Talking about what goes missing from the big, simple story of ‘Progress’ and how much I’ve learned from decolonial thinkers like Vanessa Andreotti and Walter Mignolo.
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Talking about the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective for the tenth anniversary issue of Dark Mountain.
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The Consequences of Unacknowledged Loss
An essay written for the programme for the Orange Tree Theatre production of Joe White’s Mayfly.
Talking about collapse writing, online and in fiction.
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Expectations of Life & Death
What is different today is that living to grow old has become a reasonable expectation, something we can almost take for granted, rather than a matter of luck.
A review of two books that grew out of conversations among the friends and collaborators of Ivan Illich: Grassroots Postmodernism by Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash, and The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto by Gustavo Esteva, Salvatore Babones and Philipp Babcicky.
In the fourth issue of Dark Mountain, I published this conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual Gustavo Esteva.
Talking with the author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal.
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.