Dark Mountain: Issue 27, “On Bodies”
Our next spring anthology will explore bodies in all their forms – animal, plant, bacterial, planetary, cosmological and symbolic – as well as questioning the boundaries modern culture puts between them. The more we learn of complexity, the less the concept of a single body, as an atomised unit, makes sense: on a microscopic scale, our systems are hosts to colonies of organisms that affect our physical and mental health; zooming out, we are all entwined in the movements of wheeling planets. Where ...