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On the Forest of Thought podcast

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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The Vital Compass: A Conversation With Vanessa Andreotti

Talking about the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective for the tenth anniversary issue of Dark Mountain.

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Writings

The Consequences of Unacknowledged Loss

An essay written for the programme for the Orange Tree Theatre production of Joe White’s Mayfly.

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We Are the Only Species We Have the Option of Being: A Conversation With Anne Tagonist

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.

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When Promises of Progress Fail Us

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.

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Dealing With Our Own Shit: A Conversation With Gustavo Esteva

In the fourth issue of Dark Mountain, I published this conversation with the Mexican activist and intellectual Gustavo Esteva.

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Coming to Our Animal Senses: A Conversation with David Abram

Talking with the author of The Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal.

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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.