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Dougald Hine: “Reimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change”

(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) Show Summary In today’s modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort

Planting Seeds

The Gathering Fire

On this first Halcyon Day two years ago I began a year-long creative Dark Mountain workshop called ‘We Walk Though the Fire’ that revolved around the eight ceremonial fires of the solar year.

The Wild Chatbot

“The first thing you need to know about this book … is that it asks you to suspend both belief and disbelief.” — Dorothy Coccinella Ladybugboss1 There are friends you can count on to surprise you. Like the time Vanessa called to ask if I would be the voice of Hospicing Modernity.

Juice: Review

The recent burgeoning of dystopic future and climate fiction (or ‘cli-fi’) in film, TV and literature reflects the current direction of travel for the world and the rising anxieties accompanying this. Many different timeframes, settings, nations and contexts have been explored as part of this cultural phenomenon and one particular

Future Natures: On Seeing Commons through Popular Genres

In academic research about the commons, few scholars are as venturesome in their creative approaches than the scholars and researchers associated with the Centre for Future Natures, at the University of Sussex in England. Led by anthropologist and research fellow Amber Huff, Future Natures explores “ecologies of crisis, commons, and

Ecology of Fear: Mike Davis’ history of LA and natural disaster is re-read whenever fire rages in California

In this month’s massive Los Angeles fires, so far 24 people have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and approximately 16,308 hectares have been burned. The fires are already among the most destructive in California’s recorded history. And as happens when major fires erupt in Los

Review: In the Drift by Michael Swanwick

In the Drift By Michael Swanwick Original edition: Ace Science Fiction Books, Feb. 1985, 184 pp. Reissued in various print and ebook editions. Michael Swanwick’s 1985 novel In the Drift takes place in an alternate reality in which the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident—rather than remaining a

Working from First Principles: ‘Parable of the Sower’ (Octavia E. Butler, 1993)

Jan 8, 2025 3 min read in Philosophy Literature

Top 13 Moments in Cannabis and Psychedelics: 2024 Edition

2024 brought us another year of highs, lows, and everything in between in the cannabis and psychedelic worlds. From politics to groundbreaking research to startling celebrity ventures, it’s been a wild ride, to say the least. Let’s count do

Convivial Economics

“It’s not a usual thing to do, you know, to invite total strangers into your home,” the woman says as she steps across the threshold. Four o’clock in the afternoon, already quite dark outside, but we’ve lit a couple of marschaller, the large outdoor candles that Swedes

Sudan: War Crimes in South Kordofan

(Nairobi, December 10, 2024) – The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed scores of civilians, and injured, raped, and abducted many others in waves of attacks in Habila and Fayu, two towns in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, between December 2023 and March 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks on

The Dementia Myth

Doctors in Britain are paid a large cash bonus every time they diagnose dementia.

What’s in a body? – A story with a twist in the tale

The following story is an extract from Dr, Vernon Coleman’s novel ‘Stories with a twist in the tale’. It’s about Tom Whitehouse, a man who works in the subject store at St. Christopher’s Hospital Medical School, preparing bodies for dissection. It may sound like a boring subject

The Dawn of Psychedelic Warfare

Contributing Editor: Seth Lorinczi If the October 7 assault on the Nova Festival was the world’s first recorded act of mass psychedelic violence, it inspired an equally unprecedented response in the therapeutic community. Leveraging the too