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Talks

Negotiating the Surrender: Talk at Falmouth University

A talk hosted by Café Disruptif and the Dark Economies research group at Falmouth University, 5 June, 2019.

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Writings

After We Stop Pretending

An essay for Dark Mountain: Issue 15 on the strange hot summer of 2018 and the beginnings of the new climate movements.

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Writings

Deschooling Revisited

Writing about Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society (1971) for Issue 25 of STIR magazine.

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Writings

The View From the Kitchen Table

Issue 19 of my Crossed Lines newsletter was a report on the first year of this school called HOME.

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Friends News

… as sure as the rain

A film by Nick Stewart that resulted from our trip to Mexico in December 2012.

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Writings

Endangered Knowledge: A Report on the Dark Mountain Project

Written for a special issue of the journal KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Preservation Studies.

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News

Finding A Way Home: Stroud, 15 October 2018

This event in Stroud will be a chance to hear more about what we’re doing at HOME, the school Anna and I are starting. I’ll be speaking alongside Francis Barton, one of the participants in our first course.

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Convivial Tools: The Design Museum, London, 13 October

During the next several years I intend to work on an epilogue to the industrial age… With these words, Ivan Illich opens Tools for Conviviality (1973), one of the series of…

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Coming Down the Mountain

After ten years of holding the space of Dark Mountain – the space between stories, the place you come when things you once believed in no longer make sense – it’s time for me to move on.

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Writings

Ten Years on a Mountain: A Farewell

Written to accompany the announcement of my departure from Dark Mountain after ten years at the heart of the project.