Never Too Cold for Ice Cream
Siana Fitzjohn
21st February, 2019
Siana Fitzjohn talks to artist Carlos Zapata about ice cream and death
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.
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.
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.
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...
Taking Rewilding Seriously
John Jacobi
31st July, 2017
It is, it seems, our civilisation’s turn to experience the inrush of the savage and...
The Dark Humanities
Maya Silver
17th July, 2017
I find myself turning to space and the wisdom of astronomers like Sagan more and...
2016: You Want It Darker
Dougald Hine
25th January, 2017
‘As things stand, I don’t believe we will get a story worth hearing until we...
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...