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Events Projects

Uncivilisation Festival (2010-14)

During the early years of Dark Mountain, we ran an annual three-day festival with writers, makers and performers who had been drawn to the project.

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Conversations Writings

Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with Vinay Gupta

Talking with the Hexayurt inventor about the Institute for Collapsonomics and the origins of the Black Elephant.

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Writings

Death & the Mountain: John Berger’s Enduring Sense of Hope

He is a novelist, an art critic, an essayist, a storyteller, but when I picture him with the tools of his trade, it is holding a scythe.

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Writings

Defusing the Apocalypse: A Response to John Gray

When Paul and I wrote the Dark Mountain manifesto, our hope was start a conversation. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been encouraged by how far this has spread, and by the range and thoughtfulness (in most cases) of the responses we’ve received.

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Books Projects

Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto

The pamphlet that launched the Dark Mountain Project and shaped much of the work that I’ve done since.

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Books Projects

COMMONSense

A small book about the commons made in collaboration with the artist Anne-Marie Culhane and members of the Access Space media lab in Sheffield.

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Newsletters

How I Became a Cyber-Womble

This is James Wallbank’s story of founding Access Space, based on an interview I did with him for the ‘Steel City’ special issue of PICK ME UP zine, 28 October 2005 James…

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How To Bring a Building Back to Life

Published in the ‘Steel City’ special issue of Pick Me Up zine, 28 October 2005 I’m not sure quite how it started. There was a huge empty building in the middle of…

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How to Get 800 People to Come to a Protest Picnic

(and get it in the papers and on the radio and telly) Published in the Pick Me Up zine, 24 June 2005 1. START WITH A GOOD IDEA. Try it out…