Dark Thoughts
Time to Look Down (artwork from first Uncivilisation Festival 2010
How do we make sense of the world, as we start to disentangle ourselves from the stories we grew up taking for reality itself?
In this section, you’ll find Dark Mountain contributors thinking about the largest questions and asking what it means to live in times like these.
Our Riot Elk
Edith Mirante
19th May, 2021
A year since the start of the protests in Portland, following the murder of George Floyd, Edith Mirante writes of riots, wolves and elk.
Paradise Lost
Christopher Records
17th March, 2021
Writer Christopher Records explores the rift between the idea and the reality of Earth in California during times of pandemic and forest fire.
The Edges of the Earth
Dawid
3rd March, 2021
Dawid Juraszek stands on the banks of the Bosphorus and reflects on the modern drive to keep moving at all cost.
Power of the Powerless
Jonathan Hopfner
18th November, 2020
What role does ritual and the sacred play in confronting ecological and social crises? Buddhist scholar, Jonathan Hopfner investigates the story behind the photographs of Mitsutoshi Hanaga
John Berger and Everyday Acts of Sumūd
Juman Simaan
15th July, 2020
Juman Simaan explores how Palestinian communities resist the forces of colonialism and the role writers and witnesses play in creating a culture of resistance.
Who Stands With the Bears?
Tom Smith
25th May, 2020
Beyond environmentalist criticism of the documentary 'Planet of the Humans' Tom Smith argues, there is a deeper message about the renewable energy industry that merits our attention.
Down the Waterslide
Robert Alcock
6th April, 2020
Latest in our ongoing series on the current pandemic, Robert Alcock writes a darkly humorous tale.
The Price of Life
Dougald Hine
20th March, 2020
Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine writes about our collective encounter with parental mortality, as the unfolding reality of the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across our lives
Too Warm for Ice Cream
Siana Fitzjohn
14th March, 2020
Siana Fitzjohn writes in response to transgressions against the Muslim community on 15th March 2019 in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, New Zealand.
