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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.

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
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‘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 (Image: Performing Pictures)

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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Never Too Cold for Ice Cream

Siana Fitzjohn
21st February, 2019
Siana Fitzjohn talks to artist Carlos Zapata about ice cream and death
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Ten Years on a Mountain

Dougald Hine
1st October, 2018
After ten years with Dark Mountain, co-founder Dougald Hine is preparing to move on.
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Extending the Glide

Dougald Hine
29th March, 2018
What happens when a sustainability expert hits a wall of despair over climate change? Professor Jem Bendell talks to Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine.
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Coming Down the Mountain

Paul Kingsnorth
25th September, 2017
Even at the time, I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing there. I had...
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Taking Rewilding Seriously

John Jacobi
31st July, 2017
It is, it seems, our civilisation’s turn to experience the inrush of the savage and...
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