The Dark Mountain Project
The Dark Mountain Project, Antonio Serrano Nieto, Rupert Read, Gustaf, Aliaksandr Zherdzeu, Sylvia V. Linsteadt, Sonja Swift, Stephanie Krzywonos, DavidNew stories for an age of endings
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A Spirit Never to Betray
After our recent series on technology, we return this month to the organic world, to focus on one of the key cultural relationships on this Earth between plants and people. But when that ancestral partnership is severed by industrialisation...
The Chrysalis and the Exit
‘The imaginal forces at work are the rise of the people and decentralisation of power juxtaposed against empire’. For our final story in this series on technology and the imagination, speaker and teacher Fatima Bacot examines our turbulent...
The Dragons Are In the Machines
On the myth and reality of AI
‘Myth is not what came before technology. Myth is a kind of technology. It transmits meaning the way code transmits instructions.’ Today, for the fourth instalment in our series on technology and the imaginati...
The Imaginarium
Seeking lost creativity in the age of machines
‘I had lost the light of my mind, the inner sun.’ What do we do when our ability to create is driven away by the overwhelming force of our devices and screens, by the internet services that te...
Imagination as Tech-resistance
On AI-adaptation
‘A machine has no conception of reality.’ The second post in our new series on technology and imagination is an essay by environmental philosopher and activist Rupert Read. As thousands of data centres are planned across t...
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New stories for an age of endings
Antonio Serrano Nieto is a photographer and location scout based in southern Spain. Alongside his professional work, he writes about landscapes where human histories, memory and the more-than-human world intersect.
I am co-director of the Climate Majority Project, a former Professor of Philosophy at the UEA, and author of several books including Transformative Adaptation, Do You Want to Know the Truth?, This Civilisation Is Finished, and Parents For A Future.
Writing on cyberecology, animism and AI, intentional community building, solarpunk and the development of the more-than-human web of life \ud83c\udf31✨
Born in the wetlands of Belarus's Polesia, far from any sea — and has spent most of his life on one since. The polar regions, Oceania, and parts of Africa have shaped him most.
Sylvia V. Linsteadt is an award-winning writer, scholar of myth & ancient matrifocal histories, & wildlife tracker. Her books include The Venus Year, Our Lady of the Dark Country, The Wild Folk, & Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sonja Swift is a writer and poet. She is the author of Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves and Women (Rocky Mountain Books, 2023)and Red Sky in the Morning: Of Water, Whales and Warnings (RMB, 2026).
Earth writer. Proud Xicana. Author of THE BLUE HOURS: MY SUMMERS AND WINTER IN ANTARCTICA forthcoming from Atria Books 12.01.2026.
photographer and translator
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