Down the Waterslide
Robert Alcock
6th April, 2020
Latest in our ongoing series on the current pandemic, Robert Alcock writes a darkly humorous tale.
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.
Burying a Robin
Nick Hunt
30th March, 2020
Nick Hunt brings you the third in our series of reflections on the coronavirus pandemic
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
Outbreak
Charlotte Du Cann
18th March, 2020
As human societies find themselves gripped in the claws of an pandemic, we encounter a cultural crisis which Dark Mountain has been documenting for over a decade. Charlotte Du Cann explores a myth of regeneration that might make sense of our predicament.
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.
How A Dead Philosopher Saved My Life
Christopher Cokinos
26th December, 2019
As the year draws to its end, Christopher Cokinos contemplates the nature of will in a collapsing world by the grave of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Cowboy Nation
Henrik Olav Mathiesen
11th September, 2019
Norway’s state-owned oil and gas company is riding headlong into the world’s fossil-fuelled sunset. Henrik Olav Matthiessen goes in pursuit.
Dealing With Our Own Shit
Dougald Hine
26th June, 2019
To introduce our next Featured Mountaineer: Dougald Hine's conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual, Gustavo Esteva, which originally appeared in Issue 4