"These are precarious and
unprecedented times. Our economies crumble, while beyond the chaos of markets,
the ecological foundations of our way of living near collapse. Little that we
have taken for granted is likely to come through this century intact.
We don’t believe that anyone
– not politicians, not economists, not environmentalists, not writers
– is really facing up to the scale of this. As a society, we are all
still hooked on a vision of the future as an upgraded version of the present.
Somehow, technology or political agreements or ethical shopping or mass protest
are meant to save our civilisation from self-destruction.
Well, we don’t buy it. This
project starts with our sense that civilisation as we have known it is coming
to an end; brought down by a rapidly changing climate, a cancerous economic
system and the ongoing mass destruction of the non-human world. But it is
driven by our belief that this age of collapse – which is already
beginning – could also offer a new start, if we are careful in our
choices.
The end of the world as we know it
is not the end of the world full stop.
Deeper than oil, steel or bullets, a
civilisation is built on stories: on the myths that shape it and the tales told
of its origins and destiny. We have herded ourselves to the edge of a precipice
with the stories we have told ourselves about who we are: the stories of
‘progress’, of the conquest of ‘nature’, of the
centrality and supremacy of the human species.
It is time for new stories. The Dark
Mountain Project intends to conjure into being new ways of seeing and writing
about the world. We call this Uncivilisation.
Our aim is to bring together writers
and artists, thinkers and doers, to assault the established citadels of
literature and thought, and to begin to redraw the maps by which we navigate
the places and times in which we find ourselves."
Mae gwefan y prosiect
yma:
Mae anwaraidd /
anwareiddiwch ac ati yn swnio braidd yn rhy negyddol i mi, am ryw reswm, gan
fod y prosiect yn ceisio cychwyn rhywbeth newydd, ac eto mae'r "un"
yn uncivilisation yn awgrymu'r negyddol!
Byddai unrhyw
ysbrydoliaeth yn help mawr!