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.
2016: The Reveal
Charlotte Du Cann
27th December, 2016
‘I used to care but things have changed’ – Bob Dylan Afterwards we will climb...
2016: Donald Trump Ushers in the Anti-Future Age
Hal Niedzviecki
20th December, 2016
When US high-tech industry CEOs started a lobbying and education group to advance the cause...
2016: Year of the Serpent
Paul Kingsnorth
13th December, 2016
We take almost all of the decisive steps in our lives as a result of...
It is Time to Kiss the Earth Again
Ramon Elani
10th October, 2016
We can never recover an old vision, once it has been supplanted. But what we...
Flight Path
Charlotte Du Cann
29th August, 2016
Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture...
Finding Strength in Stones
Ramon Elani
8th August, 2016
We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and...
The Height and the Drop
The Editors
25th June, 2016
Since the Dark Mountain Project was launched in October 2009, the distance between the height and...
How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
Richard Reese
11th June, 2016
Sometime, when you’re feeling a bit bored, eager for thrills and excitement, get a library...
Ted Kaczynski and Why He Matters
John Jacobi
6th May, 2016
The Unabomber Affair In early 1995, the New York Times received a communique from FC...
The Interrupter
Roy Scranton
20th January, 2016
Extract from Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (City...
After Paris
Chris Smaje
30th December, 2015
Paris, the basics Let’s first of all quickly review what happened. The COP21 meeting in...