The Barcode Moment: Part III
Paul Kingsnorth
4th May, 2012
One of the interventions which came in as a response to all this, and...
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.
Hope in the Age of Collapse
Paul Kingsnorth
4th April, 2012
Naturally, I couldn’t let this pass, so I told Wen that wishful thinking was no...
On the correct management of despair
Paul Kingsnorth
31st August, 2011
It’s no secret that a feeling of despair was one of the things that brought...
The Return of ‘The Vernacular’: A conversation with Sajay Samuel
Dougald Hine
12th July, 2011
More than any other thinker, Illich’s work marks the paths which led me to Dark...
The Quants and the Poets
Paul Kingsnorth
21st April, 2011
If, say, they had all agreed on the importance of rolling out a massive, global...
The Poet and the Machine
Paul Kingsnorth
15th February, 2011
His poems are close-up studies of rural south England in its last Golden Age; the...
Sensing & Knowing: A Conversation with David Abram
Dougald Hine
29th December, 2010
A philosopher, anthropologist and sleight-of-hand magician, he set off to learn about the the healing...
Deep Waters: Mourning for the World
Antonio Dias
12th October, 2010
28 April The swell is not particularly high, but without a chop to confuse...
Deep Waters: The Undone
Blue Chris
17th September, 2010
It is a simple question, but one that bears some reflection. Think for a moment...
Terms of Dismissal
Paul Kingsnorth
1st August, 2010
But then I probably just don’t get out enough. These days I spend most of...
Defining the Mountain
Dougald Hine
22nd June, 2010
Responses to and reports about the festival – the first substantial Dark Mountain gathering – are popping up...