Defining the Mountain
Dougald Hine
22nd June, 2010
Responses to and reports about the festival – the first substantial Dark Mountain gathering – are popping up...
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.
The Need for Growth
Paul Kingsnorth
19th May, 2010
It’s not news, of course, that greenhouse gas emissions are intimately linked with economic...
All Change
Paul Kingsnorth
12th May, 2010
The comments underneath articles like this are usually a pretty depressing example of the worst...
Getting Practical
Dougald Hine
29th April, 2010
This project is not about ‘doing nothing’ or ‘giving up’. It’s about what we do,...
Getting Real: An Election Message from the Dark Mountain
Dougald Hine
13th April, 2010
Looking at the issues which defined recent parliaments, you can excuse the politicians for not...
A Force That Gives Us Meaning
Paul Kingsnorth
31st March, 2010
In this latest piece, Hedges does the same job of asking uncomfortable questions. Though he’s...
Hope Beyond Hope
Paul Kingsnorth
16th March, 2010
I’m not going to summarise it, because this remarkable film can tell its own story....
A Period of Mourning
Paul Kingsnorth
14th March, 2010
It has been hard to find anyone who doesn’t like this idea, which is always...
Romans of the Decadence
Paul Kingsnorth
25th February, 2010
This is one of the biggest paintings in the museum: Romans of the Decadence. Seen...
What Do You Do, After You Stop Pretending?
Dougald Hine
31st January, 2010
He starts by summing up and rebutting a couple of the regular charges which have...
Defusing the Apocalypse: A response to John Gray
Dougald Hine
20th September, 2009
In a good conversation, you don’t just reiterate the first thing you said: listening and...