Dark Ecology: Eden Never Existed

Dark Ecology: Eden Never Existed

Dark ecology refuses the fantasy of a pure “nature.”

It names contamination, mediation, and entanglement as the real conditions of living now.

In Timothy Morton’s writing, “darkness” is not pessimism. It is lucidity: a refusal of denial, and a shift from harmony narratives to coexistence under uncertainty.

This issue traces how dark ecology shows up in contemporary practice: ruin aesthetics, post-natural landscapes, pollutant materiality, dissonant noise, and glitch as a grammar of perception.

Reference: Timothy Morton, Ecology Without Nature (2007); Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (2016)