Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603587411 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A bow of gratitude to the denizens of Dark Mountain.”Scott Russell Sanders, author of Dancing in Dreamtime“A collection by turns magical, brave, earnest, and mournful but truthful throughout. All of the planet’s life-support systems are under stress or collapsing because of our unchecked appetites and swelling population. “Don’t read this book if you’re not willing to be shaken and unsettled. You will journey to your wider Selfto Great
The Dark Mountain Project is run by a collective of writers who were drawn together by a shared sense that the stories our culture tells itself are broken. Walking on Lava has been edited by four members of that collective: Charlotte Du Cann, Dougald Hine, Nick Hunt and Paul Kingsnorth.
The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writersDougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorthwho felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time.In a world in which the climate is being altered by human activities; in which global ecosystems are being destroyed by the advance of industrial civilisation; and in which the dominant economic and cultural assumptions of the West are visibly crumbling, Dark Mountain asked: where are the writers and the artists? Why are the mainstream cultural forms of our society still behaving as if this were the twentieth centuryor even the nineteenth?Dark Mountain’s call for writers, thinkers and artists willing to face the depth of the mess we are in has made it a gathering point for a growing international network. This collection of essays, fiction, poetry, interviews and artwork introduces The Dark Mountain Project’s groundbreaking work to a wider audience in search of ‘the hope beyond hope, the paths which lead to the unknown world ahead of us.’. Rooted in place, time and