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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.

What Use is Art?

Mat Osmond
27th July, 2022
In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.
Dark ThoughtsOf Earth and Empire

Black Gold: Pluto’s Helmet of Invisibility

Brian George
29th June, 2022
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Anywhere But Here

Anthea Lawson
29th September, 2021
'How do we change a system we are implicated in'? This week's post explores how we might engage with the complexity of the task, in an extract from Anthea Lawson's 'The Entangled Activist'.
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The View from Above

Mark Bessoudo
16th June, 2021
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Green, Like A Leaf On Which the World is Written

Brian George
26th May, 2021
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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.
Dark ThoughtsOf Earth and Empire

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.
Dark ThoughtsPlace & Time

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.
Dark ThoughtsJourneys

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
Dark ThoughtsUncivilised Arts

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.
Dark ThoughtsPlace & Time

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.
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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 ThoughtsOutbreak

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