Dougald Hine, who co-founded the The Dark Mountain Project with Paul Kingsnorth, reflects on that project, the varieties of romanticism and story telling as such (by way of Ivan Illich) in a remarkable set of reflections, in which he engages with the thought of David Bentley Hart, Caroline Ross, and Martin Shaw.

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