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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.

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

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
Dark ThoughtsOutbreak

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.
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One Hundred Little Pieces at the End of the World

John Rember
11th March, 2020
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An Explanation, Unsolicited

Mason Voehl
26th February, 2020
Dark ThoughtsLife writing

‘Our Spirits Die When They Die’

Nina Pick
3rd February, 2020
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Blackout Thoughts

Tom Walsh
8th January, 2020
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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.
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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.
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Gustavo Esteva and Dougald Hine, Oaxaca, 2011 (photo: Performing Pictures). From Issue 4.

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
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