Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by The Dark Mountain Project
By The Dark Mountain Project
The darkish Mountain undertaking all started with a manifesto released in 2009 via English writers—Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth—who felt that literature was once now not responding truthfully to the crises of our time.
In an international within which the weather is being altered by way of human actions; during which international ecosystems are being destroyed by means of the development of business civilisation; and during which the dominant fiscal and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, darkish Mountain requested: the place are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural varieties of our society nonetheless behaving as though this have been the 20 th century—or even the nineteenth?
Dark Mountain’s demand writers, thinkers and artists prepared to stand the intensity of the mess we're in has made it a meeting aspect for a becoming foreign community. Rooted in position, time and nature, their paintings reveals a house within the pages of the darkish Mountain books, with new volumes released each year.
Walking on Lava brings jointly the easiest of the 1st ten volumes, besides the unique manifesto. This choice of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews and paintings introduces The darkish Mountain Project’s groundbreaking paintings to a much broader viewers looking for ‘the wish past desire, the trails which result in the unknown international sooner than us.’
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