Dark Thoughts

'I can’t help but feel safer in my car than anywhere else.' Writer and photographer Lucy Hallam contends with the cognitive dissonance created by the personal vehicle: a contributor to climate breakdown that is also one of her few sites of safety and freedom.

As the darkness of solstice brings the light back to the world, Brian Georges takes us on a metaphysical journey into the eternal question about the purpose of human beings on Earth and within the cosmos.

Curator David Alston reviews an immersive reimagining of Ruskin’s prophetic public lecture 'Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century' on the calamitous consequences of industrialisation within the context of the climate and ecological emergency of the 21st.

In April of this year, the path of a total solar eclipse swept very close to the home of writer and Dark Mountain editor Neale Inglenook. Here he recounts the experience of stepping into the shadow of a planetary body and feeling the direct contact with a presence outside our world.

First of a trio of pieces on wildfires: artist Amory Abbott reports from smoke-shrouded Vancouver, with an introduction to his co-edited creative journal 'Fire Season'

Final post in this Dark Kitchen online sister series running alongside our latest book, Jonny Randall draws connections between bodily and planetary health, exploring restorative practices not only for our individual bodies but the soil we all depend on.

To mark the publication of Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt explores how alternate histories can help imagine different futures