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June 21, 2010
 

The People of Uncivilisation

A short film I made about the people at the Dark Mountain Festival in May 2010, why they went and what they do in "normal" life. The festival was "...a training camp for the unknown world ahead, a festival of music and writing, thinking and doing, a chance to meet people whose ideas and stories and ways of looking at the world which can help us navigate what is likely to be a challenging and unpredictable future."

The Dark Mountain Project describes itself as "...a growing global movement of writers, artists, craftspeople and workers with practical skills who have stopped believing in the stories our civilisation tells itself. We believe we are entering an age of material decline, ecological collapse and social and political uncertainty, and that our cultural responses should reflect this, rather than denying it."

The video features the landless peasant (last seen behind Gordon Brown at his constituency speech during the general election 2010) and Julian Burton of Delta7 painting the bigger picture as well as Alistar McIntosh, an independent scholar, activist, and renowned writer of the book "Soil and Soul". 

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June 18, 2010
 

Introducing: Marmaduke Dando

Marmaduke Dando releases his debut album Heathcliffian Surly on 3rd Sept 2010 at Hoxton Hall in London.

My name is Marmaduke Dando Hutchings and I am a singer of morose ballads and frisky jigs. I write about all the horrors and beauties of the modern world, and bark them back at it with my dear band on the cold and regimented performance stages of London. I am originally from Portsmouth on the south coast of England, born and raised there until the dull glare of the capital became so unbearable that I fled towards it. (from: marmadukedando.com)

Lyrics of "If This Is Civilisation":

The snivelling remains of humanity,
Scooped up off the floor and served back to itself.
Masticated already in preparation,
For the toothless masses of this dying nation.

If this is civilisation, I want no part in it.

To think one can comprehend so little,
Yet live in such complexity is nothing short of a riddle.
The deeply satisfying myth of progress,
That faceless object that offers divine purpose.
If this is civilisation, I want no part in it.

Another day, another horror.
No one seems remotely bothered.
Sat there all day twiddling little machines,
Sucking on dicks of men they've never even seen.

If this is civilisation, I want no part in it.

I would burn my right hand in a slow fire,
To change the future before we expire,

If this is civilisation, I want no part in it.

The division of labour has outsourced your mind,
The spunk's gone dead, you can't fuck for your life.

If this is civilisation, if this is civilisation, if this is civilisation, if this is civilisation,

I want no part in it

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June 1, 2010
 

Paul Kingsnorth, "Time to stop pretending" at Dark Mountain Festival 2010

Paul Kingsnorth's talk at UNCIVILISATION, Dark Mountain Festival 2010 in Llangollen, Wales (29.5.2010). His speech (of which I missed the first 3 minutes) was part of the "Time to stop pretending" panel.

"Paul has worked on the comment desk of the Independent, as commissioning editor for opendemocracy.net and as deputy editor of The Ecologist. He is also an award-winning poet, and an honorary member of the Lani tribe of New Guinea. He has written for most UK newspapers and many other publications at home and abroad, and appeared on radio and TV. Paul's first book, One No, Many Yeses (Simon and Schuster, 2003), an investigative journey through the 'anti-globalisation' movement, was published in six languages in thirteen countries. His second book, Real England, was published by Portobello Books in 2008. His debut poetry collection, Kidland, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. In 2009 he co-founded of the Dark Mountain Project." (from www.paulkingsnorth.net)

The Dark Mountain Project: http://www.dark-mountain.net/

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June 1, 2010
 

Vinay Gupta, "Time to stop pretending" at Dark Mountain Festival 2010

Speech of Vinay Gupta at last weekend's intensely inspiring UNCIVILISATION, Dark Mountain Festival 2010 in Llangollen, Wales (29.5.2010). His talk was part of the "Time to stop pretending" panel (pls excuse the shaky and somewhat out of focus recording...)

Gupta was born in 1972 and is a partner at Buttered Side Down - a risk management consultancy focusing on systemic risks like state failure and economic collapse.

The Dark Mountain Project: http://www.dark-mountain.net/
Vinay Gupta on twitter: @leashless

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