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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 Planet Burns and Still I Drive

Lucy Hallam
14th May, 2025
'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.
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Robert Fludd, Fiat Lux, 1617

Stranger, Tell Me How To Translate From A Language I Don’t Speak

Brian George
20th December, 2024
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.
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The Deluge

Rupert Read
12th December, 2024
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Storm Warning

David Alston
9th October, 2024
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.
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In The Path Of Totality

Neale Inglenook
12th June, 2024
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.
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The World As It Is

Ash Sanders
20th March, 2024
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The End of the Beginning?

Rupert Read
7th February, 2024
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At First, There Were Eight

Brian George
27th December, 2023
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A Line Drawn on the Land

Jonathan Van Elslander
13th September, 2023
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Fire Season

Amory Abbott
6th September, 2023
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'
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Preparing the Ground

Jonny Randall
9th August, 2023
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.
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Enchanted Visions

Nick Hunt
6th July, 2023
To mark the publication of Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt explores how alternate histories can help imagine different futures
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