends to be anti-capitalist for marketing purposes in that cynical and even evil way. (Here’s looking at you, “Cochise County”.)
Enough said about that for now. I hope you go listen.
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On a related note, when I’ve researched on rewilding outside of Bauer’s protective definition, I found an awful lot of horrible crap that wants to sell me something. “Naturally”, right? Words don’t mean anything any more specifically because almost any word can be co-opted and gutted in the name of the profit motive. Just think of what “Democratic” meant once, compared to what it means in 2023.
It’s the same for anarchy and a lot of other things I hold more dear.
But …
In seeking out ‘the rewilding podcast’ this morning, trying to find the lost 13 eps, I also stumbled across this:
I have not comprehensively vetted them yet for ideological purity (and yes, I know how dumb that sounds), but my initial impressions are pretty damn positive. They’re based in ABQ, focus on the Southwest mainly, and … check THIS out, damn …
I have some surly picky issues with the name Mogollon, too, but that’s what most everyone calls my one true stomping ground, from the outskirts of the Verde Valley to the exurbs of La Ciénaga de San Vicente.
So I am brimming, with calculated and careful optimism ennit?