Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto

"That civilisations fall, sooner or later, is as much a law of history as gravity is a law of physics. What remains after the fall is a wild mixture of cultural debris, confused and angry people whose certainties have betrayed them, and those forces which were always there, deeper than the foundations of the city walls: the desire to survive and the desire for meaning."

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'Uncivilisation' is a manifesto for writers, artists and storytellers - and for all of us, living through the end of the world as we know it. It's a first attempt to set out the ideas behind the Dark Mountain Project and an invitation to join us in the search for the paths by which to reach the unknown world ahead.

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adult
Length
short · 20 pages
Form
essays

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