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From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson

"When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire."

"But where trees could only be burnt once, the weights of the factors labour and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fires to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to Earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. And only a new, energetic pacifism can prevent this catastrophe." >>
Peter Sloterdijk, Prometheus’s Remorse >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/peter-sloterdijk-prometheus-s-remorse-fr-9783518029855
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #coal #arson #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #ClimateFiasco #Prometheus #NativeForests

From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson

"When Prometheus, according to the myth, brought fire to earth, another crucial input was added. Fire has been used to cook food and harden tools for hundreds of thousands of years. In this sense, it can be said that all history implies the history of the uses of fire."

"But where trees could only be burnt once, the weights of the factors labour and fire shifted with the discovery of underground deposits of coal and oil. Modern humanity, according to Peter Sloterdijk, can be considered a collective of arsonists who set fires to the underground forests and moors. If Prometheus were to return to Earth today, he might regret his gift; after all, what looms is nothing less than Ekpyrosis, the demise of the world in fire. And only a new, energetic pacifism can prevent this catastrophe." >>
Peter Sloterdijk, Prometheus’s Remorse >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/peter-sloterdijk-prometheus-s-remorse-fr-9783518029855
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #coal #arson #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #ClimateFiasco #Prometheus #NativeForests

"Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship."

"Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecological causes. How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent is a critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia and the technoscientific systems of control that shape its current and future possibilities. Timothy Neale observes how two seemingly opposing forces—an entrenched sense of crisis and widespread normalization—combine to form an apparatus of institutional fire management that increasingly centers technical control and militarization. While sympathetic to the double binds many fire management professionals find themselves in, Neale ties contemporary wildfire problems to ongoing colonization and Indigenous dispossession, exploring Indigenous-led land management and cultural burning as a practical assertion of sovereignty. Through dialogue and collaboration with professional fire managers and Indigenous environmental stewards, Neale calls for a collective movement beyond control thinking by fostering new alliances and modes of coping with, rather than commanding, our flammable world." >>
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-control-fire-on-a-burning-continent

Introduction >>
https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/8a052eb4-c8e4-4655-aab9-0a8efa3514cd/978-1-4780-3879-5_601.pdf
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #Australia #europeancolonisation #control #ClimateFiasco

"Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship."

"Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecological causes. How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent is a critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia and the technoscientific systems of control that shape its current and future possibilities. Timothy Neale observes how two seemingly opposing forces—an entrenched sense of crisis and widespread normalization—combine to form an apparatus of institutional fire management that increasingly centers technical control and militarization. While sympathetic to the double binds many fire management professionals find themselves in, Neale ties contemporary wildfire problems to ongoing colonization and Indigenous dispossession, exploring Indigenous-led land management and cultural burning as a practical assertion of sovereignty. Through dialogue and collaboration with professional fire managers and Indigenous environmental stewards, Neale calls for a collective movement beyond control thinking by fostering new alliances and modes of coping with, rather than commanding, our flammable world." >>
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-control-fire-on-a-burning-continent

Introduction >>
https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/8a052eb4-c8e4-4655-aab9-0a8efa3514cd/978-1-4780-3879-5_601.pdf
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #Australia #europeancolonisation #control #ClimateFiasco